The HARDEST player ever to play for BFC???

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  1. cam

    cambstyke Well-Known Member

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    Following on from "the best player" etc threads, who in your opinion is the HARDEST player ever to play for BFC.

    I can think of a few off the top of my head:

    Mick McCarthy
    Pat Howard
    and my mate's Dad, Duncan Sharp (though I never saw him play!)

    But one player who I've never heard mentioned, and who I think was one of the hardest players for BFC, is midfielder Alan Little. Remember him? Hard as nails.

    Brother of Brian Little (Aston Villa), Alan played 91 games for BFC from 1977 to 1979, scoring 14 goals.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Little
     
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    I'd have said Alan Little. My formative watching years. Ugly bugger an'all.
     
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    Dawson, end of thread.
     
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    Another for Mr A Little :eek:
     
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    Alan Little got to be up top end of that tree.
     
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    Norman Hunter?
     
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    Gwyn Thomas must be up there with those players too.
     
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    Kevin Donovan. Surely?
     
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    Duncan Sharp.

    Closely followed by Alan Little.
     
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    Steve Cooper???

    I remember him going toe to toe with a Sheff Utd defender during a cup replay in the late 80's.
     
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    Mal Shotton was a tough old bugger, once chinned John Deehan on team coach! never shirked nothing.
     
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    Gerry Taggart or Malcolm shotton
     
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    Andy Payton strutted around the field as though he was hard.
     
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    Of the players I've seen in a tarn shirt, I'd have to say Gwyn Thomas and Mal Shotton. Thomas just seemed impervious to pain or damage, you'd see much bigger and far more vicious players smash him all over the field and he'd just keep ploughing on doing his job.
     
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    I speak to Gordy Owen quite a bit, he says Andy Geddis was a nasty bugger if they riled him, quite an hard team we had in the early eighties.
     
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    Alan Little or Big Mal Shotton for me, with Gerry Taggart not too far behind. From tales of old I understand that Duncan Sharp was one to be reckoned with. I'm told he used to chuck his false teeth into the physio's ice bucket on the way on to the pitch. An old pro even tried to convince me that the reason that we kicked off at 3.15 instead of 3 o'clock was nothing to do with the miners' shift patterns, but because they couldn't get Sharp to Oakwell until the pubs chucked him out!
     
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    who was Andy Geddis?
     
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    When i was a lad, Sid (Skinner) Normanton used to be Wicketkeeper for my Dads cricket team, Barnsley Main.
    I used to be a scorer for them and the respect he had from other teams was awesome.
    I know its a bygone era, but Skinner was rockhard even at Cricket, stood up behind the stumps and never ever flinched when he copped one.
     

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