If I remember rightly, George Best and the Northern Ireland team trained at BP Llandarcy before the game, and Tony Millington was in goal for Wales. Difficult to say who was the best - probably either Best, John Charles, Ivor or Dalglish. My favourites from my younger days were Ivor, Herbie & Brian Evans. After that Curt & Robbie.
Curtis without a doubt. What a jack bar steward, a living legend! Leighton James was also a terrific player. But Nathan Dyer would leave him for dust. I feel very sentimental about the swans at the moment. How lucky are we!!!!!!!!!?
Leighton James was the best left winger of all time. the speed he could do down that left wing passing everyone and then put in a pin point cross was out of this world......fantastic player...Dyer has improved but not up to the standard of Leighton yet. He is a little bit light weight when he comes up against big speedy players and his crosses are not always good but he is one of the best in the premiership at the moment....Leighton was much better...
G I was at that reserve game. George hammered the ball off the cross-bar under the Double Decker a couple of times from 40 yards out. Just amazing to watch.
For me it was Ivor and John Charles. Other Swans include Cliffy Jones, Robbie, Curt.... there's just so many so great in their different ways. Non Swans would be Best, Charlton, Gaza... too difficult to think of them all. As a point of interest, Tommy Hutch was the best crosser of a ball that I ever saw on a regular basis. Bob Latchford would have gobbled 40 goals a season getting on the end of his deliveries.
Simply the best we have ever had at Swansea that no other past or present could ever come close to in controlling the ball like him....Its a shame he went to the worzels who Fcuked up his career. In hind sight he should have stayed with us the only team he could showboat with as he had the right players around him.....you can see the passion trunds and Tate have on the video it was second to none...both legends in the highest order....magic...
Magic Daps; The Great Entertainer; call him what you will but he gave a lot of people a huge amount of pleasure. Yeah, I hear some of you squawk, he never did at the top. That's true but he never got the chance. He turned pro comparatively late in life and this prevented him from developing his game to the required level. The formative years are always the most important. Whatever, it would be difficult to deny that LT had a special talent and I derived an enormous amount of pleasure from watching him. I wish there were more like him in the game today where it's all about shape, tactics and formation and where skill often gets frozen out of it all.
I never tire of watching that Lee Trundle appreciation video,Jack. Because he came very late to the professional game,we will never know just how good he could have become. One thing is for certain,he was a defenders worst nightmare. Top man. As for the main OP question,Ivor Allchurch will always be my No.1 Then comes the likes of John Charles;Alan Curtis; Robbie James;Leighton James;Cliff Jones;Herbie Williams;there are so many,but I always had a real soft spot for Harry Griffiths.
Agree entirely with vetchetarian, Trunds was a revelation when he first joined us and encouraged thousands of new fans to the Vetch with his array of ball skills and goals, will always be grateful to him for bringing back a bit of magic after years of dross. It was just a shame he decided to try his luck at Bristol City as although we had £1 million for him and he had a good pay rise he was never really appreciated by their manager or their fans or was able to show the sort of form we saw at the Vetch. As for all time best I did see Ivor in his twilight years and even then he had an aura about him so would probably say the Golden Boy, another great who played an international match at the Vetch was George Best for Northern Ireland infront of a packed house with hordes of screaming girls in attendance. He played at a time when refs gave little protection to skilful players yet was still able to make his mark mesmorising defences and gliding past baffled defenders sometimes in very muddy conditions.
I remember the George Best Northern Ireland game vividly. Standing on the North Bank it was like a Beatles concert with the screaming girls
