Cult icons

redmgar

Who are some your clubs cult icons?
Not the most talented player but struck a chord with the fanbase, perhaps due to their limited skill level.

I would suggest Titi Camara for Liverpool, shone briefly and brightly in the premier league.

IK09

Dirk

rob316

Definitely Dirk Kuyt.

Shanotheslayer

Tim Cahill

redmgar

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Tim Cahill

To be fair, he was probably your best player.

Shanotheslayer

redmgar wrote: »

To be fair, he was probably your best player.

True, him or Arteta. But Cahill loves Everton and I loved him growing up so will always be my cult hero :pac:

KevRossi

For the teams he played in their are bigger names such as Rush, Dalglish, Hansen, Beardsley etc. etc. but for me it was Jan Molby. Always liked the guy and he had some amount of sublime skill.

brianregan09

Ray Parlour , Jon Jensen

Harry Palmr

David Fairclough, Maxi Rodriguez, Kolo Toure, Gary Mac - they are cult heroes for Liverpool for different reasons but none of them were star names and/or long lived. Oh and

Djimi Traore

obviously! :pac:

Zaph

KevRossi wrote: »

For the teams he played in their are bigger names such as Rush, Dalglish, Hansen, Beardsley etc. etc. but for me it was Jan Molby. Always liked the guy and he had some amount of sublime skill.

Not a Liverpool fan, but I loved watching Molby play. He was a great passer of the ball. And a great Scouse accent too.

Ian Taylor for the Villa. Heart of a lion.

Bounty Hunter

Posted a video in the last Villa thread about a village in Ghana and this is a quote from a young lad being interviewed in it remembering talking to his grandpa:

"Who is that god you are talking about? Because you all know there is only one god and he is in heaven, and he laughed and told me that there is a god in football and his name is Paul McGrath"


That right there is a cult icon!

Patsy Freyne.

Bridge93

From a Newcastle point of view the first one that comes to mind is Nobby Solano.

From the same era Titus Bramble was an icon for mostly the wrong reasons

Pudsy33

Diego Forlan

.G.

Igor Biscan's todger

Dr Turk Turkelton

Fire my first ever post in the soccer forum I would like to nominate Jesper Olsen.
A tricky little winger who I used love to watch.

Sharp MZ700

Gary Mabbutt. Always gave it all on the pitch, not many can say they woke up to find a rat having nibbled away one of your toes to the bone.

Riesen_Meal

Currently : Divock Origi

Recently : Kuyt or Lucas

Old School : John Aldridge

No prizes for guessing who I support...

jk23

Reggie Blinker with Sheff Wednesday in the 90s

SureYWouldntYa

Is there anyone more beloved by the wide public than John Terry?

marklazarcovic

Jimmy Floyd ...

David ginola

Klinsman at spurs

Steve bull

Zaph

SureYWouldntYa wrote: »

Is there anyone more beloved by the wide public than John Terry?

Hitler?

BeepBeep67

Tommy Smith - LFC

magma69

Georgi Kinkladze
Juninho (Boro)
Matt Le Tissier
Toni Yeboah
Paulo Di Canio

Insect Overlord

magma69 wrote: »

Georgi Kinkladze
Juninho (Boro)
Matt Le Tissier
Toni Yeboah
Paulo Di Canio

Spot the guy who didn't read the OP. :pac:

simongurnick

Totti with roma

Panthro

David Luiz wouldn't have been a top top CB at Chelsea, but he was a cult hero his first time round, with his floppy hair and PlayStation style.

But mainly because of his floppy hair.

Alf Veedersane

Park Ji-Sung.

Mr.Nice Guy

Has to be John O'Shea. Played in goal when called upon, scored a wonderful lob against Arsenal that surprised himself more than anyone, nutmegged Figo, a crucial smash-and-grab winner in front of the Kop. What a career.

Skylinehead

brianregan09 wrote: »

Ray Parlour , Jon Jensen

Kanu!

Muahahaha

ctrl-alt-delete

Chris Bart-Williams

adaminho

The Chief!

Perry Groves is an obvious one.

Vinnie Jones at Leeds.

adaminho

Deleted User wrote: »

Vinnie Jones at Leeds.

Vinnie is the reason I started supporting Leeds!

David Batty would be up there and always had soft spot for Mel Sterland.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Jay Jay Okocha

So good they named him twice

Bobby Baccala

Podolski and Eboue

Hammer Archer

Christian Dailly and Carlton Cole fit the bill at West Ham.

ollkiller

KevRossi wrote: »

For the teams he played in their are bigger names such as Rush, Dalglish, Hansen, Beardsley etc. etc. but for me it was Jan Molby. Always liked the guy and he had some amount of sublime skill.

Not a Liverpool fan either but i loved watching Molby play. Such an intelligent player and his passing range was unreal.

redmgar

I would say Origi will definitely looked back on as cult icon, probably due to the invaluable goals that he has scored.

TFBubendorfer

Shaun Goater. Always and forever my cult hero - as a footballer as well as a top class guy.

Insect Overlord

A day and a half in. Still no Lee Trundle.

MrKingsley

Andrei Kanchelskis for me. Still had a jersey with his name on it until recently enough

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Cantona at United (and I say this as a Liverpool fan).

For me, cult is not just about the quality, it's the attitude and personality and that x-factor I-don't-give-a-****-what-people-think mentality.

EDIT - for the "my club" pedants: Suarez

kwestfan08

Rafael for me. Was no size at all but always dogged into tackles and never backed down if it got testy. Scored a few screamers too.

8-10

8-10 wrote: »

Robbie Keane
...
Liverpool fan

Is he?

I'm surprised. At national level he seemed to be the opposite of a cult hero, he scored a gazillion goals and people still moaned about his celebration or because he waved to the referee or whatever it was.

KaiserGunner

Christopher Wreh (Arsenal) might be one. Scored a few vital goals in the title run in and FA cup run in 97/98 when Bergkamp and Wright were missing, season Arsenal went on to win the double. He didn’t do much at Arsenal after, but will be remembered for that alone. Was George Weah cousin as well I think.

DeanAustin

Steffan Freund

Despite being a German international and playing for some big clubs he was a very limited midfielder for Spurs. But his attitude was great, he loves the club and I believe he's been back and sat with regular fans to watch a game.

A legend despite his playing ability which is exactly what a cult icon should be.

Zico !

Denis Irwin -quiet man scored goals deadly at set pieces ye all know the rest

TheCitizen

Paddy McCourt