City's all time hardest 11

Stuhr -Ellegaard
Edghill
Ingram
Howey
Dave Brightwell
Clough
Kinsey
Beasley
Baker
Groenendijk
Samaras
 
hardest city XI : HARRY DOWD - ZABS - MORRISON - WATSON - TIATTO - SUMMERBEE - DOYLE - GOW - TONY COLEMAN - WYN DAVIES -LILLIS if i was in the oppositon team , and seen this lot in the tunnel before the game , i would get back on the coach and go home.
 
waterloo blue said:
Before my time but my grandad said Roy Paul was a bit of a hard case.
Ian Scott,I seem to remember stories of him getting mixed up in extra curricular activities at the match,it was the eighties.
Dennis Tueart,is a good call;I'm sure that Hartlepool player still has flashbacks.
Joe Corrigan if he's anything like his brothers,would've been a handful.
I see your Steve Kinsey and Andy May and raise you Graham Baker.
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Graham Baker. The only footballer whose hair was in better condition when he left the pitch than it was before he went on it.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
If this was truly a hardest eleven then there's no way you could have anyone born after WW2. Life was much harder 100 years ago as were the men. Central Heating and Social Security will have made people more than a little softer than they were previously.
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Bill Leivers and Dave Ewing two born pre war, big Dave ran his own hardware shop on Broadstone Road in Reddish the right type of shop for him.
 
waterloo blue said:
Before my time but my grandad said Roy Paul was a bit of a hard case.
Ian Scott,I seem to remember stories of him getting mixed up in extra curricular activities at the match,it was the eighties.
Dennis Tueart,is a good call;I'm sure that Hartlepool player still has flashbacks.
Joe Corrigan if he's anything like his brothers,would've been a handful.
I see your Steve Kinsey and Andy May and raise you Graham Baker.
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I've just emailed him to ask for his input!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Can't see what Trautmann ever did to warrant being in that team.
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Read his biography - when captured on the Russian front, him and a few colleagues were held in a hut.
Bert and a few hatched a plan to escape but his superior officer said they weren't to do it so Bert twatted the officer, and then twatted the guard, stole his gun and off they escaped.
In darkness in woods, he saw a figure coming towards him, had no idea who it was so shot him dead!
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Correct Phil, Eric Nixon in goal for me.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
waterloo blue said:
Before my time but my grandad said Roy Paul was a bit of a hard case.
Ian Scott,I seem to remember stories of him getting mixed up in extra curricular activities at the match,it was the eighties.
Dennis Tueart,is a good call;I'm sure that Hartlepool player still has flashbacks.
Joe Corrigan if he's anything like his brothers,would've been a handful.
I see your Steve Kinsey and Andy May and raise you Graham Baker.
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I've just emailed him to ask for his input!
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He's unlikely to drop himself in it is he?;mind you whenever I'm asked about similar occurences it does raise a smile.
 
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.
 
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?
 
No mention of Niall Quinn. There was no way we would be pushed around in derbies in those days.

Curle and Quinn used to regularly square up to the bullies like Keane.

Nice story to support Quinny's case here as well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkeJ8het50[/youtube]

De Jong's a shoe in as well. A harder midfield enforcer I haven't seen.
 
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