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Had a poor tournament mostly due to injury.Pele 1966.
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Had a poor tournament mostly due to injury.Pele 1966.
Not forgetting he was one hard bastard as well.Great playerWhen I was at uni in the London's East End in the early 70's I lived behind West Ham's ground and so I often took the opportunity on the spur of the moment to go to the match.
Bobby was nearing the end of his career those days but you could see by his relaxed composure that he had an instinct for reading the game. By this I mean that he knew where all his team mates were at any time and where all the opposition was too. The playing area at Upton Park was very restricted those days and to give you and idea of it the depth of each goal was only about two or three feet. Bobby seemed thrive in that environment and could stroke a ball up field 30 yards or so with great accuracy and have it land on a sixpence. In many cases the sixpence was usually just at the feet of Trevor Brooking who was no mean player himself and a very effective goal scorer. On other occassions the recipient of Bobby's pass was our very own "Pop" Robson who also knew exactly what to do with a ball like that.
As a defender well just look up the old footage of Bobby versus Pele from the 1970 Mexico World Cup he did that sort of thing on a weekly basis . Sliding tackles that swept the ball away from the attacker without making any contact with them and the recovering his footing to take the ball up field .
Weaknesses? Well any of my Ammer mates at the time would be the first to tell you that although Bobby had a great gift for football and was by all reports a very nice guy he wasn't the sharpest tool in the box. Sadly when his playing days were over and despite his World Cup success he found it very difficult to earn a crust and shortly before he died I understand that he was obliged to flog cut price jeans around the pubs from the boot of his car in order to earn a living just like "Only Fools and Horses"
I think that Joe Public's reaction to his untimely death was not only borne out of respect for what he had achieved as a footballer but out of the sense of guilt that arose from how we had all rather ignored such a great player during the final years of his life
Ronaldo. Although he wasn't at his best vs Tottenham it was class seeing him play live. Yet to see messi live though
Sabella Sheff Utd 1979Probably Cristiano Ronaldo, best performance would have to go to Thierry Henry
I went to the St James' games - saw Hagi play too. My 14 year old self celebrated like mad when Stoichkov scored the free kick.Zidane and stoichkov on the same pitch at Euro 96 at sid james
I remember, I thought he was deliberately got at, still maybe not his best game but the best I saw.Had a poor tournament mostly due to injury.
I watched a rerun of the Mexico 70 Brazil-England game a while ago - the full game - I never really saw Moore in his heyday but what a game he had that day, and up against possibly the greatest international side in history - I actually think the England side of 1970 was a far better side than 66
I only ever saw him playing for Fulham and he was gone by then - more's the pity, because from what I've seen of him years earlier he was right up there with the very greatestTo be fair, I didn't see Moore with WHU live in his heyday, only on tv, I only saw him when he'd moved to Fulham & was on the downward spiral.
I agree that the England '70 side was better than '66 but lost out in Mexico to the climate.
The game we lost 3-2 in extra time to W. Germany was a total sickener