Here’s one to fire us along nicely in the afterglow of the Toon win. I want to know your favourite 5 Spurs players of your generation. Which is to say, your favourite 5 players to have donned the Lilywhite during your time as a supporter. So if you’re 25, you can’t include John White. If you’re of a similar vintage to ODM then you’ve a wider choice. In fact you could include players from the Hotspur Cricket Club if you wanted to.
Why 5? Well, it’s all well and good and noble being able to construct an all time XI, but when it’s from your generation this inevitably means compromise. And compromise is dull. Also this is designed to be fun, so if you want to name 5 strikers, knock yourself out.
Mine? I’ll share mine later on but it includes Teemu Tainio. This is your favourite 5. So if that means you want to includes Jason Dozzell then so be it. No right answers. Only yours.
Ginola, gazza, lineker, o’hara, king
Vinny Samways, Ginola, Klinsmann, Berbatov, Van der Vaart
Ossie, Chris Waddle, Gazza, Ginola, and Klinsmaan
Bale, Modric, Ledley ,Lloris and Sandro, bare in mind I’m 16, don’t have a lot to choose from but I’m happy with my choices
In no particular order
1. Gary Lineker – he might be a bit irritating but he and Gazza were what pulled me onto this rollercoaster!
2. Paul Gascoigne – see above
3. Erik “The Viking” Thorstvedt – ever dependable without being spectacular
4. Edward Sheringham – Teddy was one of the most intelligent players to have played in this country.
5. Sir Ledley – Mr Tottenham.
Gareth Bale could worm his way onto the list and Jurgen Klinnsman was hard to leave out, as was Spurs through and through David Howells.
Bale, King, Ginola, Freund & Berbatov
I’ve picked mine only including those I’ve seen in my time :
Klinsman
Lineker
Gazza
Roberts
Hoddle
If I could include players I’ve not seen then McKay, Jones, Blanchflower and Greaves would’ve pushed put all but Gazza.
From the current crop only Bale comes close but I have a secret manlove for Sandro :In-Love:
COYS
Hoddle. Waddle. Gazza. Ginola. Bale.
1) Gary Lineker
2) Paul Gascoigne
3) Teddy Sheringham
4) Gary Mabbutt
5) Eric Thorstvedt
LEDLEY IS KING
Too many to name but Greaves, Gilzean Jennings and Mackay must be in there somewhwere,.
I’m 20, supporting since around 98, so slightly limited amount of players, all the same though,
1. Bale- gotta be that man. Best player I’ve ever seen play probably, with the slight exception of RVP on his day when we got raped by the gooners 5-2 last year. Love the fact that he’s progressed during my teen years so he’s really just been there for my most fervent supporting times.
2. VDV- yeah, I know another really recent guy but to be fair he just really captured the mind for me when he came. Just an incredible player and loved the way he was on the pitch. My favourite ever moment of his is a bit of an odd one too, when he once slid 4 or 5 foot right in front of me to keep a fast rolling ball in play, trapping it on the line. Pure quality player.
3. Daaa-veeed. Was there right at the beginning of my supporting days, and I just loved everything he’d do. Love a good playmaker, me.
4. Ledleyyyyy. Don’t really need to say much about him, he was a spurs player as long as i really could name a starting XI.
5. Bit tough, but I’ll go with Defoe for one moment alone. (shame to leave out lennon for me, but…) Defoe’s five against Wigan. Being there, I know I’ll never be in a stadium as a spurs player gets five goals again, it was just beautiful. And he made a mundane Tottenham Wigan Game something of history.
In no particular order:
Ledders
Ginola
Klinsmaan
Bale
Teddy
Greaves
Gough
Bervatov
Bale
King
…and Hoddle.
Jimmy Greaves, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Jurgen Klinnsman, Gareth Bale
Ardilles, king, Lennon, Hoddle, Mabbut
Teddy Sheringham
Ledley king
David Ginola
Juergen Klinsmann
Gareth Bale
In no particular order: Bale, Berbatov, Hoddle, Archibald, Ardiles.
Jennings
Hoddle
Conn
Berbatov
Perryman
Bale to displace one of them if he keeps playing like he has been!
Only 5? Hmm.
King, Gazza, Mabbutt, Anderton, Waddle. Not necessarily in terms of ability. Honourable mentions to Hoddle, Ossie, Villa, Teddy and Clive Allen.
And Paolo Tramezzani
Sheringham
King
Lennon
Ratboy (let bygones be bygones)
Daws
5 only is really hard!
