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Favourite players of the last 25 years? (5 Viewers)

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  • Start date Jun 10, 2021
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #36
Greggs said:
Yeah, my parents didn't have much cash, so my Mum cut up the numbers and letters from white felt and stick them on. I got bullied at school.
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I only got them cos the place we got them from (this was when other shops could sell them) a name was included for free on kids shirts. Once it became a cost extra I didn't get them on anymore (plus it'd have look a bit sad on someone who was 14). Hence why the only exception was the kit with the circle on the back that looked odd without a number. So I had Nilsson put on that one and hoped for the best.
 
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Greggs

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #37
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I only got them cos the place we got them from (this was when other shops could sell them) a name was included for free on kids shirts. Once it became a cost extra I didn't get them on anymore (plus it'd have look a bit sad on someone who was 14). Hence why the only exception was the kit with the circle on the back that looked odd without a number. So I had Nilsson put on that one and hoped for the best.
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should have got some felt
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #38
Greggs said:
Yeah, my parents didn't have much cash, so my Mum cut up the numbers and letters from white felt and stick them on. I got bullied at school.
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Another indication of how sad I was (well, let's be honest, am) is that I was trying to think of a way you could get names onto shirts that could them be removed/replaced if a player was sold or if a fickle child got a new favourite player or we signed someone. Loads of ideas, but none I felt happy with.

Did a similar thing with cars as I loved soft-tops but thought they got broken into and leaked too much, so I had three or four ideas for a convertible hard-top. Obv were only simple drawings and the positives/negatives but for a 12y-o they weren't bad. All of them have since been made in some form.
 

Blind-Faith

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #39
Yeah I’d also include Davenport and Dann who I enjoyed watching. Plus McSheffrey and Danny Fox.
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #40
David Thompson was immense in our first season after relegation from the Premiership. Some of his goals were just scandalous. Always like Thommo as a player, and I'd have liked to have seen him and Roland Nilsson down the right for us.

Plenty of mentions for Steve Froggatt; on his day, yes, absolutely, he was a handful and had fireworks in his boots. For me, he went missing a lot, and was probably isolated due to Strachan's occasionally-dubious tactics.

Dion Dublin, of course. What a player in Sky Blue. Loved his partnership with Darren Huckerby in the '97-'98 season, it was their most productive season together in attack. Great times. Especially away to Southampton and Bolton that year, when Huckerby decimated them with his aggression and audacious finishing.

Always liked Trond-Egil Soltvedt in midfield too, his workrate and 'decoy' runs were excellent, as was his tackling. Always seemed to be smiling, too.
 
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mark82

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #41
Max Biamou.

 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #42
mark82 said:
Max Biamou.
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shmmeee

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  • Jun 10, 2021
  • #43
Dublin, Keane, Huckerby, Whelan, Ndlovu
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #44
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
As a kid I had my own name put on the back because I was worried if I had my favourite they'd end up getting sold. This was before transfer windows too.

Yep, even as a kid I was a boring bastard thinking about the longer term.
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Just out of interest, how did your career end up?
 

shmmeee

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #45
I had a felt number 7 on my kit as a kid, mostly because asking my mum to also cut out “Gallacher” was a bit much.
 

Samo

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #46
David Speedie
 

Sky Blue Pete

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #47
Dublin I reckon
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #48
Samo said:
David Speedie
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Maths not your strong point?
 

Samo

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #49
Grendel said:
Maths not your strong point?
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Ah I see what i did there!
Well he left in '91 so I'm only 5 years out!
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #50
oscillatewildly said:
Just out of interest, how did your career end up?
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Faded into obscurity playing Sunday League until about 15 when I became disillusioned with the game and concentrated on other avenues.
 
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Sky Blue Harry H

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #51
CDK said:
Tommy Hutchinson a legend at ccfc
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https://giphy.com/li0dswKqIZNpm
 

Adge

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #52
Greggs said:
Paul Telfer, had his name on my first shirt.
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Good shout for longevity and not worrying about the shirt as the player wouldn’t be sold......
 
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mmttww

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #53
David Thompson. Could not believe we'd signed him after he tore us to pieces at the end of the previous season. On debut it seemed to hit home how bad we were and he lost his mind trying to win the game on his own before getting sent off!

Convinced him in a side with either Keane or McAllister would've seen us safe. Felt like he dragged us to wins the next season all by himself several times over and that we fell to bits when he was sold for peanuts before his England call up.

Edit - checked and we sold him in the summer, not mid season. Proof memory isn't always reliable!
 
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wingy

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  • Jun 11, 2021
  • #54
Greggs said:
Paul Telfer, had his name on my first shirt.
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Ah old golden bollocks, every company business has one
 
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