Football: Who's your cult hero?

He is a hero, anyway.

Classic beyond words, not least for being the British player with the most sendings-off in British leagues (17). Saw him hit the bar from the back of the centre circle in his own half once - "I just thought I'd have a pop."

My favourite Chic story is the samurai sword one. (Chic's had a couple of pints when some kids start having a go at him. He offers them outside with a time and a place. They accept, and when he gets there they have a samurai sword. Chic beats them up.)

**Frank Sinclair. He was barmy. Also Doug Rougvie..**

Looks like you were watching CFC in the 80's/early 90's too Pete. I agree about Dougie Rambo. The fact that someone as utterly useless as Sinclair has made a 10-year career in the professional game is inexplicable. from his first game I always thought he'd follow the likes of Gary Chivers, Keith Dublin, Keith Jones to Brighton/Watford/Brentford then Hayes Town/Stevenage/Non-league...

he then proceeded to score own-goals in the last minute of two matches in a row. glorious.

Andy Myers: now there's a member of the Chivers/Dubin/Jones chamber of horrors.

cult heroes: i always wish i'd seen Joey Jones.

Attilo Lombardo

I saw Joey Jones - if he could catch the opposition winger they knew about it alright. IF he could catch them.

Darren Wood. Do you remember him? Played nearly 100 games for us and possibly touched the ball in one of them.

I once saw us field a 'midfield' of Colin Pates, Keith Jones and Darren Wood while the likes of Hazard, Roy Wegerle, were in the reserves. Pat Nevin was on the bench.

Wait...PAT NEVIN. Fucking hell! He was fantastic.

I'd say my favourite, though, was Chris Perry. I don't know if he really counts as he's obviously a very capable, professional player who's been playing premiership football for a decade. But I was in tears when he left. What a man (and he recently came down to Kingsmeadow too. Geezer).

Nevin = God. I remember he got a standing ovation for scoring against us for Everton (admittedly, it was in the last minute and we were 2-0 up at the time).

Now, do you remember Dave Mitchell?

Who was that little Wimbledon player touted as the new Dennis Wise who scored a cracker against Arsenal on his debut and was never seen again (early 90s)? he was a McSomething. What happened to him?

**Another nightmare has surfaced from CFC's last soujourn in Div 2 circa 89/90 : Dave Mitchell. This bearded, mulleted (think Barry Gibb)& quite old 'striker' was unearthed from some Dutch club and had apparently played a few games for Glasgow Rangers at one time. What can I say? It MUST have been a scam of some sort - this guy redefined the parameters of uselessness. He played about 4 games for us, touched the ball about twice in each, and mainly hung around offside or on the wing, seemingly trying to avoid the action. He had a shot in one game (against Walsall, IIRC) - from 15 yards he hit the ball like a toddler and forced the keeper to....do nothing really. It wouldn't have gone in - it wasn't going hard enough!**

btw, J mcnaught was nominated as a cult hero for one of them scottish clubs on Football Focus a couple of weeks ago.

McNaught was awful too - which Scottish club was it?

He wasn't with CFC in 83 though.

That's not strictly true, as the kids were kicking about in Ruchill Park with a samurai sword when Partick were training there. The face-off took place at the time, an impromptu thing rather than a pre-arranged fight. Still classic, though.

My other Celtic cult heroes of recent years have included Enrico Annoni, Owen Archdeacon and Dariusz Dziekanowski (who scored four goals in a European game and still ended up out on goal difference). And Johnny Doyle, though admittedly the general cult status accorded by Celtic fans was conferred after he'd electrocuted himself in the bath with his hairdrier.

Other heroes:

Keith Wright
Kaiser Sauzee
The Porn Star

And, rather embarrasingly, Davie Cooper. One of the greatest footballers that ever lived. Even if he was a Hun. (See also Ted McMinn.)

None, however, can touch Thor Lee, despite his scant two appearances for DC United.

Another piece of the Sasa Curcic legend: everyone knows the story of Maradona beating the keeper and then going back around him again to score. I saw Sasa do this once, except after he paused to let a defender back in the play to dribble around him again, he missed the resulting sitter.

Ooh, remind me who that was again please. I'm guessing a Hibs connection somewhere by the rest of your list, but I thought it was someone who played for Raith. Or am I barking up the totally wrong tree? (I'm too frightened to google for Hibs porn star).

The only position he didn't play in was goalkeeper, I think. Looked good on paper, unfortunately we played on grass. < badum-tish > His first dozen games were brilliant (including a bicycle kick that was one of the best goals I've ever witnessed) but over the piece I suppose he could have done better.

Nicknamed The Porn Star because we signed him at the same time as Boogie Nights came out, and his name was Dirk. I remember Chick Young asking him about it in his first interview after signing (outside at the City Cafe, I think) and he made some crap joke about no complaints BUT THEN LOOKED INTO THE CAMERA TO SEDUCE ALL THE LADIES WATCHING. Classic.

He was also a Ugandan prince.
Any shrewsbury fans on ilx?

Also as i said on another thread in reply to DR C Worst Professional Footballer you've ever seen play in real life
John "Wurzel" McNaught.
John Brogan is the best player for many Accies fans.

Jose Quitongo is the most recent one i'd say.

He is in the Anogolan world cup squad. He's 31 now So i don't know how effective he will be but it will sure be a treat watching such a great player like him at the world cup.

He is in the Angolan world cup squad. He's 31 now So I don't know how effective he will be but it will sure be a treat watching such a great player like him at the world cup.

George McCluskey is prob my fave Accies player ever. He certainly scored the best goal i've ever seen, in a pre season friendly in about 1991 against Lutown Town.

PLEASE tell me you're joking.

Club  	From  	To 	Fee  	League  	FA Cup 	League cup  	Other
Exeter 	12-08-2002 	30-08-2002 	Free  	4 (0) 	1 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0
Portsmouth 	01-02-2001 	07-05-2001 	Loan  	17 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0
Bradford 	15-06-1999 	12-08-2002 	£ 200000  	30 (17) 	2 	2 (1) 	0 	3 (1) 	0 	3 (0) 	0
Bradford 	24-03-1999 	10-05-1999 	Loan  	6 (3) 	2 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0
Sampdoria 	29-12-1998 	23-03-1999 	Loan  	No appearance data available
Leeds 	14-08-1996 	15-06-1999 	£ 4500000  	28 (2) 	5 	0 (1) 	0 	3 (0) 	1 	1 (2) 	0
Man Utd 	10-06-1988 	14-08-1996 	£ 185000  	160 (33) 	21 	13 (8) 	3 	15 (8) 	9 	18 (2) 	3
Torquay 	31-05-1988 	10-06-1988 	Trainee  	9 (5) 	3 	0 (0) 	0 	0 (0) 	0 	2 (3) 	0
Totals 	£ 4885000 	254 (60) 	34 	15 (10) 	3 	21 (9) 	10 	24 (7) 	3

oh well, try here: http://www.soccerbase.com/players_details.sd?playerid=7197

He left for Leeds with Wilkinson convinced he was the man for England on the left (this left sided problem has been going on for a while) and then four games later, Wilko was sacked, and his face never fitted with Goerge Graham.
Random fact - his autobiog was ghosted by David Conn.

He was one fugly freak.

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