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The best Spurs team of all time - central midfield

Who are the best central midfielders to play for Spurs

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My vote for Hoddle is certain. To partner him it is a toss up between Mackay and Blanchflower. Can anyone help convince me to pick one over the other?
 
The correct answer to this poll is Mackay & Hoddle. I know that. But I never saw Mackay play so I went for Ardiles, secure in the knowledge that I would be comprehensively outvoted by others and Mackay would take his rightful place.
 
milo said:
My vote for Hoddle is certain. To partner him it is a toss up between Mackay and Blanchflower. Can anyone help convince me to pick one over the other?
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If we are picking the best team with players in the position they played for us, and if Ghod is the playmaker from deep, we would imo play a defensive midfielder next to him. Mackay is, by all accounts, the best we have had as a defensive midfielder (and there was apparently much more to his game than destroying too). So that's why I picked him over Blanchflower.
 
milo said:
My vote for Hoddle is certain. To partner him it is a toss up between Mackay and Blanchflower. Can anyone help convince me to pick one over the other?
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Its difficult, but we do need one of the two to be/have some defensive nous and I believe that Mackay would have more then Blanchflower.

As I say its not easy leaving all these great players out but there are many fans who believe that Mackay was out greatest ever player and even though Danny was up there as well I just think Mackay was the better of the two ( just). But as we say Stop! Hammer time.
 
parklane1 said:
Its difficult, but we do need one of the two to be/have some defensive nous and I believe that Mackay would have more then Blanchflower.

As I say its not easy leaving all these great players out but there are many fans who believe that Mackay was out greatest ever player and even though Danny was up there as well I just think Mackay was the better of the two ( just). But as we say Stop! Hammer time.
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Further to the post above this is what I posted about Mackay in a earlier thread.He was a lion.

I have voted for England and Mackay, I know Dave was not a real CB as such ( we only had one in those days) but he was an great defender and the hardest player I have seen on a football pitch. I saw him break his leg in a game at Utd and he was sat up on the stretcher as he was carried off ( clapping us fans). In those days a broken leg usually meant the end of your playing days but Dave was back playing a year later only for him to suffer another break to his leg, despite that he once again returned to capt our side and played in our 67 FA Cup win.

When he eventually left us he went to Derby and capt them to promotion to the top league. As I say he was the hardest player I have ever seen and yet he only stood 5ft 7ins tall, I suppose most fans have seen the great picture of him holding BB by the neck in a game against Leeds, the reason he did that was ( in his own words) he got kicked ( on purpose) by BB on the same leg he had broke. Since then he has said that he regreted doing that as it was not in the spirit of the game, there are many fans who believe Dave was our greatest ever player and I understand why they say that.
 
Hoddle and Mackay for me. Just can't leave either player out of a best Spurs X1, but hoping we will be able to fit in Modric in the 3 behind Greaves.
 
Hoddle and Mackay, it's a better mix. It's real harsh on blanchflower, but I just don't see how you can pick this side without hoddle in it and from everything I've seen, heard and read, Mackay would make for the better partnership.

Gazza plays as the other centre midfielder.
 
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Spur of the moment said:
I remember watching Danny from the Shelf in a game against Preston in the early '60s that we won something like 5-0 or 5-1, cannot remember the exact score, when he went on a run from around the half way line and Gazza-like mesmerised their defenders with his trickery on the ball, dancing through and around them one after another without allowing any of them to get touch on the ball. I recall gasping at the sheer wizardry of it, the way he nonchalantly feinted this way and dummied that as he cut a swathe through their defence before dinking the ball into the box for Johnny White to run onto, something he did with regularity.

But for me the real point about captain Blanchflower wasn't just that he was immensely gifted on the ball, nor even the way he brought his exceptional vision and tactical awareness to bear so effectively on the field of play. No, it was more than anything else the sheer power of his influence on the team overall and on the positive way they played throughout. In essence, Sir Billy Nich was the architect off the pitch but Danny was the supremo on it.

