ILF Hall Of Fame #3: no Nordic makeweights

SU-PER AAAAAAAAA-LLY, SU-PER AAAAAAAAA-LLY, OH EH OH EH OH what a shit song.

Ray "Magesterial" Hudson

Think I'll go with McCoist here. I was wary when I checked the nominations thread this morning to find one single late-night drunken post from Merdeyeux, but he kept the right side of the line imo and deserves a little encouragement.

Right, rationale time: Alan Knight should be one of the greatest one-club men of recent years. Nearly 700 games in goal for Pompey between 1978 and 2000. Made an MBE in 2001. Pretty much unquestionably the team's greatest ever servant, though he didn't see action during the glory years with the cup and the Premier League and so on.

Except Alan Knight isn't one of the great one club men, cos in 2003 he played twice for Havant and Waterlooville. Still, first inductee's the greatest ever Saint, seemed only fair I try to return the favour.

That said, he's up against a guy who was part of securing our only major piece of silverware ever, so...

1984–1985 Tipton Town 20 (17)
1985–1986 West Bromwich Albion 4 (2)
1986–1999 Wolverhampton Wanderers 475 (249)
2000–2001 Hereford United 6 (2)
Total 484 (254)
National team
1989 England U21 5 (3)
1989–1991 England B 5 (2)
1989–1990 England 13 (5)

Ladies and gentlemen, Bully was a legitimately GREAT centre forward who shd've been given many more England caps had he not chosen to stay true to the greatest club of all time. His loyalty alone shd be Hall of Fame material, but the fact that he terrorised any defence he played against is the mark of a dude who deserves a place in the pantheon. Goal ratio plus total awesomeness as a man = vote Bully, you know he belongs here.

Except Alan Knight isn't one of the great one club men, cos in 2003 he played twice for Havant and Waterlooville.

ahahahahahaha swygart <3

I think I'm voting Steve Bull, but a collection of Ray Hudson quotes would be a valuable addition to this thread and may make me change my mind. McCoist is one of the less annoying Rangers folk and was great for Scotland before we went really rubbish, but I'm still not voting for him. This'll look hilarious if he gets in then makes a complete arse of managing Rangers next season though.

It's totally Bull vs Hudson for me. Will never vote McCoist, and there needs to be a GK-specific poll at some point

only if the five options are all Artur Boruc.

;-D

voted osgood cos i prefer my icons a little more ephemeral, but nv's bully piece might have swayed me tbh

Can't vote for anyone other than McCoist, on basis of
a) goals record
b) my Gers bias
c) the story of him and Craig Burley getting off the plan in Vilnius ahead of a qualifier match against Lithuania: Burley, at the top of the 'plane steps views all before him and is dismayed, moaning "this must be the arsehole of the world". McCoist, close behind, claps an arm around Burley's sagging shoulders and says "aye, and you're just passing through."

Seems I have already voted but I can't remember who for :/

Ally McCoist - Gers legend status is obviously a minus from my perspective. As good a penalty box player as you'll ever see (or was at club level anyway - never quite impressed as much for Scotland, probably because his Rangers team-mates at the back kept trying to punt it up to Hateley for the knock-downs)

Ray Hudson - I <3 cult commentary dudes but I feel that that kind of thing deserves a thread in honour rather than a HoF entry

Steve Bull - Proper club legend, phenomenal scoring record. Wasn't he capped as a 3rd division player? Never test in the top flight so should be a lock-in for the LJ proper football vote :)

Peter Osgood - Chelsea legend for his FA Cup & Cup Winner's Cup goals. Wasn't *that* prolific a scorer. Dunno much else about him.

Alan Knight - Uh, lots of Portsmouth games. Dunno really.

had a brilliant motd 60's, 70's, 80's dvd collection once. Osgood > rooney on what i saw on that alone.

voted hudson. altho NV's spirited defense of bull makes me think im going to have to reconsider my kneejerk decision making on these threads in future

People who saw Osgood say as a teenager he was stunning, as good as Best, until Emlyn Hughes broke his leg when playing for Blackpool. Still became a great player, but apparently never quite the same after that. Scored a goal against Burnley that is said to be the best ever seen at Stamford Bridge. Incredible sideburns. Blew a kiss at Raquel Welch when she came to watch a game. Bit of a boozer. Has is name immortalised on side of the minivan on The Italian Job. I shared a plane back from Stockholm with him after the 1998 European Cup Winners Cup final. Now a statue. We still sing his name at every game.

This is one of my favourite football photographs.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/16/article-0-040F65F20000044D-264_468x555.jpg

always get osgood and bonetti mixed up

Bonetti is the reason I'm a Chelsea fan. The other good thing about him is that he is the model for this.

http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1269592567l/2901409.jpg

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tbh osgood's here isn't the best of his i've seen (he was a great dribbler too from what i've seen) and it's not the best of this lot, but do yrself a favour anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYttclHMX6E&feature=related

could've took losing to Osgood but gtf you savages

Voted Bull btw, don't blame me

Me too, don't blame me either.

cheers guys :D

You'd better fecking vote for Henrik when he goes back up against an assortment of comedy no-marks.

lol secret agreements between voting delegates

It's how football works!

(I don't have much money for bribing though, soz. not that that's how football works, cheers, watching lawyers!)

murky. minto & co analyst on this ipswich match, making my eyes cross. Identical elves