Your favourite crap ex-city players thread...

[Ozwin]

I missed that Cov game and there were no videos or anything It's just a myth to me.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

I remember one of my first seasons supporting City as a kid, 91/92. Colin Gordon comes to mind from that era. He scored a few goals but from what I remember he was slated by almost everyone.

Can't find a picture of him either.

In the same season there was Ashley Ward, who turned out to have a half decent career after he left us.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Rufus Brevett anyone, suprised they managed to get a picture of him in a City shirt as he was only on the pitch for us for about 2 minutes.

[Legend_in_blue]

Gareth Williams - got to be the laziest player I've seen in a midfield since I've watched the city.

Ok so Junior Lewis was bad, but at least he bothered to look bad. Williams didn't even do that.

And Theo Zagorakis is a legend. Can't believe people are having a pop at him in this thread. Legend. Good stand-in keeper too.

[Stig the Lawnmower]

Paul Fitzpatrick...thats him

so you weren't there on that rain soaked night at notts county when we were division 2 and they were division 1 and fitzpatrick scored the winner? great headed goal and all round great display by the team. we were rocking then under little and fitzpatrick played his part. some of you are just picking names out of the hat under sheer ignorance.

[Legend_in_blue]

Josh (S)Low.

Useless.

[glennthefox]

OK... whos the guy on this forum who can't recognise Muzzy Izzet from a google image search?... He should be lynched and thrown out. I am so MAD. Muzz is a city legend, definatley in the top 3 all-time players I have seen at the club in my (short) 21 years. And he still likes to pop in to the Horse and Trumpet in WIGSTON every now and again for a cheeky pint... Muzzy -respect.

Onto fave crap ex city players... Still got a soft spot for Frank Sinclair... No doubt, in his prime, up with the best of them... but scored some fantastically crafted OG's that fooked us over big time. cheers Frank, you douche.

[Guest NGoloMode]

Great to watch but doesnt really do anything so imo hes crap

[muzzyisalegend]

Without doubt the two worst City players of all time have to be Ade Akinbiyi and Junior Lewis - with honourable mentions to Stephen Hughes, Mark De Vries and Alan Maybury - utter wank the lot of 'em!!!

[DB11]

Steffen Freund!

[davieG]

There's seems to be some difficulty in understandings of the word Favourite, Crap and the putting of them together in a sentence.

As I see it your supposed to be identifying some one who was fundamentally crap but who was a favourite of yours because of something special they did that struck a cord with you.

My best example would be Coatsworth who had little football skill but gave his all in team similarly lacking in skill but who compared to the previous incumbents was like a Knight in shining armour - and who could forget his rocket goal, I still dream it to this day.

Leicester City. . . . . . . . . . . . .2

Derby County. . . . . . . . . . . . . .1

LEICESTER, finally tasting Wembley victory at the seventh attempt, secured promotion to the Premiership by overcoming Derby through Steve Walsh's second goal three minutes from the end of yesterday's First Division play-off final.

Neutrals - thin on the ground on an afternoon of East Midlands tribalism - might argue that Leicester deserved to end their seven-year exile from the top flight after losing the previous two finals to disputed penalties. Derby, however, were manifestly the better of two plain teams and will doubtless reflect ruefully on the role of the referee, Roger Milford, in determining their destiny.

Taking his farewell fixture at the scene of his infamous handling of Paul Gascoigne during the 1991 FA Cup final, Mr Milford erred on the side of leniency to the last. Shortly before half-time, he allowed Walsh to negate the lead Tommy Johnson had provided for Derby, despite a blatant infringement. He then enabled Leicester to play out the closing half-hour with a full complement of players when other officials would have shown the red card to their captain, Simon Grayson.

Derby ought to have made the game safe - and with it the tenure of their manager, Roy McFarland, which was to be reviewed in the event of defeat - long before Walsh landed the decisive blow. Exploiting the pace of Johnson and the strength of Marco Gabbiadini, they frequently caught Leicester's defence square with early passes over the top.

In contrast, Brian Little deployed only two in midfield, his team bypassing that area with a succession of long balls from the back. The tactic was never pretty yet it proved pretty effective, hauling Leicester back into contention and planting doubts in Derby's psyche.

