CJ_covblaze
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Great work Nick!
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shmmeee
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Regis?
stevefloyd
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If he had been at a 'top club' he would undoubtedly have won more England caps
singers_pore
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Very much doubt it. England had a glut of great strikers and Regis just didn’t score enough. If there’s one player who could have earned more caps at a bigger club, it would be Benno.
oucho
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Terry_dactyl
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Serious question, Who did we have? I always thought he should have won more caps. I seem to remember thinking he should have gone to the ‘86 World Cup.
Although the real travesty was when Dion missed out in ‘98.
Captain Dart
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Just checked up, in 1986 Bobby Robson took Beardsley, Lineker, Mark Hately, Dixon, Barnes, Waddle as forwards.
Hately was playing at Inter & Dixon was scoring a goal every other game. I don't think Robson made a mistake in those choices.
Dixon has been in prison in the last few years, addictions & gambling, violent behaviour.
Terry_dactyl
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Was Hately that good? I only recall him playing for rangers...difficult to tell with Scottish football. I remember Dixon banging them in for Chelsea, alongside nevin and speedie...and Gordon durie?
Probably explains why he’s completely disappeared.
I_Saw_Shaw_Score
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Yeah noticed it a few weeks back as well.
JimmyHillsbeard
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After he scored for England in the Maracana. He earned himself a move to Italy and an almost ever-present berth in the England line-up until his lack of goals ssaw him dropped after two games in Mexico’86 in favour of Peter Beardsley. Lineker and England never looked back.
Terry_dactyl
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The first World Cup I have a proper memory of. I think it was jimmy Hill laughing in the background commentary when linekar bagged a hattrick?
Hately scored in the same game as John Barnes’ wonder goal?
JimmyHillsbeard
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Terry_dactyl
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CJ_covblaze
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Ian Wright in 92 too. Ridiculous that Ian Wright, Matt Le Tissier, Les Ferdinand and Dion Dublin only have 61 caps between them!
JulianDarbyFTW
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What we would give for them now. There are hundreds of fringe players from the past who would walk into the current set-up.
Edit to add that Le Tissier is my favourite player of all time. Although Speedie ran him close. Those who are too young to remember Le Tiss should youtube his best goals. Simply sublime.
CJ_covblaze
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Only just noticed!
CJ_covblaze
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Le Tis was a genius. Unplayable not just on his day but almost every single week.
Liquid Gold
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It's due to so many international players in the Premier League. We don't give young English players the chance to develop properly. A player like Dublin now would probably have gone from Man Utd to a mid table championship team. Even there there is becoming more of a problem with them looking abroad for talent.
Speedies_Chips
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Paul Anthony
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He made the game look ridiculously easy at times. He could beat people at walking pace, almost lazily, and then suddenly pull out an absolute worldy of a goal. Really could score from just about anywhere.
Ricketts
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This is the one that sticks in my mind.
Out of nowhere.
Wasnt even a chance.
His curled it round Oggy and into the net.
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westcountry_skyblue
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Remember being a pissed up 18 year old watching that Poland game in the Prince William pub in Magaluf,Place went mental and the usual running battles with the Guardia Civil afterwards!!!
Terry_dactyl
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I was too young for any of that but remember seeing maradonna’s wonder goal and regretting that John Barnes didn’t start/come on sooner.
I also remember the game of the tournament being Brazil v France in the quarter finals.
JimmyHillsbeard
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Telly vegetables picked Kevin Richardson more times than he picked Matt Le Tissier
hopesprings
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Loved him ..mind you at the time loads of people called him"lazy" and only pushed himself on some occasions....didn't agree but many so called experts said that sort of thing
Sky Blue Harry H
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I think I was at that - one of about 4 England games I've been to, one of which was called off for fog (Czech Republic at home?) - only England game to have been done so (at the time) ggrr! (Oh, yeah - Le Tissier had a special talent)
Marty
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You just have to look at the turn of the century and likes of Robbie Fowler and Kevin Phillips, less then 40 caps between them. Phillips being top scorer in Europe, and averaged nearly a goal a game in a piss poor Sunderland side. Fowler probably being one of the best finishers ever. Shearer was unbelievable at that time and Owen was coming into his prime. It's amazing the amount of quality we had, and now we have Kane and I'm seriously struggling to think of a world class forward.
Grendel
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How could he have been considered then? By his own admission he was terrible until Sillet transformed his career.
Terry_dactyl
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I was 8 and he was my hero! Plus my dad who is a Pompey fan said Hately was shite. I therefore figured England need a big man...
Grendel
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He scored 10 goals in 70 games in his first two years here
Terry_dactyl
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Fair enough. Like I said, the real travesty was that Dion didn’t go to a World Cup.