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Foreign player from yesteryear who you really rated!
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Zukey Seagull
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Pavel Nedved, thuram, appiah, miccoli (All Juventus players)
Gullflyinghigh
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- Apr 23, 2012
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The only man to win 1st, 2nd and 3rd in goal of the month (in the same month). Some of his finishes were just ridiculous, I think it was World Cup '98 where he got one for Holland vs Argentina...immense.
W.C.
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- Oct 31, 2011
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Indeed. And what was extraordinarily special about that goal wasn't just how incredible it was, but that he'd done virtually the same thing against Leicester that season I think. :scuttlesofftoyoutube:
Not just a one off for Dennis
prawnsarnies
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- Jan 20, 2010
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So many to name but one who played for us and showed what class he had at the end of his career, Kishishev.
Gullflyinghigh
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Could fill an entire thread with moments of Bergkamp brilliance to be fair. He was just that good.
Also, a player I managed to forget but we'll worthy of mention; Pavel Nedved. Oh yes.
The Large One
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Kind of appropriate you should mention a Dutchman and a Czech player.
I saw Pavel Nedved playing in Euro 2004 against Holland, and he ran the show - outstanding. This was a Holland side of Seedorf, Davids, van Nistelrooy and Robben.
Also one of the most enthralling games I have ever seen live at the venue.
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Remember back in the days when foreign players were strangely exotic & rare?
Newcastle in the late 1980s signed the talented but massively ball-hogging Mirandinha. I'm only posting this because I liked his song, as sung passionately by 50,000- ooops...16,000- Geordies every week:
"His name is Mirandinha
He's not from Argentina
He's from Brazil
He's fookin' brill"
Newcastle in the late 1980s signed the talented but massively ball-hogging Mirandinha. I'm only posting this because I liked his song, as sung passionately by 50,000- ooops...16,000- Geordies every week:
"His name is Mirandinha
He's not from Argentina
He's from Brazil
He's fookin' brill"
maltaseagull
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Ossie Ardiles Was incredible to watch in an era of a totally different football style to what we see today. He still managed to survive and show such skill.
The Truth
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Roy Keane.
albion534
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Alex Bertin
He was unreal
He was unreal
The Large One
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Remember back in the days when foreign players were strangely exotic & rare?
Newcastle in the late 1980s signed the talented but massively ball-hogging Mirandinha. I'm only posting this because I liked his song, as sung passionately by 50,000- ooops...16,000- Geordies every week:
"His name is Mirandinha
He's not from Argentina
He's from Brazil
He's fookin' brill"
Extract from "The Foreign Revolution"
Keith Burkinshaw, the manager of Tottenham Hotspur, was sitting in his office at White Hart Lane a few days after the 1978 World Cup final. He had less than two months to prepare for the start of the new season. Spurs were returning to the First Division after a year away.
Bill Nicholson, Burkinshaw’s most eminent predecessor, the man who’d overseen Spurs’s glory days of the early 1960s, had joined him for a chat. There was plenty to discuss.
While they were talking, the phone rang. Nicholson answered it.
“Hello Bill, it’s Harry Haslam.”
Haslam, a friend of Burkinshaw, was the manager of Sheffield United.
“Hello Harry, what can we do for you?” asked Nicholson.
“Would Keith be interested in signing Osvaldo Ardiles?” said Haslam.
Nicholson turned around to Burkinshaw.
“Harry Haslam’s on the phone and he wants to know if you’re interested in signing Osvaldo Ardiles,” he said.
“Is he pulling your leg or what?” said Burkinshaw.
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Harry Haslam’s interest in South Americans stemmed from contacts built via one of his senior coaching staff, Oscar Arce, an Argentinian. Burkinshaw knew this, and that Haslam already had a rudimentary scouting network in place across in Argentina.
He was still a little taken aback when he disembarked in Buenos Aires on Saturday 8 July 1978 to be met off the plane by Antonio Rattin.
Rattin captained Argentina in the most notorious game of the 1966 World Cup finals, the ill-tempered quarter-final against England. During the first half hour of the game, which England won 1–0, Rattin committed a series of fouls, contested almost every decision and spat in front of the referee. He was shown the red card after 36 minutes but refused to leave the pitch. There was uproar as he stood his ground and it took eight minutes to persuade him to go. He tried to sit on the touchline and was eventually escorted away by the police.
Geoff Hurst, England’s goalscorer that day, talked afterwards of feeling as though he would be mugged at any moment. There were high tackles, kicking, tugging and poking from both sides. Nobby Stiles memorably said: “Apart from the violence, I came through with no problems.” Alf Ramsey, England’s manager, described the Argentineans as “animals”. The infamy of Rattin and his team was sealed.
“But Rattin was a tremendous guy,” Burkinshaw said of their meeting in 1978. “We were there for four or five days and he was a great fella. He escorted us everywhere, he made all the introductions, he was wonderful.”
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Burkinshaw met Ardiles at a Buenos Aires hotel within hours of arriving in Argentina. Considering the impact the deal would have, it was concluded more smoothly than Burkinshaw could ever have anticipated.
“I asked Ossie if he’d be interested in signing for Tottenham. He said yes, but he’d have to come back with his wife, Sylvia. Twenty minutes into that second meeting he said ‘Give me the form and I’ll sign it’. Then he said ‘Would you like to sign Ricky Villa?’.
“I rang Tottenham. The chairman [Sidney Wale] told me to go ahead if that’s what I wanted. I met Ricky the next day and five minutes later he was a Tottenham player.”
News of the signings reached England on Monday 10 July. ‘Sensational’ appeared in numerous headlines. Bookmakers responded instantly by cutting Tottenham’s odds of winning the First Division from 66–1 to 25–1.
Sidney Wale went public on the reasons for his purchases: “The [financial] situation is certainly right for signing players out there,” he said. The pair cost around £750,000 between them. Ardiles, already the holder of more than 40 caps, cost £325,000 from Huracan. Villa, despite having less international experience, cost marginally more from Racing Club.
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Interviewed for The Foreign Revolution, Ardiles said they signed for Spurs because Tottenham were the first European club to make an offer. “It had never crossed my mind for a second that I might go to England,” he said. “I’d thought about maybe Spain, Italy or even France, people had talked about this around the World Cup. But when we got home there was nothing whatsoever. The first person who came out to Argentina to see us was Keith Burkinshaw. Suddenly he was there. He wanted me and Ricky, he put the offer on the table. The rest is history.”
The great line I read subsequently from a reporter when Ardiles and Villa were unveiled was "It's like Keith Burkinshaw went to Fads for a tin of paint, and came back with a Canaletto..."
The Truth
Banned
Lorenzo Pinamonte (when the ball hit's the net like a .....)
Ifiwuwajio (scored against Barnet away 1-0)
Chris Burch (International)
Ifiwuwajio (scored against Barnet away 1-0)
Chris Burch (International)
Ariel Ortega
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
the only centre half? better than Bobby Moore
the one and only Franz Beckenbauer
the one and only Franz Beckenbauer
