City's Hardest Ever Player

[lancs blue]

Tony, Tony Coleman ....ugh ugh!

Not only a hard bastard but mad as a box of frogs to go with it. Along with Buzzer we must have had two of the toughest wingers ever seen in one team in '68.

 

[LittleStan]

How camp do these look!
Shit!
Good player tho

and the love heart boxers.

 

[Selbyblue]

Add Franny Lee to the list. Looked after himself during the days when a bad tackle meant your spleen had been removed.

Overall Doyle for me. Watch him walk off the pitch at the swamp during the pitch invasion. Not one rag went near him.

Whoever said Gow could not play needs to sort themselves out. Watch his equaliser at Goodison for one example.

 

[Adidas Barry Silkman]

I would have said between Gow or Tiatto then I remembered Frannie Lee beating fuck out of norman Hunter so Frannie must edge it.

 

[Squadmissile]

Add Franny Lee to the list. Looked after himself during the days when a bad tackle meant your spleen had been removed.

Overall Doyle for me. Watch him walk off the pitch at the swamp during the pitch invasion. Not one rag went near him.

Whoever said Gow could not play needs to sort themselves out. Watch his equaliser at Goodison for one example.

Forgot about this corker from franny

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8kxMnc5KUs[/youtube]

 

[Mrs Merton]

Bill Leivers-a mountain of a centre half

Hard - agreed - but he was a right full back. Dave Ewing (another one) was the centre half.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Bert Trautman. Prior to being a fantastic goalkeeper (who played through terrible pain for the last 15 mins of the 1956 cup final), he was ... A German Paratrooper in WW2!

Ddecorated multiple times his highest award being Iron Cross (first class). Bert escaped on THREE occasions after capture by the Russians, French Resistance and Americans. He survived many bloody encounters on the Eastern front and survived the Massacre of the Failse Gap in the 1944 Normandy campaign and the American carpet bombing at Kelve in Feb 1945. Worked on Bomb disposal in the North West of England after the war to help 'Make Amends'

So, not only a trained Killer but Nerves of Steel, Determined and Lucky! In short a hard man who could break your neck without breaking sweat.

He would piss on anyone else in the circumstances described on page 1.

 

[bluefromleve32]

steve mcmahon, that fucker knew he was at the end of his career so went out to fight every game. it was like watching ice hockey sometimes

 

[happychappy]

Pedro Mendes reckon's Ben Thatcher?

 

[BTH]

Dave Watson for me every time.

Came off the pitch as Wembley covered in blood and after a tussle with Joe Jordan at Leeds a couple of years later, they both left the pitch with their shirts ripped to pieces!

 

[MCFC BOB]

 

[Hydemcfc]

Big Dave Watson for me, hard as they come on the pitch, a real gent off it.

 

[Why Always Ste]

ok, let's judge how hard a player is based on their genetics :D

 

[Lavinda Past]

Mike Summerbee - Nobody but nobody got the better of Buzzer. Even Tony Coleman wasn't that stupid.

 

[pedigreeblue]

Dave Watson, Mick Mcarthy, Eric Nixon, Tony Coton. Id back those four against any other four..

 

[moon]

Big Dave Watson for me, hard as they come on the pitch, a real gent off it.

One of my earliest city memories was big Dave covered in blood in 76 final

 

[johnny on the spot]

In my lifetime:

Morrison
Pearce
Tiatto
Sweep
Zabaleta
Yaya

 

[MCFC BOB]

ok, let's judge how hard a player is based on their genetics :D

Or how much of a nutcase he is/how far he can punch someone?

 

[BufordUSABlue]

I would personally pay decent money to see a set too between Gerry Gow and Morrison - I cant seperate these genuinely hard lads!!

 

[PragueBlue]

Gerry Gow.