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[Albion] Who's the flairest of them all? Quarter Final 3: McCourt vs Gotsmanov

Who's the flairest of them all?

  • McCourt

    Votes: 45 42.9%

  • Gotsmanov

    Votes: 60 57.1%
  • Total voters
    105
  • Poll closed .


stewart12

stewart12

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2019
1,603
Quarter Final 3- the other 2 have a day left on them here and here

Paddy McCourt

Nationality: Northern Irish

Albion Career: 2014-15 (10 appearances, 0 goals)

Credentials: Looked like he turned up to matched having slept in a skip the night before. Couldn’t do anything other than epic solo runs. A proper Sunday league style player.

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Progress: Finished 1st in Group C, gathering 44 votes (44.4%). In the second round won a 4 way battle against Leon Knight, Neal Maupay and Alan Duffy, getting 44.3% of the vote.

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Sergei Gotsmanov

Nationality: Soviet/Belarussian

Albion Career: 1990 (16 appearances, 4 goals)

Credentials: Outrageously exotic signing for the time. Enigmatic skill wizard and was once given a Lada car. In many ways paved the way for a lot of the others in this tournament

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Progress: Finished 2nd in Group B, gaining 13 votes (13%). Beat Alireza Jahanbaksh in the second round 52-14.
 




hans kraay fan club

hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
61,379
Chandlers Ford
By rights it SHOULD be Sergei, but (one pre-goal celebration apart) I just remember him being BRILLIANT rather than FLAIR. He actually seemed like a quiet, humble, very sensible young bloke.

Paddy was a poundland George Best. Extravagantly talented, but clearly no aptitude to make anything of his talents. I bloody LOVED him.
 


stewart12

stewart12

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2019
1,603
it's Paddy all day long for me
 


stewart12

stewart12

Well-known member
Jan 16, 2019
1,603
daily bounce, got about a day left on this and it's TIGHT
 


Baldseagull

Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
10,959
Crawley
Gotsmanov wasn't flair, he was just very good, in the way Dunk or Gross are very good, with moments of flair. Mc Court was all flair, f*** a simple pass, no matter how drunk and incapable he was.
 














Baldseagull

Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
10,959
Crawley
Herne Hill Seagull said:
Greatest respect, Baldseagull, but wasn't flair? The man beat at least 17 players in a mazy run and stopped on the goal-line to celebrate before he knocked the ball into the net. Only the great Robin Friday would have been as ballsy. I'd suggest he was the absolute definition.
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My reckoning is a flair player is always trying to dribble round a man or two, nutmeg someone, backheel a pass. On top of that they keep trying to do that even when it really isn't a reasonable option, it fails, and it annoys their teammates. Bonus flair for long hair and drunkeness. Gotsmanov was a far, far better player, but not nearly as flair as McCourt.
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
50,298
Faversham
hans kraay fan club said:
By rights it SHOULD be Sergei, but (one pre-goal celebration apart) I just remember him being BRILLIANT rather than FLAIR. He actually seemed like a quiet, humble, very sensible young bloke.

Paddy was a poundland George Best. Extravagantly talented, but clearly no aptitude to make anything of his talents. I bloody LOVED him.
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A full pound you say? ???

Yes, he was mesmerizing.

However....this ain't flair: On 31 May 2023, McCourt was found guilty by a Derry court of one count of indecent assault.[63] He was given a three-month sentence, suspended for two years, and was placed on the sex offenders registry for five years.

Edit: but he wins an appeal ..... albeit, christ, the absolute state of him 😥

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Cheshire Cat

Cheshire Cat

The most curious thing..
Nov 4, 2006
11,453
Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...
McCourt was just a mess.

Gotsmanov was the canine's sphericals.
 


Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam
Jan 31, 2013
1,591
Walthamstow
McCort did f*** all for us when we needed something. Gotsmanov is up there with Zamora and Vincente for instant absolute class. For most of my near 40 years watching the Albion these 3 were the only ones that within seconds of touching the ball, you knew they were a world above everyone else on the pitch. The man was a supreme talent and if he hadn't been prime LeTissier's understudy at Southampton, he would have set English football alight. Whatever Paddy McCort may have flared elsewhere he certainly didn't for us.
 




Cowfold Seagull

Cowfold Seagull

Fan of the 17 bus
Apr 22, 2009
21,652
Cowfold
hans kraay fan club said:
By rights it SHOULD be Sergei, but (one pre-goal celebration apart) I just remember him being BRILLIANT rather than FLAIR. He actually seemed like a quiet, humble, very sensible young bloke.

Paddy was a poundland George Best. Extravagantly talented, but clearly no aptitude to make anything of his talents. I bloody LOVED him.
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I can remember trying to initiate a chat with Sergei Gotsmanov in the players lounge at the Goldstone, fans who had joined some scheme to help fund the club every month, (can anyone remember the name of it? l can't), had been invited as a thank you to meet the players, and hear a spiel from Barry Lloyd.

Alan Curbishley said to me, you won't get much out opf him mate, l think he works for the KGB.

As for Paddy McCourt, l'm afraid l have little time for gifted players who waste their talent.
 


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