Favourite overseas player in Division One at the time of Man City 1-1 Man Utd on 26 October 1986

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Ossie Ardiles (Spurs, Argentina)	4
Johnny Metgod (Forest, Netherlands)	2
Jan Molby (Liverpool, Denmark)	2
Roy Wegerle (Chelsea, South Africa/USA)	1
Carl Valentine (WBA, Canada)	1
Emeka Nwajiobi (Luton, Nigeria)	1
Bruce Grobbelaar (Liverpool, Zimbabwe)	1
Mitch d'Averay (Ipswich, South Africa)	1
Craig Johnston (Liverpool, Australia)	0
Johnny Sivebaek (Man Utd, Denmark)	0
Romeo Zondervan (Ipswich, Netherlands)	0
Hans Segers (Forest, Netherlands)	0
Siggi Jonsson (Wednesday, Iceland)	0
Nico Claesen (Spurs, Belgium)	0
Jesper Olsen (Man Utd, Denmark)	0

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 September 2013 17:38 (twelve years ago)

Ossie would probably be my favourite out of these but Liverpool had a great season that year and Molby and Grobbelaar seemed like a huge part of that, so maybe Brucey if you want to restrict it to 86-87?

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Friday, 20 September 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

Actually Liverpool didn't really have a great season by their standards at the time and what with Everton winning the league and all.

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:08 (twelve years ago)

These guys nearly all had something memorable about them. Maybe it was just the scarcity but Zondervan, Nwajiobi and Valentine are the only ones I have zero recollection of.

Bruce was my actual favourite at the time, though I always thought Craig Johnston was really cool; I remember him trying to pinch one of (I think) Ian Rush's goals in the cup final, sliding in and just failing to nick the ball as it crossed the line.

But I went with Mitch d'Averey - my panini album reeled from the sheer exoticism of a name starting d'

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:27 (twelve years ago)

ah Zondervan was the neighbour of a high school friend (pretty posh brand new neighbourhood)

― Ludo, Friday, 20 September 2013 19:57 (twelve years ago)

Ossie or Johnny Metgod i think

― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 September 2013 19:59 (twelve years ago)

Ossie's a massive outlier here, all the others are practically brits or are from about a hundred miles away

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 20 September 2013 21:15 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 21 September 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

Went for Ossie (though obv my actual favourite at the time was Jesper Olsen).

Random memory circa 1986: the fire alarm went off at school and more than a thousand teenagers had to line up in the playground. For the whole time we were out there one guy from my class kept singing 'Romeo - Romeo, Romeo Zondervan' over and over (to the tune of the chorus of 'Waterloo').

― Hamburglar's smiling too (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 21 September 2013 19:01 (twelve years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 22 September 2013 00:01 (twelve years ago)

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