Entertainers

kendalfox

kendalfox

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Having a chat online when a friend started talking about entertaining footballers trotted out a few and got me thinking about ours but apart from Weller Worthington and Johnny Morris I can't
remember to many others.
Johnny Morris is a particular favourite
He was a supremely gifted artist some would call him a piss taker, he could do tricks with the leather ball that I've never seen do, it was a pity he came here in his latter years he had 20odd thousand
entranced one game where he beat four men and the first came back for more and he beat them again virtually took the ball to the corner flag and juggled with it, then sat on it for a few seconds, would'nt be tolerated today mind you, as football is business......... in the middle to late 50's you could do those things and get away with it.
 
Interesting question Kendal

I guess the modern day version in our team of an 'entertainer' would be Maddison (for his ball skills) and Vardy (for his persistence & vicious harassment of defenders... lost causes if you will).

From other teams, we loved watching Matt LeTissier's silky skills, Charlie George, Gazza, Eric Cantona and Paulo DeCanio....... players who did moves where you say, "how did he do that?"
 
I seem to remember Matt Le Tissier having a part in all six goals in a 3-3 draw at Filbert Street.
 
Robin Friday(Reading) on and off the field. He invented his own dance style in nightclubs called the "elephant" by turning out both trouser pockets and opening his flies to expose himself!
 
For the couple of seasons that Sinclair (Jackie)was with Leicester he was absolutely deadly his ability to move down the wing and then at the last moment cut in and shoot gave him over 50 goals , seems to be forgotten now ,my favourite bit of ball play was by John Farrington in the League Cup against Southampton ,he was running down the wing and Roberts sent a pass that was going very close behind ,instead of stopping Farrington manged to flick it over his head and carry on running with the ball ,John did it in another match so it wasnt a fluke.
 
Jimmy Hernon was another dribbler in the old fashioned sense though he did'nt get too many first team chances slightly built ginger haired lad but with s ton of trickery
 
No mention of the Doog?
In one match, being man marked at a corner, he trotted for a lap behind the goal and his marker followed.
He also took the field at Wembley in a cup final having adopted a Mohawk Indian haircut.
And a director at the time having observed the new rugby tactic of lifting a man at lineouts, suggested we did the same at corners.
Thinking about it maybe we could (!) :)
 
Dougan handed in a transfer request at Blackburn the day before appearing for them in the 1960 FA Cup Final!
The sign of the cross that he did trotting back to the centre circle,after scoring against Rangers in our friendly game with them,didn't exactly endear himself with the visiting hordes from north of the border!
 
Filbo65 said:
Apparently his one man show at CDG airport was something to behold ;)
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The 2015-16 PFA Player of the Year left the club after years of sumptuous performances but not without his former team-mates reportedly handing the Algerian winger the nickname Viktor Navorski.
It’s said his Leicester team-mates decided upon the nickname due to Mahrez’s time spent in airports, much like the character Viktor Navorski, played by Tom Hanks in the 2004 film The Terminal.

From the Mercury so the 'said' may mean 'we've made this bit up'.
 
Bit close to home, that. :(
I was known as Viktor in some circles a few years back, when I had a foookin wheelie-bag surgically attached to one hand.
And as Alan, after the Linton Travel Tavern resident...
 
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