dirtiest footballer in your team ever?

[algarve addick]

got to be Paul 'Maxie' Miller (complete thug) or Ben Thatcher (complete imbecile)

[Dace]

I am a city fan and was just about to post Thatcher
Although Barton is quite the lunatic outside the pitch

[stripeysydney]

Between Norman "Bite's your legs" Hunter and Ron "Chopper" Harris, the nicknames say it all really..

[HellyeahHammer]

I thought when we signed Lucas Neill he'd be bringing some nastiness to the hammers, but he's been very restrained. A class act as a player by the way though!

[Bob Singleton]

stripeysydney wrote:

> Between Norman "Bite's your legs" Hunter and Ron "Chopper"
> Harris, the nicknames say it all really..


Both Norman Hunter and Ron Harris were hard men, but played more-or-less within the rules of the game as played at the time. They look far dirtier than they actually were because the game today is a sanitised version of the original!

If they took your legs away from behind, it's only because referees allowed them to do so... which of course they wouldn't do today.

[algarve addick]

julian dicks was a complete cock.
he fucked the career of ex charlton hero simon webster, breaking his leg with an appalling tackle in TRAINING!

[hattertim]

We've had a few (Luton, that is)...Kevin Nicholls, Mick Harford, Mick Kennedy...but I'd probably have to go for our current full-back, Sol Davis! Every challenge he attempts makes Paul Scholes look like the best tackler in the world!

[Jonone]

Hatter .. do you have any Mick Harford anecdotes ? I once heard a story about him and Tony Coton, it would have been when they played for Birmingham. Both of them were shall we say 'handy'.

[HellyeahHammer]

Julian Dicks was and is a legend! Hard man and a top footballer! Simon Webster never had any quarrel with The Terminator over what happened, just one of those things sadly! Simon Webster was a very good centre half and would have played many top flight games i think.