It was a very big game. And there are plenty more failures like that littered throughout his career.
As you say yourself, when you choose to play your prime years in France, and especially for a club which is as mercenary and soulless as they come, it’s unlikely you’ll be ranked with the greats.
A first hand account is worth more than a dozen badly translated articles. Troy Deeney also said he smelled nice.
Ashley had 5 (five) pints whilst I was with him.
In vino veritas.
“How do you play against him then?”
“I go and stand by the other centre back”.
If there was a “People You Don’t Know But Suspect Smell Nice” thread big Virgil would be a shoo-in to be included.
Trying to think of a player who has had such a transformational effect on one team and I have to go back to Maradona’s arrival at Napoli. We are possibly paying big Virge a disservice by only including him as one of the GOAT defenders.
He had offers from the wealthy super franchises but took on the challenge of Coach Klopp’s project playing next to Dejan Lovren. What a man!
Bobby Moore was one of the all time greats certainly on a par with Beckenbauer. He just seemed to jogging around but like great defenders made it look easy as if he were playing in carpet slippers. Alan Hansen was outstanding in the context of the English league.
He was and a great one at that. Played for Derby County under Brian Clough also.
Only on TFK would the Graeme Sounness thread convert to a discussion on the top centre-backs of all-time and the Madeline McCann thread turn to a Tony Kelly v Cian Lynch discussion.
His defending that led to del.pieros goal.against germany was off the charts
He was a sweeper in his winter days at Derby. He was what was known as a wing half - a tough, aggressive one at that throughout his peak playing days.
But he wasn’t a central defender/ centre half. He was, however, a tough nut……
He was playing for Bayern in 1977. Did you start watching soccer around 2015? 40 years is stretching it now.
Actually come to think of it on TFK it’s not a hindrance to have not seen a player at all when arguing his merits.
One of our greatest. He put Billy Bremner back in his box when he started acting the maggot.
Have some of that Graeme
A lot of sourness over Souness.
Souness living rent free in a lot of heads
When men were men
