Crap left backs becoming good

[sitwell]

No Ls26
Bad ones
Jordan Stewart
Marcus Williams
Les Tibbot
Matt Hill
Cliff Calvert

 

[I should coco]

My favourite Utd left backs :
Joe Bolton
Roger Nilsen
Paul Garner
Ted Hemsley
Tom Cowan

Wilf?
Dane Whitehouse filling in?

A bit surprised you missed Les Tibbot out too. Him and Finneston were vying for 'worst signing ever in the history of the Universe' until John Ebrell came along......

ISC

 

[Pollingtonblade]

No Ls26
Bad ones
Jordan Stewart
Marcus Williams
Les Tibbot
Matt Hill
Cliff Calvert

Always liked Martin Pike

 

[1973Blade]

Wilf?
Dane Whitehouse filling in?

A bit surprised you missed Les Tibbot out too. Him and Finneston were vying for 'worst signing ever in the history of the Universe' until John Ebrell came along......

John Ebbrell created one goal every 45 minutes for the Blades which is a decent record.

 

[SRBlade]

If we're now going onto the best left backs we've seen, hands down Derek Geary in the Prem.

 

[1973Blade]

Wilf?
Dane Whitehouse filling in?

A bit surprised you missed Les Tibbot out too. Him and Finneston were vying for 'worst signing ever in the history of the Universe' until John Ebrell came along......

ISC

John Ebbrell created one goal every 45 minutes for the Blades which is a decent record.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

Left back has always been our achilles heel ,as long as I remember it is the weakest position to have a favourite ,even in our greatest team I always thought Ted was the weakest link.

Have to go back to this bloke - now he was good.Played for England too.

 

[Latters]

Gus and Geary were both right backs.

 

[Silent Blade]

Left back has always been our achilles heel ,as long as I remember it is the weakest position to have a favourite ,even in our greatest team I always thought Ted was the weakest link.
My favourite Utd left backs :
Joe Bolton
Roger Nilsen
Paul Garner
Ted Hemsley
Tom Cowan

John Flynn was our weak link in the 1971 side. Ted Hemsley was a right midfielder when Arthur Rowley signed him from his old club Shrewsbury. After Rowley was sacked, Harris didnt play Hemsley for the first few months of the 1969-70 season, he wasnt happy with our left back Mick Heaton so he tried Hemsley at LB despite being right footed. He then played regularly in that position for the next 6 years and won our player of the year in 1973.

Unsworth for me is the best left back we had. My dad's best left back was Graham Shaw (also a right footer)

 

[BushBlade]

I liked Stretch, shame he got injured. Naysmith was fairly solid. All time favourite was probably Nilson.

Williams was as bad a player as I've ever seen play for us.

 

[cooperblade]

White (Who, if I remember correctly, we played in midfield?)

Who could ever forget the glory, glory days of Simon Lappin and Aidy White down the left hand side? God we've had it good in recent years.

 

[BushBlade]

Who could ever forget the glory, glory days of Simon Lappin and Aidy White down the left hand side? God we've had it good in recent years.

I'd forgotten already.

 

[Eskimo]

Bernard Shaw, we didn't like him. Mick Heaton was worse (didnt he go on to coach at Man U?)
Glad Pikey got a mention.

 

[1973Blade]

I remember that Tom Heffernan was a dodgy left back, as a kid I used to call him Tom Muffernan.

 

[BushBlade]

I remember that Tom Heffernan was a dodgy left back, as a kid I used to call him Tom Muffernan.

Wasn't he a right back?

 

[Silent Blade]

Bernard Shaw, we didn't like him. Mick Heaton was worse (didnt he go on to coach at Man U?)
Glad Pikey got a mention.

My dad wasnt keen on Bernard Shaw too. Mick Heaton became coach after a playing career at Blackburn. He was Kendall's assistant at Blackburn, Everton and Man City but not sure about Bilbao. If he hadnt died in a car crash in 1995 he probably would have been our coach under Kendall

 

[Silent Blade]

Wasn't he a right back?

Always right back

 

[1973Blade]

Always right back

I should have paid more attention as a kid!

 

[Partaloablade]

Graham Shaw, Ted Hemsley and Derek Geary for me.

 

[Bristol Blade]

I remember Naysmith turning out to be a good player after being crap under Robson (like a lot of the squad admittedly).

 

[Hodgyman]

If we're now going onto the best left backs we've seen, hands down Derek Geary in the Prem.

I would have to put Graham & his brother Bernard Shaw up there among the best that I saw, both England internationals (Bernard at U18 & U23 ).

 

[I should coco]

I remember Naysmith turning out to be a good player after being crap under Robson

Sicknote wage thief (approx £20k per week so adding national insurance and pension contributions he probably cost us nearly £4 million - and people wonder 'where the money went').

Three years here but just 79 appearances (138 league games plus about 20 cup games possible).

ISC

 

[davidpinder]

Unsworth wasn't the best

 

[Jehovah]

Part of our curse is our ability to make good players shit.