Hard men of football

[Barcon]

Never realised McMahon had a reputation as a hard man? I always thought he was a bin dipping nonce

That's McManamanananam

 

[mancityvstoke]

Dave Watson

 

[KentBlue]

Dave Watson

The moment I think of him I immediately remember his bloodied head.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Souness is still a great bloke in my mind. Talks sense and is well respected.

 

[cinnamon]

When I first heard someone say that "Football is to war what porn is to sex" it made no sense to me at all. So someone had to explain it: Football and porn give you a taste of the real thing, but without the risk and cost.

That is of course if you are a normal person. If on the other hand you're Roy Keane, football IS war.

 

[BillCarlisle]

I don’t agree that Bremner was a hard man.

He was a dirty little coward, IMHO.

Ron "Chopper" Harris, Tommy Smith and our own Mike Doyle and Mike Summerbee.

Agreed. That famous pic of Mackay holding Bremner up by his shirt on his tip toes said it all. He could have eaten Bremner for breakfast. Quite a few of the Leeds team at that time were dirty, snidey bastards. Built in the mould of Don Revie who as a manager would try any trick he could to gain an advantage. TBF to Revie, he was years ahead of his time in that respect and when he got Leeds playing the football they were capable of they were a great team.

 

[Crouchinho]

Roy meets Vinnie at 00:27

I remember watching them days and questioning if stuff was worthy of a yellow. Nowadays Vinnie would have been sent off 6 times in that match.

Its so nice in this day and age players can play football. Players are dirty in different ways these days but not a patch on this

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

I don’t agree that Bremner was a hard man.

He was a dirty little coward, IMHO.

Ron "Chopper" Harris, Tommy Smith and our own Mike Doyle and Mike Summerbee.

In those days full backs used to do a hard early tackle to let their usually mard arsed winger what they would get during the next 90 minutes.
Buzzer always used to let his full back know in the first few minutes what he was in for the rest of the afternoon.
Bolton used to have a very well spoken full back called Roy Hartle.
Roy was on Radio 4 for some reason and he explained how he and the other full back would agree to give an early kicking to their wingers and then kick them to the opposite side of the pitch for some more kicking. Sounded really funny coming from this posh sounding elderly gentleman.
Andy Morrison was another whose gentle voice didn’t go with the rest of him.

 

[blue by birth]

A certain Michael Summerbee was hard as nails. He didn’t dish it out much but many defenders got broken by trying to twat him. He just ran through their pathetic efforts.

I remember Buzzer and McCreadie of Chelsea kicking lumps out of each other in a 0-0 draw at Maine Road 1970ish.
They were at it all through the game and neither gave an inch...but after the game they walked off the pitch together and were laughing and joking.
Proper hard bastard was our Buzzer.

 

[BridgyDids]

There is this big myth about him and Vieira from the game, we’ve all seen, where he says “I’ll see you on the pitch”, in the tunnel. United fans go on about it, like he’s Rambo or something.

I’ve since watched highlights.
In the tunnel, Keane looks at the camera to see it’s on him, and while the referee is in between them gets chopsy with Vieria.

Then on the pitch he has a few stern tackles, as well as receiving some (exactly what you’d expect from someone playing his position!) and only acts up when Stam is there to back him up.

Vieira stands there alone at times, not backing down, while Keane is like a rabid dog on a lead (only when he is protected). A classic cowards tactic.