Very quiet Saturday morning, come on time to get up we have a game today. Talking of sleep, in your dreams who would be the ONE player from Spurs past that you would love to have back in their prime playing in the current squad. Obvious candidates like Greaves & Mackay maybe Gilzean or Gazza. Then there is Ginola or Klinsmann and the wonderful Ardilles. Hoddle perhaps, there are plenty to choose from but choosing just ONE is difficult. I am going for Danny Blanchflower because I think the current team need a leader and they don't come much better than him. Calm skillful and very clever and of course a winner. ONE player only who would you choose?
For me, Gazza. Would really fit into the 4-2-3-1 as the player between Lennon and Bale. Close call behind would be Ledley (as he once was) and Hoddle - didn't choose him, as he wouldn't really fit in our current system.
For me it's a decision between Gazza & Hoddle ( probably asking for trouble there!) but, it has to be Gazza. Absolute unique, once in a generation talent. Very few players can/could change a game with a flash of sheer magic. Gazza could.
Unfortunately, I wasn't born when some of our legends were around. So I can only go on what I've seen within the last 20 years, rather than highlights I've seen of players such as Perryman, Blanchflower or Greavesy. (to name 3). In my lifetime there are 2 that stand out. Klinsmann and Ginola, as you've already said spurf. It's very hard to choose between the two, but It'd have to go to Ginola, due to his flair. As a teenager I was playing in Ginola's position, admiring and appreciating his style so much growing up. on his day, he was just pure class.
Hoddle for me, because he was the genius who I could see with my own eyes when I was regularly going to WHL. So much talent, so many magical contributions now sadly lost except in the memory of those that saw them live (as comparatively few games were recorded in those days). The feeling that when we had a free kick just outside the box it was almost certain he would score, the long pass that Crooks ran on to ... so much else. But I guess the player you most identify with is often related to the star when you were growing up, like the music of your youth, like the Doctor Who or the Blue Peter presenter. Well perhaps not Blue Peter but I hope you get my drift.
Going to go left field (literally)....and move away from the obvious: Cyril Knowles - absolutely superb LB who scored a few goals from free kicks with that wand of a left foot. Should have played far more for England but was a victim of the 'Leeds Mafia' that dominated the FA at the time. A great servant of the club and a very sad early demise.
I have to go for Jurgen. Even though the others are predominantly midfielders and would improve our midfield. I don't think the improvement would be enough. However stick Klinsmann upfront and you would see a much much bigger conversion rate of the passes provided by our current midfield. I'm 36 so never saw Greavsie playing. Klinsmann was just absolutely clinical. The best in my lifetime at Spurs.
Hoddle. Sandro, Dembele and HIAG's hero in the middle of the park? Nightmarish for opposition players.
Ledley King. I haven't been asleep I've been redecorating. I've just about reached the point where I wish I'd never bloody started!
Best player we've had in my time supporting Spurs, closely followed by Modric but I don't want him back and besides our biggest problem is that the defensive organisation has been very poor at times. King in his prime is probably the most AVB type defender in the World, fast, physical and plays the ball very well.
There was only one true god for Spurs, and that was Hoddle. Superb first touch, sublime silky skills, and as majestic as any player I have ever seen. He could hit Hollywood passes, bend free-kicks, out-fox defences, dribble and go on mazy runs as well as any other world-class player you might care to mention, and his volleys nothing short of specular. For me, he was Gazza, Ginola, and Modric all rolled into one. With him in the centre of our current midfield, and with Parker (or Sandro) behind him, we'd be challenging for the title every season, no doubt about it.
I'd pick Hoddle, he was a bit before my time but my family and older Spurs fans I know say he was an amazing footballer who should of got much more recognition (especially at international level) than he did. If not him then I would love to have seen Modric and Berba in the same team, think that would of been special.
