2010 World's FLAIREST ever unit- nominations

[Scotty Mac]

im not sure whether two swallows can make a summer, but arsenal 94-95 was addiction-tastic with both tony adams and paul merson playing vital roles

throw in george graham being sacked for financial irregularities as well, and it was pretty damn flair at highbury

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

The Southampton team of 1980-85. Consider the evidence:

Kevin Keegan, Peter Shilton, Alan Ball, Steve Moran, Mick Channon, Frank Worthington, Danny Wallace.

One of the best ever team goals:

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One of the greatest disallowed goals

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And a flair-tastic kit design that they wore for FIVE seasons...

 

[itszamora]

bradford city 00-01 - not only was it the team that effectively BANKRUPTED them with a quite honestly LUDICROUS attempt to stay in the premiership, but it featured these flair heros:

stan the man
benito carbone
dean windass
ashley ward
dean saunders
lee sharpe
jamie "black man, red hair" lawrence
neville "emergency signing" southall
gunnar halle

This HAS to be seconded, as does Brazil 82.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Tottenham in 95 - the famous 5 backed up with a flair defence which included walker, Dean Austin and Justin Edinbourgh

Seconded.

+ if a REAL MADRID team get's into this i can see scenes reminiscent of "human gate" in the worlds hardest creature competition

What about the Real Madrid team that won the European cup for five consecutive seasons between 56-60(including a 7-3 spanking of Eintracht frankfurt)?

Has anyone nominated the Ajax team of 71-73? If not, I will. Three consecutive European cups, created 'total football' and at their heart had Johan Cruyff. That's got to be at lkeast a little bit flair hasn't it?

 

[Gwylan]

right, as far as i can see thus far the following all have TWO nominations:

brazil 1970
chelsea 00-01
england 1996
derby 98/99
newcastle 95/96
middlesbrough 96/97
les invicibles 03-04
coventry 99/00
hungary/puskas 1950's
bolton 2005
liverpool 95/96

What about Holland 1974? Nominated by Astevens76 and me?

 

[Gwylan]

Seconded.





What about the Real Madrid team that won the European cup for five consecutive seasons between 56-60(including a 7-3 spanking of Eintracht frankfurt)?

Has anyone nominated the Ajax team of 71-73? If not, I will. Three consecutive European cups, created 'total football' and at their heart had Johan Cruyff. That's got to be at lkeast a little bit flair hasn't it?

I'll second both of those

 

[Trufflehound]

Ajax 2009/2010 currently have a +83 goal difference and yet are still only second in the table.....there must be some sort of flair factor there surely?

Scoring goals in the Dutch Eredivisie hardly requires flair though does it? Some of the teams down the bottom are about the same calibre as Accrington Stanley.

 

[Austrian Gull]

May I put forward one of the finest exponents of flair ever to grace the Premiership, Sheffield Wednesday 1999 vintage.

Okay, by some of freak of misfortune and injustice, they may have been relegated but what Owls fan cannot look back on this team without a tear in his eye?

A choice of PRESSMAN or SRNICEK in goal - it doesn't get much better than that.
Centre-halves of DES WALKER and EMERSON THOME.
PETTER RUDI, WIM JONK amongst the midfield.
GILLES DE BILDE and ANDY BOOTH up front.

Plus two managers during the season - David Pleat (brown suit, dancing on the pitch at Man City, driving very slowly through the streets of Luton) and Peter Shreeve(s) - the only manager who didn't seem to know what his own name was.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Zaire 1970( I think that was the year)

basically the ones with that IMMENSE kit with the tiger on and that had the player who stormed out of the wall and SMASHED the ball away before the free kick was taken!

Brilliant.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Boro team from about 1997

Manager: Bryan Robson
Goalkeepers
Mark Schwarzer, 1 Alan Miller, 13 Gary Walsh, Ben Roberts
Defenders
14 Curtis Fleming, Gianluca Festa, Craig Harrison, 29 Jason Gavin, 4 Steve Vickers, 3 Derek Whyte, 5 Nigel Pearson, 26 Chris Morris, Michael Barron, 15 Phil Whelan
Midfielders
21 Craig Hignett, Mark Summerbell, Nick Barmby, Anthony Ormerod, Michael Cummins, 22 Craig Liddle, 18 Graham Kavanagh, 20 Phil Stamp, 8 Robbie Mustoe, Jamie Pollock
Forwards
12 Alan Moore, Andrew Campbell, Paul Wilkinson, 11 Fabrizio Ravanelli, 10 Osvaldo Giroldo Junior Juninho Paulista, 23 Jan-Aage Fjortoft
Goal Scorers


Also EMERSON and Bryan robson as player/manager

Also THE flairest away kit, the blue btcellnet shirt with the diamond/hash patern which followed off the shirts onto the shorts.

CLASS

 

[happypig]

I'm going to offer Argentina's 1978 wold cup squad; Kempes, Ardiles, Villa etc

Also , Scotland's squad for the same event; Flair for beating Holland, then back to being Scotland by only getting a draw against Iran

 

[Gerbil]

The T&T team that played in the t20 champions league, flair all over!

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

Barnsley 09/10 team.

