Hardest United Player of all time?

Originally Posted by withapacketofsweets

Remember it well.

Big Norm - I love the @#%&!.

a mate who I drink before games with named his son after him.

Strachans cigar after he scored the third in the 3-3.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

Never saw him play but wasn't Jim Holton a meant to be a bit of a hardman?

Deffo..............Six foot two eyes of blue, big Jim Holton's after you..........

Stam was probably the hardest player in my lifetime at United but I'd like to throw Bert Trautman into the mix. He played on after breaking his neck. No one's come close in football, only Tyson who fought a couple of weeks after breaking his spine comes close from other sports.

Originally Posted by gedthemull

deffo..............six foot two eyes of blue, big jim holton's after you..........

rip.

Originally Posted by Spiffy

Stam was probably the hardest player in my lifetime at United but I'd like to throw Bert Trautman into the mix. He played on after breaking his neck. No one's come close in football, only Tyson who fought a couple of weeks after breaking his spine comes close from other sports.

Sorry I must've missed their matches for United

Originally Posted by gedthemull

Sorry I must've missed their matches for United

i think they played in that friendly against melchester rovers

holton

jordan

whiteside

Originally Posted by Grimson

Keane in his book implies Schmikes was a bluffer and faker when it came to that.

i'm sure i remember hearing a story once about keane landing one on schmeichel and shitting him up, although that might have come from keane itself and could quite possibly be a load of %@#$&!s. i'm never sure about keane, whether most of it was just intimidation or whether he could actually murder you if he got the chance. i remember him fronting shearer in that newcastle game and getting the impression that shearer could've just decked him if he felt like it.

anyway, on anecdotal evidence i vote for norbert stiles.

Originally Posted by antonin jablonsky

rip.

How old was he when he died? Can't of been old, iirc they had a minutes silence at OT and its been about 6-7 years since I've been going regulary.

Originally Posted by TravellingRed81

How old was he when he died? Can't of been old, iirc they had a minutes silence at OT and its been about 6-7 years since I've been going regulary.

42 - heart attack at the wheel of his car.

Norbert Stiles.

Originally Posted by taff

i'm sure i remember hearing a story once about keane landing one on schmeichel and shitting him up, although that might have come from keane itself and could quite possibly be a load of %@#$&!s. i'm never sure about keane, whether most of it was just intimidation or whether he could actually murder you if he got the chance. i remember him fronting shearer in that newcastle game and getting the impression that shearer could've just decked him if he felt like it.

anyway, on anecdotal evidence i vote for norbert stiles.

I always felt the same about that.