I LOVE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME #1 Entry: MATT LE TISSIER

'Le God' - Star of Southampton!

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"The man I absolutely loved watching as a kid was Matt Le Tissier after seeing the highlights of his extraordinary goals.

"His talent was out of the norm. He could dribble past seven or eight players but without speed - he just walked past them. For me he was sensational.

"We had a programme on Spanish TV with the best goals from around Europe. He was always the star.

"I was ten or even younger. He was definitely an idol."

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About as great a striker of the ball as their was in the 90s Premiershipness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSsdfe4Z69g

Stand up Matthew, you've done as proud. You also are probably the least embarrassing ex-player on Sky Sports News coverage on a weekend. Welcome to the ILF HOF, have a piña colada and bet on when the next throw-in will be.

Meh

good work, "ILF Administrator"

self praise is no praise

"you've done as proud"

someone with ILF Administrator privs might want to correct that :)

Congratulations Matt Le Tissier.

"as great a striker of the ball as their was in the 90s Premiershipness."
This is otm. While only a seriously prolific scorer in one or two seasons he was one of only a handful of guys you'd expect the unexpected from - like he was always on the verge of a goal of the season.

I think he's got a ridic penalty record as well, only missed one in more than 50 or something like that.

hit the crossbar with my badly remembered stat

He is notable for his record at scoring penalty kicks, converting from the spot 48 times from 49 attempts.

Mark Crossley made the only penalty save against him.

The save I'm most proud of was against Matt Le Tissier. He's taken 54 penalties in his career and only failed to score on one occasion - that was against me, in 1993. I was in goal for Nottingham Forest and he was up front for Southampton. I got this feeling before he took it that I should go to my right and told myself to delay diving for as long as possible, when he put it there I was able to make a good save. It helped us win the game 2-1 at The Dell.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,626782,00.html

and he agrees with me it's more than 50 :)

We should now poll his top ten goals, though obv it's the one with the flicks and the soft finish

Can't watch at work but is the one where he lobs Schmeichel in it - if so, that one - even if it's more of a demonstration of his close control and touch than his sublime cunting of a football.

jeez now you say that i'd struggle to limit it to a top 10.

his cunted lob of flowers
cunted drive against newcastle
last goal at the dell vs arsenal (cunted)
run flicks lobs dummy finish (ie softly cunted)

floated cunt over schmeichel

That sometimes-entertaining Sky Sports Saturday lunchtime quiz thingie that I can't remember the name of, with Fenners and some blonde lassie, was at Southampton this week, so my Le Tiss trivia has been well heightened as a result (like, I know he has 8 England caps, I knew about Crossley being the only guy to save a penalty off him, etc). It's definitely his week.

Remember watching him score some incredible goal against, I think, Liverpool, with a bunch of my friends on a Monday night and then we all solemnly wrote out and signed a pledge of allegience to Le Tiss, stating that he was the greatest player we had ever seen and we would celebrate his name for all eternity. So yeah, I voted for him.

he was on Countdown the other week. Came across well despite not using 'cunt' as a verb.

Oh, I forgot about that, yes, I saw him on that. Also, dudes, he was engaged to Marilyn out of Home and Away!

jesus yeah he was too. forgot that

I just remembered that right now. Wikipedia dorks don't even know about it! It's one of my favourite bits of rubbish trivia.

cunted lob of flowers

stealing this for future poetry collection fyi

I once asked an old footballer in Ireland what had been the happiest time of his life. The footballer replied, 'Lying on the pitch on Saturday afternoon, winning corners and throw-ins with cunty shots.'

what could that even mean

it's a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_%28novel%29

ah yes cunty fingers indeed.

test bump

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#2 Paul McGrath

1R Guðni Bergsson 3-1
2R Sotos Kyrgiakos 3-2
SF Phil Brown 3-3, 5-3 aet
F Helenio Herrera 3-3, 5-4 replay

a true great

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#3 Ray Hudson

6 Ray Hudson
5 Steve Bull
4 Ally McCoist
4 Peter Osgood
0 Alan Knight

Can't help thinking this process is somewhat flawed, tbh.

shambolic

love that jjj randomly bumped this

on viewing this collection i re-noted (i surely will have noted it before) his surprising turn of pace (may be helped somewhat by screen re-sizing) and just how good his left was. no swingers here, every one of them is hit with a confidence most players don't rly ever achieve consistency with even with their good leg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEcbvrxHQ0

played cricket, afterwards they were showing a retrospective of his goals in the bar

filled me with great melancholy that he failed to obtain 90 england caps