Yeah.. That's probably a fair assessment. I think it was his general flair and his "cool" (at the time) curtains haircut.
I'm old enough to remember Barry Daines...but was never sure if he seemed bad cos he was the reason we got rid of pat jennings!!!! Then there was John Lacy (late 70's)...he was pretty ****e as was Andy Grey (around 91/92) ... the man looked liked he'd OD'ed on pizza. I was at gilberto's debute ... think it was in uefa cup and he was subbed at half time ... truely awful I remember Jason Cundy being ****ing awful for us and Bobby Zomora was complete dogshite for us too. Bobby mimms was cack for us The manager has to be Gross as at least Ramos won us a trophy
Wayne routledge was also ****ing awful for us...he even got subbed after coming on as a sub after 20 minutes or so...a good player but rubbish for us
We did win a trophy under George Graham though. Jacque Santini, Christian Gross or Juande Ramos for me.
Rebrov. Edinburgh. Austin. Kerslake. Cundy. Thatcher. Dozzell. Bentley. Vega. Thelwell. Silva. Rasiak. "We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history."
True, but he tried to make us dull like Arsenal (pre Wenger). Even that league cup win was dull dull dull
Atouba was ok other than the goal line drag backs. Alton Thelwell! Another centre back. Lots of them were around the same time, no wonder Sol left
Great list Rrich! I forgot about Kerslake and Thelwell. Who was the young black kid we got from Arsenal who we thought was a coup that he signed for us but basically he was an Arsenal reject?
Taricco was nasty, but not bad enough for worst team Rickets? Came back and played against us in the EL for that Irish team
You're right SD that was a terrible cup win if there is such a thing. The final against Leicester was appalling although at least we won!
Ben Alnwick, whose Kryptonite is Burnley (plus there's a sex tape of him somewhere on the internet) Noe Pamarot, whose sole contribution to Spurs being that Pompey failing to pay for him helped us get a few quid off Defoe/Kaboul/Crouch/Kranjcar Paul Stalteri, can't even be redeemed by a goal against West Ham due to numerous better players doing it more often Ricardo Rocha, seemingly signed to fulfill a quota on centre backs Ramon Vega, hard to ignore the rumours that he was signed so Christian Gross felt at home Gilberto, only played seven times for us but his name lives in infamy Paolo Tramezzani, only played six games for us (etc etc) Ben Thatcher, took out his frustrations at being so **** on Pedro Mendes a few years later Mbulelo Mabizela, who I can;t remember anything about Thimothee Atouba, who scored against Newcastle and nothing else ever Danny Murphy, a signing that made no sense then and still doesn't David Bentley, who at the very least probably alerted Levy to the fact that Comolli wasn't working out Rohan Ricketts, had a good couple of games before enthusiasm gave way to him not being very good Alton Thelwell, like Ricketts but without the enthusiasm for his first few games Oyvind Leonhardsen, our greatest midfielder that scores a few goals but does **** all else (see also: Jason Dozzell, Tim Sherwood, Jermaine Jenas, Clint Dempsey) Emil Hallfredsson, signed to add competition for places only to never play for us John Bostock, wasn't really worth the constant slander from Simon Jordan that Man Utd fans believed was justification for their kidnapping Berbatov Nicola Berti, was a great player in his day but was arrived at WHL when he should've retired already Stephane Dalmat, had quality but was also a head case who ended his chances of a permanent move by decking Jamie O'Hara Neale Fenn, who made Rory Allen look like a beast in comparison Andy Booth, a loan that made no sense at the time and still doesn't Gregorz Rasiak, like Andy Booth but we paid a transfer fee Helder Postiga, the sitter-missing machine...who helped eliminate England from Euro 2004!
I was reading the thread from the beginning seeing how long it would take for him to show up - longer than I expected, he's my first choice.
