Only just makes the top 3 of the ones picked out above! The one against Utd is so beautiful it brings tears of joy to my eyes.
The shame is that he only missed Gazza by a few years (was still playing for Swindon and Chelsea). Can you imagine Hoddle, Gazza and Waddle in the same team. Man alive.
If it wasn't for Irving Scholar wrecking the finances, you would have Gazza + Waddle + Lineker in the season we finished 3rd regardless.
Couldn't we do with a Glen Hoddle now. With the protection the referees give in the modern game and pitches that are not like ploughed fields, he would have been a mega mega star. Having said that he'd probably be playing in Madrid after becoming the first half a billion pound footballer. Cheers for the VID RDBD.
Was thinking that earlier. It's sometimes easy to say that the current game is too fast and that players from previous eras would not have coped. Hoddle would have thrived!! Watching that video of his career brought it home: his talent was immense and a bit like Sheringham, his speed of thought and skill on the ball would make up for a few mph......
Hoddle would 'upark 'the buses with his accuracy of passing and shots from 18-25 metres out. The Stokes, Leicesters and West Broms of this world would need a plan B.
I see the BBC have an article talking about the top 5 only being separated by 1 point and manage to mention everyone EXCEPT Spurs. when discussing who will win. Looks good for us then.
Seeing the referee stretchered off in yesterday's Plymouth vs Colchester match after getting clattered by one of Plymouth's players, I have to ask one question: how long before The FA ban one of our players for it?
Started going to the Lane in 81 and was really excited to see Perryman, Hoddle, Ossie and villa. Think it was a match v Coventry or Southampton where I saw Hoddle control a ball at waist hight on the side of the pitch (about a foot in from the touch line) and flick over one persons head, sell a dummy to another and then send a perfect pass to Galvin on the other side of the pitch. I had been a spurs since 74. I cried as an 8 or 9 yr old when we were relegated in 1977. I remember the grief I got in school when we lost 5 nil at home to Arsenal and 7 nil to Liverpool in 1978. I remember the stick after tacking 3 matches to beat Altringham in 79. But seeing a spurs player do something genius with a football in front of my very eyes as a 13 or 14 yr old made all of the rubbish melt away and I knew the point of being a spurs fan. Simply to enjoy great skills!
It's the 31st of October, which only means one thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Charlotte Thorstvedt's birthday!
