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Fun topic on the QPR messageboard I go to...

When you were a kid, playing football in the park or the playground, who did you pretend to be in that little commentary in your head?

Me, it was usually Peter Barnes. A flying and tricky winger for West Brom and Man City.

Then, after I had been to Loftus Road for the first time I was always Sir Stanley Bowles!

Abe Lenstra...He used to play for Heerenveen and turned down a massive offer to join Juventus. By the people that watched him play (pre-Cruijf and Van Hanegem) regarded as the best player Holland ever had..

Lothar Matthaus

Glenn Hoddle

Chris Waddle

Paul Gascoigne

Pele :D

When in primary school (back in'th days when i could still run) i was only 7 years old when picked to play for the primary school team even though the rest of the team was made up with 10 and 11 year olds. They let me join in during the games in the playground as well when we used to kick a tennis ball round the playground which was unheard of really as they usually never anyone 3 years below them to join in their game. During one of the games in the playground i had the ball at my feet but was facing the wall of the canteen with one of the older lads stood at my back trying to tackle me.

I flicked the ball up with one foot and kicked it against the canteen wall so that it went over both our heads and spun round behind him to get the ball at the other side, then nutmegged (sp?) someone else who had also come to tackle me - it was then that the first tackler (who i remember was a lad everyone called Jonah - though i dont think that was his name  :dontask:) piped up "he's like a mini version of Pele".

It kinda stuck so all the other kids called me mini-Pele :D

John "Digger" Barnes.

A wizard.

Dalglish or Sammy Lee.  I was dead small when I was young, and loved little Sammy and how good he was even though he was only several inches tall.  King Kenny, well - he was King Kenny.

Ian Baird :) now he could put a tackle in :P

Bobby Charlton

We didn't used to 'bagsie' players, we used to go for teams.  I always went for Liverpool at the time as they were winning everything.

hmmm, since i'm only in my early 20s I don't think i picked such legends as Pele and the like.

I do remember "being" Shearer when he was at Blackburn.

More recently playing with my younger brother in the back garden I've been Claudio Cannigia and Julian Speroni.  Both Dundee legends!

kenny Dagleish
Keith Edwards

Bob Latchford

Powerful, well built , fearless striker...
Where are these breed now...
Shearer was the nearest.

Kenny Dalglish or Ian Rush

Where have all the players called Bob gone?

They are Robs and Robbies these days. Softies.

Peter Winterbottom

John Jefferey

Zinzan Brooke

Ellerey Hanley

Hoddle ...LEGEND !!!

;tightend;

Ray Clemence (I was a good goalie). Strangely as I hit my teens I began to appreciate Shilts and when I hit adulthood I couldn't understand how Clemence ever got alternate caps with Shilts. When I was 9 though, it was Clemence

Andy Ripley (I was in the Colts side of the side he played senior rugby for), Andy was a very swift long haired number 8 for England in the mid 70s

James Hunt

Ian Botham, the early version

and, paroachially, any of the following...Frank Worthington, Keith Weller, Len Glover, Mark Wallington and Steve Lynex.

Like The Camel, I believed I had the skills of the genius Stan Bowles, but as a right footed left full back I probably had more in common with Ian Gillard or Dave Clement  :)

Started off as Grobelaar, as i used to be a keeper. Then i didn't grow and became a striker so had to become michael owen.

Rugby wise I was Neil Back as he was a short arse flanker with a big head too.

Chippy Brady....................shame my left foot wasn't like his lol

Keith Weller?

Have you got a secret penchant for wearing tights?

I think we should be told.

If we're moving into other disciplines then Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung (sp?).

Shadow from Gladiators

LOL!

Ban him ::)

where do you think the name Tightend came from

Pat bonner.

Not Andy Goram or Andy Goram then?

dalglish when i scored

mcgrain when i made a tackle( btw danny was the best tackler the world has seen)

mcstay when i made a pass( other teams beware when this guy reaches his potential)

and aitken when i decided the good wee player on the other team needed 'sorted'.

Sadly not ;)

davie cooper

Trevor Hockey

Got to be Ian baker Finch (Do you like the look of that one pete).

and

Fred Couples - the first time I saw that swing, changed me forever.

always had good facial hair



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First player I can remember being was Charlie George. Used to celebrate goals like the double winner vs Liverpool (1971?).

Later on Peter Shilton as I gravitated to being keeper as it involved less running around and being hacked ( our school was rough).

Nice bump.

David Hirst or Paul Warhurst

Lol at the thought of Keith being a tricky winger!! (sorry bud)

Peter Marinello


Geo

Tony Yeboah & Matt Le Tissier.

Also remember glitches of Robbie Fowler.

McManaman a bit as well

Good thread

Davie Provan and Charlie Nicholas.

Provan used to wear his socks round his ankles and was a great winger. Charlie Nick was a goalscoring genius with Celtic first time round but went to the bright lights of London and boring boring Arsenal when he really should have gone to Liverpool.

 nearly always Seve Ballestreros but never ever under any circumstances Nick Faldo even though I'm from the same county (hertfordshire) as he was go figure.

my favourite Seve story....
a pal of mine got on the tour around 1990 and was playing in the Italian open and was on the practice range with about 30 other pro's sometime on Tuesday before the tourney started and Seve came to the 18th hole which ran behind where the guys were hitting and every single one of them turned watched seve tee off hit his second shot and putt out before returning to their work. that to me was the ultimate show of respect and the regard to which Seve was held by his competitors at the time probably hasn't been equalled by any European player (tiger certainly but no euro).

for football Liam Brady until Arsenal sold him and i switched allegiances i was only about six! then Hoddle and Mabbut

LOL at Charlie Nicholas good at football and all  but the arsenal players used to have honarary membership of the golf club i played at and charlie turned up one day to play wearing leather trousers and sporting a Shocking pink golf bag he may have got some stick that day! 

Chris Kamara

Used to love Jurgen Klinsmann

Obv Shearer as well

Ryan Giggs or Chris Waddle.

Arnold Palmer

George Eastham

Tony Currie

Davie Cooper.

Speroni, Speroni

The memories of spending ever break playing football with a tennis ball, 30 players per team.

Kevin Keegan for me. It was even more special when I leant that his birthday was on the same day as mine. Things like that seem to matter when your a kid.

Mind you the thought of Keith doing a mazy jinking run past several defenders is not one that I had previously entertained

 There must be more to this than meets the eye ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana; ;sexybanana;

Me and my cousin used to play Shearer and Fowler.

Super Dan Petrescu, Gus Poyet, La La La La La Zola.

kanchelskis  mark hughes

Dixie Dean.

John Maynard Keynes

Park Doo Ik

Giggs or Cantona!

Stoitchkov obv.

Andrei Kanchelskis

Lee Sharpe

Alan Shearer, then realised i could never score myself so turned into a defender, or Colin Hendry.

Carlton Palmer

As an indicator of my age and skill level as a player,Gordon McQueen when he was at
St.Mirren  >:(

Vinnie Jones then Gary Speed

*EDIT - Now Thomas Brolin

King Kenny

Was always Stuart Pearce.

Whenever we did a strong tackle or shot we shouted "PEARCE" thinking we was Motson or something like that.

Legend.

Oh...and we always used to pull our shorts up as high as we could for added effect.....it was the early 90's

George Best obviously, with occasional forays into Bobby Charlton around international games