Best players

[alan1051]

So to pass a bit of time before the season starts,

Who is the best spurs player YOU ever saw and why?

To start off I am lucky enough to go back to the early 60's so i have many many great Spurs players to choose from, but to pick one, it has to be

Jimmy Greaves.

The man was the greatest goal scorer this country has produced.
I dont need to say more about my all time hero.

Perhaps it would be nice to list an all time spurs team so i could do justice to all the great players to don a spurs shirt, maybe i will when i sit down and think about it. But just for now, the best player YOU saw would be nice.

[rdless]

There have been so many greats over the years, but in my lifetime, I have to agree with you.

Jimmy Greaves is my hero too. What a player. You could feel the electricity in the stadium everytime he got the ball. Made goalscoring look so simple.

Obviously Danny Blanchfower, Dave McKay, Pat Jennings, Alan Gilzean, Alan Mullery, Steve Perryman, Martin Chivers, Glen Hoddle, (Steve Archibald and Garth Crooks as a pair), Ossie Ardiles, Chris Waddle, Paul Gascgoine, Gary Linekar, Jurgen Klinsmann, Teddy Sherringham, Ginola, are all in with a shout.

Great to see that some of our present crop of players would not look out of place with those legends. Namely, Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Berbatov

[alan1051]

I agree with all you've listed, but i'd like to add just off the top of my head, Garry Mabutt, who despite an illness showed true guts, and what a gentleman off the pitch. Also Cliff Jones, the welsh wizard,Mike England, another Welshman and Alan Mullery tho not as gifted as many, gave everthing every game.
COYS.

[jbevens]

I'm 38 so unfortunately never got to see Greavesy etc. live.

From the 'watching on the TV as a kid' phase, Hoddle was my hero and there wasn't much he couln't do with a football. Also loved Ardiles, Waddle and admired Perryman and Mabbutt for shear determination and loyalty.

Since about 1988-9 when I've watched the games live, has to be Gascoigne for me. Many great players as already mentioned, but Gazza won the 1990-91 FA Cup virtually on his own. Scored in almost every round and was inspirational.

Anyone lucky enough to be at the demolition of the scum (and I was!) in the semi, will never forget his freekick that set us on the way. Can still remember it like it was last week and still get goosebumps thinking about it!

[sundancer]

I was also privalidged to have seen J.Greaves play, i saw his first and last goals for Spurs and he was the best goalscorer I've ever seen. But my favourite Spurs player of all time has to be Hoddle a genius.

[elliek9]

For all you Greavsey fan's I would just like to share my general joy that my Liverpool supporting boyfriend has bought me a signed photo of Greavsey's Spurs debut. And let me put it up in the house!

[d_spurs]

Duno But Ginola was Amazing as for Passion Robbie Keane And Gazza have to be up there with the best

Im reading a book about Paul Gascoigne at the moment its really Good ;)

[keanosmissus]

It was hoddle for me, back in '81, when i was ten. First time at the lane, Loved him then, love him now. Still get goose pimples when i see him on t.v.

Ginola, lineker,sheringham and gazza are old time faves.

[traciebigtits]

ardiles for me, but the best player i've ever seen in a spurs shirt is diego maradona!, he played for us in ossies testimonial.

[daveduffy]

I agree with all the above, but Diego Maradona in Ossies Testimonial was unbelievable. I was at the Lane to witness the performance.

I know it was only a testimonial, but he was just amazing. He wanted to take every free kick every corner, his skill was probably the best I have ever witnessed. The way he dribbled past defenders was sheer class. He just had a nack of drawing the defender in and then just leaving him for dead.

The guy didnt speak any English, he got straight off the plane to play in that match. It looked as if he had played for Spurs forever. I think he was on tour in Norway with Argentina and he flew in to play for Ossies testimonial

Him and Hoddle were fantastic together.
I will never forget that performance, I wonder if its available on dvd somewhere.
I have been lucky enough to see most of the greats in my era, Pele, Eusebio, Best, Law, Charlton, Hoddle, Greaves, Gazza Etc Etc.but Maradona in my opinion was the best ever. He should have been a Lillywhite.
Berby could be our best ever player though.
COYS!

