Off Topic Bill Nicholson Arms

Disagree, I said in their prime. With modern training techniques and a little less booze, they would give it a good shot.

 

But you could equally argue that the City side of today wouldn't get a sniff if they had to use the old heavy ball and play on virtual bogs covered in sand. I would look forward to Dave grabbing Debruyne by the neck when he tried his rough house tactics.

 

Anyone else trying for tickets...can not find them as being on sale do can't get a donut let alone not move round on it?

 

Finally got on and now the donut is sitting their giving me the bird

 

The claim was that that Spurs side would challenge for the current league. Nothing to do with whether City would win in the 60s. It would be astonishing if a group of entirely British players could win the current PL. Particularly a group with only one league winner amongst them.

Rose tinted spectacles when looking at the past I am afraid. I doubt more than two of that group would get in our squad.

 

Jennings and Greaves at their prime would get in any team in the world bar none.

 

I know my memory is getting a bit patchy now but I have no recollection of any foreign players in 1960/61 season when we won the league or in '62 when we missed it by a whisker.

 

There were hardly any. The current league is of a much higher standard because it has 300 of the best players in the world rather than the best in the British Isles. Our current squad is better than any we had in the sixties but up against better opposition too. I was wrong earlier though as Jennings, Mackay and Greaves would improve our first XI and Chivers, Jones and Gilzean would be good additions to the squad. Not quite sure how Poch would use Greaves though.....not exactly born to the pressing game.

 

Remind me who the few were then. I have genuinely forgotten! First ones I recall are Ricky & Ossie. Glad you have decided to included our other great legends, nothing wrong with our rose coloured specs, they were the best! I don't think you can ever compare yesterdays teams to to-days though, they were of their time and how times change! Incomparable! (I know which I prefer) .

 

Nor is Messi, two very similar players, could dribble and wonderful first touch. The only real difference was that Greaves was better in the air.

 

Very few names come to mind Maggie but one sticks, Albert Johanson of Leeds I think he was swedish/south African and there was a assortment of Scandinavian players who made their way into the league via Scotland

 

There were very few - they would have had to be from the commonwealth (or played in Scotland) as players from outside the commonwealth had to be resident in the UK for 2 years before they could register to play in the English league - until 1978 when we signed Ossie & Ricky. I recall Johanson and Clyde Best the Bermudian at West Ham (late 60s?), but very few others

 

I meant Spurs players! Bert Trautman was the most famous foreign player being German ex prisoner of war when I was young.

 

To the best of my knowledge there were none of note Maggie - Joe Kinnear being from Dublin I guess would be the closest to an overseas player.

 

Old Bert Trautman.Cup winner with a broken neck! "From Steppes to Wembley!"

 

1. Better not to mention Hummel to any Spurs supporters of a certain age
who care about the club.

2. I did not know Hummel still existed as a business.

 

Quilmes Atletico Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilmes_Atlético_Club
We've gone full Argentina, haven't we?

Three decent looking kits, to be fair: https://www.footyheadlines.com/2019...assic-quilmes-19-20-home-away-third-kits.html
I wonder if the club know that they're going to shift a few extra shirts to people that had never heard of them before?

 

Maybe we'll actually start him and put him in the right position?

 

If only Mauricio Pochettino saw what most of us see....