Vinnie should be # 1.
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Top Ten Toughest Footballers
24 posts - Started 5 months ago by Daniel Grigg - Latest reply from footypir8 -
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Posted 5 months ago #
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Posted 5 months ago #
i dunno,he was idiotic more than anything really
You don't have to know lots of chords to play songs that matter -
Posted 5 months ago #
Vinnie Jones, unlike the others you named, really wasn't worthy of any assignation as a 'footballer'. Know your hard bastards! Who can forget when Basile Boli stuck the nut on Psycho Pearce and he swallowed it like a little bitch? Johnny Giles really was the most Satanic one because, as Eamon Dunphy says, he instigated everything and never got booked.
1. Dave Mackay
2. Julian Dicks
3. Norman Hunter
4. Bertie Auld
5. Andoni Golkoxtea
6. Basile Boli
7. Johnny Giles
8. Paolo Montero
9. Kenny Burns
10. Peter Storey
11.Claudio Gentile
12. Nobby Stles
13. Marco Tardelli
14. Romeo Benetti
15, Graham Souness
16. Paul Reaney
17. Antonio Rattin
18. Bobby Murdoch
19. Ron 'Chopper' Harris
20. Roy KeaneHonorable mention to Tommy Smith, Duncan Ferguson, Stuart 'Psycho' Pearce and anyone not mentioned who played for Leeds United under Don Revie.
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Posted 5 months ago #
Dave Mackay and Nobby Stiles are two of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Come to think of it:They don't make Scottish hard men like they used to.
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Posted 5 months ago #
Often over looked in polls like this, Steve Bruce deserves a mention. You only have to look at his nose to realise he was a tough character on the pitch. I think he broke his nose 13 times (!) during his career and was never afraid to put his head or body in places others would never go.
(Best player to have never played for England too!)
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Posted 5 months ago #
There are lots of tough guys out there, but the thug players on my list took it past the limit. Peter Storey, for example, is most famous for filing his studs and smearing shite on them. Julian Dicks was a biter. Brucie was a tough tough geezer, but never a thug. Golkoxtea used to put methiolate ointments on the tips of his fingers.
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Posted 5 months ago #
bobotonto - 4 hours ago »
There are lots of tough guys out there, but the thug players on my list took it past the limit. Peter Storey, for example, is most famous for filing his studs and smearing shite on them. Julian Dicks was a biter. Brucie was a tough tough geezer, but never a thug. Golkoxtea used to put methiolate ointments on the tips of his fingers.Lol. You don't get a nick name like "The butcher of Bilbao" for nothing! Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga was a nasty piece of work who tackled to put you out of the game - for good! He even kept the boot he used to smash Maradona's ankle ligament's in a glase case as a trophy. A brilliant defender, but a complete animal.
I have met Julian Dicks a couple of times and he is actually a nice enough bloke off the pitch, but slightly scary, not as bad as on the pitch though! Some of his tackles would have probably carried a prison sentance if you tried them today. A complete and utter nutcase. Like most Bristolians really....
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Posted 5 months ago #
You don't like Bristols, Wes? I'm a Bristols man myself! When England play Argentina next time, they should pay for the mad Basque to be a guest of the F.A. That should help put Armando Diego in a really good mood.
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Posted 5 months ago #
bobotonto - 45 minutes ago »
You don't like Bristols, Wes? I'm a Bristols man myself! When England play Argentina next time, they should pay for the mad Basque to be a guest of the F.A. That should help put Armando Diego in a really good mood.Im a Bristolian and of course a 'Bristol's' man too!
Are you on about that Basque guy with the drum that hasn't missed a tournament for about 40 years? He does look a bit crazy. Could be worth a laugh....
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Posted 5 months ago #
Nobby Stiles' dad was the undertaker in our neighborhood in Collyhurst/Chorlton. All lovely people in his family. He should've been knighted, but he's R.C. and there's just that prejudice toward him, as if a hard man can't be a good footballer, too. Dave Mackay, with all his success as a player with Spurs and Derby County, then as Cloughie's successor at Derby, ought to have been knighted, too.
Another nice geezer, believe it or not, is Marco Tardelli . When I was in Asti to do an article on the songwriter, Paolo Conte, his manager took us out to dinner at this fabulous taverna, and, there, at the next table sat Tardelli with Cesare Maldini. His English was definitely superior t omy Italian. When I told him I was a United fan, he raved over Georgie Best and lamented both his brillance and his passing. I think he's working with Trappatoni in Dublin these days. A really dirty bastard on the pitch, he was a gentleman off it.
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Posted 5 months ago #
Erm wt about Cantona? Read Roy Keane's autobiography u will see why
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Posted 5 months ago #
Souness was a grouchie git even as a gaffer, didn't he kick the shite out of Yorke at Blackburn?
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Posted 5 months ago #
I doubt that Souey has attacked anyone since his quadruple bypass. he's still got a gob on him, though!
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Posted 5 months ago #
I'd love to see him taking on Bellamy and Barton in a free for all. Wouldn't it be great if they finished each other off
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Posted 5 months ago #
They were and they fell out, but before anything major could happen, they both left, Bellamy to Celtic on loan and Souness to God know's where. Bellamy is a shite player not worthy of any club, Spurs would be mental to sign him, if they do you have my heartfelt condolences. Not worth 13p let alone 13 million
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Posted 5 months ago #
If it puts a little extra in Harry's pocket, why not? Ha! One day, Bellamy may break the record for the number of clubs played for in one division.
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Posted 5 months ago #
Mark Dennis (Southampton, Birmingham and others) must be worth a mention. Sent off 12 times and had the nickname Psycho well before Stuart Pearce did.
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Posted 5 months ago #
Mark Dennis is one of my favourite Brum City players ever. What a complete total nutter. One Maine Road afternoon, he got nutmegged by Flash Tommy Hutchison. He waited waited waited and just as the referee blew for half time, he 'missed' a volley and kicked Tommy so hard in the goolies that you could hear the scream in Ancoats.
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Posted 5 months ago #
surprised no-ones said richard gough he was a warrior,terry butcher,souness,dicks,and v.jones r by far the toughest of my generation.
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Posted 5 months ago #
And who would that be?
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Posted 5 months ago #
lol!it was a joke m8 a was talking about me
but dont u think fletcher,scott brown,paul hartley,gary caldwell are tough players,scottish players have a general toughness about them anyway its the way we play the game.
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Posted 5 months ago #
They can take care of themselves, no doubt, but some of that hard lot from the early 60s like Bertie Auld, Bobby Murdoch, Billy Bremner, Ian Ure and Dave Mackay make Hartley and Brown look like Tinky Winky! I'd rather have my old lady by my side in a bar fight than Darren Fletcher! Ha!
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Posted 4 months ago #
I used to love Batty and Ince in midfield for England - very entertaining:)
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