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Who are your top 5 personal Blades heroes whilst watching Sheffield United over the years?
In no particular order mine are -
Tony Currie-my 1st hero when a young kid watching United
Tony Kenworthy- Good defender and me and my piggy mate used to argue who was the hardest,Kenworthy or Mike Pickering in the late 70's,and best sliding tackler ever! :)
Brian Deane-Probably the best centre forward i have seen watching United.
Michael Brown-Best midfielder since Currie,never been replaced.
Alan Kelly - Class goalkeeper,best No.1 in Blades goal.

Others who just missed out - Alan Woodward,Keith Edwards,Tony Agana,John McPhail and Chris Guthrie(only joking).
 

1. Alan Woodward. Unconventional, stocky, not built for speed - yet deceptively nimble, but great footballing brain, powerful player and epitomised everything about a player who loves the game and his club.

2. Tony Currie. The vinegar to the salt of Woodward. Louche, talented, clever and a person who deservedly had every person in BDTBL singing his name, because he was exciting, unpredictable and skilful.

3. Michael Brown. Confounded those who sold him and passed him on by being the best box-to-box all-rounder I think we have seen in our colours in modern times. The 2002-03 season was all his. Without him, we would have been also-rans. Aside from his unbelievable goal vs the Pigs at the Lane, the away game at Fratton Park that season was possibly one of the best performances I have seen a United player put in. Pompey, as good as they were then, didn't know what to do with him.

4. Phil Jagielka. From a boy-player to a tour-de-force for us (frustratingly never played consistently enough) but now showing what a real gem we used to have in our back four. His tackling, composure and ability to drive forward and lamp it from range was outstanding.

5. Brian Deane. Reluctantly, due to his propensity to bugger off when we needed him the most. But you can't takeaway his unbelievable strike rate and ability as a centre forward. Your typical tough, hard to get the better of front man with quick feet, good aerial ability and everything Porter isn't, in fact.

pommpey
 
My United heroes are still the ones from the first team I saw; Tracey, Deane, Agana, Stancliffe, Booker. I was 8 or 9 years old and watching those blokes stick it to teams that were always fancied to turn us over. I had posters of Deane and Agana on my wall for years and I still have a photo of the 88-89 team up in my flat now.

Since then I tend to appreciate players rather than hero worship them, but Michael Brown brought the kid out in me again in the period from 2002 to when we sold him.
 
Joint 1st . Woody and TC- Woody's goals and assists were magical to watch. TC's flair, vision and strength were also magical to watch too

3rd. Dane Whitehouse- a true Blade with a big heart who refused to play for a club in a higher division

4th. Brian Deane - the best bargain buy we have had in my years as a Blade. Biggest influence in getting us to the top division

5th. Chris Morgan - superb captain and a great servant to the club
 
I think I'd struggle to get to five.

Off the top of my head, for me, only Deano and Alan Kelly spring to mind as actual legends or "heroes", a term which I would still use very loosely as they're just footballers at the end of the day. Maybe Morgs (for his playing time) might edge in there too.

I'm 27, just to give an idea of who I have and haven't seen.
 
As Walthy says, heroes are those who played when you were in childhood. Later in life it's admiration and respect for ability. Consequently my heroes would be:

1. TC and Woody. You can't have one without the other. Style, poise, power, ability, shooting, passing, vision. Complete package in only two players.

2. Trevor Hockey. For the above two to play you need the ball. Enter Hockey-hi.

3. Bill Dearden. Biggest heart in a player ever. He could finish as well.

4. Len Badger. How the fuck did he not play for England?

5. Tom McAllister. But for injury would have been one of the keeper greats in the game.
 
Anybody who just limits themselves to 5 , will do an injustice to every name that someone else posts thats not on there list , how about 5 from every decade that you saw the Blades play in . At the moment I'm racking my brain , from the 70's till 2010 . post my 20 in a while up to my tonsils in work , bank holiday here so lots of work to get out . UTB . Or is this Darren country
 
Colin Morris was my first. Edwards got the goals, but to my untutored 9 year old eyes it was Morris doing all the work.

The Bassett days were a revelation to me - always the underdogs, we were finally getting the better of the teams that only ever existed on The Big Match or Match of the Day. Deano was the standout, but loved Booker (who seemed to epitomize the whole spirit) and Hodges, who could do do things Noone else could (whilst still putting in some handy work with fist, elbow and forehead). In many ways that team's ethos had a profound impact on my whole approach to life - which is what heroes should give us isn't it?
 

Keith Edwards
Colin Morris
Brian Deane
Tony Agana
Dave Bassett

I've got Bassett (but it could have been Bob Booker if selecting only players), because all I knew as a United fan from the very early 80s was lower division football. Bassett changed that and took us to the top tier and kept us there, beating everyone (apart from Arsenal I think), and fulfilled a childhood dream of going to Wembley.
 
Jon Bon said:
1. TC
2. Woody
3. Deano
4. Brownie
5. Faulknery
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Bah, forgot about Edwardsy. I'd put Edwardsy at number 4 and drop Brownie down to 5, meaning there's no place for big old lolloping Faulknery in my Top 5. Sorry y'big hairy bollocks... :(
 
Here's a picture of the great man - Jimmy Hagan - playing for the FA XI in Tasmania in 1951. Hagan scored 8 goals - yes EIGHT - in a 17 - nil rout over Tasmania. I think one reason why the team scored so many (against a team of part-timers) is that they had been criticised in the local media for not accepting the hotel in Hobart that had been provided for them, and moving to a better one. The attitude of the locals was on the lines of "who do they think they are?". The FA XI showed them exactly who they were!

Sorry for the poor quality of the pic, I found it on an obscure website and downloaded it.
 

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Jehovah said:
Wheres Monty?
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In Australia still isn't he? Collecting the ball somewhere in front of his team's 18 yard box with a fucked up method of control that means his second touch is with the studs up, running on twenty yards in a direction no one else in his team is going, miscontrolling it somewhat, allowing the ball to ricochet off his shin and bobble out of his immediate area of influence, leaving a challenging player supine with three stitches in his abdomen and then smashing a crisp, seventy mile pass out of the Wallamalloo Stadium, off the underside of the International Space Station and down into Papua New Guinea.

Crowd: "Stewth Monty! What dunny bought that dag!"

pommpey
 
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Booker - One of my first match going memories was of him and the "ooh aah" song.
Deane - Was bang on halfway in the John Street seats when he went round Grobbalaer and lofted it in that day, some player that man.
Kelly - I wanted to be a goalie for a bit and who better to look to than the best I've ever seen us have.
Flo - Had his name on my shirt, thought he was great, he wasn't really was he but still.
Muir - Single handedly knocked Man U out of the cup after coming off the bench to get 2 goals, what more can you ask.
 
Other players i liked for different reasons were-
Peter Beagrie
Dane Whitehouse
Jan Age Fjortoft
Simon Tracey
Glyn Hodges
Trianos Dellas
Mark Patterson
Mel Rees
 
  1. Brian Deane - Felt great to have a player that so many fans of other clubs rated
  2. Brian Gayle - I was a centre half and he had a great game vs Man Utd in the first live tv match I saw as a Blade in 1991/92. I remember Match magazine gave him 9/10.
  3. Kyle Walker - For sheer ability and potential. I was confident he could become an England regular after watching a couple of games and one training session.
  4. Michael Brown - His 2002/03 season was ridiculous.
  5. Michael Tonge - He was fantastic as a youngster, loved watching him take the piss out of full backs.
 

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