[Archived] Obscure (former) Football Players

[Ozz]

FC: Gilles de Bilde (Sheffield Wednesday)

Known in the dressing room as Bob.

[joey_big_nose]

Haha, what a legend. I'm tempted to make an allstar "BeNeLux Premier League Legends All Star XI" (that should probably be "BeNe") to honour Orlando Trustfull's name and memory.

..... which I did:

GK: Sieb Dijkstra (QPR)

DR: Regis Genaux (Coventry)

DC: Ulrich van Gobbel (Southampton)

DC: Philippe Albert (Newcastle)

DL: Ken Monkou (he had to be in the team, so makeshift left back it is) (Southampton)

MR: Regi Blinker (Sheffield Wednesday)

MC: Orlando Trustfull (Sheffield Wednesday)

ML: Glenn Helder (Arsenal)

FC: Gilles de Bilde (Sheffield Wednesday)

FC: Marco Boogers (West Ham)

FC: Fabian De Freitas (Bolton)

Bench: Hans Segers (Wimbledon), Robin van der Laan (Derby), Wim Jonk (Wednesday), Marc Degryse (Wednesday), Richard Sneekes (Derby), Orpheo Keizerweerd (Oldham), Luc Nijholt (Swindon)

You are a bizarre man! But I like the team.

[T4E]

Haha, what a legend. I'm tempted to make an allstar "BeNeLux Premier League Legends All Star XI" (that should probably be "BeNe") to honour Orlando Trustfull's name and memory.

..... which I did:

GK: Sieb Dijkstra (QPR)

DR: Regis Genaux (Coventry)

DC: Ulrich van Gobbel (Southampton)

DC: Philippe Albert (Newcastle)

DL: Ken Monkou (he had to be in the team, so makeshift left back it is) (Southampton)

MR: Regi Blinker (Sheffield Wednesday)

MC: Orlando Trustfull (Sheffield Wednesday)

ML: Glenn Helder (Arsenal)

FC: Gilles de Bilde (Sheffield Wednesday)

FC: Marco Boogers (West Ham)

FC: Fabian De Freitas (Bolton)

Bench: Hans Segers (Wimbledon), Robin van der Laan (Derby), Wim Jonk (Wednesday), Marc Degryse (Wednesday), Richard Sneekes (Derby), Orpheo Keizerweerd (Oldham), Luc Nijholt (Swindon)

Excellent. It certainly adds to it when they're all foreign and stupidly named.

Here's my effort -

GK: Bernard Lama

DR: Pontus Kamark

DC: Bjorn Otto Bragstad

DC: Stefan Schnoor

DL: Horacio Carbonari

MR: Ronnie Ekelund

MC: Bontcho Guentchev

MC: Fitzroy Simpson

ML: Preki

CF: Clyde Wijnhard

CF: Bryan Roy

Bench: Gabor Kiraly, Nikola Jerkan, Aljosa Asanovic, Branko Strupar, Gregory Goodridge, Ned Zelic, Nelson Vivas.

Honrourable mentions for Martin Pringle and Alex Nyarko (nutter!)

[tcj_jones]

Glenn Helder and Regi Blinker are great shouts!

[percy]

How about Robert Jarni?

Croatian left back signed for Coventy from Real Betis. Made a grand total of 0 appearances before moving onto Real Madrid about 30seconds later!

[cn174]

Anders Andersson (Rovers)

Peggy Arphexad (Liverpool, Cov)

Ramon Vega (Spurs)

Wim Jonk (Sheff Wed)

Gianluca Festa (Boro)

[laughatthedingles]

GK Erik tordsvedt

RB Rob Newman

CD Ian Culverhouse

CD Igor Stimac

LB Hakan Unsal

RM Nicky Sumerbee

CM Stig Tofting

CM Georgi Kinkladze

LW Steve Froggett

CF Uwe Rosler

CF Thomas Brolin

Subs: Gk: John Holdsworth, Ian Marshall, Rick Holden, Karl Hienz-Riedle, Jon Newsome, Tony Dorigo

[rover6]

Excellent. It certainly adds to it when they're all foreign and stupidly named.

Here's my effort -

GK: Bernard Lama

DR: Pontus Kamark

DC: Bjorn Otto Bragstad

DC: Stefan Schnoor

DL: Horacio Carbonari

MR: Ronnie Ekelund

MC: Bontcho Guentchev

MC: Fitzroy Simpson

ML: Preki

CF: Clyde Wijnhard

CF: Bryan Roy

Bench: Gabor Kiraly, Nikola Jerkan, Aljosa Asanovic, Branko Strupar, Gregory Goodridge, Ned Zelic, Nelson Vivas.

Honrourable mentions for Martin Pringle and Alex Nyarko (nutter!)

T4E, you will be surprised to hear this, but you have sent me into quasi-raptures.

Some of those names hail back to the era of my full, unadulterated childish fascination with football - and, amazingly, they still shimmer with the Godliness that I dutifully honoured them with.

[Lurid Coat]

Some of those names hail back to the era of my full, unadulterated childish fascination with football - and, amazingly, they still shimmer with the Godliness that I dutifully honoured them with.

Exactly what I feel too. In one way, I think it's hilarious that I viewed below average players such as Justin Edinburgh, Oleg Luzhny, Efan Ekoku etc. as footballing legends and Demigods, just because they played in the Premier League, but I must admit that not a day passes without me thinking of random players such as Lars Leese and Curtis Fleming. @#/?, yet still legends.

