City's all time hardest 11

Tbilisi said:
sky tot said:
Nicky Ried
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Always remember the Reid family photo in a match programme and a couple of his family had Black eyes.

Gerry Gow walking to the station after the game at Peterborough,kicking off everywhere and he didn't give a flying.

Met Andy Morrison at a corporate at Huddersfield a few years ago for a pre season friendly,im 6 ft 2 and a big fcuker at 16st but he's one of the few men in my life who you l look at and think....hmmmm....hope I don't upset him.

That said,my Dad says Roy Paul was like Morrison when he lost his temper except Paul was like that all the time,there's a photo somewhere of him with Trautmann grabbed by the throat,you have to know you are a hard bastard when you can do that to a German Paratrooper.Re Bert,from what I recall he didn't serve on the Eastern front,might be wrong though.

Might be wrong but reading Mike Doyle's original autobiography he talked about a young lad in the City team getting some shit off Liverpools Tommy Smith and Derek Kevan then proceeding to threaten Smith if he did.Never saw Kevan play so might be wrong,if so will have a look in the book and re post.
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He certainly did, he spent most of his war there, I think it was only after D-Day that he was posted to France, where he was eventually captured.
 
Mick McCarthy was a no nonsense centre half, I remember he gave Andy Gray a good hammering at Villa away late 80s
 
The Road Sweeper said:
Graham Baker. The only footballer whose hair was in better condition when he left the pitch than it was before he went on it.
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My mate had a pathological hated of him; blamed him for every loss.
 
Could probably make a team of left backs, Neil Pointon added to the list too. That tackle on giggs was sweet.
 
How is Martin Petrov not in this list? Heart of a lion that lad has.......

In all seriousness though of the current lot I'm gona go for Zaba, he went through a month or so where he seemed to finish each game with a bandage around his head, he didn't wear a stupid head guard like sir pube head of swamplands did for ages!

Was it Ben Thatcher that left his studs in tranny's chest on derby day? Bit of a cunts trick when he nailed that lad from Portsmouth though.
 
Adidas Barry Silkman said:
Bobby macdonald
Nigel de Jong
Barton
Tiatto
Mick Doyle
Frannie Lee - ask Norman (Bites Yer Legs Hardest Defender in England) Hunter.



I never really clocked Andy Morrison, kinda missed out on his era. Was he a real bastard then?
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Where were you when we were shit?
 
bammy blue said:
How is Martin Petrov not in this list? Heart of a lion that lad has.......

In all seriousness though of the current lot I'm gona go for Zaba, he went through a month or so where he seemed to finish each game with a bandage around his head, he didn't wear a stupid head guard like sir pube head of swamplands did for ages!

Was it Ben Thatcher that left his studs in tranny's chest on derby day? Bit of a cunts trick when he nailed that lad from Portsmouth though.
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I thought it was michael ball that stamped on tranny, although im sure the hatcher must have give him a sly dig or 2.
 
Joe Corrigan. Remember when leeds fans ran on the pitch at elland road and tried to attack Joe!! Knobhead ended up face down in the goalmpouth with Joe sat on him till the cops arrived. Great memory of a mental day. Brian Kidd was no softy either, head butted Kevin Bond when we played Norwich, broke his nose and blacked his eyes.
 
Coton
Zab
Morrison
McCarthy
Phelan
Tiatto
Lillis
Nicky Reid
Coleman
Kidd
F lee
 
totallywired said:
Joe Corrigan. Remember when leeds fans ran on the pitch at elland road and tried to attack Joe!! Knobhead ended up face down in the goalmpouth with Joe sat on him till the cops arrived. Great memory of a mental day. Brian Kidd was no softy either, head butted Kevin Bond when we played Norwich, broke his nose and blacked his eyes.
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Good shout for Kiddo there, he's a really nice bloke but in his coaching days with the rags, Baconface had him has his enforcer. Was surprised to hear it off a mate who's lad was on the books at the rags, but he said Kidd was a real hardliner and no one messed with him including Keane, Ince and co.
 
When did NDJ do anything on the pitch to put himself in the hard man category? I don't mean putting in hard tackles either (and I don't think he did that as much as some like to make out), otherwise Robbie Savage would be a hardman.

Some people like the (slightly homoerotic) fantasy of a scowling, bald tattooed bloke being 'the daddy' a bit too much imo and let this run away with them. Others like to think that their favorite player is a hardman - which sees people like Negredo being labelled a hardman too.
 
117 M34 said:
Adidas Barry Silkman said:
Bobby macdonald
Nigel de Jong
Barton
Tiatto
Mick Doyle
Frannie Lee - ask Norman (Bites Yer Legs Hardest Defender in England) Hunter.



I never really clocked Andy Morrison, kinda missed out on his era. Was he a real bastard then?
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Where were you when we were shit?
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In the Betty Ford Clinic, the old sauce you know.

What about Morrison?
 
Here's my 11

Trautmann
Zabaleta
Dunne
Morrison
Pearce
Bellamy
NDJ
Tiatto
Barton
Negredo
Tevez

Couldn't really include anyone from before my time as I would've never seen them, but Trautmann had to be included solely for his entire background. Another keeper suggestion, some of you might laugh, but Nicky Weaver (later years)? Proper big lad that looks like the sort of bloke you see having brawls in your local boozer. Thought about Michael Brown but wasn't sure if you would class him as hard rather than just a dirty c***.
 
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