Allan Clarke on the current City team.

[herrock]

If that team in their prime played us now, on modern pitches and rules as they are, we would beat them comfortably.
On old style mudbaths and with free for all tackling, we would struggle! They were a good side, but dirty sods too.

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Has he been looking at his diaries again?

Wrong Alan :)

 

[Alfie Budd]

Any modern day PL outfit would wipe the floor with Revie’s Leeds or any other team from that time. The advances in sports science, fitness and conditioning would see to that.
Comparing teams from different eras is invariably an exercise in futility. Clarke has only succeeded in making himself look an idiot.

 

[brazilians hurt]

Dementia is a horrible illness

 

[WestGorton]

Allan Clarke: “I find a lot of football nowadays quite boring, I think the money has ruined it. In my day it was a more level playing field. Look at Manchester City. They are the best team because they have spent the most money."

“But I’ll tell you this, for all those millions they have had to pay to get those players at Man City, plus all those millions they have to pay them, that great Leeds side I was part of would bury them alive.
We were better players.”

He explains: “It’s all about touch and control. In our day, we stopped the ball dead. Our team at Leeds was a league team but we were all internationals.”


Lol!

Leeds were a great side at that time, but City would beat them at least 10-0

Obviously another stupid old twat.

 

[Gordyola]

Doesn’t he know that they wouldn’t be allowed to foul players at will and pass the ball back to the GK at for him to pick up City would destroy them

 

[Kinkybyname]

Sniffer.

coke

 

[East Level 2]

That Huddersfield team of the 30s would batter his Leeds side but that Preston team from some time or other would have that Huddersfield team on toast. Etc

Just about sums it up.
Current fitness levels mean Clarke's Leeds team couldn't catch a modern team. And even if they fluked a goal or two they'd conceded half a dozen in the last twenty minutes as they'd be shagged out.

 

[RayCTID]

Dirty Leeds