Quote Originally Posted by Mark_Ross View Post
Well, I don't like to single players out (honestly), but Tony Hackworth was surely the stuff of nightmares. I think we paid a lot of money for him & he arrived with huge expectations. After a game or two everybody was saying "uh... is this a joke?". What I saw of him playing, it was just like the proverbial fish mouth open disbelief.

Recall (allegedly) Bill Shankly: "He could not trap a bag of cement!"
He cost £100k plus and was on good money as he came from Leeds he was shocking player when you consider all that.

You only have to look at his career before/after us to see how bad he was.