Biggest Cult Hero?

[creed]

Cooke was popular largely due to his early form and the song that was not PC. As a player he was great in those first few games for us and gave us a bit of a lift when everything else was negative. But overall he was poor, he only played around 20 games for us and ended up on loan after loan for most of his contract. I guess it all comes down to timing with him - he was possibly our best player for a handful of games at our worst time.

Yep - agreed. He was pretty quiet at Wembley I think? Certainly those few games when he first arrived were the "high" point.

 

[yerwot?]

a cult hero needs to have a fair number of detractors, otherwise they are heroes.
Most on here fall into that bracket. David Silva, Vinnie could never be cult heroes, Colin Bell and many others are flat-out heroes, which is opposite to a cult hero. My own example would be Balo, for every fan of his there were many who thought he was a clown. so his fans are a cult, but that's just my opinion. Rodney Marsh another who split the support, went from very popular to being a liability to a lot of us on the terraces, even so still popular to some so another cult hero. Semantics rearing it's ugly head again, spoils many a thread sadly

 

[tony adcock]

Has Imre Varadi been mentioned ?

surely a cult hero for starting a craze we were known all over the land for......

 

[Iamthemusicman]

Kante - bring him back.

 

[Zapcity]

I'm sure many have mentioned him, but it's Andy Morrison for me.

I love(d) that fella and everything he brought to the team when we needed it the most. Our Ruben Dias of the 90's ;)

Good autobiography, most football ones can we quite dull , not this one ,well worth a read.
Liked the quote by Kevin Horlock where he said he'd walk off the pitch next to Morrison at HT/FT inf he'd personally had some 'beef' with an opposing player. (wouldn't imagine anyone ever said that about Jesus Navas!?)

 

[gloryhuntersince85]

De Jong & Lampard were definitely 2 fav's of mine in recent years

 

[91:23]

Richard Jobson joined aged 35 and won two promotions. Class act of a player

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Uwe.

 

[gloryhuntersince85]

Richard Jobson joined aged 35 and won two promotions. Class act of a player

unsung hero that 1999/2000 season

 

[glyntowen]

Barry Conlon - remember trying to convince ourselves he was the future