Dammit, forgot about Sicknote! I give up…!
Dave mackay nearly a one man team
Jimmy greaves the supreme goal taker
cyril knowles a icon and a great left back
alan gilzean the king of the lane what player
gazza great
Well, I’ve been in the fold since 2001, so it has to be Bale, Berbatov, VDV, Ledley and………..Benny (you said Favorite, not best)
Hoddle,
Sheringham,
Klinsmann,
King,
Bale.
The *#$%bell sould and should have been there if he hadn’t have done what he did. Never forget it.
easy.
jason dozzel
chris ‘the rash’ perry
ben thatcher
Defoe
Bale
Carrick
Robinson
King
Steve Perryman,Terry Naylor,Osvaldo Ardiles,Peter Taylor,Glenda
Hoddle, Gascoigne, klinsmann, lineker, Howells
Hoddle
Gazza
Klinsman
Anderton
Lineker
Very difficult to choose 5 but I’ll go with..
Lineker
Gazza
Bale
King
Hoddle
Hoddle
Conn
Jennings
Sheringham
Berbatov
20 year old here and in my opinion: Bale, Ginola, King, Keane and Sheringham
I’m now 60 and I live in Australia (born in England)
Pat Jennings, Dave Mackay, Jimmy Greaves, Steve Perryman and Gary Linneker
Whoops – spelling and poor eyesight as well as a dodgy keyboard as an excuse……..
Gary Lineker…………..(see previous post)
Perryman
Mabbut
King
Hoddle
Ardiles
Blanchflower
Mackay
Greaves
White
Perryman
cant argue with that lot!
King, van der Vaart, Bale, Sheringham, Davids
bale,berba,benny,sandro and vdv.
Hoddle, Ginola, Gazza, Roberts, Bale
Greaves
Gilzean
Gazza
Mabs
Ossie
Hoddle, Gazza, Ginola ,Bale , King
Chas, dave, lord sugar, herbert norris, peter herbert
Gazza lineker wadd jurgen bale I wld put H in there but only saw him 3 times so feel I just missed his generation
GAZZA,
BALE,
MODRIC,
KLINSMAN
AND THE BEAST SANDRO
Hoddle, Ardiles,Villa,Galvin,Waddle
This is brilliant. Really enjoying seeing names from the different generations
Hoddle, Gazza, Lineker, Ginola, errrrrrrrrrrrr?
LEDLEY THE KING,
VDV,
LENNON,
DAWSON,
LINEKER
GREAVES
JENNINGS
OSSIE
HODDLE
MACKAY
Could have had : Gazza, Lineker, Perryman, Knowles, Waddle, Klinnsman, Chivers, Gilzean
The only current player who could get into it in future is BALE
THose that I am too young to remember (I’m 50) but have heard so much about – White, Jones, Smith, Blanchflower
But the best 2 British players of all time – George Best and Duncan Edwards (never seen him but family in their 70′s and 80′s thought he was better than Best)
Bale? No, Modric? No, Osvaldo? No, Berbashite?, No, I did like Ledley until met him in a bar and thought he was a twat. So NO, Bale? Errrrrrrrrrrrr?
Hoddle- there was nothing he couldn’t do with a football.
Gazza- fingers crossed he gets better.
Ginola- a typical spurs flair player.
Mabbut- solid and bled white blood.
Last one is tricky, could have been Jurgen, Waddle, Lineker or No like chicken badge!!
But I’ve gone for Ledley- A true modern day great, just imagine if his
knee wasn’t buggered!
Here are my five , and in order :
Jimmy Greaves… the ultimate predator… 466 goals in 14 seasons… 1st Div top scorer 6 times between 58/59 & 68/69… a record yet to be broken.. i can go on…and on
Dave Mackay.. the epitome of Scottish grit & determination… all round player to be found all around the pitch
Glen Hoddle.. the finesse, the precision, the power
Paul Gascoigne… the creativity, the spirit, and just being Gazza
Gareth Bale….the future.. meteoric rise from ‘unlucky’ left back to powerful unplayable left wing with license to roam
Gascoigne
Lineker
Klinsmann
Ginola
Sheringham
Bale is close to knocking Teddy off this list if he continues his current form!!
