And he liked his champaign 😂

I'm a Chelsea fan but I really like him when he played right up at Celtic and got goals but when he went to Arsenal he went backwards. If he'd gone to Liverpool though I don't think it would have worked, as he was never going to usurp Rush, but maybe he might have taken over from Dalglish and played 'in the hole' behind him.

David Moyes once said the two best teenagers he had ever seen were Wayne Rooney and Charlie Nicholas. 'Champagne Charlie' was probably undone by the distractions of London.

He wasn't a patch on Gazza

Class is PERMANENT. I sadly never got to see him live, but always enjoyed seeing him glide around the field seemingly a level or three above everyone else on the pitch.

S'Alex punished Big Al for putting club before country. He must have learned something from it though. How often was Ryan Giggs fit for Wales?

I read We Made Them Angry abour our 82 campaign and I've rarely seen anybody come across worse in a football book than Stein. Petty, thin skinned, stubborn... an all round child.

I concur. That man wasn't a Rolls Royce more of a 'BESPOKE Rolls Royce'.

He was a lazy lazy lazy player… he had a fantastic touch and a wonderful pass but he was never in gazza’s class I’ve seen em all but most of you have not

@@140rware Tut tut tut go troll elsewhere

Beardsley was better than them all!

@@140rware Absolute TOSH. This is typical of a very arcane attitude and partly the reason we haven't won a single trophy as a nation since 1966.

Problem is he didnt think about the consequences of anything.

​@@PatrickKelly-lz3pvIncluding his two atrocious tackles against Nottingham Forests in the 1991 FA Cup final. Cynical and deliberate. Anyone who thinks dear old Gazza was a lovable Gordie teddy bear should take the trouble to watch them.

@@eric934 I remember those tackles he was willing to cripple a fellow pro he was disgraceful

@@PatrickKelly-lz3pv Crocked himself in the second and was out for a year ( cruciate ligament ). I re watched them recently and they still make me wince. I don't dislike Gazza, but I read somewhere that he was hyper before the game even started. Loved his England goal & celebration though of course. It coloured my judgement of his personality though.

@@eric934 Every thing that happened to him he brought on himself he was supremely gifted but he had to be the centre of attention all the time and he was willing to cripple a fellow pro to remain in the lime light.

Very well put mate.

And injured in 1990 too!

Le Tissier had the same problem.

​@@r4h4alironically under hoddle's regime.

For some reason England have a history of not getting the best out of the most creative players. I was only a little kid when hoddle still played in England, so you don’t know too much at that age. But I remember watching hoddle with my jaw wide open totally mesmerised. There was no other player that made football look so easy. Platini said if he was French he would have won 150 caps and had the team built around him for a decade. Some accolade that❤

Still got 53 caps in an era where they weren't playing many friendlies.

Absolutely Sean

Funnily enough I don't know a single scot who likes him

@@dahsellsavon113 He seems like a pretty likeable bloke, even if he does look a lot like Tommy Docherty, now!

He's very talented interviewer indeed.

Better of singing because there 💩💩at fitbaw

Diamond lights, I bought it 😂

I came home one night tripping bollox when I 1st heard this song on top of the pops. It sent me into a 4 hour giggle fit. 😂

Great song

@@johncully4699I heard somebody did 😄

A talented attacking midfield player, who was afraid to go too near the enemy goal as he showed in the 1986 World Cup.

Ray Wilkins had a bad habit that made him ill-suited to English football in the 70s and 80s. He liked to pass the ball to someone who wore the same colour shirt as him. So unforgivable they called him "the crab."

@@philipritson8821He showed his ability at Milan.

@@gunternetzer9621 Ah yes AC Milan just before Sacchi and the three Dutchmen (Van Basten, Rijkaard and Gullit). Google "England 1 Belgium 1 1980" and you'll see Ray defeat one of the most aggressive offside traps in international football single handed. Butch Wilkins was a genius.

@@philipritson8821 Indeed I remember it at the time - I am also a Chelsea supporter. I remember him playing alongside Charlie Cooke for a short time in 1977 when he played more forward - that was a good duo!

I'd have chosen them both with a solid holding player behind them.

Hoddle was just born in the wrong country. Any other country they would have built the team around him.

