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Be Entertained! Your Personal Best-Ever Tottenham Entertainers Squad

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thfcsteff

Tony Galvin
I realize that one of the things which is increasingly getting lost in modern football is semi-reckless, eye-gorgeous entertainment. These days, the game demands players who can play a couple of positions at elite levels, can attack and defend, have a prodgious workrate and understand the importance of a 'system'. Like many things in life, the joy of spontaneity and electricity is being ground down and replaced by efficiency and pragmatism.

So for those of us who loved the flair and impossible electricity of elite footballers - Maradona, Hoddle, Socrates, Zico, Zidane, Pirlo, Bale, etc - here's a thread to let it all hang out. Go on! Pick your Tottenham entertainers! IF you want to add a smidge of balance, go ahead, but trust me, if you go wild, beautoful and utterly wreckless, I ain't judging ya!!!!!!! Here goes mine...


Gomes - loved his erraticism and flair. When he was good he was fudging brilliant, and when I look back at making the CL under Harry first time, he screams as the unsung hero. Vibes!

Walker - madman! Speed, skill, wreckless with the pace to recover!
King - Yeah yeah, mostly on the left but always went right to play Henry. Beautiful graceful player!
VdV - imagine THAT partnership, with Mad Mickey's Marauding movement and Ledders intelligence and grace! Yes please!
Bale - in at left-back because basically I cannot fit him in any other way and he needs to be on the pitch, so on you go son, do what you do and let the other three sort out the rest!

Modric - if a footballer was made from silk with the resiliance of cordura, then here he is!

Dele - look, I'm just getting him on the fudging pitch because with this side, and his natural instinct of yore, he's a must.
Gazza - I mean, do I really need to explain?
Hoddle - I mean, do I really need to explain pt 2?
Ginola - MAVERICK!

Kane - fun to watch because he fuicking scored all the time, and in this sort of thing, well, hat-tricks all -day right?

Berbatov - look, Harry is wonderful, but in the spirit of this thread, NOT choosing the beautiful Dimitar -with those touches and tricks and flicks and moves and grooves and goals - would be a CRIME! I would only allow him to start if he promised to dangle a ciggy from his insouiscant lips at kick-off!

Keane - Roland got me thinking, and I believe they're right! So in that true 'brick or bust' spirit, I ahve axed Luka and thrown keano on uptop because he absolutely went for it in the aforementioned fashion!

So, essentially 4-4-2 but let's face it, this 11 would do whatever the fudge they wanted. Not a natural ball-winning '6' out there because this lot wouldn't lose the ball! Wreckless 11? Oh yes. Entertaining? Oh I think so!!!!!
 
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I've not got time to assemble a full XI at the moment but I think you have way too many very good players in there. My XI would tend more towards mercurial brick-or-bust types such as Alfie Conn and Timothée Atouba.
 
Roland Beurre said:
I've not got time to assemble a full XI at the moment but I think you have way too many very good players in there. My XI would tend more towards mercurial brick-or-bust types such as Alfie Conn and Timothée Atouba.
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Funny you mention Alfie, he was definitely on my mind. And yes, having witnessed Atouba's superb goal at Sid James, as well as his numerous Cryuff turns inside his own penalty area to vartying degrees of success, I agree! Please please out your side together at some point, I'd love to see it!
p.s. I agree that Ledley is probably not risky enough...help me out there!
 
Ok, I'll get involved, as there hasn't been any football for ages, but down with this sort of thing obviously, nobody watches football to be entertained.


Lloris - you never knew what he was going to do next. Neither did he probably.

Ven Den Hauwe - Lunatic, loved a maraud.
Vega - Deadly in the air, at both ends, top bloke though.
Romero - Drag backs, back heels, nutmegs, there is a time and a place for such chicanery, but he has no idea when or where they are.
Carr - Could finish from anywhere, smashing it in from 30 yards out, delicate chips from the edge of the box.

Gazza - No explanation needed.
Waddle - Likewise really, shoulder drops, quick feet, goals goals goals, CHANEL 9!
Ginola - Some players are everything, at times he was the only thing.
Bale - The best player we have ever had, could have sent him out on his own and we'd have won games.

