Unequal encounters

[BobbyJ1956]

Bert's death last week got me thinking about how soft some modern footballers are. Last season there was Ferguson getting typically hysterical about Van Persie being hit by a ball ("he could have been killed.") How I'd have loved to see Bert Trautmann come up against rvp going for a high ball into the penalty area, rvp would have been a foot under the mud while Bert was throwing the ball upfield. Any other men vs boys mis-matches you can think of?

[Burt]

Mick Doyle against umpapumpa shitbag rag Macari. Like feedin strawberries to a donkey!

[patrickblue]

Mick Doyle against umpapumpa shitbag rag Macari. Like feedin strawberries to a donkey!

Good shout Bert. I'd temporarily forgotten what an obnoxious little twat Macari was.

[Tokyo Blue]

Anybody with more than three brain cells and paddy crerand.

[JamieMCFC]

Bert's death last week got me thinking about how soft some modern footballers are. Last season there was Ferguson getting typically hysterical about Van Persie being hit by a ball ("he could have been killed.") How I'd have loved to see Bert Trautmann come up against rvp going for a high ball into the penalty area, rvp would have been a foot under the mud while Bert was throwing the ball upfield. Any other men vs boys mis-matches you can think of?

The thing if there was as much money in the game back then as there is now. Footballers wouldn't be any different.

[sheblue]

Bert's death last week got me thinking about how soft some modern footballers are. Last season there was Ferguson getting typically hysterical about Van Persie being hit by a ball ("he could have been killed.") How I'd have loved to see Bert Trautmann come up against rvp going for a high ball into the penalty area, rvp would have been a foot under the mud while Bert was throwing the ball upfield. Any other men vs boys mis-matches you can think of?

The thing if there was as much money in the game back then as there is now. Footballers wouldn't be any different.

absolutely.

[BlueinBosnia]

Ryan Giggs and Dani Behr...

[Alioune DVToure]

Bert's death last week got me thinking about how soft some modern footballers are. Last season there was Ferguson getting typically hysterical about Van Persie being hit by a ball ("he could have been killed.") How I'd have loved to see Bert Trautmann come up against rvp going for a high ball into the penalty area, rvp would have been a foot under the mud while Bert was throwing the ball upfield. Any other men vs boys mis-matches you can think of?

To be fair to Van Prannock, it was Bacon doing the whining and making the embarrassing remarks.

[Im_Spartacus]

I always remember Shaun Wright-Phillips' debut away at Port Vale. A few minutes after coming on, he had been clattered a few times and got the ball in the box - his only route round 6ft god knows how much Antony Gardner was to knock it through his legs and he actually tried to crawl through his legs after the ball

[john68]

Francis Lee (Derby versus a very young Colin Barrett (City).

Frannie began to tell Barrett a joke during the game, whilst delaying the punchline until young Colin had been dragged out of his position in the centre and out towards the wing, leaving a huge defensive hole in the middle.....Derby (Archie Gemmel I think) swept thro the gap and scored.

Colin Barrett...lesson learned.

[Twobob]

John Terry and any of his team mates wives/gf's