I was chatting to my 14 year old daughter about watching spurs through the years and ended up chatting about some of the greats I've seen. After talking about Perryman, Hughton, Roberts, Clemence, Hoddle, Allen, Waddle, Gazza, Ginola, Ossie, Villa, Klinnsman, Sherringham, Berbatov, Modric etc. we began talking about the not so good ones. I found myself recalling a certain Mitchell Thomas from the late 80s (I think) who played at the back. He was tall but had the appearance of a giraffe wearing stilts on ice whenever he moved. He wasn't awful but used to scare me senseless and make the match exciting when going forwards in equal measure. I have very warm memories of him. Any other not so good favourites out there?
Barry Daines. Wasn't a great keeper, but I never seemed to mind. Can't even remember why I liked him!
Paul Stalteri was always classed as a the weak link in our defence yet his winner at West Ham in the 4-3 win just automatically made him a favourite of mine
I was always a fans of numerous non scoring forwards we seemed to specialise in. Chris Jones, Paul Walsh, Gerry Armstrong, Colin Lee, John Duncan (had one prolific season to be fair) Steffan Iversen. We always had very skilful forwards that could do it all except score.
I was thinking Steffen Iversen. I always remember wanting him to do well, especially around the time that Eidur Gudjohnsen was banging them in for Chelsea as I wanted to be able to say they were comparable.
Chris Jones,whatever happened to him,must be the best non scoring striker we ever had,the times i suffered standing on the shelf watching him
I liked Stephane Dalmat. dunno why. i guess it was a bit of a rough period for us where we were incredibly mediocre and we'd managed to get someone from inter milan. He also provided something different in midfield and gave us a bit of a lift. strong, powerful and had that bit of flair that the spurs fans loved.- to me he was a bit of a "marquee" signing, even though he was just a loan that ended up going downhill.
Yeah I thought Dalmat was a good player Roo, I didn't realise he was actually on loan and come the start of the following season I was like "Where the hell is he?! He should be in the team!"
Keith Osgood- had a soft spot for him once sat and had a chat with him when he was the youth team. Carried a famous surname at the time,but was not nearly as good.
David Howells...although, given his central midfield partner was Jason Dozzell, he was Dave Mackay in comparison.
Darren Anderton (aka Sick Note), for me. Brilliant player, but he couldn't keep his arse off the treatment table. Would have been a Spurs legend if he'd not been so injury-prone.
