"Cult" heroes from your team [Archive] - Page 2

Paddyfield

26/08/2009, 6:40 AM

Eamonn Chick Deacy. Hard as nails. Won English League with Villa and returned home to Galway United in his late twenties and never once took a wage packet. I reckon he got sent off 3 or 4 times per season. He always cycled to Terryland for home games.

He is in his mid 50's now and was still playing junior football last season. He is a Galway United season ticket holder and sometimes goes to away games too. I saw him at UCD and Sligo last year.

He is what legends are made off.

Mental Man

26/08/2009, 7:32 AM

Has got to be Alan Reynolds , a no nonsense player on the field and a bar brawling lunatic off it.

Da Real Rover

26/08/2009, 8:12 AM

Dixie Dean.

WoodquayBoy

26/08/2009, 9:36 AM

Foir me, Utd CULT heroes were:
Oh Ah Johnny Morris Burke.
Pa Dunne - the postman from Tuam always delivers!
Johnny Kenny flying down the wing, with his mullet and hairband following him.
Gerry Daly - ball or man shall pass. Never both.
Miko Nolan (RIP) - speakng of tough nuts, Miko, give the nice man his leg back.
Mags Mannion - what's that John, speak up, they can't hear you in, oh, France maybe?
As mentioned earlier, Chick Deacy - cult hero, legend and one of our best ever players, all rolled into 1.
Ricky Fla and his dancing feet.
Richie 'Blocks More' Blackmore.
Johnny Glynn for THAT goal, obviously.
Mickey McLaughlin - the BSH was as wide as he was tall.
Derek 'Buck' Rogers
And I'm probably leaving a load out as well . . . .

dong

26/08/2009, 9:58 AM

Has to be Fago for any bit o red fan. he even looked like Che Guevara! What more do you want?

Rory H

26/08/2009, 10:00 AM

Jimmy McGarry

Umberside

26/08/2009, 10:02 AM

Pat Morley surely is a cult hero.

And Rico did a pretty good job when he was here.

dong

26/08/2009, 10:03 AM

Jimmy McGarry

...........

i said cult

;)

Umberside

26/08/2009, 10:06 AM

Surprising Peter Hutton hasn't been mentioned yet. One of the only heroes playing at the moment.

Sheridan

26/08/2009, 10:40 AM

Seeing as I dont have a club, I think these should be added
Barry Burke was the great cult hero at DC. Fabulous player who could have gone all the way if he'd had the right managers.

Kevin Williamson was up there too, if only for his barmy oul one. :D

holidaysong

26/08/2009, 10:50 AM

Robbie Dunne and Paul Marney for me. They were hard working, would feed off the energy of the fans and 100% committed to the team but not particularly great players - everything a cult hero should be!

Fivesilver

26/08/2009, 10:50 AM

Stenny and Fago - with the Bit o' Red from the Cretaceous era to the mid-1980s.

From other teams, the great McConville-Keely-Dunning-Lawlor axis of evil

Ezeikial

26/08/2009, 11:00 AM

Dermot Keely at Dundalk - with his gunslinger gait, and his unfliching determination to chop down anyone foolish enough to try to go past him.

Three red cards in four games (i think) ensured his cult status could not be undone by his subsequent managerial daliances with almost every LoI club.

dcfc1928

26/08/2009, 11:35 AM

Owen DaGama and Nelson daSilva for the sheer skill and razzmatazz when Derry joined the league and were playing in the first division and having crowds of 8-9000 at every home game. Them days were magic and these two players stand out for me.

Rovers1

26/08/2009, 11:44 AM

Danny Ventre, Paul McTiernan, Ian Wexler, Gareth Gorman

redobit

26/08/2009, 11:48 AM

Surprising Peter Hutton hasn't been mentioned yet. One of the only heroes playing at the moment.

Hes the best referee in the league without a doubt too!!!!!!!!

davidatrb

26/08/2009, 11:48 AM

Shay Zellor
Danny O'Leary
Ger O'Brien
Martin Reilly
Stephen Cooling
Phil Byrne

So many legends already and not around ten years yet and I didn't even mention Barry Clancy ;)

passinginterest

26/08/2009, 11:57 AM

For Wexford Youths I suppose the early cult heroes would be Paul "Patsy" Malone, he's not the most talented player in the world but he tries his heart out every game and loves a crunching challenge "Patsy's gonna get ya" is a fans favourite chant.
Liam "Locky the flying winger" O'Loughlin would be another one, left the squad to travel to the US to get his pilots licence last year, before returning this season, has now returned to junior football along with quite a few other senior squad players.

