Who is our most unique player ever?

[Newbury Blade]

He’s obviously recognised in the Legends header on this site, but I will not rest till we have him properly celebrated at the ground. My top preference is an oversized statue, but I will settle for the Pukka Pies Fatty Foulkes Corner.

FOULKE. For Foulke’s sake.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

FOULKE. For Foulke’s sake.

Foulke off! (Hopefully the Sheffield Telegraph used that one back in the day)

 

[LoughboroBlade]

I don't know about most unique but Claude Davis used to make me laugh like fuck when he did his emu run.
Also notable for being a bit shit and starting on Akinbiyi with a razor.
And we got our money back on him which was also funny.

Ah, memories.

It is believed that the feud started after Akinbiyi ridiculed Davis's performance at Goodison Park last Saturday when the central defender was sent off in the first half of a match which United lost 2-0. Davis is purported to have responded by making a remark about one of Akinbiyi's parents, causing the row to escalate. United last night issued a statement in response to the allegations that a "flare-up" had occurred.

A statement from the club confirmed the investigation had been concluded and said: "The two players did have a difference of opinion, the sort which occurs in dressing rooms throughout the land. Contrary to reports, no razors or knives were involved, the pair have shaken hands and the disagreement has been resolved."

 

[wesleysnipesmen]

Kler Heh played in our Academy System up until 2015. Kler was born in a Refugee Camp in Thailand near the Myanmar Border to parents of the Karen Ethnic Group. He came to Sheffield under the UK's Gateway Protection Programme in 2006. Unfortunately, he didn't make it at The Lane. But, he plays professionally for a Lithuanian team. Unique as a resettled refugee. Naturally - Refugees Welcome.....

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a paragraph with so many capital letters that have all been grammatically correct.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

Andy Gray. Scored consistently whilst being widely either underrated or disliked. Never understood it but can’t remember another player that performed so well whilst receiving zero plaudits for it.

 

[Silent Blade]

Andy Gray. Scored consistently whilst being widely either underrated or disliked. Never understood it but can’t remember another player that performed so well whilst receiving zero plaudits for it.

He did nothing apart from scoring goals!

 

[1973Blade]

He did nothing apart from scoring goals!

Andy Walker was another who did little but score goals (not a bad thing to 'only' do).

 

[DifferentClass]

Burridge. No other Blade ever had his unique brand of uniqueness. Or wanted it either. Saw him leaving house near encs park carrying a baby. I just kept thinking, don't start John. Keep the antics for the football pitch FFS. Sure his missus grabbed baby and put safe in the car.

And that baby grew up to be... Dean Henderson!

 

[coaxingstar71]

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

He did nothing apart from scoring goals!

Yeh that’s what everyone kept telling me. Rubbish party trick that, scoring goals.

 

[Roygbiv]

Is Billy Sharp the only player to play for the club on 3 seperate occasions?

 

[knowsnowt]

Ched.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Bill Punton.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

If you don't want it then you shouldn't have said it.

Every player is unique in that no two are exactly the same

That’s right. We even had two from the same womb, brothers, Brian and Paul Smith, playing in the same team but they were different, although both were dangerous.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Petr Katchouro. The only Belarusian to ever play for the club. (I think?).

The Star used to refer to him as “The man from Minge” - that’s the capital of Belarus apparently.

 

[Plymouthblade]

I liked the Glyn Hodges offer, magician on his day

 

[Silent Blade]

Yeh that’s what everyone kept telling me. Rubbish party trick that, scoring goals.

We went up after we sold him!

 

[Silent Blade]

Is Billy Sharp the only player to play for the club on 3 seperate occasions?

Deane did too

 

[mattbianco1]

In recent times, David Brooks

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

Andy Walker was another who did little but score goals (not a bad thing to 'only' do).

Add Keih Edwards to the "all he does is score"; , idle nesh , selfish, baby- lining list [142 times]

 

[Billyblade]

John Ebbrell must be the most expensive player we've ever signed in terms of transfer fee to minutes on the pitch ratio.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

We went up after we sold him!

Aye
We went up after we sold Brooks n'all
(& Adams)

 

[Rodley]

Hai-Ho Dong. For that stepover.

 

[Moan? Nope-I saw Longhorn]

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In terms of unique personality and someone who totally got the club too, Doug Hodgson takes some beating - on left! Had some real balls did Dougie, proper Aussie bloke.

Bit of a lunatic which always adds to the mix! Lol, wish we had a modern Doug Hodgson!

If we're talking "personality" (& image, on & off the field) Trevor Hockey must be ' up there' ?

 

[Silent Blade]

Aye
We went up after we sold Brooks n'all
(& Adams)

Correct, we played more like a team by using the cash to buy "team" players after we sold them and got promotion

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Andy Goram - was the only team in the football league to play with 12 players whilst he was on the teamsheet.

 

[benn5712]

And that baby grew up to be... Dean Henderson!

Interesting thought that,1889.
A Blade next to me on the kop was adamant Budgie would win any 50/50 against an opposing player bearing down on goal.
"Nobody, she said, nobody is going to risk ruining a £20 pair of boots on his ugly mush"!

Think boots were about £20 them days.

 

[Patrick Suffaux]

We went up after we sold him!

Solely down to that I’m sure. Not down to the fact that we signed about six (at the time expensive) players right before he was sold to part fund it.

 

[benn5712]

Is Billy Sharp the only player to play for the club on 3 seperate occasions?

Brian Deane.
THE Deano.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Ernest Needham. Unique in that no other captain of Sheffield United will ever have the following list of honours;

League Runner Up 1897
League Title 1898
FA Cup Winner 1899
League Runner Up 1899
Champions of Great Britain 1899
FA Cup finalist 1901
FA Cup Winner 1902

plus 17 caps for England. Our greatest player ever, now thats the type of unique record that should lend itself to a statue of you being built outside the stadium.

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Beat me to it, in the big up for the great man. Add to that, author of an interesting book on the tactics of the game and playing 1st class cricket for Derbyshire and you'll understand why I want him honoured in some permanent way at the ground. Surely the most deserving United player of a statue or something.