Matthew Ashton/Empics Sport
Being hard as nails isn’t a prerequisite to playing professional football on Merseyside, but it certainly helps, regardless of whether you happen to bleed red or blue.
Everton have had more than their fair share of bruisers over the years, fearsome characters who never shied away from a leg-biting tackle, gave the opposition nightmares, and made Goodison Park recoil and cheer in equal measure.
Roberto Martinez’s current Toffees squad is a far cry from Joe Royle’s ‘Dogs of War’, dedicated to a style of play that’s easier on the eye, but the no-holds-barred mentality of Muhamed Besic and Ramiro Funes Mori harks back to the combative days of old.
The Goodison faithful have always loved a crunching challenge and a fiery scrapper who’s willing to give his right nut for the team, and with this in mind, here are the top...
Being hard as nails isn’t a prerequisite to playing professional football on Merseyside, but it certainly helps, regardless of whether you happen to bleed red or blue.
Everton have had more than their fair share of bruisers over the years, fearsome characters who never shied away from a leg-biting tackle, gave the opposition nightmares, and made Goodison Park recoil and cheer in equal measure.
Roberto Martinez’s current Toffees squad is a far cry from Joe Royle’s ‘Dogs of War’, dedicated to a style of play that’s easier on the eye, but the no-holds-barred mentality of Muhamed Besic and Ramiro Funes Mori harks back to the combative days of old.
The Goodison faithful have always loved a crunching challenge and a fiery scrapper who’s willing to give his right nut for the team, and with this in mind, here are the top...
- 1/9/2016
- by Mark Langshaw
- Obsessed with Film
The Premier League has seen some of the greatest managers of all time: with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Robson and Jose Mourinho just some of the names to have graced the technical areas of the world’s best league.
However, since its formation in 1992 the league has seen some clueless gaffers come in and do a horrendous job – managers who were out of their depth, lacking control and just without an idea.
Here is a run down of ten of the worst performances by managers in Premier League history.
10. Mike Walker – Everton
We head all the way back to 1994 for our first manager on the list in the form of Everton’s Mike Walker. In January 1994 Walker replaced Howard Kendall as Everton manager and set about trying to impose himself on the Merseyside club.
However, things didn’t go to plan for the man nicknamed the...
However, since its formation in 1992 the league has seen some clueless gaffers come in and do a horrendous job – managers who were out of their depth, lacking control and just without an idea.
Here is a run down of ten of the worst performances by managers in Premier League history.
10. Mike Walker – Everton
We head all the way back to 1994 for our first manager on the list in the form of Everton’s Mike Walker. In January 1994 Walker replaced Howard Kendall as Everton manager and set about trying to impose himself on the Merseyside club.
However, things didn’t go to plan for the man nicknamed the...
- 2/27/2013
- by Alex Peace
- Obsessed with Film
Today’s news that former Newcastle United and Leeds United midfielder and Wales manager Gary Speed was found dead left what I believe will be a lasting emotional scar on the footballing world, as well as having a profound personal effect. Speed was part of the team under Sir Bobby Robson who threatened to bring the good times of Kevin Keegan’s Entertainers back to St James Park, and his willingness to work for every team he played for endeared him enormously to fans.
He was a professional, the kind of player who cliched adages stuck to with genuine sentiment and who still holds the third highest Premiership appearance record behind Ryan Giggs and David James predominantly in a position that required a serious amount of commitment and energy to become anything close to the highest level. That is some going.
At Leeds United Speed announced himself as a promising attacking midfielder,...
He was a professional, the kind of player who cliched adages stuck to with genuine sentiment and who still holds the third highest Premiership appearance record behind Ryan Giggs and David James predominantly in a position that required a serious amount of commitment and energy to become anything close to the highest level. That is some going.
At Leeds United Speed announced himself as a promising attacking midfielder,...
- 11/27/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
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