[Albion] Albion's HARDEST Ever Player 2025. Round 1, Group A

[stewart12]

Rules are simple. Vote for you think is/was the hardest. Top 2 progress

Dean Wilkins

Position: Central Midfielder
Albion Career: 1983-84, 1987-96
Nickname: Wendy

Adam El-Abd

Position: Defender
Albion Career: 2003-14
Nickname: Bomber

Des Tennant

Position: Right Back
Albion Career: 1948-59
Nickname: Tank

Joël Veltman

Position: Defender
Albion Career: 2020-Present
Nickname: Shithouse

Roy Jennings

Position: Centre Half
Albion Career: 1952-64
Nickname: No need for one. Just look at his face

Danny Cullip

Position: Centre Back
Albion Career: 1999-04
Nickname: Grant and/or Phil Mitchell.

 

[FamilyGuy]

CASE.

Closed.

 

[stewart12]

Despite it being way before my time I went with Jennings

Look at that bloody face

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Danny Cullip hands down, the only man to bleed from a massive head wound at Forest away. Go off, get bandaged up and then run straight back on with his shirt covered in claret to defend our box, from a Forest corner.

 

[MattBackHome]

Despite it being way before my time I went with Jennings

Look at that bloody face

100% agree

 

[The Optimist]

@stewart12 the poll is closed already! I’m assuming you didn’t mean to limit it to just 2 hours.

 

[stewart12]

@stewart12 the poll is closed already! I’m assuming you didn’t mean to limit it to just 2 hours.

My mistake

Should be fixed now ?

 

[The Optimist]

My mistake

Should be fixed now ?

Yes, fixed

 

[Bracknell_Gull]

A vote for my fellow Bracknell Boy, Danny Cullip for the win here.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Nickname Wendy, doesn't give this away?

He was once pictured on a Gulls Eye front cover wearing slippers.

 

[Left Footer]

Wilkins? Seriously?
Did you never see him play, did he ever put a tackle in?

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Phil STANT wants a word

 

[Robinjakarta]

No Paul Clark?

 

[stewart12]

No Paul Clark?

There's 4 groups

 

[BN9 BHA]

There's 4 groups

Some people are really struggling with this

 

[Whitechapel]

CASE.

Closed.

Phil STANT wants a word
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No Paul Clark?

Bloody hell, you guys must get very confused when England got to a major tournament but aren’t in Group A.

Edit: Of course somebody beats me to it whilst I go to check all 3 selections are actually in the tournament.

 

[JBizzle]

Tough between Cullip and El-Abd, but I went with Adam because I saw him take a ball full in the face at Withdean and essentially turn it into a header without even flinching

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Bloody hell, you guys must get very confused when England got to a major tournament but aren’t in Group A.

Edit: Of course somebody beats me to it whilst I go to check all 3 selections are actually in the tournament.

Sorry do you have a wall chart I can print out?

 

[MTSeagulls]

Just my impression but I just thought Cullip was a bully rather than hard, El Abd seemed truly hard.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

No offense to the more recent players but surely it's between Tennant and Jennings? They played in the 50s. I wasn't around in those days but everything I've seen and read about football in that era suggests you could punch the goalie into his own goal and hit each other with shovels and not even give a free kick away.

On top of those, both of them are defenders so were extra likely to get stuck in.

Jennings has a face that says he has headed more than his fair share of shovels. Tennant looks quite put together still but is nicknamed Tank.

It's a tough choice.