The opening minutes seemed likely to offer the match in microcosm. Jimmy Willis scrambled a Gabbiadini shot off the line after only 65 seconds and Gary Coatsworth, sent his first five passes into touch or to opponents.

Football eventually broke out with a marvellous five-man move which carried Derby from their right-back position to the inside- left channel. Gabbiadini's low cross then gave Johnson what appeared a certain goal. He miscued, but in the 28th minute sprinted on to Paul Simpson's chipped pass and left two defenders in his wake before sweeping his 19th goal of the season past Gavin Ward.

Thirteen minutes later Route One brought Leicester an equaliser. Coatsworth, ironically, was the supplier, though Martin Taylor's bid to field his up-and-under was impeded by a foul challenge by Iwan Roberts. Walsh rose above the keeper's flailing fists, and Derby's despair was compounded by Paul Williams's misjudged attempt to head off the line.

John Harkes twice came close to restoring Derby's lead. But Johnson continued to be the greatest threat to Leicester, who were hugely relieved to see Grayson merely cautioned on the hour following what appeared a clear professional foul on Derby's dangerman.

With extra time looming, Leicester conjured a move out of character with all that had gone before. Julian Joachim, on as substitute, found the overlapping Grayson, who underlined the significance of his reprieve with a fine first-time centre. Taylor parried Ian Ormondroyd's header brilliantly, only for Walsh to run in the loose ball.

Walsh, remarkably, was playing only his second full game since September, when he suffered a serious knee injury. Little left no doubt that he sees the converted defender as central to Leicester's prospects next season when he explained that Walsh, when fit, is always the first name on his team-sheet.

'That isn't really how we want to play,' the Leicester manager said, 'but it's been working. They're a good bunch of lads who won't be beaten.' Maybe so, but given that of the last four clubs promoted via the play-offs, only Blackburn have survived more than a season, several may have played themselves out of a new contract.

Leicester City (1-4-2-3): Ward; Grayson; Coatsworth (Thompson, 68), Willis, Carey, Whitlow; Blake, Gibson; Walsh, Roberts (Joachim, 56), Ormondroyd. Substitute not used: Poole (gk).

Derby County (4-4-2): Taylor; Charles, Short, Williams, Forsyth (Kitson, 87); Harkes, Cowans, Pembridge, Simpson; Gabbiadini, Johnson. Substitutes not used: Kavanagh, Sutton (gk).

Referee: R Milford (Bristol).

Gary Coatsworth - crap but unforgetable

[Guest Basildon Fox]

You're talking complete shit you fool. He went home back he was the Greece captain before he came to Leicester and he didn't play enough when he was here so he wanted regular football.

Do you remember his goal for us against Man Utd at home where we lost 6-2?

Seriously, calling players like Zagorakis, Brian Deane and Colin Hill shit makes me wonder how thick our fans really are.

Are you suggesting that Matt Elliott was a fool too? He thought the same.

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

Zagorakis was absolute shite when he played for us hence why he went back to Greece with his tail between his legs. I remember an Interview with Matt Elliott who also said how shite he was with Leicester which made it all the more remarkable about how well he played for Greece. It makes me wonder if you ever saw him play....

Have I ever seen Theo play? Your so funny, you cannot tell the difference between Theo and MUZZY!

Say no more!

[lavrentis]

Zagorakis was absolute shite when he played for us hence why he went back to Greece with his tail between his legs. I remember an Interview with Matt Elliott who also said how shite he was with Leicester which made it all the more remarkable about how well he played for Greece. It makes me wonder if you ever saw him play....

Great player is Theo.

[Trav Le Bleu]

There's seems to be some difficulty in understandings of the word Favourite, Crap and the putting of them together in a sentence.

Good thing I read the thread for a change cos I was gonna put something like this. What we really want is people like Coatsworth as you said and this one from the same era...

Roooooooooosteeeeeeer!

[suffolk fox]

I too can't believe certain individuals on this forum are calling players like Theo Crap? He certainly was not. Bloody good player!

Don't believe for one minute Elliot called him that either. He was arguably Crap when he played for us in goal against Palace.

Now that was funny. Even MON at the time when interviewed later said he couldn't beleive when he looked up Theo was putting the gloves on and going in goal he described it at the time as Remarkable. Elliots comments could have been towards his performance in goal not his displays in midfield.