Berbatov - Magician, could kill the ball with his stare, stick it in the top corner from 25 yards out and not even take his cigarette out of his mouth.
Keane - Every type of goal, but only one type of celebration, over and over and over again. A genius.
 
thfcsteff said:
I realize that one of the things which is increasingly getting lost in modern football is semi-reckless, eye-gorgeous entertainment. These days, the game demands players who can play a couple of positions at elite levels, can attack and defend, have a prodgious workrate and understand the importance of a 'system'. Like many things in life, the joy of spontaneity and electricity is being ground down and replaced by efficiency and pragmatism.

So for those of us who loved the flair and impossible electricity of elite footballers - Maradona, Hoddle, Socrates, Zico, Zidane, Pirlo, Bale, etc - here's a thread to let it all hang out. Go on! Pick your Tottenham entertainers! IF you want to add a smidge of balance, go ahead, but trust me, if you go wild, beautoful and utterly wreckless, I ain't judging ya!!!!!!! Here goes mine...


Gomes - loved his erraticism and flair. When he was good he was fudging brilliant, and when I look back at making the CL under Harry first time, he screams as the unsung hero. Vibes!

Walker - madman! Speed, skill, wreckless with the pace to recover!
King - Yeah yeah, mostly on the left but always went right to play Henry. Beautiful graceful player!
VdV - imagine THAT partnership, with Mad Mickey's Marauding movement and Ledders intelligence and grace! Yes please!
Bale - in at left-back because basically I cannot fit him in any other way and he needs to be on the pitch, so on you go son, do what you do and let the other three sort out the rest!

Modric - if a footballer was made from silk with the resiliance of cordura, then here he is!

Dele - look, I'm just getting him on the fudging pitch because with this side, and his natural instinct of yore, he's a must.
Gazza - I mean, do I really need to explain?
Hoddle - I mean, do I really need to explain pt 2?
Ginola - MAVERICK!

Kane - fun to watch because he fuicking scored all the time, and in this sort of thing, well, hat-tricks all -day right?

Berbatov - look, Harry is wonderful, but in the spirit of this thread, NOT choosing the beautiful Dimitar -with those touches and tricks and flicks and moves and grooves and goals - would be a CRIME! I would only allow him to start if he promised to dangle a ciggy from his insouiscant lips at kick-off!

Keane - Roland got me thinking, and I believe they're right! So in that true 'brick or bust' spirit, I ahve axed Luka and thrown keano on uptop because he absolutely went for it in the aforementioned fashion!

So, essentially 4-4-2 but let's face it, this 11 would do whatever the fudge they wanted. Not a natural ball-winning '6' out there because this lot wouldn't lose the ball! Wreckless 11? Oh yes. Entertaining? Oh I think so!!!!!
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Hard to argue with that team, really. Here's a subs bench: Kinski (already shown levels of madness I haven't seen between the sticks since René Higuita), Assou Ekotto, Carr, Modric, Van der Vaart, Eriksen, Kane, Defoe (I just loved him making a bit of space for himself smashing it into the corner from outside the box), Sonny.

I wanted to put Adel Taarabt and Dalmat in there as well, but they had so few cameos it would only sound silly. I sat touchline on the East stand when we played Derby in 2006, Taarabt started and just dazzled me, I think I told everyone he was gonna be the new Ronaldinho.
 
thfcsteff said:
Funny you mention Alfie, he was definitely on my mind. And yes, having witnessed Atouba's superb goal at Sid James, as well as his numerous Cryuff turns inside his own penalty area to vartying degrees of success, I agree! Please please out your side together at some point, I'd love to see it!
p.s. I agree that Ledley is probably not risky enough...help me out there!
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Razor Ruddock. Some beautiful long-range passing and an innate ability to wind up Cantona.

Having said that, I have left him out of my own team, which after fully eight minutes of thought, is listed below.

I have mostly avoided the great players we had - I mean, Gazza and Hoddle are both shoo-ins, right - but being a sentimental old fool I found a place for Cliff Jones, who is a certified Tottenham legend. The first time I saw him play, it was like he was at 78 rpm and the rest of the players 33 rpm (that will mean nothing to younger listeners).

