Vino blanco wrote:Coyote wrote 'Barnes is one tough cookie'. Jesus Christ, compared to Lochhead and O'Neil he's a f.cking powder puff, falling down down non stop and trying to get free kicks and sticking his elbows out at the wrong time. You have to realise that Lochhead was a forward playing against people like Tommy Smith. Dave Mackay, Ron Harris, etc, who were just dirty bastards, who would kick you before you touched the ball, add to that list Norman Hunter and Nobby Stiles, cowards the lot of them (but dirty and hard). Anyway, another Burnley hard man, who needs adding to the list and who may surprise some of you, was John Angus, a cultured full back, who never forgot an enemy (Terry Paine at Southampton for example). Colin Blant started off as a centre forward, who wasn't good enough, so he was moved to centre half, where he was useless, so lacking in defensive skills and nous, he just decided to kick people instead. Not hard, just stupid.
yes i did write that, and qualified it by referring to it being a different era.
Some of those players you mentioned we came up against were 5 foot nothing, scrawny , tiny little men. do your homework.
Easy to build myths, but the reality is not what you want.