Was a bloody good player saw him when we won 1-0 at Elland Rd Cottee scored Theo ran the midfield that day.

[Zingari]

he shot

he missed

he must be fookin pissed

ali brown ali brown

we shoulda kept him

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

so you weren't there on that rain soaked night at notts county when we were division 2 and they were division 1 and fitzpatrick scored the winner? great headed goal and all round great display by the team. we were rocking then under little and fitzpatrick played his part. some of you are just picking names out of the hat under sheer ignorance.

Cannot agree more with you about the sheer ignorance of some posters. I was there that night at Meadow lane Zenith Data trophy? or some other tin pot cup, I cannot remember. That night goes down in Leicester city folklore, so desperate we were for success we took loads of fans, I remember the walk from the train station in the pouring rain feeling so proud, Leicester seemed to have taken over Nottm that night. Then we all stood all evening in the open terrace getting absolutely soaked (my mate wore a bin bag to keep dry) Did we win 2-1? I remember the Fitzpatrick goal not much else.

Good memories!

[MauriceJobson]

Gary Coatsworth deserves a mention if only for the tackle on Paul Simpson in the play off final.

Possibly the latest tackle ever.

[Jimothy]

Notice Tricky Trev has got a few mentions on here. This atricle about journeymen in sport on wikipedia made me laugh, well just the first line.

[Captain...]

There's seems to be some difficulty in understandings of the word Favourite, Crap and the putting of them together in a sentence.

As I see it your supposed to be identifying some one who was fundamentally crap but who was a favourite of yours because of something special they did that struck a cord with you.

My best example would be Coatsworth who had little football skill but gave his all in team similarly lacking in skill but who compared to the previous incumbents was like a Knight in shining armour - and who could forget his rocket goal, I still dream it to this day.

Gary Coatsworth - crap but unforgetable

Exactly This ^^^

The first player that came to my mind was Gary Coatsworth, utter tosh but memorbale, as was Ian Ormondroyd.

Colin Gibson, I liked but he wasn't very good. The same could be said for most of that Brian Little, hard to find a quality player amongst them but they were my boyhood idols. Whitlow and Grayson were, at the time, average at best but they give it everything. Muggleton, Poole, Gav Ward, 3 distinctly average keepers fighting it out for one place. We were so average up front we had to use Steve Walsh as a striker, but they were all legends to a man, thanks to whoever mentioned Lee Pisspott, I would argue 'til I was blue in the face that he wasn't shite, but he was and I knew it deep down, a poor mans Guppy and he shagged Little's wife (allegedly).

The person who wanted to know the other youngster, it was the 2 Stuarts, Campbell and Wilson. I was so desperate for them to make, throw in there the likes of Lawrie Dudfield, Neil Lewis, Sam McMahon, Stef Oakes, so many nearly men that I would always watch with my blue tinted glasses on. Every missed pass and scuffed shot was justified by a bobble or being off balance or a slippery surface, but I guess time has proven they just weren't good enough.

I curse the doldrums as they have made me a cynical bastard, when I was a young lad in the Filbert Street Kop they were all legends, even Phil Gee.

Edit: Oh and that match report brought back some memories I had forgotten about Paul Williams almost dislocating his neck trying to duck underneath a ball that would have hit him square on the forehead if he'd had his eyes closed.

[lcfc_jme]

Winner. Because he was absolutely fucking abysmal yet adored, as he still is for some completely bizarre reason, by the masses.

[Anish]

Winner. Because he was absolutely fucking abysmal yet adored, as he still is for some completely bizarre reason, by the masses.

Disagree. He was stupid because he ran around like a headless chicken all over the pitch which meant he wasn't in the right place at the right time, but he wasn't crap. He had a decent technique and he was our top scorer in each of his 2/3 years.

[Guest Mee-9]

Gotta be Frank Sinclair.

[Bakey]

Featured in my first ever game at Filbert Street, and tbh was the only player I remember really, wore the number 7 shirt if I'm correct and perhaps can be labeled crap due to his lack of games during his period at the club, 30 or so appearances for £3 million. But I Seeing him at Filbert Street is lodged in my memory.