At the beginning of the 1960-61 season, even before a ball had been kicked in anger, he went on record saying boldly that Tottenham would win the Double. At the time the Double had come to be seen as well-nigh impossible. Season after season the most dominant club of the year had come close, but always it had eluded them at the death, the psychological barrier seemingly always proving just too much.

I remember thinking at the time, absolutely no way, the fact he'd come out and said it was in itself the kiss of death. Remember we'd only finished third the previous season, fading away badly in the run-in. But Blanchflower kept on insisting as the results began to stack up that this was the target the whole team were aiming at. He believed we were good enough and that he could see no reason why we wouldn't win it. It was this kind of conviction that looking back you can see had coursed right through the team to the extent they played TO it, believing, you sensed, it was almost their duty to step up and make it happen.

I could happily reminisce until the cows come home about the wizardry both mental and physical of Danny Blanchflower but suffice it to say, I remain convinced to this day if it hadn't been for the transcending power of Danny's influence on the '60-61 side we simply would not have won the Double.
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Best post ever.
 
I've gone Mackay and Blanchflower. I'm going to play Hoddle, Ardiles and Gazza in the 3 ahead. Even though I've not seen Blanchflower play myself, my grandfather would turn in his grave if I voted for any team without Blanchflower. His all time favourite footballer, man, legend and midfielder. He got Northern Ireland to the last 8 in a world cup! Read this http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-danny-blanchflower-1466455.html and also http://www.mehstg.com/archive/fact_blanchflower.htm and http://www.spursodyssey.com/double/dannyb.html. There's even a lounge named after him!!
 
30 yard passes over the top of defences, dropping at the feet of Allen with backspin to boot. That is what Hoddle was really about, even though he did score wonderful goals too.
 
milo said:
My vote for Hoddle is certain. To partner him it is a toss up between Mackay and Blanchflower. Can anyone help convince me to pick one over the other?
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I agree. Hoddle is a definite. The other largely depends on whether we want a balanced side ( in which case Mackay gets the nod) or the best/most skillful player in the other position, where Danny boy would get the nod over Ardiles and Gazza.

I have plumped for skill over balance so Hoddle and Blanchflower for me.

PS I am also really enjoying these threads a lot too. Well done, Milo.
 
Hoddle and Modric for me

I love the romanticism of Blanchflower but how anyone can suggest that he's a better footballer than Modric defies belief. There isn't a better equipped midfielder in world football. He's get into ANY team in the world and that's been the case for a long time.
 
awesome dawson said:
Hoddle and Modric for me

I love the romanticism of Blanchflower but how anyone can suggest that he's a better footballer than Modric defies belief. There isn't a better equipped midfielder in world football. He's get into ANY team in the world and that's been the case for a long time.
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Same here.
 
Gazzasrightboot said:
I've gone Mackay and Blanchflower. I'm going to play Hoddle, Ardiles and Gazza in the 3 ahead. Even though I've not seen Blanchflower play myself, my grandfather would turn in his grave if I voted for any team without Blanchflower. His all time favourite footballer, man, legend and midfielder. He got Northern Ireland to the last 8 in a world cup! Read this http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-danny-blanchflower-1466455.html and also http://www.mehstg.com/archive/fact_blanchflower.htm and http://www.spursodyssey.com/double/dannyb.html. There's even a lounge named after him!!
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agree with you 80%

I'd favour Jones over Ossie

it has to be Mackay and Blanchflower, it just has to be
 
Well it is a 'democratic' poll!! We have a player that is a starter for Real and has won the CL with them.
 
afsoc4life said:
Well it is a 'democratic' poll!! We have a player that is a starter for Real and has won the CL with them.
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Mackay and Blanchflower very nearly/should have won the CL for us in 1962 (robbed by Benfica)

Hoddle also won the UEFA cup when it was considered equal to the European cup
 
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