Tough but here goes
Jennings
McKay
Greaves
Hoddle
Gaza
Ok, a broad canvas to choose from, but my choices are:
1) Teddy Sherigham
2) Ossie Ardiles
3) Gary Mabbutt
4) Steve Archibald
5) David Ginola
In no particular order:
Gary Lineker
Gary Mabbutt
Allan Nielsen
Dimitar Berbatov
Ledley King
Graham Roberts
Steve Archibald
Glenn Hoddle
Paul Gascoigne
Ledley King
Born at the end of 63 means that the ‘double’ players are technically within my grasp but I only really became properly aware of who was who as I approached about ten years old. So…….
Hoddle
Jennings
Ardiles
King
Gascoigne
Or
Klinsmann
Waddle
Gilzean
Mabbutt
Roberts
Or
C Allen
Ginola
Hughton
Sheringham
Perryman
If I include those from when I was born but I can’t remember, then…
Mackay (Broke his leg the month I was born)
Blanchflower
White
Greaves
Jones
Hoddle
Paul Allen
Ardiles
Gascoigne
Klinsmann
or
Mabbsy
Roberts
King
Perryman
Edinburgh
Anderton
King
Huddlestone
Kranjcar
Corluka
I started to write down Jennings, Hoddle, Greaves, Wadlle, Gascoigne and then gave up when Ginola, King, Bale, Klinnsman, Chivers, England, Gough, Mullery, Gilly came into my head
I wasnt old enough to see McKay in his pomp by spotted his successor at Brookfield Lane when I was about 13 – Graeme Sounness. Unfortunately Nicholson made a bad error of judgement there.
Hasnt it been a priveledge watching these superstars play for our team & pick the best 11 from that lot and we’d probably beat Barcalona!
Me and a 199 saw Souness make his 1 and only appearance in the 1st team-anyone else there?
My generation is the players I saw play live regularly before work took me on a long and as yet unfinished journey away from my North London roots so:
Alan Gilzean (of course!)
Jimmy Greaves
Pat Jennings
Martin Chivers
Mike England
Like you,Golzean was my favourite ever Spurs player.
So i’ll go for my five favourite (cult) players:
Gilzean
Conn
Glenda
Klinnsmann
BAE (like Cat in Red Dwarf)
Hoddle
Ardiles
Gascoigne
Ginola
Bale
Subs: Klinsmann, Toda, Saib, Berti, Korsten
Berbatov
Nayim
Lineker
Sherringham
Ginola
Sandro soon VDV very close
I’ll confine mine to my first stint of watching the boys every week.
God
Perryman
Archibald
Alfie Conn
Pat Jennings
..no one mentioned garth crooks. so crooks .archibald. perryman [ gent].gazza.peters
Greaves
Jennings
Perryman
Ardiles
Modric
Born in 73, my famous 5 are.
1) Ray Clemence
2) Glenn Hoddle
3) Ossie Ardiles
4) Paul Gascgoine
5) Graham Roberts
5 favourite –
Teddy Sheringham
David Ginola
Dimitar Berbatov
Ledley King
Jurgen Klinsmann
Jennings – Knowles – Hoddle – Chivers – Peters
Hoddle, Waddle, Gough, King, Bale, could be a few more though. Roberts, P. Allen, Ginola, Stewart, Mabbutt, Archibald, Crooks, Perryman, Ardiles, Falco, Klinsmann, Gascoygne, Galvin – All could’ve been on the list.
If we could’ve kept the 87 Pleat team together with Richard Gough at the back, we could’ve won the league
Also Van Der Vaart – (I did take the name from him after all)
Hoddle
Waddle
Ardiles
Chivers
King
Anderton
Sherringham
Ginola
Klinnsmann
Mabbutt
HODDLE
WADDLE
ARDILES
GAZZA
GINOLA
Lineker gazza klinsmann sheringham king.
Tough one HH, but after careful consideration;
Greaves
Mackay
Ardilles
Hoddle
Klinsman
Oh, and the Europa League version;
Gazza
King
Ginola
Sherringham
Jennings
OF the present squad only Bale and Sandro have a chance of breaking in….
Mabbut
Gazza
klinsmann
erm…Ali Dick and Mitchel Thomas
1. Daines
2. Hoddle
3. Roberts
4. Klinsmann
5. Ginola
In no order:
Archibald, Hoddle, Tainio, Pavlyuchenko, Gary Mabbutt
In no particular order:
1 – Gascoigne
2 – Ginola
3 – Klinsmann
4 – Hoddle
5 – Perryman
What, no one got Campbell?
(anyone else hate seeing old footage of him in a Spurs shirt)? Just ruins me enjoying watching old matches Judas
It’s difficult naming only 5!
