Mr England?

[Parrot]

Post 1986, who would you consider to embroil the English Bulldog spirit as a England player?

Parrots choice= Stuart Pearce, Hard as fecking nails, took Boli's nut like a true Gent;)

[ChuckleBantam]

Post 1986, who would you consider to embroil the English Bulldog spirit as a England player?

Parrots choice= Stuart Pearce, Hard as fecking nails, took Boli's nut like a true Gent;)

Yup, I'll go with the Top Table on that one.

[robbieu]

Pearce and Basil Boli's nut? Butcher would have seen it coming.

Terry everytime.
Embarassing for Psycho that. In his book he tries to justify it by saying he intimidated a player, who looked by Boli, by pretended he thought it was him that at pegged him. More like his arse fell out.
Butcher was a hard cunt on and off the pitch. Pearce a great full back who thought he was rock

[NorthernMonkey]

Agreed robbieu, Has to be butcher. Born leader and a man that epitomised everything that was good about english football in the good ole days.

[Parrot]

Pearce and Basil Boli's nut? Butcher would have seen it coming.

Terry everytime.
Embarassing for Psycho that. In his book he tries to justify it by saying he intimidated a player, who looked by Boli, by pretended he thought it was him that at pegged him. More like his arse fell out.
Butcher was a hard cunt on and off the pitch. Pearce a great full back who thought he was rock

what a load off sh/t, Pearce would knack Boli in a brawl IMO.
I Bet if Pearce had produced a cowardly Headbutt on Boli, the fecker would have gone down like a pack of cards!

[king billy]

Have to agree with robbieu - Pearce's arse fell out when Boli nutted him - he went missing the rest of the game......he had big thighs, wore his shorts high and had a wild look but i bet you owt off the pitch one on one Pearce would be no hard man!!

Butcher on the other hand.....wouldn't mess with that fooker - he'd be my "Mr England Hardman".....

[Barmy]

Stuart Pearce.

[tony d]

Butcher for me too im afraid... SP a close second...:D

[Johnny Yen]

A pal of mine Paul Crighton, started at Notts Forest as a youth player.
It was the job of each youth player to look after a senior player, clean boots, get kit together, be a bit of a general dogs body etc..

Paul had to look after Stu Pearce, at xmas time all the senior players gave the young lads a few quid as a thank-you.

Pearce didn't give Paul anything, so Paul gobbed off about Pearce been a tight git, word got back to Pearce.

Pearce got hold of Paul, ragged him about a bit thenn rammed £40 quid in his mouth, and said if he ever spoke about him behind his back again, he'd knock fuck out of him !!

You want an hard man, look no further than Shearer

[king billy]

lol.....good one Johnny!!

Damn right about Shearer though - very underestimated in the hardness stakes....remember when he was winding Keane up and Keane threw a few punches which didn't connect because he was being held back? Shearer never even flinched a muscle, he just stood and eyeballed him back with a "is that all you've got" look....!!
To get over TWO cruciate ligament injuries which would have crippled the average player takes something, i remember flinching when he came back from injury at Blackburn - his first touch of the ball was a bone shattering challenge, that takes some balls when even the slightest hint of a mistime would have equalled an end to his career!!