El Scorchio
3:55 Tue Mar 30
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Hello Mrs. Jones 1:33
Hard bastard and nutcase to boot.
Remember Keane punching him in the back of the head once and Repka just turning round and staring at him.
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Northern Sold
3:48 Tue Mar 30
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Steve Mcmahon..... what a wanker...
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Takashi Miike
3:43 Tue Mar 30
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*saw him*
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Warchild
3:42 Tue Mar 30
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Wasn't Lauren supposed to be the ultimate quiet tough guy of the Premiership era. And he achieved it with a girl's name too.
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Northern Sold
3:42 Tue Mar 30
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sbbb... what lie would that be then?? You honestly never saw him pre game taking a chisel to his elbows???
The Crazy gang would always have a number on us... normally on bleeding boxing day as well... that's why the one real time we threw the gloves down and thought fuck it... lets have it... that league cup game ... is one of my fav' games ever... atmosphere was absolutely MENTAL that night... nothing better than giving the Bully a taste of their own treatment...
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Takashi Miike
3:40 Tue Mar 30
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that wimbledon team was full of bullies, they'd try and most weeks intimidate the opposition. one of the few times they come unstuck was the league cup game against us. dicksie almost breaking that cunt wise's legs, and Alvin + the rest of the team brawling with Eric Young and their mob :.)
in regard to fashanu, I was him do his bully act at plough lane and then shit himself to Billy who came on as a sub
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southbankbornnbred
3:35 Tue Mar 30
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I used to supply Drunken Duncan's beer in Liverpool as a student. Had a part-time job at OddBins.
Top, top bloke. Genuinely a nice man, despite his jailbird rep. Fucking ferocious on the pitch. Evertonians thought he was god. He helped me to sort out an interview with Bilic as a young hack.
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southbankbornnbred
3:31 Tue Mar 30
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"No word of a lie...I think he used to chisel his elbows" before matches?
Hmm.
There is at least one lie in there, isn't there?!
But I take the point. That Wimbledon dressing room was full of some tough blokes. Interesting thing, the Crazy Gang mythology - part true, part bollocks, as all these things are. But you definitely chose your battles with them carefully.
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Northern Sold
3:15 Tue Mar 30
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Fash was a fucking disgrace of a footballer... all elbowing hype... no work of a lie I think he used to chisel his elbows before games... that's not a reason for toughnes... nothing tough what he did to Gary Mabbutts face... give me Lawrie Sanchez any day of the week from the Crazy gang... now he was a tough boy...
Fashanu and Sanchez spent eight years together as part of Wimbledon's 'Crazy Gang', but the pair had a relationship that bordered on hatred. During a training session, they came to blows over what Sanchez described as "the result of years of antagonism on both sides". Robbie Earle, writing in The Observer in 1998, said the "flashpoint was not a challenge on the training ground but an argument over the proper technique for a stretching exercise they were doing". Sanchez accused his team-mate of using martial arts "in a predetermined attempt to severely injure my legs" during the fracas, and Fashanu later explained his thinking in FourFourTwo: "It was like something out of a film: two people who don't like each other, and now they're going to fight. "Sanch gave me a shot and, give him credit, it wasn't a bad shot but I thought, 'Don't hit Sanch - don't mark his face', and my mind went back to when Muhammad Ali fought against the martial artist in New York, and the martial artist just kicked the back of his legs until it broke the tissues in his calves and he submitted. "So I thought I'd teach Sanch a lesson and gave a sweep of the legs, but Sanch has calves like most people have thighs and he didn't move, so I gave him another couple, but Sanch came back at me. So I thought, 'I'm gonna take this guy out', and I hit him with one of the best shots I'd been training with - BAM! Take that, Sanch! - right in the solar plexus, a shot that would supposedly knock a horse down. And still he stood there."
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Pub Bigot
3:04 Tue Mar 30
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Duncan Ferguson or Mick Halford have to be there or thereabout. Big Dunc when not making Ince look like mince, choking Freud or hooking Scharner in the body was busy bashing up burgers. That and hid did bird for putting her nut on a player while playing for Rangers.
I'm not sure where Halford's reputation comes from, but apparently, the infamous Crazy Gang initiation didn't happen to Mick Halford.
Alan Shearer gets a special mention. Dished it out on the pitch, chinned Keith Gillespie and done Neil Lennon with a lovely boot to the face.
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southbankbornnbred
2:13 Tue Mar 30
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And John Fashanu was the tougher character in that Wimbledon side. Jones liked a tackle, but was a cartoon character. Fashanu was lethal when he was worked up. Liked an elbow, but told you it was coming.
I still prefer the quieter hard nuts who get on with the job. Like Bill.
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Mr Kenzo
2:10 Tue Mar 30
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John FASHANU
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southbankbornnbred
2:08 Tue Mar 30
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With one or two exceptions, including Julian, most proper hard players didn't bang on about it because they didn't need to.
Julian was an exception, as he genuinely would fight anybody anywhere and could take a dig back without complaining to the ref, too. He'd just nail you next time. But he did like to tell everybody he was a lad.
A lot of other genuine hard players didn't need to talk about it - they just got on with being tough-ass on the pitch: Pearce, Walsh etc.
Steve Walsh was a good call by somebody further down this thread. Few 'hard' players would start on him in any match. I once saw him virtually kick Vinnie 'TV Hard Man' Jones into the stands and Jones just took it like jailbird assbait.
There was a pecking order. Vinnie Jones was nowhere near the top of it - but he told everybody he was.
Keane was/is a tough bloke, mentally. But he's turned into a pastiche of his former self now. I'm no fan of Man Utd, but I did like the 'tunnnel incident' for the way Vieira virtually shat himself on camera when Keane said: "I'll see you out there..."
The game was won in that moment.
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gank
1:51 Tue Mar 30
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Bishop was never any sort of hard nut, he just had a temper.
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Block
1:49 Tue Mar 30
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Bish didn't fuck about. Well, aside from fucking with Morley
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claypole
1:46 Tue Mar 30
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If its for knocking women about Chapman and Collymore must be on the list
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Northern Sold
1:27 Tue Mar 30
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... and Vinnie Jones Bolty... 50/50 and the Bish came through with the ball leaving Jones in a heap...
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Block
1:25 Tue Mar 30
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Ian Bishop put Roy Keane in his place.
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Far Cough
1:23 Tue Mar 30
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Viera? Fuck off, he shit himself with Keane and Keane shit himself with Julian
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Northern Sold
1:21 Tue Mar 30
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PB.... he was 100% playing as took the corner CR side of the BML... as far as I can remember it was when he was with CFC rather than Dons... don't think he played at our place as Wall player/manager??
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