Best player of his generation
I’ve been very fortunate to have seen him, Greavsie, Mackay, Ginola, Ossie, Klinsmann live
And Nicola Berti of course!
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Best player of his generation
I’ve been very fortunate to have seen him, Greavsie, Mackay, Ginola, Ossie, Klinsmann live
And Nicola Berti of course!
agree with all of those, but the best player I've seen in a Spurs shirt has to be Maradona.
Yes I was at that game and because it was Ossie’s testimonial he was allowed to play his natural game!
Absolutely magical and of course rumours swept the stadium that he was going to come to us!
Sadly not true!!
Every time I see this thread bumped I just assume that he's passed away.
Was there ; he did a few things.
I’d say , on the eye-test ( and over many , many more games) Glenn was well beyond Diego ( on English pitches at least ) .
PS We’re allowed to disagree .
PPS I get what you were saying.
Different game then. It used to be a contact sport!
..and yet Spurs had less injuries back then...
Look how tough players were then. Garry Parker not complaining and rolling about. Straight up so he doesn’t show Gazza he’s hurt him. It was a real game then played by men and not soft as fuck pansies. Even the so called tough players nowadays are soft as shite. That clip there has brightened up my day.wonderful.
Such a bitter sweet day: winning a proper trophy, but the end of an era; Gazza lit up the lane in a way I haven’t seen anyone do in quite the same way since.
EDIT - maybe peak Bale
And then later he committed actual GBH on Gary Charles and fucked his knee. Gary Charles got straight up though. In today's game he'd be stretchered off with oxygen.
Gazza for me was the player that got you off your feet all the time. His change of direction and ability to run by midfield players as if they weren’t there was incredible. Hoddle was my hero growing up as a kid but Gazza had that whole package of class,fun,carnage and unpredictability that meant you could never take your eyes off him. Utterly flawed human being though.Such a bitter sweet day: winning a proper trophy, but the end of an era; Gazza lit up the lane in a way I haven’t seen anyone do in quite the same way since.
EDIT - maybe peak Bale
And that’s why nobody can ever tell me today’s game is better. There’s many more reasons but that is something that I miss about the game from rhe 80s.
To me Gazza was the most creative player England has ever produced.
The fukker pulled a Rabona in a pen! He out paced Vinnie Jones after the ball grab!
Also is a fukkin MADLAD.
To me if anyone says a bad word about my English GOAT I will defend him till the end of time - even when he was involved with Rauol Moat fukkin GOAT.
The fukker pulled a Rabona in a pen! He out paced Vinnie Jones after the ball grab!
Also is a fukkin MADLAD.
To me if anyone says a bad word about my English GOAT I will defend him till the end of time - even when he was involved with Rauol Moat fukkin GOAT.
Brilliantly well put. It’s difficult to explain to those who weren’t there, but there was a genuine buzz before every match, wondering what Gazza would do today.
It's a damn shame this kind of thing will never happen again - imagine if Messi for the lols wore a Brit Kit for an event/friendly game for ANY London club just because it's fun???
The bullshit around the beautiful game pisses me off.
The thing was , as we all know, that our club mattered on the global stage back then ( in a way it doesn’t so much any more ) .
Diego actually made an effort to come to our part of the world to play in a friendly on behalf of his mate but also ( and he said as much in an interview) because of the club . He played for nothing.
As you say , imagine that happening now .
Different times …
There’s no artists with freedom anymore . It’s more drilled set roles & very chess like. Plus any off the cuff dribbling or magic is coached out of them. It’s a Lot more boring these days.
I think he knew Ardiles and Villa played for us and Ossie sort of took him under his wing a bit at national level. So he was very close to him. Maradona was known for being very loyal to those he valued and Ossie was certainly one of those.
I’m not inclined to believe he cared much about Spurs outside of those 2.
I miss the truly creative number 10 which very few teams now use. And there are a lot less top strikers than there were 20 years ago. That’s pretty sad.