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I don't think there's any doubt that out of the loan forwards, Brain Dear had the potential to be one of our greatest. He was a bit like Tony Cottee in build ( perhaps a bit more chunky) but his record for West Ham was 39 goals in 82 games. Problem was this was over 8 years, so even with that...

Which was quite interesting as he was definitely scheduled to come over but failed to materialise. At the time I was told he was worried about home sickness (he was scheduled to lodge with my family). Either way we missed out big time. We had Ian Wright on trial and he was probably the biggest...