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Post by adesgonnagetyer on Jan 23, 2004 13:52:12 GMT
What a supremely talented player. I mean...the way he tucked it between Grobbelaar's legs at Anfield.......er......hang on.....not that one  The other one......Zico. I really think he would have played for England if he would have lost 3 stone.........okay 4 stone  . He was technically almost perfect.If only he would have had a faster metabolism. |
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Post by stonetezza on Jan 23, 2004 13:53:38 GMT
He was just big - boned
Big arse bone and a big belly bone !
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 23, 2004 13:55:46 GMT
The main part of his game was his passing. It was noticable that his best form was in winter, when the pitches were heavy and everyone else was slowed down so his own lack of pace wasn't so clear.
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Post by Admin on Jan 23, 2004 13:56:55 GMT
I always loved that Mick Mills quote about him and his weight problems....
"He could certainly pass a ball but unfortunately he couldn't pass a pie shop!"
;D
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Post by JoeinOz on Jan 23, 2004 14:02:26 GMT
Tony Kelly was the sort of player who,if a dog was on the pitch, he's the one who would have caught it. Bit of a character. Couldn't catch any opponent he was trying to mark but would catch a sodding dog!
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Post by stonetezza on Jan 23, 2004 14:06:18 GMT
Isn't that how Becks met Posh ?
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Post by JR on Jan 23, 2004 14:06:58 GMT
I remember going with a mate to see Shrewsbury play C-rewe I think it was one Saturday Stoke weren't playing. Kelly got the ball and jinked passed a C-rewe player to chants of "Fatty...Fatty" (very well thought out song). He got the ball went over to the touchline in front of them, put his foot on it and applauded them, he then dropped a shoulder and left another player for dead.
Was classic stuff. heard a few things about him a few years later when was playing non league. A bit of a bad un by all accounts.
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Post by mooseman on Jan 23, 2004 21:34:48 GMT
This man did things with the ball that only God could have bestowed on him. I loved every pass he did. That last game, after Mills had said he not needed was pure magic. Every time he received the ball he passed it to Mills no matter where he was on the pitch. After he left he played against us at the Vic and took us apart, Alan Ball said that he was a player of no particular talent or pace, what a wanker he was. Zico must have had his problems because only Alan Hudson is on par with him in the passing game  |
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