@@anthonymcken6050 Hoddle could not impose himself due to a lack of stamina and character and played as though his job was to wait until someone else gave him the ball, when he would do his stuff. With his team under pressure, the supply of the ball to him could easily be cut off, and he wasn’t the kind of player who would go back and get mixed up in the rough and tumble to get it for himself as a really good player would. But he was not alone amongst British players. There were others who thought that just because they had skill no one could teach them anything and they didn't have to adapt. There were other players around Hoddle's era who also didn't like 'rough and tumble' but they were able (or the manager was) to whip up a bit of devil and impose themselves like Deyna, Panenka and Michel Platini. If you read 'Soccer Coaching: The European Way,' published in 1980, you will see why other well respected and successful foreign coaches wouldn't have bothered with him either. Rinus Michels: ‘In the old game the players could afford to show off their skill and think only a little. But modern football has changed all that and brought a new set of problems. So, the players have to change because unless they do, they will never escape from their opponents tight-marking, quick tackling and good coverage. So, the players have to change because unless they do, they will never escape from their opponents tight-marking, quick tackling and good coverage. The ones who can’t do it look for excuses, trying to blame others.’ Hennes Weisweiler: 'I do not like the kind of midfield player who works hard but cannot go forward and shoot. Neither do I like a midfield player who is not strong in defence.’ Lajos Baroti: ‘Stamina is so important today, for the players must be able to run at varying speeds for the whole 90 minutes if necessary. The ability to outnumber the opposition in the area around the ball, determines the difference between success and failure.’ ‘Every good player must be able to beat an opponent, but it is only effective and necessary at the right time and if it is in the interests of the team as a whole. You cannot achieve numerical advantage if someone keeps losing the ball through trying unsuccessfully to beat a man. That only leads to a lot of hard and unnecessary running for the entire team.’

@@anthonymcken6050 What that saying really means is that the player concerned is lacking, and the others have to fit in around him to the detriment of the team.

Superb player, great temperament considering he was kicked all over the place.

Nigel Winterburn was better and should have been England left back since 1988.

Kieran Tierney could control himself couldnt he

Yup. Never the player down south he could have been.

Let's not forget Paul Davis, Glenn Cockerill won't 🙂

Chatting about the days games & maybe even watching them....with the safe knowledge that you're able to drop in the odd naughty word ;-)

I think we all do

The media are too busy 'force feeding' us female presenters as opposed to tremendous players with huge achievements in the game.

Can you prove your claim?

Imagine him with Mark Hughes?

Gazza was a numpty who couldn't be trusted. Rake away his dribbling ability he was nothing.

The England manager fiasco and the God bothering I assume

Maybe but you can look them up yourself eh. I read football biographies and I'm forever looking up players records upon reading their name.

Probably a bunch of copywrite regs preventing it.

Yes, better than Sansom, at the wrong club.

@@anglotim Excellent player but not better than Sansom.

Nigel Winterburn,the best left back in Britain for a decade.

You're having a larf.

He was when he killed a thousand Philestines with the jawbone of an ass.

That should tell you just how good Ratcliffe was.

Not really Ratters was class

Hoddle never turned up against Arsenal no goals either, Charlie however always turned up against the spuds and often scored against Liverpool.

@@raytanner4138 Arsene Wenger was not impressed with Hoddle's fitness when he went to Monaco.

Totally unfair nonsensical towards Gazza was not overrated. I'm not his biggest fan but he could do something that only certain players can do. Walk in to any team and look and Gel in. While those that are good take a while. Very strange those who share a a great footballer attitude to wards Gascoigne have played against him. So wise up take a hold of yourself.

@@erniescullion8452 I stand by it, he was massively overrated. That’s not to say he wasn’t a good player, but the way he’s spoke about, is like he’s the English Maradona. Let’s keep some perspective on what the words “world class” & “great” means. Maradona is the peak, he is the greatest…. Gascoinge, to put it in perspective, is 3,4,5 levels below. There’s no shame in that, but let’s have some perspective.

Absolute rubbish.. gazza was a top TOP player

@@thesaintst1851 depends what your definition of “top TOP player” is. I gave reference, I gave a gauge, I don’t think he’s a better player than Bobby Charlton, Bryan Robson, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Waddle, Wayne Rooney, or Alan Shearer when it comes to England. He’s not even on the same planet as Diego Maradona, but no one is. Is Gazza on the level of Zidane? Baggio? Not even remotely, couldn’t lace their boots. Give me a an example of “top TOP player” that you think Gazza is on the same level as..

you are talking shit pal

You need learn how to spell!

Brady was pure class.

watch it again , it was a tongue-in-cheek comment - a joke. He loved Ray Wilkins, as many did, a lovely fella and proper gentleman. And plenty of Celtic supporters respected Wilkins, there certainly wasn't much "hate" for that man, even when he scored that screamer in the OF game.

Rose tinted Specsavers

50 goals in a season says he’s band average CRACKPOT

Yes he did… how old are you?

He was a drunk and rangers were only team in Europe that would put up with him

Ironically probably played his best club football for them

Hardly a legendry scot for Arsenal like Joe Baker, Peter Marenello