Off TopicAre you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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No you aren'tThe suggestion that Stuart Pearce was not a brilliant left-back on grounds of excess aggression is akin to saying Pele twatted about too much to be considered a great goalscorer
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:07, 1 reply, 15 years ago)
I'm a fooking brilliant left back, I'll have you know.For me a full back needs to be good going forward, as well as being good defensively, and Psycho doesn't fit the bill. Sorry.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:12, Reply)
You're judging him by today's standardsThe popularisation of the attacking full-back is a relatively modern notion, I don't think that any manager Psycho ever played for would have wanted him to go bombing down the wing any more than they would a centre-back, given that he was the best tackler in any defence he played for. That said, in 1991/2 he did score 17 goals for Forest in all competitions, only 1 of them from the penalty spot, so he obviously wasn't too deficient in attack.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:20, Reply)
Rather than reading the background to this discussion,I'm just going to suggest that "Psycho" is more of a "watch your back...and your drink, if you know what's good for you."
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:22, Reply)
What kind of arch-geek do you take me for?I would, however argue that a free-kick threat as potent as the one he presented was more useful than the occasional left-wing overlap
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)
But my point is that he was just a clogger, with not a great deal of skillThis would not make him the best English left back of all time IMHO.
If the free kicks he scored had some finesse about them rather than hoofing them in after a huge run-up, then fair enough. But they didn't.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)
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