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50 Players Judged To Be The Cult Heroes Of Numerous British Clubs, As Voted For By Viewers Of The BBC's 'Football Focus' Programme
1. Tony Adams (Arsenal)
2. John Aldridge (Oxford United and Tranmere Rovers)
3. Ivor Allchurch (Swansea City)
4. Joe Allon (Hartlepool United)
5. Peter Beardsley (Newcastle United)
6. Colin Bell (Manchester City)
7. George Berry (Stoke City)
8. George Best (Manchester United)
9. Luther Blissett (Watford)
10. Billy Bremner (Leeds United)
11. Tony Currie (Sheffield United)
12. Tom Finney (Preston North End)
13. Robbie Fowler (Liverpool)
14. Trevor Francis (Birmingham City)
15. Paul Gascoigne (Tottenham Hotspur)
16. Bryan Gunn (Norwich City)
17. Mick Harford (Luton Town)
18. Johnny Haynes (Fulham)
19. Ian Holloway (Bristol Rovers)
20. Terry Hurlock (Millwall)
21. Alan Knight (Portsmouth)
22. Henrik Larsson (Celtic)
23. Tommy Lawton (Notts County)
24. Matthew Le Tissier (Southampton)
25. Craig Levein (Cowdenbeath)
26. Nat Lofthouse (Bolton Wanderers)
27. Lomana LuaLua (Colchester United)
28. Roberto Martinez (Wigan Athletic)
29. Clive Mendonca (Charlton Athletic)
30. Stuart McCall (Bradford City)
31. Ally McCoist (Rangers)
32. Paul McGrath (Aston Villa)
33. Willie Miller (Aberdeen)
34. Bobby Moore (West Ham United)
35. Cyrille Regis (West Bromwich Albion)
36. Andy Ritchie (Oldham Athletic and Greenock Morton)
37. John Robertson (Heart of Midlothian)
38. Don Rogers (Swindon Town)
39. Gary Rowell (Sunderland)
40. Franck Sauzee (Hibernian)
41. Graeme Sharp (Dumbarton)
42. Bernie Slaven (Middlesbrough)
43. Neville Southall (Everton)
44. Igor Stimac (Derby County)
45. Jock Wallace (Berwich Rangers)
46. Peter Ward (Brighton & Hove Albion)
47. John Wark (Ipswich Town)
48. Charlie Williams (Doncaster United)
49. Ian Wright (Crystal Palace)
50. Gianfranco Zola (Chelsea)
As an Aberdeen fan, I'd like to add
ReplyDelete- John Hewitt - for being a supersub and scoring two vital goals, one the winner against Bayern Munich, the other the winner in the '83 Cup Winners Cup final against Real Madrid.
- Theo Snelders, who was signed without actually having been seen playing and who more than replaced another AFC legend, Jim Leighton.
Sounds fair enough to me! Would Mark McGhee be anywhere on the shortlist? Or Gordon Strachan?
ReplyDeleteI was going to say Ashley Cole for Arsenal - then re-read the category
ReplyDeleteWhere's Sheffield Wednesdays. By the way happy 50th to "The Friday List Of Little Or No Consequence
ReplyDeleteWell Terry Curran and David Hirst are both older cult heroes and were both brilliant, but Waddle was a great, modern day footballer. I would have probably gone for Hirst as Waddle was more a cult hero for Newcastle and Tottenham and while Curran was great, I'll never forget Hirst famous goal against Arsenal where he got he fastest ever recorded shot, when I was there, hit at something like 130mph.
ReplyDeleteAlso I would have Mark Bright in the running as well. Hirst is my choice though.