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    Question Greatest/Famous players to play in Cork.

    Found some old programmes at Cork & was wondering if anyone else has memories of the good old days......best player to play City in euro competitions.

    To get the ball rolling.....

    Galatasaray - Hakan Sukur, Kubilay Turkilmaz....
    Slavia Prague (class act) - Jan Suchoparek, Patrik Berger, radek Bejbl, Pavel Novotny.....
    Bayern Munich - Effenburg, Julio Cesar?
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    matt le tissier for southampton in a friendly a few years back. thomas ravelli was on the bench for gothenburg when we played them in the cross.

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    What about the most famous austrian player ever? Tony Polster scored for Koln v. City in the inter toto in 97. The other scorer in their 2-0 win was Munteanu the romanian who scored when Romania knocked England out of Euro 2000.

    Christian Ziege also played for Munich against City.

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    I was seriously impressed by Munteanu (Is this the right spelling ??) in the match against Koln. Going further back, anyone remeber the good old days of [COLOR=green]Cork Hibs[/COLOR] ?

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    Originally posted by yiddo
    Tony Polster scored for Koln v. City in the inter toto in 97....
    Maybe not the best player to grace ther cross but one of best performances for sure. Can remember him getting a slagging from the shed for a dodgy dive outside the box, soon afterwards he cracks a 25 yarder into the net from nothing. respect.

    Ah sure we always have (maybe only have) the memories....

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    George Best and Geoff Hurst played for Cork Celtic while Rodney Marsh played for Hibs as did Pele. Booby Charlton turned out for Waterford a few times.

    And who can forget the brilliant Liam O Brien for City????
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    Not the first Gunther

    Our current boss isnt the first gunther to grace Cork Football.

    Probally the best player even to grace a Cork Football pitch was Gunter Netzer, played for Munchengladback (spelling??) against Hibs. They won 5-0 at flower lodge, from what I've heard he was the greatest ever.

    He only played a small part in the German World Cup winning squad because he was a bit of a playboy.

    Best I ever persoally saw was probally Polster, what a knacker
    Oh no not them again

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    Re: Not the first Gunther

    Originally posted by SÓCcfc
    Our current boss isnt the first gunther to grace Cork Football.
    no, but he is the first to DIS grace Cork football.

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    Tony Polster was without doubt the greatest ever oponent to grace the grass of Turners Cross. With that flowing Austrian mullet and that rocket of a goal he was an instant hate figure for the shed, but still a legend all the same.

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    Re: Re: Not the first Gunther

    Originally posted by Éanna

    no, but he is the first to DIS grace Cork football.
    Id hardly think that Gunther has brought disgrace to Cork football!
    As I say, we're just young & a bit nieve.

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    Re: Re: Re: Not the first Gunther

    Originally posted by Troy.McClure
    Id hardly think that Gunther has brought disgrace to Cork football!
    no that's true, seeing as he doesn't bother with football
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    How about a current Cork XI
    1. Michael Devine
    2. Denis Irwin
    3. Damien Delaney
    4. Brian Carey
    5. Derek Coughlan
    6. Roy Keane (c)
    7. Colin Healy
    8. Liam Miller
    9. C.P. O'Brien
    10. Dominic Foley
    11. Brian Barry-Murphy
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    I often wondered wher is Mick Devine actually from. Is he a native of Cork?

    I hear that he is a male model too. Is this true?

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    Originally posted by Snatch
    I often wondered wher is Mick Devine actually from. Is he a native of Cork?

    I think he's from youghal....

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    Originally posted by Citygirl


    I think he's from youghal....

    Actually no i've changed my mind i think its cobh.........ah well its one of the two anyway....

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    Yeah ....

    I'd be good with that ... t'would do nicely methinks !!
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    my how easily you people get side-tracked!

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    gee its dark outside!
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    Originally posted by Citygirl



    Actually no i've changed my mind i think its cobh.........ah well its one of the two anyway....

    Ran into a Cobh fan at their cup match against Bohs, who said that best thing about City is Mick Devine...so I'm thinking he's from Cobh...

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