Your Footballing Hero

[Punishment]

Im going to get the ball rolling with my all time Irish footballing hero ...

:worthy::worthyaul McGrath:worthy::worthy:

YouTube - Tribute to Paul McGrath

 

[Billargh]

Alan Shearer, back from when I gave a shit about football.

 

[yaruar]

LeGod
YouTube - Matt Le Tissier Goals

 

[Influenza]

Macro gabbiandini when i was growing up but its gotta be Niall Quinn for everything he has done for us.

 

[Punishment]

Macro gabbiandini when i was growing up but its gotta be Niall Quinn for everything he has done for us.

God i remember my da shouting at the telly when i was 8-10 about how useless niall quinn was , but great in the air

Now he shouts at it about Kevin Kilbane , but apparently everyone is afraid to tell him he is shit cause he has 107 caps lol

 

[pikeh]

Jurgen Klinsmann, from back when I gave a shit about football, ala Bill

I actually sent off to spurs for an autograph, still got it somewhere.

 

[Influenza]

God i remember my da shouting at the telly when i was 8-10 about how useless niall quinn was , but great in the air

Now he shouts at it about Kevin Kilbane , but apparently everyone is afraid to tell him he is shit cause he has 107 caps lol

Niall was very good for us , some of the goals he scored were class. He managed to persuade a rich yank to buy us when we were really struggling and it seems we are on the verge of having the first decent team since the one he played in 10 years ago. Its just the things he does for the club tbh , easyjet threw all of our fans off a plane home at bristol airport and quiiny was on the plane and he walked off cos they got ejected for nothing , he paid for taxis for all of them to get back home and waited till the last fan got in the taxi before coming home himself. Its things like that what stand out about him.

Forgot to mention he was the 1st guy to give all his testimonial money to charity, which at the time was unheard of.

 

[Shagrat]

Gary Lineker.

Watching his goals to drag us back into a game against Poland on a portable telly in my bedroom is my earliest football memory.

YouTube - Gary Lineker scores a hattrick for England vs Poland during the 1986 World Cup

Proper striker and professional, wish we had someone with his mentality now, not a petulant prick like Rooney as our "role model".

 

[cHodAX]

Paul McGrath was a great, good call on that fella.


For me personally as someone who was fortunate enough to watch every home game he ever played for us, it has to be Eric Cantona. He gave us the belief we needed to break a losing cycle stretching back quarter of a century. On his day he was just scary good, I have been fortunate enough to see alot of great players at Old Trafford down the years but for me he very well may be the best player United have ever had, certainly in my lifetime.

 

[Himse]

Zola, when i was young he was magic for Chelsea.

Loved watching him play football, he was a breath of fresh air!

 

[Moriath]

having a hero is weak man .. get a life do what you want .. inspire yourself .. especially with something as inane as football... its entertaining dont get me wrong i like to watch it but to be classed a hero for kicking an inflated pigskin do me a favour

 

[Punishment]

having a hero is weak man .. get a life do what you want .. inspire yourself .. especially with something as inane as football... its entertaining dont get me wrong i like to watch it but to be classed a hero for kicking an inflated pigskin do me a favour

Having a hero is a good thing im not sitting on my ass with posters idolising a hero but its nice in modern times to stop for a second and think back to memories of great people inspiring entire nations and at my age truely understand the significance , if you lived in ireland around 1990 you would understand

In short if you have no imput into this discussion gtfo

Edit : Edit you still play Aion hahahah the mo0 mo0's are coming to get you , i want my fucking 50e back

Also worth noting is Paul McGrath grew up in an Orphanage in a time where seeing a black person in every day life in ireland was unheard of and when he was 18 he went to a tournament in germany to play for his club before he joined st pats and he was so unused to social encounters he had a 18 month nervous breakdown and yet he came from that to become a national hero , true testiment to the man tbh and all you have to do is take 2 minutes to see him with his 2 dodgy knee's at 34 skinning the shit out of arguably the best striker at the time <rant off>

 

[Marc]

YouTube - Kyle Eastmond Young Rugby Talent

 

[Vasconcelos]

YouTube - Emilio Butragueño: La Leyenda Blanca 1ª Parte

Had all my room covered with his posters

His best goal

YouTube - Golazo de Butragueño al Cádiz

 

[Lethul]

YouTube - Emilio Butragueño: La Leyenda Blanca 1ª Parte

Had all my room covered with his posters

00:56 must be like the perfect first touch

 

[Calo]

You are all wrong!!

