European Adventure

[Sande_Man]

Offtttt wee Rodney?.sadly there?s a boatload of names that can be mentioned in this category!

None more than the boatload arrivals of south and Central Americans wee Jum coordinated in 2000

Speaking of the South Americans?.Giuliano Galoppo - son of a certain Marcelo Galoppo - scored in the South American champions league for River Plate last night! Maybe get him on a loan deal 😜

[Stoke_Arab]

Speaking of the South Americans?.Giuliano Galoppo - son of a certain Marcelo Galoppo - scored in the South American champions league for River Plate last night! Maybe get him on a loan deal 😜

I thought that was a liqueur 😁

[Arabs4ever]

Time to get the next Olofssons, Pedersens and Kovacevics in. See the last two mentioned, two of the best man markers we've had imo. Struggling to name a good foreign midfielder mibbee Zetterlund, Telensikov or Venetis

[tangeron]

Best man marker Utd's ever had is Billy Kirkood no question , best defensive midfielder of his generation.

[tangeron]

I apologise hus name is Billy Kirkwood

[Arabs4ever]

Best man marker Utd's ever had is Billy Kirkood no question , best defensive midfielder of his generation.

Can't remember him as a player as I'm not old enough. Best attacking manager along with Houston who set out teams to score goals and win games. Although when Houston got us into Europe he shat it and he tried to be clever instead of using the method that got us European football in the first place.

[Sande_Man]

Time to get the next Olofssons, Pedersens and Kovacevics in. See the last two mentioned, two of the best man markers we've had imo. Struggling to name a good foreign midfielder mibbee Zetterlund, Telensikov or Venetis

Think Siggi Jonsson was better than Lars Zetterlund. Defo a lack of decent foreign midfielders.

Dragutin Ristic was no bad on his day?.which wasn?t often enough!

[weegiearab]

Prince and Jimmy!

[Stoke_Arab]

Prince and Jimmy!

Some of the best football we've played in the middle of the park, probably the best since the 80's legends.

[Stoke_Arab]

Best man marker Utd's ever had is Billy Kirkood no question , best defensive midfielder of his generation.

Billy was great but if you didn't want an opposition player to play you would be asking John Holt or Davie Bowman to man 'mark' them 😆

[JamesMcClean]

Billy was great but if you didn't want an opposition player to play you would be asking John Holt or Davie Bowman to man 'mark' them ��

I remember Billy Kirkwood being assigned by Wee Jum to do a marking job on Bryan Robson in both legs v Manchester United and was outstanding against the player Jum described as the most ‘complete player’ he’d ever seen. Mind you, never stopped the boo boys on the North Terracing giving him absolute pelters (alongside Davie Dodds) every week. Absolutely incredible stuff - nothing’s ever changed either.

[arab777]

I remember Billy Kirkwood being assigned by Wee Jum to do a marking job on Bryan Robson in both legs v Manchester United and was outstanding against the player Jum described as the most ?complete player? he?d ever seen. Mind you, never stopped the boo boys on the North Terracing giving him absolute pelters (alongside Davie Dodds) every week. Absolutely incredible stuff - nothing?s ever changed either.

Agree about Billy Kirkwood, the type of player managers love who competently do the job the manager sets them up to do which will largely go unseen by many fans. Davie Dodds on the other hand was the luckiest player alive. He played for United at a time the service he received from the likes of Bannon and Sturrock was something a lot of strikers would dream of. When he went to Zamax they saw him close up in training and couldn't believe he lacked some of the basic skills of a professional footballer. Jim knew how to deploy him in that great United team. The rest of his career was pretty mediocre.

[shed-buoy]

Agree about Billy Kirkwood, the type of player managers love who competently do the job the manager sets them up to do which will largely go unseen by many fans. Davie Dodds on the other hand was the luckiest player alive. He played for United at a time the service he received from the likes of Bannon and Sturrock was something a lot of strikers would dream of. When he went to Zamax they saw him close up in training and couldn't believe he lacked some of the basic skills of a professional footballer. Jim knew how to deploy him in that great United team. The rest of his career was pretty mediocre.

A bit harsh on DD imho, it was off field (family) issues that led to the end of the Zamax contract, he had a good career and scored some important goals for us

[Sande_Man]

Prince and Jimmy!

Can?t believe I forgot about them! Jimmy is one of my all time favourite United players! He was similar to Jeando Fuchs but (considerably) better at everything than Jeando

[arab777]

A bit harsh on DD imho, it was off field (family) issues that led to the end of the Zamax contract, he had a good career and scored some important goals for us

Both things were true about his time in Switzerland. The quote about Dodds ball skills came from within the Swiss club.