Random Norwegian 90s Premier League Stars XI:

GK: Frode Grodås (Chelsea, Spurs)

DR: Gunnar Halle (Oldham, Leeds, Bradford)

DC: Alf Inge Håland (Nottingham Forest, Leeds, City)

DC: Bjørn Tore Kvarme (Liverpool)

DL: Stig Inge Bjørnebye (Liverpool, Blackburn)

MR: Petter Rudi (Sheffield Wednesday)

MC: Kåre Ingebrigtsen (Man City)

MC: Ståle Solbakken (Wimbledon)

ML: Trond Egil Soltvedt (Coventry, Southampton)

FC: Frank Strandli (Leeds, voted worst Leeds player ever by the Leeds fans)

FC: Jostein Flo (Sheffield United)

Subs: Espen Baardsen (Spurs), Erland Johnsen (Chelsea), Tore Pedersen (Oldham, Wimbledon, Blackburn), Stig Johansen (Southampton), Jon Olav Hjelde (Nottingham Forest), Steffen Iversen (Spurs), Jan Åge Fjørtoft (Swindon, Boro, Barnsley)

[Ritchie]

Andy Hinchcliffe - what a left foot!

[FourLaneBlue]

Hamilton Ricard, Gary Croft, Simon Garner, Rene Higuita, Mark Ward, Gary Charles, Stig Tofting.

All of them locked up as well as one stage as well!

[sambo]

Ogil Luhnzy ( the one who was at Arse, definitely got it wrong)

Steve Harkness

Steve Lomas

Neil Redfearn (rings a bell)

David Weatherall

[Ritchie]

Mustapha Hadji and Youssef Chippo.

Francesco Baiano.

Dean Blackwell.

[BB9]

Nicky Papavasiliou.

Cypriot who was one of KK first signings for Newcastle back in the early 90s

[beanie]

Nicky Papavasiliou.

Cypriot who was one of KK first signings for Newcastle back in the early 90s

got his autograph in a pre season game vs berwick a newcastle team that had players like kevin scott, malcolm allen and tommy wright. other players i can remember include choen griffiths (city) stuart barlow (eve) luc nijholt (swindon)

[Presty On Tour]

Vinny Jones

Somehow he managed to play for Wales!

Taken from Wiki

Jones's international call-up was however greeted with consternation and even ridicule by Jimmy Greaves, who said, "Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!".

[Amo]

How on earth is Vinnie Jones an obscure ex-pro?

[Rovermatt]

There are some very respectable players popping up on this thread. Hinchcliffe, Stimac, Kinkladze, Rosler, Lomas. All quality performers.

-Hinchcliffe was a very solid pro who was a starter at both Wednesday and Everton for donkeys years. He even played for England.

-Stimac was part of that awesome Croatian side of the late 90s and plyed his trade in England for a couple of seasons.

-Kinkladze was a supremely gifted footballer and he is widely regarded by the Citeh fans as one of their finest ever players.

-Rosler was a very capable centre forward who led the line for Citeh for a good couple of years.

-Lomas was a veteran Premiership player who played almost 300 times for Citeh and West Ham.

I'm not picking on any one poster, I'm just referring to players I've seen mentioned on this page. There is a difference between unspectacular players (Kinkladze aside) who have been retired for a couple of seasons and random or fleeting appearance holders. Great shout on Martin Pringle by the way.

Has William Prunier been mentioned yet?

[mellison24]

There is a difference between unspectacular players (Kinkladze aside) who have been retired for a couple of seasons and random or fleeting appearance holders.

Try READING the topic: OBSCURE former players.....meaning those who barely played are included. Don't be pedantic (I realise that I am being pedantic too, but I'm being correct).

I reiterate my favourite being ROY WEGERLE!!!!!

[Grabbi Graeme]

Might amend my team to include Roland Nilsson and Rufus Brevett

Didn't Rufus Brevett play for Fulhame and scored an own goal once at Ewood and the Rovers fans started chanting "Rufus Rufus give us a wave", think his performance just went from bad to worse after that and he was subbed.

[SamTheShrew]

heres my effort...

GK - Sieb Diykstra (QPR - think dodgy pornstar tash)

RB - Peter Fear (Wimbledon -legend)

CB- William Prunier (United - who remembers this guy?!)

LB - Stefan Schnoor (Derby - awesome surname, always reminded me of something out of the racoons)

RM - Alberto Mendez Rodrigues (German Arse-hole)

CM - Orlando Trustfull (Sheff Wed - very dependable )

CM - Aloisjha Asanovic (Derby - dodgy side parting)

LM - Ian Woan (Forrest - sweet left foot)

CF - Branko Strupar (Derby flemish man)

CF - Esteban Fuertes (another dodgy derby striker)

Subs

Gk Mark Beeney (Leeds - did this man ever play a game?)

DF - Andy Thorne (Wimbledon - Great blonde mane/mullet

MF - Terry Cooke (United - now residing in the where are they now bin)

CF - Niklas Gudmundsson (our very own lethal assassin

CF - Per Pedersen (this is why Tony Parkes should never have been allowed to buy players)

god bless jim smith!

[northernrover]

Me and my mate play this game via text every now and again. A lot of fun, and passes the time.

Gutted my all time favourite already mentioned..... Jason Dozell

What about Danny Cadamarteri ?!

[T4E]

Don't they do a similar game on Soccer AM between ad breaks?

Usually ending with someone saying "Ian Culverhouse".

[mellison24]

Don't they do a similar game on Soccer AM between ad breaks?

Usually ending with someone saying "Ian Culverhouse".

Damn, you beat me!! (In both ways)

[Ritchie]

Andy Impey,

Andy Clarke,

Gordon Watson.