Guest Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Paul Warhurst. Hard. Swallowed his tongue in the first leg of the UEFA Cup and played the second leg and score with a header. Didn't suffer fools that bloke. Was a bit mardy though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnOwl55 Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 9 hours ago, A12owl said: Tony Kay. Vic Mobley ^^^^^^^^^^ THIS!! and in that order too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torres Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Lucas Joao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest addedtime Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 What about Danny Wilson? He could certainly take it and dish it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Owl Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Ken Knighton followed by Jeff Johnson. Very rarely seen either of those lose a tackle and neither of them took any prisoners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Internationowl Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Good story? Hardest player? Going through our history books for the most fearless nutcase to represent us, when he plays for us right now? Ladies and gwntlemen, I give you Sir Samuel Edward Hutchinson. Could you imagine Sam shirking a challenge from any of the aforementioned hard men? https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/23/sam-hutchinson-sheffield-wednesday-chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hougoumont Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Laurie Madden was a tough player and I wouldn't have wanted to knock Mel Sterlands pint over either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarquin Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Norman Curtis was the original "chopper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Rat Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Don Megson. When he flew in for a tackle the player was lucky to land short of row 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VictoryBell Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Ken Knighton or Tony Kaye. That's that settled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivelin Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Tony Kay and Graham Pugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shezzas left peg Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Well didn't Madine like to batter bouncers???, don't they classify as being harder than footballers, so maybe Madine, bit like our Duncan Fergusen with less goals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramone Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Never really had a 'hardman' in all my time of watching Wednesday. Bruts like Coughlan, Branston and Bullen from the Turner/Sturrock days would be my pick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanharper Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 12 hours ago, meadowview owl said: Southampaton home 1993-1994 season when we got off to a bobbar start. Shows you on season review him walking off with it Unless he did it more than once, it was the LC semi at Blackburn, the 4-2 game. He tried to run it off, but apparently you can't do that with broken legs and he missed the rest of the season including all the Wembley games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoots but cant hit Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Tony Kay .........end of debate made all of the other nominees look soft but in today's climate may only have played in six games a season. Fot those not privileged to watch him in action I would suggest Ken Knighton Mike Lyons Lawrie Madden and Sam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markg Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Remember Duncan Ferguson just bouncing off Emerson Thome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddyowl Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Mick Lyons for me. Players from other teams are John Burridge, John Fashanu and the main man Mick Harford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveyboy66 Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Ken Knighton...he would last about 3 mins in todays football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxtongent Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 11 hours ago, Milan Missing Marble said: Plenty. Ernie Blenkinsop survived a coal mining roof falling in on him in his younger days, and Stanley Matthews said you knew whenever you were up against Ernie, has he would crunch into you early on to make sure you knew he was there. And he said Ernie was the toughest opponent and best defender he ever came up against. Walter Millership was adept at centre forward and centre back, his strong sturdy play gave him the nickname 'Battleship' from Wednesday fans. The likes of Blenkinsop and Millership grew up working in the coal mines, they were proper tough working class football men. When I first started watching Wednesday, my Dad, a life-long W'ite, always talked of the 'hard men' and always mentioned his lifelong favourite full back, Ernie Blenkinsop, along with the half-back line of Sharpe, Millership and Burrows, and how tough they were. Then, in my early youth, along came one of the hardest men I ever saw in soccer -Norman Curtis. I also remember Tony Kay playing against one of soccer's real tough guys, Billy Bremner. His first tackle put Bremner against the hoardings - no more troble from Bremner. Gerry Young was also one of nature's gentle but tough brigade, who, similarly to Hutch of today would become a target for Referees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roscoe P. Coltrane Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 13 minutes ago, daveyboy66 said: Ken Knighton...he would last about 3 mins in todays football As long as that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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