So, which player would you most like to have been

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braymarina

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It doesn't matter who they played for or when but who would you have liked to have played the game like?

For me:
- Andrea Perlo
- Tony Currie
- Jack Grealish

All that skill and lots of touches of the ball for your money
 
Always liked the idea of been 3rd choice goalie at a serie a club, some players had like 15/20 year careers and made only a handful of appearances whilst picking up decent wages in a beautiful country.
 
I would be Stan Mortensen playing before the wage cap was removed, when men were men and we had a fag and a pint before kick-off.
I wouldn't want to be one of today's cosseted prima donnas earning millions.

Ooh, Nurse! My meds are wearing off! 🤪

Seriously, I would want to be Morty and I'd insist 1953 was the Mortensen final.
 
Bobby Charlton.Our World Cup winner and at a crucial time scored one of our greatest ever goals against Mexico when we desperately needed it.

But Morty is also a very good shout.
 
Stanley Harding Mortensen
The first England player to score a goal in a FIFA world cup campaign
The only player to score an FA cup final hatrick at Wembley
Scoring in 12 consecutive FA cup rounds
Scoring in 15 consecutive 1st division matches
23 goals in 25 games for England
Not bad for a lad from South of the river 👍
 
braymarina said:
It doesn't matter who they played for or when but who would you have liked to have played the game like?

For me:
- Andrea Perlo
- Tony Currie
- Jack Grealish

All that skill and lots of touches of the ball for your money
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Tony Currie when I was a lad, Maldini as I got older, these days Peter Crouch so I could do his Mrs.
From a Pool perspective Colin Morris
 
Andy Reid.
Command a very decent salary, play for PL and Championship clubs, and still eat as many pies as I like

EDIT - on a serous note, I would either say Stanley Matthews or Jimmy Armfield
 
The King. I was always rubbish at football, gawky as a kid. He was just so talented, read the game so well, deceptively quick, and what he couldn't do with a ball.
 
Another for the King of Bloomfield Rd. Earlier in the 60’s the great Pele. Having said that I always played Left back in school teams and Sunday League, must’ve been ‘forward’ envy.
 
Gascoigne......my all time football hero

for Blackpool.....I’d have given anything to have played just once as myself,
even if that was it, to be able to say I’d played professionally for my club would’ve been all my dreams come true.
 
Someone who made a truckload of money, won some trophies and came out of it sane and able to walk still ... Pirlo not a bad shout
 
Remember as a kid in London everyone wanted to be Jimmy Greaves in the playground.
Moved to Blackpool in 1970 & all the kids were Goerge Best.
In the summer Jeff Thomson bowling at my brothers head.
 
Tony Waiters...

If only I could have dived to my left I would have been a half decent goalie, but had some kind of mental block that stopped me diving to the left. Weird.
 
Morty.. keeping it close to home.
Of all the great footballers we've seen here I can't think of anyone else who had a greater zest for life and thats how he played and managed the game.
I should imagine being the sole survivor in a plane crash helps to concentrate the mind in that regard.
 
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Jimmy Hampson. Still our record goal scorer since the 30's. Would have been brilliant playing in front of a packed 30,000 plus crowd at BR.
 
Go on I'll say it, as a nipper (junior school)
I wanted to be Allan Clarke.
School team played in all white and I HAD to have the number 8 shirt!!

As I grew older and started to go to Bloomfield Rd regularly it was the king.

But the one that tops them all is Johan Cruyff 👍🏻
 
In 1967, when a careers officer came to Claremont Senior School, I told him that I supported The Mighty Pool. When he asked who my favourite player was, I said without hesitation, "Jimmy Armfield."
I would love to have had his career. Just think, being able to play all them matches for, and captaining, the only two teams that mean anything and everything to me, Blackpool and England. The thrill of leading Blackpool back to Division One at Deepdale, close up watching Big Fred scoring his hat-trick, looking round the ground with over 30,000 Pool fans cheering-on their heroes.
 
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A weird one for me. I had a football annual with Trevor Steven (when he was at Everton) in. In the picture he was running away, holding a finger up nonchalantly to celebrate scoring and the rain pouring down, his hair plastered to his head and kit soaked.

He just looked so cool, so poised with opposition players in the background looking dejected. I didn't know anything much about him as a player, but when ever I scored in the playground, I tried to celebrate like that.

I loved Waddle but couldn't play like him. Like others, I aspired to be like one of the Italian defenders. I think the player I was actually most like was Darren Bradshaw. I wasn't bad at centre back and got stuck in but not really tall/muscular enough to be properly decent so my timing had to be spot on, which the Italian defenders seemed amazing at.
 
Super Brett. All 4 divisions for the Pool, winner at Wembley, down to earth and funny as....
Love his commentary too ( unlike some!).
Give us a twirl Brett
 
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A weird one for me. I had a football annual with Trevor Steven (when he was at Everton) in. In the picture he was running away, holding a finger up nonchalantly to celebrate scoring and the rain pouring down, his hair plastered to his head and kit soaked.

He just looked so cool, so poised with opposition players in the background looking dejected. I didn't know anything much about him as a player, but when ever I scored in the playground, I tried to celebrate like that.
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