Slowest ever?

[taleofbluehalves]

I managed to come up with

Now pit it against our fastest XI

I'd go Eike Immel in goal. We have a tradition of signing good keepers and but Ball signed him!

Remember him being called statuesque at the time:)

Ref gave pen against him for holding Cantona down even though the ball was about 3 feet above his head.

 

[Shaelumstash]

I'd go Eike Immel in goal. We have a tradition of signing good keepers and but Ball signed him!

Remember him being called statuesque at the time:)

Ref gave pen against him for holding Cantona down even though the ball was about 3 feet above his head.

Got to be Burridge in goal! Also, Silvinho and Maicon are nowhere near our slowest full backs. They both got embarrassed for pace in different games against Spurs, but we've had far slower full backs. To name a few, Ball, Vaughan, Taarnat, Kolarov, Zabaleta, Weikens, Fronzek to name but a few!

 

[Chippy_boy]

Haven't read every post, but has anyone voted for Didi Hamman? Surely in with a shout.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

What a team!

1. Burridge
2. Andy Hill
3. Tarnat
4. David "Olympic parents" Brightwell
5. Kenny Clements
6. Javi "slowest ever" Garcia
7. Ricky "but he could cross" Holden
8. Bernardo Corradi
9. Freddie "the tea trolley used to pass him down the wing" Hill
10. Barry "milk turned quicker" Silkman
11. Didi Hamman

Subs from
David Seaman
Jamie "deceptively slow" Pollock
Tony Cunningham
Robert Taylor
Geoff Hammond,he should have got a purple heart for playing with no legs.
Colin Viljoen,deceptivly,slower than treacle poured from a tin.
Peter Bodak,made Rick Holden look like Usain Bolt.
Sibierski

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Why no mention of Ousmane Dabo yet? (or however you spell the c*nts name)

One of those rare breeds of professional players who are both headless AND slow, never seen a game pass a player by with such ease on so many occasions. Actually painful to watch.

 

[taleofbluehalves]

Why no mention of Ousmane Dabo yet? (or however you spell the c*nts name)

One of those rare breeds of professional players who are both headless AND slow, never seen a game pass a player by with such ease on so many occasions. Actually painful to watch.

You start to realise how many slow players Pearce signed!

 

[franksinatra]

I would go for Gerry Creaney and Carl Shutt. I will never forget being stood on the open away end at Newcastle on New Years day watching Carl Shutt and Brian Kilcline race for the ball. It was like time had stood still.

 

[jimharri]

Anyone remember Dragoslav Stepanovic (mid-late seventies era;)? He made Gareth Barry look like Usain Bolt, on speed, with a rocket stuck up his arse. Slow doesn't begin to describe it. A bloody car ferry has faster acceleration than he had.

 

[davymcfc]

I think Barry has been a great player for us but surely has to be one of the slowest players I have seen in a city shirt.

The goal keeper in our slowest 11 has to be David seaman. By the time he came to us he was so slow off his line and he could barely jump. I remember him getting lobbed against sporting lokeren as he was too slow to close the striker down and he probably jumped about a foot in the air.

 

[Ovo]

Remember him being called statuesque at the time:)

Ref gave pen against him for holding Cantona down even though the ball was about 3 feet above his head.

Got to be Burridge in goal! Also, Silvinho and Maicon are nowhere near our slowest full backs. They both got embarrassed for pace in different games against Spurs, but we've had far slower full backs. To name a few, Ball, Vaughan, Taarnat, Kolarov, Zabaleta, Weikens, Fronzek to name but a few!

So Maicon is quicker than Zab? Not having that at all.