5 plus Hoddle

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Too much for me last night.
Listening to him spout biased ***** with 5 Spurs in the team tipped me over the edge.
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Well said smudge. Last night was ridiculous. But that said the whole.team played well...apart from Sterling. He shouldn't be there IMO.

Glenda Hoddle.is an.enormous fanny. Pardon?
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Funny watching Slav criticising Alli in the lead up to the Russian goal and Glendas pathetic spud bias excuses for him.
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In a previous life he must've been one horrible ****.
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Met him and the whole crew in Ft Lauderdale two years ago as we stayed at the same hotel as them for the two England friendlies played in Miami.
Had a beer with a couple of them at the hotel bar, Lee Dixon was actually a decent bloke.
Hoddle was a bit of a flas b*stard, didn't like my comment when I told him that he was a decent player in his prime, but not as good as our Geno.
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An absolutely brilliant footballer, an average manager and a rather poor pundit.

For some reason I have never been able to really dislike him, I should do but I don't.
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I know. Listening to him crap on about Alli does my ****ing head him, when he is not the greatest
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Vince wrote: Hoddle was a bit of a flas b*stard, didn't like my comment when I told him that he was a decent player in his prime, but not as good as our Geno.
I wonder why somebody didn't like it when a stranger comes up to them and says they think someone else was a better player? :lol:
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One of the best players I have ever seen. Way ahead of his time as a footballer and suffered for being born in the wrong country, where industry and tackling were valued over skill and creativity. He could do things with either foot that most footballers cannot do with their strongest foot. He remains the best passer of a football that I have seen. There are some youtube videos that show his goals that are well worth a look, a better collection of goals you would struggle to see (Le Tissier might run him close?)

I have also met him a couple of times at charity functions and he was always thoroughly nice bloke who was prepared to stop and take the time to chat etc. I do tend to find his punditry a little boring however.
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You never saw Sir Trevor Brooking play then Bill,a much better player than Hoddle.
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There are 5 of them and Hoddle. Tinker, tailor...
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Oldun wrote:You never saw Sir Trevor Brooking play then Bill,a much better player than Hoddle.
I saw Brooking play many, many times mate. I thought he was a brilliant player who I loved watching. That being said I still rated Hoddle as being better if putting club bias to one side.

To each their own though and I appreciate that people could see it either way. I feel privileged at having got to watch Brooking play for West Ham for many years, it just would've been a dream to have been lucky enough to have seen Hoddle take over from him as Brooking reached the end.
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Brooking or Hoddle, saw both of play when they were teenagers and Hoddle was a better young player.

Brooking & Hoddle in the same team being protected by Billy Bonds as a holding player would have been decent.

Can see why we would think Brooking is the better player and can see why Spuds think Hoddle is the better player. If neutrals had a vote I think Hoddle would win the vote.
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My old man, who worships Brooking and won't hear a bad word said about him, rates Hoddle as better, but Brady as better than both.
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