YouTube - Zinedine Zidane career


Greatest ever! stil have posters of him

His best goal:

YouTube - great goal zidane

 

[Tuthmes]

YouTube - Marco Van Basten compilation

 

[Turamber]

Great shout for Paul McGrath. As he's already been taken I'm torn between Ray Houghton, Tony Morley and...

YouTube - David Platt's finish ENGLAND vs BELGIUM ITALY 90 World cup

He owes about 10 million people for replacement springs in their sofas though, as we all jumped up and down in our living rooms after he smashed that volley in. Awesome strike rate for England but unfortunately played in an era where the majority of the rest of the players were pants and England, 1990 aside, never even looked like winning anything.

 

[Jiggs]

As a little kid growing up in South London this guy seemed like he had arrived from another planet when I saw him on TV at the '82 World Cup.

 

[Ormorof]

for denmark it has to be Michael Laudrup, the king

for Hull City, Dean Windass, for this goal: YouTube - dean windass goal playoff final

thus sending thousands of fans crazy (i have never seen celebrations like it, even when the queen visited Hull there were less people on the streets)

edit: and his name Wind Ass hahahahha

 

[tierk]

More skill in his left boot then all of the above

YouTube - MARADONA'S TRICKS

He was a player you knew would entertain you even on a shit day.

The only other player that has come anywhere close to him in all the years i ahve watched football....

YouTube - Ronaldo Back In The Days

Zidane is defo up there with these two but he been mentioned already.

 

[Shagrat]

More skill in his left boot then all of the above

YouTube - MARADONA'S TRICKS

He was a player you knew would entertain you even on a shit day.

The only other player that has come anywhere close to him in all the years i ahve watched football....

YouTube - Ronaldo Back In The Days

Zidane is defo up there with these two but he been mentioned already.

yeah but we're not talking about who's best, but who you personally have been inspired by, or consider a legend.

 

[Urgluf]

For me, Shevchenko!

 

[tierk]

yeah but we're not talking about who's best, but who you personally have been inspired by, or consider a legend.

Thread starter only mentions Football hero's and tbh I have never been inspired any footballer as they are, generally speaking, morons of the highest order in their personal and public lives - not all but mostly.

However, the two i have mentioned are 100% Legends of the game.

 

[Turamber]

Thread starter only mentions Football hero's and tbh I have never been inspired any footballer as they are, generally speaking, morons of the highest order in their personal and public lives - not all but mostly.

However, the two i have mentioned are 100% Legends of the game.

I doubt any Englishman would argue that Maradonna is anything but a football legend. But a hero? I think not.

 

[Punishment]

Thread starter only mentions Football hero's and tbh I have never been inspired any footballer as they are, generally speaking, morons of the highest order in their personal and public lives - not all but mostly.

However, the two i have mentioned are 100% Legends of the game.

Modern footballers are paid far too much and are arrogant i agree tierk matey , but when big paul moved from league of ireland to man u in the 70's he was getting 100 quid a week and even to this day he will always sign an autograph for anyone , i got his autograph when i was 12 just after usa 94 in galway and after he carefully wrote it out to the lanky freckled kid i was he thanked me for watching him play , a true legend tbh :worthy:

 

[tierk]

I doubt any Englishman would argue that Maradonna is anything but a football legend. But a hero? I think not.

As i said no footballer is a hero in my eyes, so it seems we agree.

Modern footballers are paid far too much and are arrogant i agree tierk matey , but when big paul moved from league of ireland to man u in the 70's he was getting 100 quid a week and even to this day he will always sign an autograph for anyone , i got his autograph when i was 12 just after usa 94 in galway and after he carefully wrote it out to the lanky freckled kid i was he thanked me for watching him play , a true legend tbh :worthy:

I dont disagree with you at all.

As i said not all players are dipsticks, just a lot of them but that is understandable really.

For a sportsman that i consider a hero and a legend i would point at someone like Muhammed Ali. A man of true grit and character who said it how it is and did it how you should. However, we are talking about footballers.

 

[gohan]

jamie redknapp before injuries ruined his career

has excellent vision and passing, simular player to alonso slightly less defensive
excellent at free kicks and brilliant technique with long shots

 

[Fast]

Zico was the name I shouted when I scored in the playground, luv that guy

 

[Everz]

Steve Bull (surprise, surprise). Not just for being a Wolves god but for his humble nature and loyalty, he could have easily left us for some of the top sides of Europe in his prime(was part of 1990 WC squad as a 3rd division player), and one of the soundest blokes to ever meet.

YouTube - Steve Bull - Top 20 Goals

Another notable mention is of course Billy Wright, for similiar reasons as above.