Redie

26/08/2009, 12:08 PM

More For Sligo Rovers.....

Fred Davis.
Paul Nugent.
Johnny Kenny.
Wes Charles.
James Mulligan.
Mick Leonard - Probably the No. 1.

GuisaSaigon

26/08/2009, 12:20 PM

Jimmy Nolan
Gerry Mullen
Jumbo
Ricky Fla
Slob Costello
Damo Dupuy
Llewellen Riley
John Mannion
Billy Clery
Pa Dunne

Salmon Coloured

26/08/2009, 12:24 PM

Ian Wexler for de Town.

Rovers1

26/08/2009, 12:31 PM

Ian Wexler for de Town.

And for others..

Hibernian

26/08/2009, 1:04 PM

Danny Murphy

Da Real Rover

26/08/2009, 1:15 PM

Meatloaf
Shakey
Your man who gos down O'Connell street steamboats roaring at young girls deserves an honourable mention also.

Da Real Rover

26/08/2009, 1:19 PM

I almost forgot about Road Runner, any man who freely defecates on a public street is a legend in my book.

Da Real Rover

26/08/2009, 1:20 PM

Jimmy Nolan
Gerry Mullen
Jumbo
Ricky Fla
Slob Costello
Damo Dupuy
Llewellen Riley
John Mannion
Billy Clery
Pa Dunne
What about that angry midget?
And mistic meg?
And your one with the warts?

Rovers1

26/08/2009, 2:13 PM

Sean Kerr

christo

26/08/2009, 2:33 PM

Shay Zellor
Danny O'Leary
Ger O'Brien
Martin Reilly
Stephen Cooling
Phil Byrne

So many legends already and not around ten years yet and I didn't even mention Barry Clancy ;)

Dave I am dissapointed you left out the most important two

Dean Barrett and Ger Robinson :D

and these few others too:

Phillip Gorman
Darren Stapleton
Baba Isaaka
Alan Byrne

and Barry Clancy made an unforgivable mistake that cost us the game against Bray in the FAI Cup replay one year so he ain't a cult hero more of a cult villian, plus he ran off crying to Monaghan

Mr Maroon

26/08/2009, 2:40 PM

What about that angry midget?
Knacker Dwarf (also know as Seamus).

And your one with the warts?
Warty Nora.

Pauro 76

26/08/2009, 2:42 PM

If it hasnt been mentioned, Vinny Perth for Longford Town, Sean Prunty too.

SkStu

26/08/2009, 2:56 PM

Knacker Dwarf (also know as Seamus).

Warty Nora.

ahhh, Mini-knack and Spudface Nora (she owes me smokes)... i remember them well from my days in NUIG!!

Blue Man

26/08/2009, 3:01 PM

Barry Burke was the great cult hero at DC. Fabulous player who could have gone all the way if he'd had the right managers.

Kevin Williamson was up there too, if only for his barmy oul one. :D

Actually I'll throw Gavin McDonnell in there too, raging lunatic that guy!

Da Real Rover

26/08/2009, 3:10 PM

Knacker Dwarf (also know as Seamus).

Warty Nora.

Aye they are the ones.
Mystic Meg has quiet a fragrence, quiet a pungent stale p!ss smell.
Not to mention the multitude of homeless winos and general crustys, some good characters there.
One of the hobos there spent 20 minutes talking to me about the joys of fingering a certain area of his anatomy, ahh never a dull moment.

Redie

26/08/2009, 4:04 PM

More For Sligo Rovers.....

Fred Davis.
Paul Nugent.
Johnny Kenny.
Wes Charles.
James Mulligan.
Mick Leonard - Probably the No. 1.

I could I forget Padraig Moran!!!!!!!!!!

Umberside

26/08/2009, 4:07 PM

I know she's never played but Noelle Feeney has done a great amount of work for CCFC over the years.

brianw82

26/08/2009, 4:59 PM

Has to be Jim Flanagan and/or Xano. So cult that they've never even played a game (or perhaps even existed?)

