You're judging him by today's standards
The 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.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:20, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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."
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:22, Reply)

And how many of the rest were free kicks?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:44, 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
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)

But my point is that he was just a clogger, with not a great deal of skill
This 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.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)