The "dirtiest" player to have ever played in English football?

Yes,I remember someone mentioning Nobbie's eye sight.Some of his tackles lasted a whole week!!!!!
Amazing.Two Charlton brothers.One a chopper the other an angel(?).

I can remember Dougan crippling Cliff Jones in one match and Mike England kicking the naughty Derek all over the field for that one!

I can also remember seeing the very placid Pat Jennings trying to kick an opponent in the air for a nasty foul on Pat!.........
and Bobby Smith having punch ups during the game with Trevor Smith of Birmingham and Higgins of Bolton.

 

Derek Dougan was a right hard bastard. Can't say I remember him doing Cliff Jones, but I do remember him going in over the top on defenders many a time.

 

I think we have a winner in Gavin Grant, as he's currently four year into a minimum 25 year sentence for murder.

 

And he was cleared of another murder. Sounds like a nice bloke.

 

I'm sure Mr.Mackay pointed out the error of Derek's ways to him....

 

Dave Mackay relished playing against the hard men. One of my all time favourite moments in football, is when Mackay returned to the Lane with Derby County and the kick off was delayed because the applause for the man would not stop.

 

I remember him well. Nobody ****ed around with Dave Mackay. He rarely started it, but he always finished it!...

 

I'm not sure if there has been another Dave Mackay.He was a great tackler,not very tall but had the delicate touch of an artist...and could score goals.Broke my heart when he broke his leg twice.He was never the same after that,although he did return to win the FA Cup with us in 66/67.He was let go to Derby where his experience in defence led to a League Championship for Brian Clough.
I think Dave was the greatest all round footballer I ever saw!....and I regularly watched Blanchflower.Danny would tackle with his brain and Dave with his heart.....
My,we've been lucky to see some world beaters at The Lane.Including Messi's predecessor.Our Jim......

 

Dave Mackay falls into the "hard but fair" category, for me. Stuart Pearce was of that ilk, too.

 

Oh, he could hand it out if the opposition started any nonsense. As Billy Bremner ( who thought he was hard ) found out!..

 

Yes, but that's because he was "fair" as well as hard. Hence, my comment. Just like Psycho.

You don't get the feeling that either of them would have gone out of their way to purposely, and without just cause, hurt another player.

 

Mark Dennis was a dirty player.

He also said his most memorable moment off the pitch was being stabbed by his ex-wife.

 

Yes he was certainly a dirty player and part of a very physical Birmingham City side. Can't recall all of his dirty team mates, but Noel Blake and Kevin Dillon spring to mind.

 

Keane's interview with 442 bears this out, as he's bragged about deliberately injuring a player in the hope of selling some extra magazines, not books.
He claimed to be sorry for the following incident, but that it was actually the other blokes fault really, when you think about it:

[video=youtube;NKQr9h5MB0w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQr9h5MB0w[/video]

Really bad knee-high, studs up challenge, silly retaliation from his opponent, then two stamps when he's on the floor and still looks pissed off at getting a red.

 

Guthrie, Barton, Tiote.

 

The dirtiest player I have seen play on a regular basis was David Martin - Gillingham captain in the 1995-96 promotion winning team and that was hardest dirtiest team that the Gills have put out in the 30 years that I have been going. Pulis first side was not a thing of beauty, but they were very effective and hard to beat as our 29 clean sheets showed. Martin played 31 games in centre midfield and I think he was booked 9 times and sent off twice (serving 4 suspensions!), Simon Ratcliffe and ex Spurs youngster Neil Smith were also prominent in the referees note books that season and I wouldn't be surprised if the total number of cards that we accrued that year was not amongst the most ever handed out in a season.

 

And the uneasy breaking of silence over it
[video=youtube;EgTvTGbAj_g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EgTvTGbAj_g[/video]

 

Charlie Adam or Billy Bremner. Both well balanced jocks, a chip on both shoulders.

 

Skrtel? Come off it.

He's clumsy, pulls shirts, but he's not dirty.

Stevie is not especially dirty but on his day he's far worse than Skrts.

Cattermole, Robert Huth and Charlie Adam are the worst in the Prem currently imo.

Barton is a chav who losses his rag, but you rarely see him smashing into people on the pitch.

Nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

 

Thanks to his 18 games for Derby, Taribo West qualifies. To call his tackling "agricultural" is doing a disservice to combine harvesters.