Greatest ever forward line?

Lets see this year

 

Greatest ever forward line?


Er . . . the Maginot Line?

 

That was breached with ease

 

That was a defensive line not a forward line and was highly vulnerable to wingers going around the outside.

Lacked width.

 

You tell him General Hague

 

Would you really class that in the same league as Pele, Gerson, Tostao, Jairzinho and Rivelino?

None of the forward lines mentioned here have impressed me as much as five beasts of Brazil. They are all £80M players in their own right if they played today.

 

Exactly. Beardsley causing mayhem on the right and crossing from the dead ball line from the right, Ginola on the left doing his silky stuff (whilst playing footie) and then Shearer and Sir Les banging them in for fun.

 

I'll stand you that bet. But that's beside the point and beyond the remit of the original post.

 

and so the topic turns to the Toon back four...

 

How? It is a quantifiable measure of how effective a forward line they were.

 

Wouldn't that be how many goals they scored?

 

Any forward line that contained Jimmy Greaves. The greatest natural goalscorer England has ever produced, bar none.

It didn't matter who else was in the team. Point Greavsie at the opposition and let things run their course.

 

Not Flanangan and Hales?

 

No, it just shows how good or bad the defendes they played were.

 

Ahhhh, good old "Killer" Hales. He used to make a point of hammering into the oppositions goalkeeper as soon as possible, just to let him know what sort of afternoon he was in for. It was a very good tactic for the time, but it would get him red carded today... then again.... Hales never let a little thing like being sent off bother him.

Mike Flanagan was a different player altogether. He came to Charlton when Spurs let him go on a free. He repaid you with a fifteen minute hat trick in the league match at the Valley when Spurs were in the second division back in (I think) 1978. The Spurs fans were taunting Flanagan all through the first half with chants of "Tottenham Reject". Some reject. He scored his hat trick at the end where the Spurs fans were, and gave them a nice wave when he belted the third one in. Final score: Addicks 4 Spurs 1

But as you're a fan of Spurs, my friend, I hope you'll enjoy the little You Tube clip..... One which dispels the myth that Jimmy Greaves couldn't play.... that he only ever scored tap-ins. I was at this match and if you couldn't fall in love with football after watching a game like this, you never would. Brilliant. Enjoy.


[video=youtube;5jYTLfukNUg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jYTLfukNUg[/video]

 

Very nice