Your Team of Narks and leg breakers

[Lionel Ritchie]

thugs dont win european trophies

Thugs don't get into a team that contained 11 contemporary full internationals (in an era when that was virtually unheard of) either.

[Dublin12]

W A C C O E !!

Mot.

[stojkovic]

thugs dont win european trophies

Internazionale won it twice in the sixties

[Mourinho]

paul dickov has to be in it, what a dirty little c**t also joey barton and thats even including the christmas party incident!!

[Rathfarnham Utd]

1. Gary Sprake (usefull hook)
2. David Burrows (filthy)
3. Micky Droy (would you mess with him?!)
4. Norman Hunter
5. Alan McDonald (N.Ire circa 86)

6. Steve McMahon
7. Roy Keane
8. Billy Bremner
9. Souness

10. Bergkamp (nasty, late ones)
11. Emerson (nutter)

Subs-
pick any from Uruguay 1986 team

[Shelsman]

Most people are going for international players, but how about MichaeL Collins for Portadown? Read the other day that he was thrown out of two English clubs for indiscipline, hardly surprising judging from the games I've seen him play so far. Total knacker.

Oh, then there's yer man McNulty who used to play for Dundalk, he was a seriously dirty player too.

Then there was the time Richie Purdy broke Mark Rutherfords leg in a horror tackle from behind in Tolka, I'll never forget that, it was really horrendous. That said, Purdy was nearly in tears at what he'd done and obviously meant it as a hard challenge but hadn't intended anything so severe. He was substituted before the ref had time to send him off.

[Aldini98]

This is my selection that has, to me, all the hallmarks to either kick off with the opposition...or with themselves.

GK: Harald Schumacher ('nuff said)

LB: Claudio Gentile (A legend!)
CD: Andoní Goicochea (Maradona's assault only the tip of the iceberg)
CD: Juan Lopez (Namesake of mine; Paul Stanley (of Kiss) look-a-like and the only player I've seen twice and got sent off in both games (Spain v Ireland 1992, Leicester v Atletico Madrid 1997)).
RB:Mick Kennedy (Dunno if anyone remembers this Oldham defender from the eighties. Favourite of mine because he came on as half-time sub against Czechoslovakia in Reykjavik in 1986, proceeded to break one Czech's set of teeth with his elbow and a few minutes later almost broke anothers'. I always thought he was hauled off by Charlton before he was sent off, but it seems he wasn't either of the two.)

LM: Graham Souness (Don't know if this is his position but I'm stuck and I can't leave out of this team someone from Rangers)
CM: Eric Cantona (Just the sort of player that will kick off with anyone else)
CM: Lee Bowyer (Likewise, especially in this case if French, Spanish or German)
RM: Juan Gomez 'Juanito'. (My captain and only player here pushing up the daisies, I think. Andalucian Gitano that done a w*nker sign to the crowd in Belgrade and got hit by a bottle in 1977 (showing he's got lots of it); head-butted a linesman in Zurich in 1978 (no respect for authority); told his Basque team-mates in 'la seleccion' what he thought of 'democracy' causing more than a little bad blood just before the 1980 European Championships (no respect for teammates); ended his European career at Real by using Lothar Mathaeus' head as a trampoline after the man who taught Klinsman how to dive put on a 'perfect six' performance in a European Cup Semi-Final in 1987(No respect for human life) Perfect to lead this team.)

CF: Paul Van Den Hauwe (I've included him after I heard a story about how in a pre-season friendly for Tottenham he knocked out a Borhemwood defender after he asked VDH what this was - making the sign of an 'O' with his thumb and finger - then to a bemused VDH stating it was 'A Mandy Smith headlock.' Apparently he didn't even wait to get the red card. Coooooooll!!)
CF: Stan Collymore (Bound to have slept with Mandy Smith and general all round irritating b*stard)

PAT Van Den Hauwe actually

And for the record, Schumacher was at the wedding alright but wasn't the "best" man and he reckons he thought Patrick was gonna lob him so he was trying to block that