Cult heroes

[EIM]

Kowalski linked to a site over on the semi-detached from reality thread where you can print up a t-shirt with your three cult heroes on. Much in the style of the Beatles t-shirts you can get, and the Slayer one that Carcass printed up, they look a bit like this:



So, good burghers of OTF, who would you have on yours? And, more importantly, why?

[My Name Is Ian]

Cult heroes

Right, I'd have to go for:

Minter &
Clark &
Cockram

Billy Minter was six decades before my time, but 356 goals in 362 matches isn't a bad return. Steve Clark I do remember - 322 goals in 488 matches between 1991 and 2000 (including 56 in the 1994/95 season). Allan Cockram was a midfielder who had two reasonably lengthy spells at the club as a player and one as manager, when he had an insanely attacking team that scored 96 goals and concede 81 in one season.

[Crusoe]

Cult heroes

Depends what you mean by cult heroes. If it's great players past & present, then probably Andy Ritchie and Roger Palmer for their goalscoring records over long careers at Boundary Park, and possibly Tricky Ricky Holden for being one of the most entertaining players around (I'm not really old enough to remember Alan Groves, a 1970s crowd-pleaser who died tragically young).

If it's a little more unpredictable, I'd go for more recent players like Gary Kelly (the goalkeeper), David Eyres, Paul Warne and John Sheridan, or relatively unsung heroes like Nick Henry, Richard Jobson and Gunnar Halle.

[beak]

Cult heroes

Asprilla &
Asprilla &
Asprilla

[Gerontophile]

Cult heroes

Lighthouse, Whitehouse and Shitehouse.

[ad hoc]

Cult heroes

Sheridan
Waddle
Hirst

[EIM]

Cult heroes

Sausage&
Mash&
Beans

[treibeis]

Cult heroes

Ippig &
Golke &
Ottens

[RobW]

Cult heroes

We'd have Simon Yeo, Gareth Ainsworth and 'Hoof' Grant Brown.

Yeo is the former soldier and postman who couldn't hit a barn door from October till April during the 2002/2003 season but scored the crucial equaliser on the last day that got us into the play-offs and then scored 3 goals over two-legs against Scunny (all after coming on as sub). Sadly he couldn't do anything to stop us getting tonked by Bournemouth at Cardiff, but we were just glad to be there, after going into administration a year before.
In the season when we got to Cardiff again, he scored 23 goals and although he bitched about the club when he left, he'll be fondly remembered.

Ainsworth is probably the best player i've seen in a red & white shirt. Total 100% commitment, really nice guy too and as part of John Beck's 'Team Lincoln' he managed to score 24 goals from right wing before we sold him to Port Vale. Genuinely nice bloke who helped us out when we needed the money by signing a few shirts and getting them sold, and when a few Lincoln mates of mine went to see his band play in Hammersmith he was happy to talk and pose for pics.

Grant Brown, or 'Hoof' played over 400 times for City and tops our football league appearances table. He's now our youth team coach, and this season has acted as caretaker manager and acting first team coach alongside Iffy whilst Peter Jackson recovers.

[dotmund]

Cult heroes

Crumplin &
Ward &

well, the third one is up for grabs. Given that the first two are drawn from either end of the Cult Hero stock - i.e. brilliant goal-getter and huge-hearted, big-spirited plodder - who knows? Zamora? Foster? Case? Lawrenson? Personally, I'd always want to pick John Byrne, because he was the white, Irish, Third Division Pelé.

So,
Crumplin &
Ward &
Byrne.

Stained with tears.

[Mumpo]

Cult heroes

Vinnie&
John&
Dennis

[Gangster Octopus]

Cult heroes

Just ordered :

Moore&
Fern&
Towner

If you don't know why, you weren't there.

[Bored Of Education]

Cult heroes

Eckhardt&
Dale&
Earnshaw

[Jorge Porbillas]

Cult heroes

Jones&
Thomas&
Griffiths

[Eggchaser]

Cult heroes

Moore &
Peters &
Hurst

for tradition, or for me,

Cottee &
Dicks &
Martin

[Guest]

Cult heroes

Gilzean&
Charnley&
Caniggia

Chic Charnley and the Little Bird. Together at last.

[Gangster Octopus]

Cult heroes

Surely, Eggy, you want a Pete Winkleman one...

[Ray de Galles]

Cult heroes

Dwyer &
Blake &
Earnie.

It should be four though, to properly match the band's shirts.

[Guest]

Cult heroes

Coffee on the keyboard at your edit reason there, GO.

[Bored Of Education]

Cult heroes

How many times did you see Phil Dwyer, Harry?

[G-Man]

Cult heroes

Davenport&
Birtles&
Webb

With "Keane" on the back, to equal things.

[Ray de Galles]

Cult heroes

From Cult Zeros, I already have this



in yellow on blue with the "slogan" EARNIE and this;



in black on red with the message "Rock Steady, George Berry".

[oscar mike]

Cult heroes

Watters &
Montgomerie &
Wright

Scored the goals that got us promotion from the 2nd Div. and still my all-time favourite player & our 1997 cup-winning skipper & cup-winning goalscorer

[Mumpo]

Cult heroes

Wouldn't this t-shirt company have been better offering an 11-name option?

[evilC]

Cult heroes

Milla&
Foe&
Song