On the way back from work I was listening to Talksport and they were banging on about club legends. I am interested to know who you guys would consider to be club legends. There is nothing much happening by way of things going on at the club so I thought this may provoke some healthy debate and abuse. Here are my five.
Jimmy Hill
John Sillett
George Curtis
Tommy Hutchison
Dion Dublin
Why nonsense, dickhead? It's my opinion. My favourite player growing up joins our local rivals. YEAH LETS CELEBRATE AND BE HAPPY. TwatBlinkered by nonsense.
Quite so. His 49 goals in the 1931-32 season is exactly how many the entire team scored this season.
Nah its not a joke he is clearly our best ever striker
Ian Wallace has to be there; 58 goals in 130 appearances vs. Dion's 61 in 145. Both legends.
Jim Blyth; 10 seasons with us and if the move to United had gone through he would have been the world's most expensive keeper.
Agreed on Borrows as a legend and should have played for England but Mick Coop also worth a mention - 15 seasons in the shirt and part of one of our best ever teams?
I'll throw in another wild card - Dave Bennett. He had it all and can only imagine how good he would be in the modern game in a different system and more protection. Very under-rated in my view.
I know my history Grendel!Dave Bennett was a legend in the bar afterwards. How old are you if you even have heard of Coop the Scoop
Agreed, but it was the one and only time that we had the Football League's top scorerBut this was a time when teams played 5 up front and 2 at the back. Plus you could practically assault the goalie to score (tho admittedly the defenders could pretty much break you in half)
ROBINS, HILL, SILLETT/CURTISS, STRACHAN, KEANE
Yes, let's not forget that Strachan achieved what 10 previous managers had failed to do - he got us relegated.I agree with the first 3.
Strachan was absolute class on the pitch (even at the age of 38) but was the manager who got us relegated despite having millions - he did not make the necessary changes to evolve the team year over year (if only we'd had a manager like Robins back then).
Keane. Strachan - fantastic players but don't qualify as legends with less than 40 games each?
LTo give some context, I was born in the early 90s, I didn’t see any of the above players, the first season I can recall was 99/2000. Robbie Keane was not with us long enough to be considered an icon/legend in my opinion, so based on players I saw and can remember, I would have to go with the below:
Mark Robins
Michael Doyle
McSheffrey
Do you remember his debut?Thing is these things are fairly subjective but historically Reg Matthews was a World Record signing for a goalkeeper at the time and the first Coventry born player to play for England
Do you remember his debut?
Talking of fullbacks, dare I throw in Chris Cattlin.Ian Wallace has to be there; 58 goals in 130 appearances vs. Dion's 61 in 145. Both legends.
Jim Blyth; 10 seasons with us and if the move to United had gone through he would have been the world's most expensive keeper.
Agreed on Borrows as a legend and should have played for England but Mick Coop also worth a mention - 15 seasons in the shirt and part of one of our best ever teams?
I'll throw in another wild card - Dave Bennett. He had it all and can only imagine how good he would be in the modern game in a different system and more protection. Very under-rated in my view.
Danny Thomas supports the inclusion of Danny Thomas - what a player he was.Bill Glazier
Ian Gibson
Terry Yorath
Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas supports the inclusion of Danny Thomas - what a player he was.
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