O'Neil Thompson
Mounir El Haimour
Anderson Silva
Darren Moore
Reuben Noble-Lazarus
Hugo Colace
Daniel Bogdanovic

2 Jamicans, someone from Malta and someone called Reuben.

 

[Gerbil]

The T&T team that played in the t20 champions league, flair all over!

1 Daren Ganga 14 January 1979 (1979-01-14) (age 31)
15 Adrian Barath 14 April 1990 (1990-04-14) (age 20) Right-handed
25 Navin Stewart 13 June 1983 (1983-06-13) (age 26) Right-handed
46 Darren Bravo 6 February 1989 (1989-02-06) (age 21)
?? Justin Guillen 86 January 1986 (1986-01-86) (age 24)
All-rounders
?? Richard Kelly 19 February 1984 (1984-02-19) (age 26)
5 Sherwin Ganga 13 February 1982 (1982-02-13) (age 28)
47 Dwayne Bravo 7 October 1983 (1983-10-07) (age 26)
51 Rayad Emrit 8 March 1981 (1981-03-08) (age 29)
54 Lendl Simmons 25 January 1985 (1985-01-25) (age 25)
55 Kieron Pollard 12 May 1987 (1987-05-12) (age 22)
Wicket-keepers
40 William Perkins 8 October 1986 (1986-10-08) (age 23)
80 Denesh Ramdin 13 March 1985 (1985-03-13) (age 25)
?? Gibran Mohammed 31 July 1983 (1983-07-31) (age 26)
Bowlers
7 Samuel Badree 9 March 1981 (1981-03-09) (age 29)
14 Ravi Rampaul 15 October 1984 (1984-10-15) (age 25)
24 Sunil Narine 26 May 1988 (1988-05-26) (age 21)
31 Dave Mohammed 8 October 1979 (1979-10-08) (age 30)
?? Amit Jaggernauth 16 November 1983 (1983-11-16) (age 26)
?? Imran Khan 6 December 1984 (1984-12-06) (age 25)
?? Rishi Bachan 4 November 1986 (1986-11-04) (age 23)
?? Shannon Gabriel 28 April 1988 (1988-04-28) (age 21)
The flariest ones are highlighted

 

[Mendoza]

Ajax 1995
Dutch champions, European champions, World champions

Michael Reiziger, Finidi George, Nwankwo Kanu, Patrick Kluivert, Winston Bogarde; Ronald de Boer Frank de Boer, Edwin van der Sar, Jari Litmanen

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

In hate to say it but the Chelsea of around
98 were real flairmongers.


player-manager: Gianluca Vialli
Goalkeepers
Dmitri Kharine, 1 Ed De Goey
Defenders
Neil Clement, 5 Frank Leboeuf, 24 Samuele Dalla Bona, 26 John Terry, 33 Luca Percassi, 3 Celestine Babayaro, Michael Duberry, 21 Bernard Lambourde, 2 Dan Petrescu, 6 Marcel Desailly, 14 Graeme Le Saux, 17 Albert Ferrer, Eddie Newton, David Lee
Midfielders
11 Dennis Wise, 20 Jody Morris, 16 Roberto Di Matteo, 8 Gustavo Poyet, 12 Bjaerne Goldbaek
Forwards
22 Mark Nicholls, 28 ,25 Gianfranco Zola, 10 Pier Luigi Casiraghi, 32 Mikael Forssell, 19 Tore Andre Flo, Steve Clarke, Brian Laudrup
13 Kevin Hitchcock
34 Jon Harley

 

[Mendoza]

Bulgaria 1994

They got to the World Cup semis, no one saw it coming. They even had the two players who shared the same toupee

1 Mihaylov • 2 Kremenliev • 3 Ivanov • 4 Tsvetanov • 5 Houbchev • 6 Yankov • 7 Kostadinov • 8 Stoichkov • 9 Letchkov • 10 Sirakov • 11 Borimirov • 12 Nikolov • 13 Yordanov • 14 Genchev • 15 Iliev • 16 Kiriakov • 17 Mihtarski • 18 Aleksandrov • 19 Georgiev • 20 Balakov • 21 Yotov • 22 Andonov

 

[Simster]

Zaire 1970( I think that was the year)

basically the ones with that IMMENSE kit with the tiger on and that had the player who stormed out of the wall and SMASHED the ball away before the free kick was taken!

Brilliant.

He also had an AFRO.

How about Albion of 2010/11?

Inigo Calderon, some expensive crap flop from Uruguay, GUS running the show and sulky enigmatic Glen Murray leading the line. Have we had a more FLAIR line up?

 

[Mendoza]

Inigo Calderon, some expensive crap flop from Uruguay, GUS running the show and sulky enigmatic Glen Murray leading the line. Have we had a more FLAIR line up?

Chuck in a Slovakian keeper that takes for ever to do everything, being backed up by a chef in the marines. An on loan Austrian striker who scored 4 already, an Egyptian that may win player of the season despite being absolutely shit for many years - add them all to a team who then lost at home to Carlisle who have not won away all season, well since they last beat us at Withdean. Dont forget they have reached the pinnacle, 13th place, yes THIRTEENTH

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

West Brom 78/79

Fielded THREE darkes and called them the Three Degrees.

Manager, Big Ron