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Club heroes you have a soft spot for.

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  • #52
    tdv123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭tdv123


    Seaneh wrote: »
    At Milan Serginho was the ultimate cult hero.
    Played left back, left mid, centre mid, attacking mid and striker at different times, never complained about not being a regular starter (although he probably should have been at times) and always gave 100%. One of those players who has become part of Milan legend, still employed by the club as chief south american scout.

    Serginho was a class player. One of the fastest players I've ever seen with the ball at his feet. I remember he ripped Zanetti apart for 90mins when Milan trashed Inter 6-0 a few years back.


  • #53
    LostBoy101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,369 ✭✭✭LostBoy101


    I will always admire the ginger master Paul Scholes, wonderful player and brilliant servant to Manchester United!


  • #54
    tdv123
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭tdv123


    Costacurta would be my pick. 21 years at Milan & always in the shadow of Baresi, Nesta & Maldini. Containing the likes of Ronaldinho & Eto'o & the age of 39 what a legend & such a great pro.


  • #55
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    I guess John Robertson has to be at the top of my list. He had more than 500 appearances and scored over 200 goals for Hearts over a 17-year period. John Colquhoun played about 350 games for us around the same era; he was an old-fashioned winger, short, slightly built and quick.

    Nowadays we're less likely to see players sticking around in the way that Robbo and JC did back in the day, and guys who flit in an out for a season or two are less likely to become cult heroes.

    Except this man. He only played for us in 05/6 and 11/12. But what a player.

    Here's my favourite ever pic of the guy. I was there when this happened. :)


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    Rudi Skácel, cult hero.


  • #56
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Howso? Granted, I left out "His Holiness" before his name, but I can surely be forgiven for that?

    Because the OP clearly wasn't going for the "best players to ever play for a club/best servents" he was asking for players who despite not being the best to ever play there who are loved by you or the club.

    Otherwise I would have said Buffon, Liedholm, Rivera, Káká, Gullit, Van Basten, Nordahl, Shevchenko, Maldini, Costacurta, Baresi, or a handfull of others.

    Feck it, I would have just said Maldini, who played 902 games for Milan.
    I firmly believe he was the best player of the last 20 years and easily the best defensive player of all time.

    But I didn't, I picked a man who was a squad player for the entire duration of his 9 year stay at Milan, because that's what made sense in this thread.


  • #57
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    tdv123 wrote: »
    Serginho was a class player. One of the fastest players I've ever seen with the ball at his feet. I remember he ripped Zanetti apart for 90mins when Milan trashed Inter 6-0 a few years back.

    Il Concorde, I'd agree, he was the fastest player I have ever seen with the ball at feet, and he didn't have to do the Walcot/Agbonlahor/etc job of knocking it ahead of himself and running onto it, he could run flat out with it on his toe!


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