The dirtiest spurs player was graham roberts The dirtiest ex spurs player is graham souness The dirtiest player in my lifetime of watching has to be fashanu...a spiteful lowlife of a player and human being imo
You may forget it watching him say nothing at all on MOTD, but the amount of **** Alan Shearer got away with was infuriating: defenders were subjected to blatant elbows, getting trampled, having studs raked down the back of their leg, as well as all manner of petulant kicks and trips and the ref just shrugged it off every time. On the subject of infuriating, commentators always acting like Paul Scholes scything down opponents was funny when they'd have been frothing at the mouth if any other player performed such a cynical and blatant foul in game - or asked how someone could play the game at the highest level for over a decade yet never learn how to tackle properly.
Yeah - it was verging on weird how commentators would chuckle and say "well that's not really part of his game" about Scholes as yet another appalling tackle went in. First off he's a midfielder not a striker or winger so tackling really IS (or, rather, was) part of his game. Secondly - it obviously must be part of his game cos he does it every bloody match!
Joint winners - Ron 'Chopper' Harris of Chelsea and Peter Storey of Arsenal. Neither would have lasted five minutes under the current rules.
Tommy Smith got plaudits from Chopper Harris and Norman Hunter, which is about the same as receiving character references from Attila the Hun and Vlad the Impaler.
Was in the company of Charley Hurley some years back who when asked the same question responded immediately Giles as he would seriously put players out for weeks Usually tendon tears
Keane was very angry but he was pretty good at channeling his rage into something positive for united. He also rejects any claims he intentionally set out to injure the city player. Also the fact haaland retired due to his other leg means keane didnt retire him.
'I'd waited long enough. I ****ing hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me sneering about fake injuries.' - Roy Keane
I've got to go back to the Bolton team of late 50's/early 60's.Nice gentleman named John Higgins.Dirty bastard is being very liberal!!! But I agree with many of you suggesting that Leeds of Revie days.That halfback line of Bremner,Charlton and (bites your legs) Hunter.They'd chop you to stop you.Their full backs could get you too!....and Giles!Enough said. The redeaming thing about them was their goalkeeper Sprake..... made so many mess ups it was hilairious.serves 'em right too! Revie must have encouraged all this,which was sad really.Because,football wise they had good players and should have won a lot more,a lot more,than they did! But,if you live by the sword,you die by the sword!
Roy Keane has attempted to put the record straight over his infamous clash with Alf Inge Haaland by admitting he had deliberately wanted to hurt “the absolute prick” – but that he had never wanted to injure the Norwegian and it was not revenge for the challenge, four years earlier, that left him with a serious knee injury. The allegation, Keane said, “hurt me … the idea that I’d almost bragged about deliberately injuring a player, in the hope of selling some extra books”.
Roy Keane has attempted to put the record straight over his infamous clash with Alf Inge Haaland by admitting he had deliberately wanted to hurt “the absolute prick” – but that he had never wanted to injure the Norwegian and it was not revenge for the challenge, four years earlier, that left him with a serious knee injury. The allegation, Keane said, “hurt me … the idea that I’d almost bragged about deliberately injuring a player, in the hope of selling some extra books”.
In that psychopath's mind causing pain without long term injury might well be a sensible objective....
I remember it. Keane did him, pure and simple. The "tackle" was a leg breaker, Keane must have been aware of that.
I have to mention Nobby Stiles not because I think he was the dirtiest' I'll think about that, but just to get that Jack Charlton story in. As Jack said. I've seen a player go past Nobby and I've seen the ball go past Nobby, but I've never seen the two together go past him.
Jack Charlton was capable of dishing it out. I remember his famous "black book" where he listed players he was out to "get". I think Stiles always claimed he was short sighted hence his tackles were "mistimed",
