Bring Back Beardsley??

He's quoted on Sporting Life as saying he'd love to be playing in Bobby's current side. In Dyer's position. The state we're in right now, I'd be half tempted to put him on if Dyer can't play. ;-)

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002

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Aah, Beardo! Love to see him just once more in B&W.
Actually, funny you should bring this up Ciara. Had a heated debate t'other day about Beardo and Dyer, the basics of which were: if you could only have one of them (at their best) in your team, who would it be? Of course the argument then went along the lines of 'well, depends who else is in the team' etc. Have to say I went along the Beardo route. At his best there are few who would better him.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002

Beardsley, no contest. Best player I've ever seen in B&W. And the most committed/loyal/motivated/handsome (er, that last bit was a joke, obviously)

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002

No question. Beardsley was imo the best player to pull on a b&w shirt. He had skill to take on numerous players, genius to know where people were and pick out a pass, creativity to make the openings and on top of that he could finish better than most centre forwards of today.

Certainly my fav player.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002

as I love to repeat young Kevin isn't yet the age Peter Beardsley was when he joined us in the old second division. Anything/everything Beardsley achieved was at an older age than Dyer is. Beardsley was brilliant but for me only matured into a top class First division player at the New Years game when he beat Sunderland 3-1 on his own. This was in 1985 when he was 24.

Dyer is still learning his game and at this stage in his career shouldn't be anywhere near where Beardsley got to.

Dyer depends a lot on pace, Beardsley had guile too. Lets hope that Dyer is here longer than Beardsley, it would be nice to look forward to ten years of him rather than missing out on his best years as we did with Peter.

Of course Craig Bellamy is even younger, and demonstrably further away from being a mature professional footballer.

We're very lucky to have them.

Beardsley was the best though.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 2002