legends of the premier league

[easytiger1]

Hi there,
It is, as you will doubtless soon be made very aware, 20 years of the Prem next season.
As your team has spent at least one season in the top flight I wondered if you might like to contribute your top three 'Club Legends' to a book due out soon in conjunction with talkSPORT Radio and the publishers Simon & Schuster.
A 'Club Legend' is distinct from a general 'Premiership Legend.' It is, for example, Gary Neville rather than David Beckham, Jamie Carragher rather than Steven Gerrard, Paul Merson rather than Thierry Henry, you get the picture.
It need not be a player but just somebody strongly associated with the club during the last 20 years. It is most likely a player but it could be that bloke at Portsmouth with the tattoos or it could be Ken Bates at Chelsea (although that is unlikely).
Regardless of who it is, he is likely to be talked about in the boozer after the match with the same reverence/ frequency as anybody else in the game.
Obviously, any help you provide will be acknowledged in the book.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Best,
Bill Borrows (Editor)

[rob9872]

Is there any chance of people ever remembering that football was around long before Sky television and that this notion of 20 years is merely the old first division? I'm sure there is a whole generation of people who belive the game was invented by Rupert Murdoch!

[rob9872]

Thanks also for the generic email posted on the boards of all sites presumably. Rather than even bother to tailor it for us having spent 8 seasons in the EPL (34 in the top flight) we get the "as your team has spent at least one year ... "

[skybluearmy88]

Well Steve ogrizovic has to be on there.

[Robccfc87]

Oggy is a good shout, and without going down the normal attacking player route I also thought Roland was as good a defender we have ever had.

[rob9872]

Keith O'Neill, Kev Monks and the Mad Hatters


Serious would be Oggy, Huckerby and Whelan (Dublin was a much better player but not club legend for me in the way I interpret the request)

[Clive Plattini]

Well I'm fairly sure Henry is more of a legend than Merson. That's probably why there is a statue of him outside the Emirates and not Merson.

[superskyblue]

Thanks also for the generic email posted on the boards of all sites presumably. Rather than even bother to tailor it for us having spent 8 seasons in the EPL (34 in the top flight) we get the "as your team has spent at least one year ... "

Nothing like treating your guests well ay?!?!

Obviously Oggy and also Trevor Peake and John Sillett for me.. what about KD?!

[Gray]

I'm going for John Gayle, Kyle lightbourne and Steve Morgan

[Robccfc87]

Well I'm fairly sure Henry is more of a legend than Merson. That's probably why there is a statue of him outside the Emirates and not Merson.

He is asking for a less generic legend!