Guess which World Cup winner was on our plane

[Southerndown]

Traveling back from Spain to Stansted at the weekend and there was a very well known player on our plane keeping himself to himself, but I spotted the bu99er!
See if you can guess who, first correct answer wins one of Corky's knob shaped courgettes

[chiswickmart]

Erm which sport are we talking about? If you hadn't said 'he' I'd have assumed you were talking netball.

Was it Gordon Banks?

[Southerndown]

Football fecking surprisingly.

Not Gordon Banks, although funnily enough my daughter met him at a work event in Stoke once, and had absolutely no idea who he was.

One clue, not English

[Corkhead]

Was it Victoriano Santos Iriarte aka "El Canario" (The Canary)?

Public information announcement: Nob-shaped courgettes all finished but a nob-shaped ground cucumber available to the lucky winner. Collect outside the ground 2:50 this Saturday.

[chiswickmart]

I'm trying to work out whose career would have gone so horrifically downhill to go from being a World Cup Winner to sharing a poxy Ryanair flight from Spain to Stansted with a Taffy Tosspot. No wonder he was keeping his head down.

Was it Emanuel Petit?

[BlueAdder]

Klinsman?

If I win I'm sure Corky knows what to do with his knob shaped courgette.

[Corkhead]

I'm not sure it will fit.

[Southerndown]

Not Petit nor Klinsmann.

And it was Easyjet not Ryanair, we only travel posh.
Although we didn't push the boat out with Speedy Boarding unlike our World Cup winning friend


Edit: Corky is there a difference between a ground cucumber and a normal cucumber?

[chiswickmart]

Was it Ossie Ardiles?

In the interests of keeping this comp going before it takes a nasty turn for the worse, you might want to offer some clues.

[Southerndown]

Was it Ossie Ardiles?

Corky, a ground cucumber if you would, we have a winner