Gomes - hard to argue. When I was growing up, it was understood that keepers had to be nutcases.

Stephen Carr - loved his buccaneering runs down the wing and occasional "was that meant to be a cross" wonder goals.
Atouba - the Paolo Wanchope of defenders.

Verts - silky smooth and snidey. You've got a love a defender who literally pulled the pants down of a centre forward he was marking.
Bunjevčević - the Serbian Beckenbauer. I was saddened to learn he died in 2018 after a stroke.

Stéphane Dalmat - about as popular as a turd in a Caesar Salad, and I could just as easily have gone for Taraabt, but he had all the skill of N'dombele and at least 2% more application.
Micky Hazard - most unfortunate to come along at the same time as Hoddle. The Gazza prototype.
El Veg - what a cheeky chappy. I still remember one free kick where he stopped his run-up to complain about the defensive wall and while he was complaining Jimmy Greaves chipped the ball into the net.
Cliff Jones - the prototype Gareth Bale. Not as skilled on the ball but at least as fast and even better in the air.

Alfie Conn - yes, well, see above. Who doesn't love a chap roostery enough to sit on the ball during a match.

Robbie Keane - I see you have amended your original selection to include Robbie but I'll stick with him (I toyed with Colin Lee, but apart from him scoring four goals on his debut, I can't remember much about him).

On the subject of Ginola, he was a wonderfully entertaining player but in my view not fit to carry Chris Waddle's kit-bag.

How I left out personal favourites Aaron "meep-meep" Lennon and Jimmy Greaves, I don't know, but it's a funny old game.
 
Baleforce said:
Ok, I'll get involved, as there hasn't been any football for ages, but down with this sort of thing obviously, nobody watches football to be entertained.


Lloris - you never knew what he was going to do next. Neither did he probably.

Ven Den Hauwe - Lunatic, loved a maraud.
Vega - Deadly in the air, at both ends, top bloke though.
Romero - Drag backs, back heels, nutmegs, there is a time and a place for such chicanery, but he has no idea when or where they are.
Carr - Could finish from anywhere, smashing it in from 30 yards out, delicate chips from the edge of the box.

Gazza - No explanation needed.
Waddle - Likewise really, shoulder drops, quick feet, goals goals goals, CHANEL 9!
Ginola - Some players are everything, at times he was the only thing.
Bale - The best player we have ever had, could have sent him out on his own and we'd have won games.

Berbatov - Magician, could kill the ball with his stare, stick it in the top corner from 25 yards out and not even take his cigarette out of his mouth.
Keane - Every type of goal, but only one type of celebration, over and over and over again. A genius.
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Oh NICE choice of Vega - absolutely mental, I knew a keeper who played behind him for a few years LOL- and great shout on VDH (nuttah)...

One thing we have to delight in is that we have had so many brilliant attacking players that you could never ever go wrong with any combo!
 
Daisuk said:
Hard to argue with that team, really. Here's a subs bench: Kinski (already shown levels of madness I haven't seen between the sticks since René Higuita), Assou Ekotto, Carr, Modric, Van der Vaart, Eriksen, Kane, Defoe (I just loved him making a bit of space for himself smashing it into the corner from outside the box), Sonny.

I wanted to put Adel Taarabt and Dalmat in there as well, but they had so few cameos it would only sound silly. I sat touchline on the East stand when we played Derby in 2006, Taarabt started and just dazzled me, I think I told everyone he was gonna be the new Ronaldinho.
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GREAT bench that, shout out for Dalmat who I think would've been happiest playing with a ball by himself LOL!
 
Roland Beurre said:
Razor Ruddock. Some beautiful long-range passing and an innate ability to wind up Cantona.

Having said that, I have left him out of my own team, which after fully eight minutes of thought, is listed below.

I have mostly avoided the great players we had - I mean, Gazza and Hoddle are both shoo-ins, right - but being a sentimental old fool I found a place for Cliff Jones, who is a certified Tottenham legend. The first time I saw him play, it was like he was at 78 rpm and the rest of the players 33 rpm (that will mean nothing to younger listeners).

