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Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

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I doubt Steven Ireland sees his career as wasted. He's been a Premier League player for the best part of ten years. The fact he clearly doesn't want to play international football doesn't mean he's wasted his talent or career (even if he has never reached those City heights again).
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Would Steve Heighway fit into this category?
 
Too young to have seen him play, but my Da always said he was some player.
34 caps and 0 goals hardly backs that up.
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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Would Steve Heighway fit into this category?
 
Too young to have seen him play, but my Da always said he was some player.
34 caps and 0 goals hardly backs that up.

Heighway was a brilliant winger for us. 34 caps was not a bad haul given the factors of the day.
We didn't make major championships and there was not as many friendlies. End of season tours were often for kids and LOI players.
The qualifying groups were generally smaller and we sometimes only played 6 qualifying games.

His record at Liverpool is a very big bag of medals.

ETA: in the '74 and '78 WC qualifiers we were in 3 team groups, only playing 4 qualifying games.


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Originally posted by Stoked Up Stoked Up wrote:

Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Would Steve Heighway fit into this category?
 
Too young to have seen him play, but my Da always said he was some player.
34 caps and 0 goals hardly backs that up.

Heighway was a brilliant winger for us. 34 caps was not a bad haul given the factors of the day.
We didn't make major championships and there was not as many friendlies. End of season tours were often for kids and LOI players.
The qualifying groups were generally smaller and we sometimes only played 6 qualifying games.

His record at Liverpool is a very big bag of medals.

ETA: in the '74 and '78 WC qualifiers we were in 3 team groups, only playing 4 qualifying games.


Yep different these days back then there was no minnows like there are now

1974 Qualfiers we had France and Soviet Union
France and Bulgaria for 78



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Lousy attitude and seems like a general all round dope.
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Originally posted by Stoked Up Stoked Up wrote:

Originally posted by Saint Tom Saint Tom wrote:

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He made nearly 500 club appearances over his career.  Perhaps he underachieved at Man U, but it's hard to argue that he could have done much better than he did with Ireland.  83 caps, two WC's and a Euros. He was arguably the most influential player of the Charlton era.

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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Would Steve Heighway fit into this category?
 
Too young to have seen him play, but my Da always said he was some player.
34 caps and 0 goals hardly backs that up.
 
LOL, how is that "wasted"???  Was clearly wasteful in front of goal, but I think the thread might be in terms of wasted talent possibly?  LOL
 
Heighway was a very good player for us apart from his goal famine.
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Didn't Heighway score  a very famous goal in Sofia but the ref fancied keeping the rolex?
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Originally posted by Roberto Baggio Roberto Baggio wrote:

Would Steve Heighway fit into this category?
 
Too young to have seen him play, but my Da always said he was some player.
34 caps and 0 goals hardly backs that up.
Jesus Christ !!!
 
Giles-Brady-Heighway only three World Class players we had in the 70s.
 
Played as a second striker at Liverpool alot, especially away from home whereas for Eire (as we were called then) he stuck to the wing. Tore the French apart for Giles's disallowed goal in Paris.
 
 
 
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Originally posted by pre Madonna pre Madonna wrote:

Didn't Heighway score  a very famous goal in Sofia but the ref fancied keeping the rolex?



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I remember the auld lad going on about Heighway. Had mighty time for him.
 
Never heard of him being described as world class though. Was he? 
 
Had Heighway a serious injury and had to stop playing international football?
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Never mind, wasted probably the wrong word I was looking for.
 
But the way my Da speaks of him, I expected him to have at least scored a goal for his country before.
 
As I said, was just enquiring, it was before my time.
 
 
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Aside from the usual Gibson, Ireland, Stokes etc...

Andy Reid, he had it in him to be a top footballer but never had the right attitude with his weight and fitness issues. Came across as lazy and up for sesh more so than a bit of hard work.

I know he had his injuries, and maybe im being slightly harsh but he had some amount of raw talent and just never really applied it.
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Originally posted by valo88 valo88 wrote:

Aside from the usual Gibson, Ireland, Stokes etc...

Andy Reid, he had it in him to be a top footballer but never had the right attitude with his weight and fitness issues. Came across as lazy and up for sesh more so than a bit of hard work.

I know he had his injuries, and maybe im being slightly harsh but he had some amount of raw talent and just never really applied it.


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A lot of players listed above is debatable to be honest. Some carved our long careers ahead of themselves and some are still playing too, whilst others have had their careers stifled by injuries.

Therefore I nominate Micheal Keane.




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Never fully capped horsebox.....but I remember seeing him play for pats when he was probably 2 stone overweight and he was still miles ahead of everyone on the pitch....by all accounts he's a bit of a waster off the pitch aswell,in the Paul Byrne mould
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