Brooking/Brady/Hoddle [POLL]

[davids cross]

It's the sort of debate where you can appreciate every other argument someone makes. There's a nats todger between all three. But I've always had it Brooking/Hoddle/Brady.

[Matt of iron]

Never seen any of them play so I'm saying Brooking for West Ham reasons. :lol:

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Modern day versions

Hoddle ---- Beckham

Brooking ---- Zidane (without the shooting ability)

Brady ----- Scholes


Shoot me down.

[Chuck D]

For modern day comparisons of style - not necessarily ability, I'd liken Hoddle to Veron, Brooking to Riquelme and Brady to Van Persie, but not as attacking.
Would that be reasonable?

I didnt think that Veron was ever berated for his work rate?

Likewise, while never being David Batty, I recall Brooking getting round the pitch.

Brady was at Samp when I was first going football, but IIRC recall for us he was more of a winger.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Not how they performed, or position, but simply the style of player.

Veron/Hoddle being a tall, elegant player with a brilliant long and short passing ability, brilliantly 2 footed, without too much speed, but not needing to rely on it.

Brooking/Riquelme - good and strong on the ball, 2 footed, not great in the air, doing the simple things well, not possessing or needing too much intricate skill, not overly pacey

Van Persie/Brady - more one footed, more direct, hard shot, a lot of craft and vision, bit more pace, bit more skill, more intricate than the other 2.

[Chuck D]

Brooking was wicked in the air.... :lol:

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

I don't know how to read that :lol:

All seriousness, he was actually ***** in the air, wasn't he?

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

I can only recall him heading the ball once.

I think you know when it was

[Chuck D]

He scored the most important goal in my life with his head.

Thus he is ACE.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

It probably wouldn't be considered 'in the air' as we know it, as it was headed below sea level :lol:

[davids cross]

tony currie

I hated this fella to such a degree I would never place a sticker of him in my yearly sticker book. Sheff Utd always had a sticker short, that sticker was always Tony Currie.......... :lol:

Some were arguing at the time that Currie was better than our hero, I was having none of it and continued with my childish protest. I never completed a sticker book, but had many Tony Curries to swap.

[QuintonNimoy]

Brooking did the best Dot Cotton impersonation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiA7so_ysfk

[hammer]

He scored the most important goal in my life with his head.

Thus he is ACE.

sir trev for me, btw

[The Collector]

Hmmmm

I've been around long enough to have seen all three at their peak, at the Boleyn Ground and on their home turf.

I am afraid that I cannot take my claret and blue spectacles off here and would easily put Lord Brooking at the top.

Hoddle was known as "Glenda give it a whack" by my contemporaries on the North Bank. Yes, he could hit sublime 45 yard passes but not consistantly. "Where's this one going to end up, Glenda?".

With Brady I have obviously had the benefit of actually seeing him play for us and he had brilliant close control of a ball (not as good as Devonshire, mind) but he could drift out of the game a bit too easily. Look how he played in the Cup Final against a 17 year kid for example,

Brooking was a team player. Not that he could tackle, or head corners clear from under the bar but he was always there to make himself available to take a pass and look to turn defence into attack. He adapted to fit the players around him. He played with Hurst but he also played with Whitton!!

[Morocco Mole]

Modern day versions

Hoddle ---- Beckham



Shoot me down.

Shoot? That warrants a ****ing grenade!

Hoddle could go past people for fun, had every trick and flick in his locker and was the best passer of the ball I have ever seen. With both feet.
He was like Zidane but probably an even better passer. Would have won 150 caps for any other country but England.

(I sound like a Spud...)

[davids cross]

I can only recall him heading the ball once.
I think you know when it was

Eintracht Frankfurt, Cup Winners Cup 75-76.

Remarkably and back on topic I think Trev was the best header of the ball of all three..... :lol:

[the celestial insect]

It probably wouldn't be considered 'in the air' as we know it, as it was headed below sea level

I swear he was bending down to tie his boot lace.

I thought Brady was excellent for us, and I would also put Devonshire up with those three.

[beckton]

Eintracht Frankfurt, Cup Winners Cup 75-76.

Remarkably and back on topic I think Trev was the best header of the ball of all three..... :lol:

I've seen the film of that but like Big Foot, people still don't believe it was real and the film had been ****ed.

I never got a Cup Final ticket, so I have my doubts Sir Trev, ever headed the ball.


And I can't remember Hoddle or Brady ever heading the ball either.

[davids cross]

I think Hoddle scored a header for England Beckers.......at Wembley ? I may be imagining it

[Cuenca 'ammer]

Chippy. End of. With L'Arse anyway.

Sir Trev.

Glenda....

But I am biased towards tricky Trev..