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I was at this match (first season after having graduated from Kop to Kemlyn) - forgotten what an important role my all time favourite player had in this with assists for both goals. In his own right he was, IMO, a marginally better right back than left back, but that combo with John Barnes was mouth watering.

The guy with the radio makes me laugh - we had one of them types sat behind us, who bored us all season with live score updates, but when the Kop went mad in this match we all turned to ask him what was happening at Villa Park and his feckin batteries were flat

PS @momoWASboss - ignore the source of tweet

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tombrown said:
I was at this match (first season after having graduated from Kop to Kemlyn) - forgotten what an important role my all time favourite player had in this with assists for both goals. In his own right he was, IMO, a marginally better right back than left back, but that combo with John Barnes was mouth watering.

The guy with the radio makes me laugh - we had one of them types sat behind us, who bored us all season with live score updates, but when the Kop went mad in this match we all turned to ask him what was happening at Villa Park and his feckin batteries were flat

PS @momoWASboss - ignore the source of tweet

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Brill - thanks for posting.

Not to disagree about Stevie Nicol being principally a right-sided player, and he's one of my favourites too - THE best utility player we've ever had, and I include Crazy Horse in that - but in my version of the All-Time team he gets in at LB because there are other outstanding candidates for the RB spot (Babbel, Rob Jones) while, at LB, not so much IMO.
 
Back in the day when football was football. What a mess it’s in now compared to that game!
 
Judge Jules said:
Brill - thanks for posting.

Not to disagree about Stevie Nicol being principally a right-sided player, and he's one of my favourites too - THE best utility player we've ever had, and I include Crazy Horse in that - but in my version of the All-Time team he gets in at LB because there are other outstanding candidates for the RB spot (Babbel, Rob Jones) while, at LB, not so much IMO.
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Do you think Andy Robo would be in with a shout now?
 
Yes. He wouldn't displace Stevie Nicol yet, but if he keeps on the way he's (mostly) been going I might well fetch him in and swap Stevie N over to the right.
 
I think that two of the most criminally underrated players of my lifetime in the English game are both FBs who were equally strong on each side... Chicco was a glorious player and should be spoken of with the likes of Stuart Pearce and Ashley Cole as the greatest to ever play the position. As was Dennis Irwin.
 
What a game that was! Remember watching it with my dad, and then 500 times over after buying the title winning season review VHS cassette. Good times.

My first kit was that Candy kit with 4 on the back. Still buggs me that my idol growing up, Nicol, has become such a fucking wanker as a pundit.

Was he like that as a player aswell? I was sadly to young to understand those things.
 
Hansern said:
What a game that was! Remember watching it with my dad, and then 500 times over after buying the title winning season review VHS cassette. Good times.

My first kit was that Candy kit with 4 on the back. Still buggs me that my idol growing up, Nicol, has become such a fucking wanker as a pundit.

Was he like that as a player aswell? I was sadly to young to understand those things.
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He didn't say a lot during his playing days, but he apparently had a reputation within the dressing-room of being thick as a plank. Later on Jason McAteer had a similar reputation during his time with us and got the nickname "Trigger" (from the "Only Fools and Horses" character) but Stevie Nicol had it before him.

Tremendous player though, top quality anywhere along the back line or in wide midfield - my goodness, how we could have done with him this season.
 
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He didn't say a lot during his playing days, but he apparently had a reputation within the dressing-room of being thick as a plank. Later on Jason McAteer had a similar reputation during his time with us and got the nickname "Trigger" (from the "Only Fools and Horses" character) but Stevie Nicol had it before him.

Tremendous player though, top quality anywhere along the back line or in wide midfield - my goodness, how we could have done with him this season.
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Thanks JJ, I think I remember the Trigger nickname. The thick as a plank reputation is certainly being maintained as a pundit..
 
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Thanks JJ, I think I remember the Trigger nickname. The thick as a plank reputation is certainly being maintained as a pundit..
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I remember watching one (or maybe all) of the holy trinity of Scots being interviewed waaaaaaaay back when, and he / they talked about how thick Steve Nicol was... They said how they'd worked hard, together, to establish the Scotland lads as the most intelligent gang in the dressing room. Then Chico comes along, and single-handedly shatters that set up, overnight. His / their words, not mine.

Might have been Jockey, actually... Sounds like something he'd say. 🙂
 
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Later on Jason McAteer had a similar reputation during his time with us and got the nickname "Trigger" (from the "Only Fools and Horses" character)
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(Deleted all references to my hero, wont hear a word said against him)

I think I've mentioned this before, but I travelled to & from the 1996 FA Cup final in the McAteer family minibus ... the genetic origins of Jason's intelligence levels were very obvious.

In particular when we stopped at a service station on the way home (obviously already in filthy moods), and a further 20 miles up the M6 one of them noticed her 15 year old son was missing. We had to go up to the next junction, turn around & head south, past the service station (as it was only accessible from the northbound lane), turn at the next junction and go back to look for him. When she couldn't find him, she chose that moment to remember that both she & he had one of those "new'-fangled mobile phone things", so called him up to find out he had caught a lift from some friends he met.
 
Arf.

Funny thing though - generally when I've heard him interviewed in more recent years he's come across as far from thick. Perhaps it's a carryover from one particular on-field incident I saw in a Liverpool-v-Mancs game, when Roy Keane advanced towards him in a threatening manner but then backpedalled after McAteer grinned wolfishly and invited him to bring it. Something like that would tend to predispose me in favour of a player. 😎
 
I met McAteer and Babb in a sports bar I used to work in in Dublin many moons ago. They were sat in the corner like Statler and Waldorf.... nice lads though!
 
I saw Babb at Melwood on the Alan Kennedy tour in the mid-90s. He was a bit of a disappointment TBH, standing off to one side with McMoneyman laughing and pointing in kind of a sneery way while a lot of the other players - Redknapp, Ruddock, Digger, Rushie - were really friendly, especially with the kids in the tour party.
 
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