Gomes - hard to argue. When I was growing up, it was understood that keepers had to be nutcases.

Stephen Carr - loved his buccaneering runs down the wing and occasional "was that meant to be a cross" wonder goals.
Atouba - the Paolo Wanchope of defenders.

Verts - silky smooth and snidey. You've got a love a defender who literally pulled the pants down of a centre forward he was marking.
Bunjevčević - the Serbian Beckenbauer. I was saddened to learn he died in 2018 after a stroke.

Stéphane Dalmat - about as popular as a turd in a Caesar Salad, and I could just as easily have gone for Taraabt, but he had all the skill of N'dombele and at least 2% more application.
Micky Hazard - most unfortunate to come along at the same time as Hoddle. The Gazza prototype.
El Veg - what a cheeky chappy. I still remember one free kick where he stopped his run-up to complain about the defensive wall and while he was complaining Jimmy Greaves chipped the ball into the net.
Cliff Jones - the prototype Gareth Bale. Not as skilled on the ball but at least as fast and even better in the air.

Alfie Conn - yes, well, see above. Who doesn't love a chap roostery enough to sit on the ball during a match.

Robbie Keane - I see you have amended your original selection to include Robbie but I'll stick with him (I toyed with Colin Lee, but apart from him scoring four goals on his debut, I can't remember much about him).

On the subject of Ginola, he was a wonderfully entertaining player but in my view not fit to carry Chris Waddle's kit-bag.

How I left out personal favourites Aaron "meep-meep" Lennon and Jimmy Greaves, I don't know, but it's a funny old game.
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A marvelous selection. Alfie was playing when I saw my first Spurs match, and magic call out for Atouba, who was absolutely bonkers but when it worked, boy oh boy...
 
OK....forget trophies....all out attack...2 for each position...this squad might do rather well

Venom, Lloris
Walker, Carr, Ziege, Rose,
King, Vertonghen, Romero, Woodgate
Gazza, Modric, Dembele, Eriksen, Hoddle, Carrick
Bale, Anderton, Waddle, Ginola, Lennon
Dele, Eriksen, VDV, Barmby
Sheringham, Berbatov, Kane, Klinsmann

Good luck picking the first eleven and not upsetting a few.
 
Muttley said:
OK....forget trophies....all out attack...2 for each position...this squad might do rather well

Venom, Lloris
Walker, Carr, Ziege, Rose,
King, Vertonghen, Romero, Woodgate
Gazza, Modric, Dembele, Eriksen, Hoddle, Carrick
Bale, Anderton, Waddle, Ginola, Lennon
Dele, Eriksen, VDV, Barmby
Sheringham, Berbatov, Kane, Klinsmann

Good luck picking the first eleven and not upsetting a few.
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What a squad that is spanning mainly over the past couple of decades. If I was going to be really picky I would say personally in no world would I have Romero in that squad over Toby, but perhaps thats just me....
 
harr1984 said:
What a squad that is spanning mainly over the past couple of decades. If I was going to be really picky I would say personally in no world would I have Romero in that squad over Toby, but perhaps thats just me....
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It was a dilemma I had, but I did caveat it with all out attack. For me Romero and Woodgate are slightly silkier than Toby.

Saying that, perhaps I should have put Chiriches, Foyth and Bunje in. Those guys loved to play football at the back.
 
Muttley said:
It was a dilemma I had, but I did caveat it with all out attack. For me Romero and Woodgate are slightly silkier than Toby.

Saying that, perhaps I should have put Chiriches, Foyth and Bunje in. Those guys loved to play football at the back.
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Oh I forgot about Chiriches, he was fantastic with the ball at his feet....
 
JerusalemMan said:
Despite the extreme frustration and waste of natural talent, some of the brightest flashes of entertainment in recent years that I've seen were from Tanguy NDombele. The sheer jaw-dropping audacity of some stuff he did, immediately followed by the teeth-grinding fury that he wasn't doing it on a more regular basis.
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