Quote Originally Posted by JamesMcClean View Post
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.