Have read this set of posts with great interest and appreciate all the views expressed. If I had the power to bring back one player from his prime and put him in the modern game it would be Graeme Souness and then wait for the tweets from Barton after the first 50;50 challenge!
At the start of this thread I condemned Barton and I stand by that. But I do like "hard men" (oh er missus) - used to love it when Curbs would bring on Svensson to mix things up a bit. However there is a difference between people like good old Matt and a thug like Barton.
Can't agree with that M.A.T. Half of society has gone soft, the other half lashes out first and asks questions later...
On the percentages - 20% gone soft, 79.9% wondering why we are forced to follow the soft approach and want most of our old ideals back, 0.1% lashes out first etc
Whatever you think of him, he would have given them a bit of fight on Saturday. Once they realised we weren't going to roll over they lost interest, really poor attitude, not that I'm complaining.
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On behalf of the sadly missed 'Chirpy'
Madness.
Actually, I really hope we end up reading he is bankrupt in a couple of years time.
*in my opinion.