Gascoigne
Klinsmann
King
Poyet
Bale
Very difficult :
Steve Perryman
Ossie Ardiles
Glen Hoddle
Gazza
Clive the goal machine Allen
Perryman
Hoddle
Gascoigne
Klinsmann
The boy Bale……….
Greaves. Of course.
Hoddle.
Blanchflower.
David Craig Mackay
Gazza.
I think I’ll re-register and put in another 5.
This is my unfashionable 5
Peter Collins
Jimmy Holmes
Micky Hazard
Ricky Villa
Roger Morgan
I’ve definitely also got one of them…..
Nico Claesen
Tony Galvin
Nayim
Alfie Conn
Richard Gough
I loved Goughie, but does a season and a bit count? I saw Claessen’s début at Anfield when we beat them-I thought-Brilliant- however Vegetables thought otherwise-he also ditched one of the finest technical players I’d ever seen with Johnny Method (?) yet bought in Walsh and other rubbish and played Samways instead of him, strange yet true!
I missed 2 games that season and Gough was faultless, I was absolutely gutted when I heard he was going back to Scotland. Claesen was a terrier with an eye for goal, Metgod was good, but being billed as the new Hoddle was never going to work.
nayim was quality, fabulous touch. set up stewart at wembley and took corner that walker scored the winner for us. and that volley v Lpool is one of may all time fav goals. and thats before you start talking half way lines..
also he played the other year in the 5 a side masters for us and still had it #lovinmohammedaliamar
Can I have some (slightly) unsung heroes of mine?
1) Frank Saul
2) Phil Beal
3) Cyril Knowles
4) Jimmy Pearce
5) Peter Baker
I was going to have Jimmy Robertson, but the obvious reason prohibits his inclusion.
Cyril Knowles isn’t unsung – he had his own song!
Nice one…
Roberts
Hoddle
Ardiles
Sheringham
Klinsmann
ginola
assou-ekotto
bale
klinsmann
king
Too hard. Need at least 25.
Hoddle, Ginola, Keane, Berbatov, Bale…King would have made it if it wasn’t for those pesky knees
Keane is getting a rough ride here – yes the Liverpool debacle was awful but he was our only bright spark for two of three seasons and his pairing with Berbs is the best partnership we’ve had ON ANY PART OF THE PITCH in the last fifteen years. Better than Modders/VdV, better than King alongside any of his defensive partners (Dawson/Kaboul/etc). Scored some stunning volleys, nearly ripped apart the net when scoring a penalty, plus all of that pointy shouty stuff…
1. Jennings, Archibald, Gazza, Gilzean, Knowles
No Ralphie ?
This is the ony advantage of being over 60, there are so many to choose from.
Jimmy Greaves
Bobby Smith
Martin Chivers
Gazza
Glen Hoddle
Blogs have ground to a halt, need a new Topic, how’s about this then,
The Pope’s resigned………run a poll.
I thought he was a pole?
You are a pole!
FW2, Did a treble tonight,
Angers 1/1 won 3-2
Drogheda 5/6 won 3-2
Real Betis 10/11 currently 0-0 with 34 mins left
Angers were 2-1 down going into the 90th min, scored on 90 and 93 mins ( 5 mins added ).
Cork City had a good win tonight. 4-0.
I know your not gonna believe it,but here goes anyway,I done West brom 9/1and Pacos farraira9/2 in a 5 euro double,done them both singles and I am waiting for Real Betis for a double with Angers
Unlucky Raz,off the fucking line in injury time.
Every stat shows them massively on top, bad finishing.
Fuck Cork,I live in Kerry
Perryman
Hoddle
Jennings
Roberts
Ossie
How many of the current Spurs squad would get into a Premier League 15 ?
I reckon Lloris, Sandro when fit and Bale.
Vertonghen started superbly but has deteriorated since xmas.
Damiao
Moutinho
Hazzard
Llorente
Willian
This was bloody tough but eventually I got:
Sheringham
Mabbutt
Ginola
Ledley
and a guilty pleasure in Freund.
If the same question is asked a few years down the line I reckon Sandro would take Freunds place.
Good fun Harry!
Top 5 favourite players
Hoddle, Ginola, Gazza, Teddy, Jurgen
Honourable mentions to young Stevie Carr, Mabbut, Gough, Ziege, Ziegler, Carrick and Freund. And just for the sheer comedy value Timotee Atouba.