pasty
A different kind of pasty
Dirty ******* who could kick a ball very hard.
Woud he have been able to have survived at the top of the english game for so long if he wasn't street wise?
I don't think so.
I'm going to be contrarian here.
Undoubtedly a very very good striker. But he tended to dominate the teams he played in and was very much a big fish in a small pond. He never played for a top club and turned down big money to go to Newcastle where he was king bee and won diddly squat - even jacking in his England career. His most successful years were playing alongside another top striker in Sutton at Blackburn. I also got the impression that he had a lot of influence at Newcastle and towards the end of his time there it seemed the club couldn't do anything without asking him first.
Don't get me wrong - great player. But based on the above, there are others I would say were better.......
You can't leave it there!
Whom are you refering too?
I'm going to be contrarian here.
Undoubtedly a very very good striker. But he tended to dominate the teams he played in and was very much a big fish in a small pond. He never played for a top club and turned down big money to go to Newcastle where he was king bee and won diddly squat - even jacking in his England career. His most successful years were playing alongside another top striker in Sutton at Blackburn. I also got the impression that he had a lot of influence at Newcastle and towards the end of his time there it seemed the club couldn't do anything without asking him first.
Don't get me wrong - great player. But based on the above, there are others I would say were better.......
He had the right attitude he wanted to do do well at football and was only in the press for the right reason , football.
Interesting choice as to whether you would have him or Lineker in your team.
As regards Owen probably a better finisher than both but overall contribution not the same and had his head turned even before the injuries.
I read somewhere that he just trained all the time, even when most people had packed up, he was out the shooting, running etc. All time well spent from what he achieved
I think he's been the best all -round striker in the English game since Greaves - great in the air, strong, could score from distance, so consistent, great with Sutton, Sheringham, Ferdinand, good team player - he had the lot.
"Never played for a top club"? At the time Blackburn Rovers WERE the top club, outbidding every other British club for players. There were a decent outfit. Similarly, Newcastle were as big as anyone else bar Man Utd when they acquired Shearer, and they really should have won the title in 1996.
Or ploughing Gabby Logan. *allegedly*