Greatest City 11 (English Players Only)

[No1 was Colin bell]

Players ive seen;

Hart
Walker stones curle hinchcliffe
SWP barry foden
Francis sterling tueart

Is that Barry silkman in the middle? Selected for his shaggy perm.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

On the basis on only those players I have seen with my own eyes......

Coton
Walker Stones Watson Pardoe
Foden Bell Oakes Lake
Tueart Francis

 

[Pablo123]

4 pages in and no Jamie Pollock tut tut

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

I'm sure Willie Donachie used to play for us.
*He's not English you wanker.*
Re read the thread title.

 

[uwe rosler 28]

Corrigan

Book
Stones
Doyle
Pardoe

Lake
Bell
Foden

Sumerbee
Lee
Young

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Anyone with Walker over Tony Book should have their account deactivated. No one got the better of Skip.

I'd go with Corrigan, Book, Stones, Watson, Donachie, Oakes, Bell, Foden, Barnes, Lee, Tueart.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Donachie

 

[Cityfan]

I'd go two separate teams because it's so difficult to compare players of different eras.
So I'm going to go pre and post takeover.

Pre:

Corrigan

Book
Doyle
Watson
Pardoe

Lake
Bell
Owen

Summerbee
Lee
Tueart

Post

Hart

Walker
Stones
Lescott
Delph

Barry
Milner
Foden

SWP
Sterling
Grealish

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

I don't think that it is possible to make direct comparisons between players today and those of 25 years ago let alone 50 years back. It is a totally different game.

In the 1960s, a lot of players were essentially part-time, even many in the top two divisions. Current players are far fitter and benefit from developments in sports science.

Harry Dowd worked as a plumber throughout his career as did Tom Finney of Preston. My PE teacher from school was Trevor Porteous, full back for Stockport County. He left the school only when he was appointed player-manager at County. We also had Ray Wood, goalkeeper for United (until replaced by Harry Gregg) as part-time games teacher. He was in the Munich air crash. He had moved to Huddersfield by then.

The other factor was the state of pitches back then. Most were essentially mud baths apart from the first few weeks of the season.

Put the best teams from the 1960s against the best teams today, on current pitches, and there would no contest. I would be less sure what would happen if you could transport the current teams back on play of pitches like the Baseball Ground in Derby.

Also you need to factor changes in the standards of refereeing. The likes of Norman Hunter could not play today as they did back them without getting red cards every match.

In tactical terms City under Mercer and Allison did anticipate some of Guardiola's thinking. Glyn Pardoe, a midfielder, played a hybrid full back/midfield role not unlike that of Delph and Zinchenko. However in most cases direct comparison is not vald.

There's always one killjoy ;D

 

[Bluesince1979]

Is that Barry silkman in the middle? Selected for his shaggy perm.

Who else would i possibly mean?