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Dirtiest player you've seen play

hoof_it_up_to_benty
hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,557
in General Charlton
Ron 'Chopper' Harris was my favourite hatchet man - v skilled at kicking players off the ball. Love to see him or the Leeds players of the 70s play nowadays.
What amazed me was how players seemed to accept getting lumps kicked out of them.
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  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    As Jimmy Greaves said, there was nothing you could do about it when Billy Bremner raked his studs down the back of your shin when you were waiting to come on to the pitch. How about Claudio Gentile- "Sometimes the man gets past me, sometimes the ball, but never both"
  • adamtheaddick
    adamtheaddick Posts: 8,664
    muscait shearer hunt
  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Harold Schumacher - that tackle in 82' World Cup Semi-Final against France was basically attempted murder
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    Terry Hurlock, Vinny Jones both of which I would've loved in our team
  • bc_addick
    bc_addick Posts: 761
    Kevin Muscat.
  • gilbertfilbert
    gilbertfilbert Posts: 2,286
    Muscat without a doubt -- an absolute disgrace as a footballer and human being. I've noticed that quite a few Aussie players put it about a bit.
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    SuperCliveMendonca said:

    Harold Schumacher - that tackle in 82' World Cup Semi-Final against France was basically attempted murder

    The ref didn't even give a foul for that murderous assault.

  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    The players of the 70's had no option but to get up and get on with it, the protection they received from the referee was greatly reduced from what you see today.

    The Leeds team of the 70's were in the words of Brian Clough 'a disgrace'. It was bad enough they played in a dirty fashion, but it was made worse, in my opinion, by the fact that when they wanted they could play good football (i.e. the fouling & cheating was unnecessary, they could have won fairly).

    The Barcelona of the last few years remind me in way of Leeds of the 70's, they are not dirty like Leeds but feign injury & dive, which spoils your impression of them.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,645
    Muscat for me. Snidey devious scroat.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 38,192
    Muscat has produced some of the worst tackles I've seen in professional football

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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
    In terms of outright level of violence - Kevin Muscat.
    In terms of constant niggly little fouls - Shearer of Kevin Davies.
    Special mention for Michael Brown too.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    ben thatcher
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,720
    edited May 2013
    Are we talking individual acts or consistently?

    If individual acts Timar on Todorov and Blizzard on Basey are up there.

    In terms of constant niggling the elbows of Shearer and Kevin Davies in recent times.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    In recent times, Gennaro Gattuso - the heir to Gentile, never a flat out nasty thug but carried out a stream of niggling fouls, elbows left in, going in slightly too hard and over the top and would then protest every free-kick given against him.

    In the UK - players like Viv Anderson and Graeme Sounness. Souness worked on the principle that referees would rarely book or send players off for an early foul, so he made a habit of going in and intimidating opponents early on. But then he played for Liverpool the media darling's...
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,077
    Muscat.
    Hunter.
    Chopper and Hacker Harris.
    Hockey.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,276
    The usual suspects already mentioned Muscat, Thatcher, Hurlock, Souness, but also a special mention for Pepe. The guy is a headcase.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,556
    Muscat....I doubt whether his own team-mates even liked him.

    Others who knew what they were doing....Stewart Robson, Gerry Gow, Steve Perryman, Paul Miller, Graham Roberts, Bryan Robson, Mick Kennedy, Billy Gilbert, Martin Kuhl, Noel Blake, Roy Keane, Micky Droy.

    These days I couldn't really name one. Stephen Hunt would only come under the category of "niggly"

  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    edited May 2013
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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,494
    Some of you are young, or have short memories. Muscat is an angel compared to Mark Dennis, Terry Hurlock and Graeme Souness. Goikoetxea was the filthiest bastard I have ever seen play football though. An absolute, utter animal.
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    I can't spell his name, but The Butcher of Bilbao kept in a glass case, the boot he used to foul Maradonna, which chipped a bone in his ankle.

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  • SuperCliveMendonca
    SuperCliveMendonca Posts: 913
    Who was the Pompey geezer Gavin something who wrecked Danny Thomas' career
  • DeeBee
    DeeBee Posts: 1,033
    Ben Thatcher
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Solly - Nasty piece of work
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,514
    Muscat, he played in an era when being a psychopath was against the rules, he was a complete nutter and I hope gets chronic arthritis
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,878
    Dennis Rommedahl - Absolute nutter
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,413
    edited May 2013
    Forestieri this season was a cheating, diving scummer.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,556
    SuperCliveMendonca said:

    Who was the Pompey geezer Gavin something who wrecked Danny Thomas' career

    Maguire....also played for QPR.

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Muscat was the first real player i wanted to fight when watching and i still want to fight now

    i would i think find it very difficult to be in the same room as without confronting him for what he done to matty holmes


    Hurlock was a beast an orrible fecka oc a player but i always wanted him to play for us



    I always also thought rhino stephens was a dirty bstd



    But the list could go on and on

    However

    The shout on michael brown for being a dirty niggling bstd is spot on

  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772
    andynelson said:

    The Butcher of Bilbao



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  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,556
    C_A_F_C said:

    Dennis Rommedahl - Absolute nutter

    Dennis Burgess would have been harder in the tackle....

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