Cage tiger
You say Dean Windass and Nicky Barmby are "real club legends" at Hull
It takes a bit more then an ageing fat bloke to become a real legend here
Just ask the world cup winning Gordon Banks or our very own Golden boot winning Gary Lineker. Real legends of both the game and our club
It's the not the fact that he's fat that he's a Club legend though. Obviously players such as Banks and Lineker are genuine football legends, however, for what little success City have had in their entire history, it came with the returns of Nick Barmby and Dean Windass.
They're both from Hull, Barmby could have easily gone to another Premier League team but chose to join us in League 1. Dean Windass is the one of the funniest players football has seen. Times such as warming up in front of Rory Delap before he was about to take a throw in, stupid dances, hiding behind the keeper and pretending to get ready to Rugby tackle him, having a video chat with Helen Chamberlain on Soccer AM in his briefs.
Deano also came back when we were struggling, at
38 years old, managed to score 15 goals including the one that kept us in the Championship and sent Leeds down to League 1 (That should be legend status in itself - He sent TWS down!). Next Season at
38 years old he scored another 15 plus the goal that sent us to the Premier League for the first time in our History. There's not many players that can regularly score goals in their really late 30's. (Kevin Phillips being the most recent).
Barmby regularly scored goals for us, has played for England under managers such as Vennables and also helped clinch Promotion to the Premier League with 2 goals in the Play Off Semi Finals against Watford. His career, he has been consistently brilliant. He is also one of 5 players -
I think it's 5 players - to score for 6 different Premier League teams. His work ethic was 2nd to none, the term 'impact sub' was invented for him.
These have been great to the fans, acted like fans at times and have always wanted what's best for the Club. They have sentimental reasons to be our legends rather than footballing reasons.
Barmby scored goals regularly throughout his time at City in his late 30's too.