[traciebigtits]

I agree with all the above, but Diego Maradona in Ossies Testimonial was unbelievable. I was at the Lane to witness the performance.

I know it was only a testimonial, but he was just amazing. He wanted to take every free kick every corner, his skill was probably the best I have ever witnessed. The way he dribbled past defenders was sheer class. He just had a nack of drawing the defender in and then just leaving him for dead.

The guy didnt speak any English, he got straight off the plane to play in that match. It looked as if he had played for Spurs forever. I think he was on tour in Norway with Argentina and he flew in to play for Ossies testimonial

Him and Hoddle were fantastic together.
I will never forget that performance, I wonder if its available on dvd somewhere.
I have been lucky enough to see most of the greats in my era, Pele, Eusebio, Best, Law, Charlton, Hoddle, Greaves, Gazza Etc Etc.but Maradona in my opinion was the best ever. He should have been a Lillywhite.
Berby could be our best ever player though.
COYS!
still remember that night like yesterday dave, on the berby thing ask me that again in 5 years,

[djshay]

I started supporting Spurs in 1972 at the age of 5. As I lived in Dublin all my Life, I never got to vist the Lane until I was an Adult (old enough to take myself). My early memories were sitting at home on a Saturday watching Dickie Davies on World of Sport reading the day's headlines and showing a still picture of the goalscorers. I sat there hopefully waiting to see the picture of my childhood hero MARTIN CHIVERS. I can't say he was the best but he was my hero and I told him to his face when I met him on my 30th Birthday at the Lane. I also met Cliff Jones and although I never saw him play, He told me he was an extremely gifted and fast Left Winger, so I belived him.

[alan1051]

Cliff Jones !!!! I can only just remember him, and yes he wasn't telling fibs, he was very,very good. The original Welsh wizard, oh how we could do with his skills on the left wing today.

[parklane33]

Please forgive me if I seem a bit greedy with my selections, But it's very hard to choose with the players we've had over the years.

My choices are:

Best Not Seen Live: Hoddle and Gascoigne

Best Seen Live: David Ginola Pure beauty on the ball, I remember that he could be looked upon as a bit of a lazy sod, but god, give him a ball and he just mesmerised me, let alone what he must have done to his opposing defenders.

I also have Robbie Keane as a favourite. Who can forget that goal Vs Blackburn where he flicked over Savage before volleying past Fridel?

Berby is becoming a big favourite too.

But my overall number 1 is:

David Howells.
Never have i seen anyone so totally committed to the Spurs cause. and to top it all off, he was one of us who knew the thousands of our dreams of playing for Spurs that he was taking on to pitch everytime he stepped out.

None more so than when he sadly lost his father 24 hours before a game away to West Ham (not sure what year) and he scored. At a time when many others would want to be left alone with their personal thoughts, he put Spurs first and for that he should be fully respected.

[djshay]

Yeah !!! The welsh wizzard seemed to be honest and I got the feeling he might have been even better than he gave himself credit for. He told me a story about when Spurs played Benfica away in Europe. The media asked for a duel between Cliff and Benfica's Fast winger on the Running track that surrounded the pitch. They raced each other in a 100 Yard (to the younger generation among us, that is nearly a metre in old money) sprint with a ball.
Cliff won and in his own words "left him for dirt".

[supertedley]

For me, and I'm 39 so I've seen quite a few great players put the shirt on, but one that always seems to stick in my mind is Paul Allan. From wht I can remember he would run up and down the pitch non stop for 90 minutes. He's an unsung hero IMO.

[ozziehotspur]

I have watched a lot of fantastic players for Spurs over the years.

Klinsmann was a quality hardworking world class player.
Hoddle what a great passer short and long and the scorer of some of the best goals I have ever seen!!
Ardiles used to boss games with his clever passing and prompting.
Gazza had his best spell at our club- unstoppable on his day.

But my all time player is our current captain Ledley King, quick, good in the air, two footed , good passer & tackler a truly outstanding player. He would be a great player in any era imo. Carragher was right to quit England coz Ledley is easily a better player.