Umberside

26/08/2009, 5:00 PM

Xano

Xano exists, see:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_HJuZDMXdLbE/SK-Pxgdy6GI/AAAAAAAADWo/bet3My3plM4/s400/Xano+the+best+off+f.jpg

SligoBrewer

26/08/2009, 6:50 PM

The Missing Foreskin.

Martinho II

26/08/2009, 6:56 PM

I remember him well. Wasn't he your captain, and doesn't he run a barbers or a bar or something now in the town ?

Another one I remember from years ago - though this time for being fairly
sh!te..... :D

yep zac runs the stillery bar down richmond st in longford..

Battery Rover

26/08/2009, 8:26 PM

Kevin Williamson was up there too, if only for his barmy oul one. :D

:eek::eek:

WoodquayBoy

26/08/2009, 10:00 PM

Aye they are the ones.
Mystic Meg has quiet a fragrence, quiet a pungent stale p!ss smell.
Not to mention the multitude of homeless winos and general crustys, some good characters there.
One of the hobos there spent 20 minutes talking to me about the joys of fingering a certain area of his anatomy, ahh never a dull moment.
Madame Bridget - I still can't understand how people sit beside her outside Ulsteer Bank, hand over cash and have their palm 'read' in public, not even a manky auld caravan

brianw82

26/08/2009, 10:23 PM

Brian wins the prize for the most supid post I've ever read on foot.ie

Awesome! What do I win?

bellavistaman

26/08/2009, 10:31 PM

willie byrne, absolute rams legend, good player and mad as a coot.

Daryl Kavanagh!!

To a lesser extent anto omagufi- our international, joseph yobo nearly retired from international football when he played for nigeria

MMVIII

27/08/2009, 1:55 AM

I almost forgot about Road Runner, any man who freely defecates on a public street is a legend in my book.

And eats fags and drinks cans at the back of a church :D

Town Legend

27/08/2009, 7:59 AM

Macy

27/08/2009, 8:17 AM

As mentioned before Sean Prunty, Zac Hackett, Digger O'Brien, Ritchie Parsons, Vinny Perth and Eric Lavine.

Also worth a mention is Paul McNally, if injury hadn't cut is Town career short Paul 'Gucci' Perth and Keith 'Mumbles' O'Connor for scoring all them goals to get us promoted!!
I'm not sure some of them qualify as cult heroes. I mean Prunty, Digger and Mumbles were all excellent players (at their level in the case of O'Connor) in their own right.

McNally was injured a year or two after he'd gone to Bohs, and I wouldn't have Lavine near any heroes list...

I'd have the rest on the cult heroes list though. How about the Bald Truck Driving Man?

Hairy Bowsie

27/08/2009, 8:34 AM

I know she's never played but Noelle Feeney has done a great amount of work for CCFC over the years.

And then tried to sue the club when it was on it's knees. It's not hero status she deserves but a slap.

Stephen Geogahn tried something similar at Shels 3 years back and for that he will always be a C***, i don't care how many goals he scored for us.

Ash

27/08/2009, 8:48 AM

That player is missed. Would be great to see him return in a coaching role.

http://www.afterschoolsoccer.com/
Ollie Keogh working with him now since Nigel Keady departed for the FAI.

A few Cult Heros for Da Town

1. Rod De Khors - Legend ... no explination required
2. Barry Murphy and Frank Darby - The dymanic duo! Barry was hard as nails and Frank could distract strikers with his eardrum piercing shreek!
3. Jamsie Coll ... we said we needed a manager and a centre half, he said I'll do both!
4. Stevie Gavin - Got taken off injured away to Mons so he came up to the stand and played the drum for us
5. Andy Myler - Goalscoring legend
6. Danny O'Leary - Broken fingers still couldnt stop him playing
7. Johnny Morris-Burke - Purly for his Mario Kempes stype perm at the time
8. Adrian Carberry - Legend always giving 100%. Got clocked one game, blood everywhere, physio ran on with the magic sponge. Cabsy took it, cleaned the blood off his new white boots, got up and played on
9. "Honorable" mention for Istavn "Stephen" Lakatos and Zolt "Joe" Pedro ... came over to Ireland without a word of English but quickly learned 3 important words ... Want ... More ... Money