English football's best front two pairing

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English football's best front two pairing

Post by No Ney Never » Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:56 pm

Not sure if it's nostalgia, but in my lifetime it has got to be Ian Rush and Kenny Dalglish.
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Re: English football's best front two

Post by ClaretTony » Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:57 pm

Spurs had a decent pair in the 60s - Gilzean & Greaves

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by martin_p » Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:59 pm

Burnley’s Heath Robinson attack takes some beating.
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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:00 pm

Anybody and Kenny Dalglish.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:02 pm

Frank Casper and Paul Fletcher

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Burnley1989 » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:04 pm

Henry & Bergkamp/Anelka

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Vino blanco » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:09 pm

You're right, Henry and Bergkamp takes some beating for pure quality.
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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by No Ney Never » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:10 pm

Burnley1989 wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:04 pm
Henry & Bergkamp/Anelka
What if you had to pick, Bergkamp or Anelka?

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:12 pm

Yorke and Cole. Telepathic.

The goal at the nou camp (in the group stage) in 1999 was brilliant.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:13 pm

No Ney Never wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:10 pm
What if you had to pick, Bergkamp or Anelka?
Bergkamp is the best foreign forward player that has played in the Premier League, closely followed by Zola.
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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Devils_Advocate » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:13 pm

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Dyched » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm

Anelka would have left before Henry arrived at Arsenal.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Dyched » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:13 pm
Bergkamp is the best foreign forward player that has played in the Premier League, closely followed by Zola.
Have you been asleep for the past 10 years?

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by No Ney Never » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:17 pm

Dyched wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm
Have you been asleep for the past 10 years?
Are you referring to Mane and Salah?

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Dyched » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:18 pm

I always thought Aguero and Dzeko was a great combination in recent years.

Nobody really plays a front 2 anymore. I see Pires and Henry more of a pairing than what Henry and Bergkamp were.

I’ll bend the rules and pick Drogba/Lampard around 2004/06.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Bin Ont Turf » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:18 pm

Dyched wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm
Have you been asleep for the past 10 years?
Every night.
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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Dyched » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:20 pm

No Ney Never wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:17 pm
Are you referring to Mane and Salah?
I thought he meant foreign players in general and not just forwards. I’d put Drogba above Zola.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Malvern claret » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:20 pm

Maybe a bit of bias here but Lochead and Irvine

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by FactualFrank » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:21 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:12 pm
Yorke and Cole. Telepathic.

The goal at the nou camp (in the group stage) in 1999 was brilliant.
They immediately came to mind.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by cricketfieldclarets » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:24 pm

FactualFrank wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:21 pm
They immediately came to mind.
bang on 3 minutes in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZHmsackU6c

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by HahaYeah » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:25 pm

Keegan and Toshack.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by No Ney Never » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:26 pm

Dyched wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:20 pm
I thought he meant foreign players in general and not just forwards. I’d put Drogba above Zola.
This is the Up The Clarets message board, it can be who ever you want, but I'm more interested in forwards. :D
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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by dermotdermot » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:27 pm

Dyched wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:14 pm
Anelka would have left before Henry arrived at Arsenal.
That’s right. Wenger sold Anelka for something like 20million to Real Madrid and replaced him with Henry for around 10million. A very good bit of business.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Quickenthetempo » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:38 pm

Rush was good. Can't remember Dalglish sticking out in his later years that I would of watched.

I would pick Shearer and Beardsley for me.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Royboyclaret » Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:51 pm

Not sure who they played for but a certain Ray Pointer and Jimmy Robson scored 124 goals (66 & 58) in three seasons '59/'60 to '61/'62.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by BenWickes » Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:01 am

martin_p wrote:
Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:59 pm
Burnley’s Heath Robinson attack takes some beating.
:lol: Surely one of the shortest!

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by bobinho » Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:03 am

And roundest...

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by TheFamilyCat » Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:14 am

Eli & Conroy

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Hazzyclaret1955 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:44 am

The most feared partnership: Wanchop Dickov

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by BenWickes » Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:46 am

Hazzyclaret1955 wrote:
Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:44 am
The most feared partnership: Wanchop Dickov
Best performed under anaesthesia...

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by claretonthecoast1882 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:47 am

While not the best Quinn & Phillips had a good partnership

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Alanstevensonsgloves » Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:10 am

Archibald and Crooks

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Malvern claret » Thu Jul 23, 2020 9:36 am

They were responsible for a lot of disappointment in Burnley in 61/62 and did not have the ability of many others mentioned on here but Ray Crawford and Ted Phillips were very effective for Ipswich.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by Hibsclaret » Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:30 am

Withe and Shaw

So good they had a place named after them....

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by redwasp » Thu Jul 23, 2020 10:59 am

You can always rely on royboy to bring
some sense to a topic. Pointer and Robson closely followed by Lochhead and Irvine.

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Re: English football's best front two pairing

Post by basil6345789 » Thu Jul 23, 2020 12:09 pm

Pointer and Robson, Irvine and Lochead and, eek, Pickering and McEvoy

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