Slow footballers who were good with us.

[Rufus Smalls]

Slow players seem to create their own space as opponents don’t dive in at them so as not to look daft when falling onto their arse when said player just nudges the ball past them and keeps possession. Especially midfielders.

Currie, Bowles, Marsh, Worthington were hardly fast but always appeared to have time on the ball.

A player from the 80’s for me to illustrate this would be Jan Molby at Liverpool - very slow but always seemed to have ages on the ball.

 

[JOEYDEE]

Didn’t Hughes have a daughter called Emily, or something similar?

Emma Lynn...original or what

 

[Sithblade]

Was mcgoldrick slow? I know he wasn’t rapid but wouldn’t describe him as slow.

Glynn hodges for me all day long. Looked like he could hardly move but what a wand of a left foot

 

[TopBoy]

Emlyn was only Emily on the weekends…..

Funnily enough, Emlyn's son was also called Emlyn and his daughter Emma Lynn.

If I had a son I'd name him dad. After my dad.

 

[Pintor75]

Mceverley!?! Good with us!?!?

sorry, he's one of the worst players ever for us, meant the slow bit!

 

[bornablade]

Michael Tonge.

James Beattie has been mentioned. I think there was an away match at Boro when Beattie made lung busting run back to make a slide tackle in our area.

 

[HarryHaslam]

Would be easier naming the fast ones and getting them out the way then we are left with the other 95%

We have had some snails over the years but off top of my head I can’t think of anyone slower than James Hanson.

 

[JJBlade]

You’ve just got PTSD from watching Oli Burke, not all fast players are shit at actually playing football.

Most are though, it's one of those things where for every fast player who was good technically you could name 100 who weren't.
Football is a game of quick thinking, quick decisions, footballing brains and movement, A slow player with all of those attributes will look much quicker in all the areas that matter than a crap player who is faster.

 

[St Annington]

I remember Emily Hughes winning the 100 metres on superstars (showing my age) despite looking slow on a football pitch.

It's a different sort of speed required.

I guy I worked with a few years ago used to play 5-a-side with Gerry Taggart and he said the same thing. To us watching from the side lines we would class him as slow and cumbersome, but in the flesh against mere mortals the difference in speed and agility was night and day.

 

[SRBlade]

HMS Shipperley

Good time.to recall that Shipperley scored an overhead kick, of sorts, for us

 

[Houston_Blade]

Sandford was ok as was Murphy

Nicky Marker as well, that era

 

[Yogi]

Andy Reid could barely walk never mind run by the time he came on loan but still had real quality.

Gillespie as well probably worth a shout.

 

[BladeInIreland]

Michael Tonge.

James Beattie has been mentioned. I think there was an away match at Boro when Beattie made lung busting run back to make a slide tackle in our area.

I think Beattie was faster than he often showed. He just knew where he needed to be to score goals.

 

[Nah den]

Seem to remember David Holdsworth was quite slow but read the game well.

Has McBurnie been mentioned yet?!

 

[Booker4]

Can't believe it's page 3 and no one has mentioned the most notable slow player to play for us in my era anyway! Sir Alan Cork! Had a cracking career and whilst he was limited by the time he was with us he did a job.

 

[The Hobott]

I remember Emily Hughes winning the 100 metres on superstars (showing my age) despite looking slow on a football pitch.

It's a different sort of speed required.

I Thought Brian Jacks always won

 

[shorehamview]

I Thought Brian Jacks always won

That was the squat thrust thingy.

Edit - he won it four times, apparently. Shows how good my memory is.

 

[blade67]

Emlyn was only Emily on the weekends…..

Do you know that his daughter's were called Emma and Lynne.

There's no I in team you know

 

[Rufus Smalls]

Seem to remember David Holdsworth was quite slow but read the game well.

Has McBurnie been mentioned yet?!

McB not been mentioned yet as we are only on slow, not very slow.

 

[Old Programme seller]

Peter Withe

Good god he was slow Stephen Hawkin was faster going up stairs

 

[Old Programme seller]

A fellow programme seller once said to be that the Queen Mary turned faster than Brian Gayle which made me chuckle

 

[DifferentClass]

Ironically enough, Ian Rush.

No, he was one of those incredibly rare breeds who were slow but also absolutely pants

 

[Ginger Gnome]

I'm not sure if Jake Wright was slow or like McGrath just didn't have legs capable of running but his positioning always made up for any lack of pace.

 

[Champagneblade]

Why do you never have a wand of a right foot?

Are all wizards left handed?

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I'm not sure if Jake Wright was slow or like McGrath just didn't have legs capable of running but his positioning always made up for any lack of pace.

Of all the performances from a Blades player that I’ve ever witnessed , some of those produced by Jake Wright were the the most surprisingly impressive .

He came to us as someone with no pedigree other than that of a bang average lower league defender , but went on to turn out any number of performances of which many much more highly rated players would have been proud .

It is no exaggeration on my part to say that at times , his reading of the game and the timing and effectiveness of his tackles almost matched those of our greatest ever exponents of these abilities , namely Paul McGrath and my hero .

 

[Bergen Blade]

Can't believe it's page 3 and no one has mentioned the most notable slow player to play for us in my era anyway! Sir Alan Cork! Had a cracking career and whilst he was limited by the time he was with us he did a job.

Mentioned on page one...

 

[Withington Blade]

If the title of the thread is altered slightly to ‘slow players who were very shite for us’ I would put forward our old friend Michael Higdon as a suggestion

 

[DifferentClass]

Funnily enough, Emlyn's son was also called Emlyn and his daughter Emma Lynn.

If I had a son I'd name him dad. After my dad.

George Foreman named all five of his sons George, and his daughter Georgina!

If that isn't proof enough boxing fucks with your brain...

 

[Half Bond Jls]

Ashley Ward. Slower than a stoned snail.

 

[SUFCinks]

Paul Coutts & Leon clarke had a very leisurely tempo.