Who are the "dirtiest" players that you've, personally, seen play?

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Laeotaekhun

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I'm not talking about "hard men" but those that were just "dirty"!

For me, I can name two - Bobby Collins and Johnny Giles who both played for Revie's Leeds team.

Giles used to be a right winger but replaced Collins in the centre after he had his leg broken!

In the '60s there weren't cameras everywhere and these two scumbags would wait until the ball was yards away, with the ref watching it before kidney punching and/or raking their studs down the back of an opponent's calves.

They are the only two that I can think of that (if I'd been good enough to play against) I would have gone out with the intention of ending their playing careers.

Are there any that you think of in the same way?
 


Laeotaekhun said:
I'm not talking about "hard men" but those that were just "dirty"!

For me, I can name two - Bobby Collins and Johnny Giles who both played for Revie's Leeds team.

Giles used to be a right winger but replaced Collins in the centre after he had his leg broken!

In the '60s there weren't cameras everywhere and these two scumbags would wait until the ball was yards away, with the ref watching it before kidney punching and/or raking their studs down the back of an opponent's calves.

They are the only two that I can think of that (if I'd been good enough to play against) I would have gone out with the intention of ending their playing careers.

Are there any that you think of in the same way?
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argentina 1966 world cup....the whole team!!!!!!!!
 
My generation consider the likes of Suarez dirty now.

Anyone who puts in a crunching tackle now is immediately dismissed as a "thug".
 
jcrossan said:
Collins Giles and Bremner. Perm two from that three and you won't go too far wrong. What a bunch that Leeds lot of the 60s were
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OK, Bremner was more than capable of being a c*nt but I don't think he was in the same league as Collins and Giles!

In the same way as some will think of Hunter, who I thought was hard but (normally) fair.
 
Hunter/Store/Moore/Harris, all choppers from a bygone age.

I also remember Sourness kicking stamping and elbowing his way through several matches, also somebody like Terry Hurlock did not take prisoners,

"Some of us [Millwall players] were playfully goading Terry about what he was going to do to Vinnie Jones in the upcoming fixture with Wimbledon. Without saying a word, he got up from the table and walked to the entrance of the pub and ripped the door off its hinges" – Millwall teammate Tony Cascarino[26
 
Someone I should have included in my original post was (unusually) a goalkeeper!

He was someone who would dive at a forward's feet to collect the ball but then (instead of staying still) would roll forward so that he went over the leg with the foot still being trapped under his body with the ball.

Iirc he ended at least three player's careers by doing that, including Cloughie's - his name was Chris Harker.
 
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