| Sir Tom Finney again. | And he played for England before he had a first team appearance. |
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| Sir Bobby Robson | Takes Ipswich 'who the fuck are they?' Town into Europe in 9 out of 10 seasons (they win the cup in the other year), builds a team of home-grown talent, turns most of them in to international players, introduces Muhren and Thyssen to English football and from 1972 to 1982 makes Ipswich consitently the second best team in England. IPSWICH, for fuck's sake!
Does a pretty decent job as England manager, then keeps some Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish supporters happy, before instilling some sanity at St James Park. Oh, and overcomes a couple of cancer scares along the way.
Still working in his 70s. Sir Bobby...cows do not come any more sacred. |
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| Sir Tom Finney | Plumbing legend.
Football legend.
Preston North End Legend.
He's older than time itself and still battles on, cheering PNE towards a place in the top flight that they'll never achieve.
Played for England and Preston in every position on the pitch, including goalie.
A true great and as sacred as they come. |
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| Soccer AM | For allowing me to catch up on the football I missed during the week and for making me chuckle my way through my hangover every Saturday morning.
Lovejoy's reasonably funny, although that West Country bird's getting a little bit annoying these days, but at least we get the genius of the skinny bloke from Kasabian scoring the most outrageous Road to Wembley goal and then Crouch fucking it up.
And the Soccerettes are either nice to look at or fucking brilliant to piss yourself laughing at. The American cheerleaders remain the best there's ever been...
And Sky Plus, for allowing me to not get up at 9 to have to watch the fucker. |
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| Sir Bobby Charlton | For scoring all those great goals for Old Blighty whilst sporting the most comic of haircuts. |
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| Steve Staunton | "It was a gamble for us to come to San Marino in February"
And they said he had no sense of humour |
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| Steven Gerrard | For being one of the best central midfielders in the world, and a cracking captain at Liverpool. And because I said so! |
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| Stephen Hunt | For pissing off Mourinho and Warnock in the space of a few months.
And for his ''I don't know what the fuck to do now'' goal celebrations. |
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| Stuart Pearce | For managing a club that will, without a doubt, underachieve every year, and for taking no shit from his players.
Also for his passion for football, one of the good guys left in football. |
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| Stan Ternant | For knocking the shit out of Neil Warnock |
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