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The Definitive Worst Tottenham Eleven

Gilberto should get an dishonourable mention.

From WIKI....
Gilberto only made three appearances for Spurs in the 2008–09 season. He started a league game against Portsmouth and a UEFA Cup tie with Spartak Moscow. He was substituted at half time in both games.His last appearance for Spurs came against Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Cup on 26 February 2009.
 
I think that there is a lot of re-writing history going on here. Were Postiga and Rebrov as bad as Booth and Rasiak? Clearly not but neither player failed because of lack of managerial support and neither was a diamond in an otherwise bad team. Both were appalling buys who were ill equipped for English football.
 
Rorschach said:
Gilberto should get an dishonourable mention.

From WIKI....
Gilberto only made three appearances for Spurs in the 2008–09 season. He started a league game against Portsmouth and a UEFA Cup tie with Spartak Moscow. He was substituted at half time in both games.His last appearance for Spurs came against Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Cup on 26 February 2009.
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Scored a cracker vs. West Ham though
 
Hotspur said:
Stalteri RB
Johnnie Jackson LM
Rasiak ST

Can it get any worse for a PL team??
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I wouldn't have Stalteri, purelly because of his goal in the 4-3 win over West Ham. Yes it was a tap in but a great memory for me and off all the players to get it!
 
I think we have to take the lists with a pinch of salt.
Of course Postiga had class, ditto Rebrov...but, well, it never happened for us so...it' a bit of fun, right?
 
Kevin Scott was rubbish from what I remember of him. Didnt he concede penalties for a few games in a row?
 
calderwood...never seen a defender back off the opposition as often as he did. one game, beardsley had him twisted in knots and on his arse time and time again iirc.
 
spasm said:
calderwood...never seen a defender back off the opposition as often as he did. one game, beardsley had him twisted in knots and on his arse time and time again iirc.
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Always thought Calderwood was fairly mediocre so fit in well at Spurs in the mid 90s.

You surely don't think he was as bad as Gary Doherty, Kevin Scott, David Tuttle, Jason Cundy or Stuart Nethercott?

That Nethercott fudge up against Southampton in 1994 still haunts me. From memory, if we'd won that, we'd have gone top (or close) and instead we fudged away a one goal lead thanks to that buffoon and it all went further south for Ossie from there.
 
Rorschach said:
Gilberto should get an dishonourable mention.

From WIKI....
Gilberto only made three appearances for Spurs in the 2008–09 season. He started a league game against Portsmouth and a UEFA Cup tie with Spartak Moscow. He was substituted at half time in both games.His last appearance for Spurs came against Shakhtar Donetsk in the UEFA Cup on 26 February 2009.
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Didn't he make a match deciding play in two of those?


More generally, there is no "Definitive Worst Tottenham Eleven". We have been so blessed in that area.
 
with Stalteri and Lee being so bad it's a wonder that the defense they made up 50% of was our strongest in years and one which we narrowly missed out on top 4 with. . .

Tramazani would be our worst left back in my memory - Gilberto as well.

only Ziege and Ekotto would be above Lee during my time following Spurs
 
milo said:
Can you name a better one in the preceding ten years?
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Exactly. He had limitations but he was the first left back in a decade playing in a decent team.

Stalteri had a similar although different problem. He was a moderate player in this improved team, in a position where we actually had a decent player in the previous decade.

Neither deserve the ranking in this thread.


Edit: How can anyone disagree with the following:

billyiddo said:
with Stalteri and Lee being so bad it's a wonder that the defense they made up 50% of was our strongest in years and one which we narrowly missed out on top 4 with. . .
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milo said:
Can you name a better one in the preceding ten years?
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Yes. All of them. Hence why I say he is the worst left back of my lifetime. Lightweight, one footed, poor going forward, even worse defensively, gung ho at times and a diver to top it off. And that's talking him up.
 
Difficult to follow this thread...

The options IMO:

Very expensive signing that turned out brick (good pedigree or not)
Big potential - poor return (big money signing)
Played handful of times and didn't deliver.
Reserve player that played too many times
Big name in a brick team
brick name in a big team
Worst of a bad bunch
Out of position
Played well for an average team, played badly for an average team
Didn't live upto our transfer fee
Didn't suit the manager
Didn't suit the style of play


blah blah...

Soooo many stipulations...
 
Jurgen the German said:
Yes. All of them. Hence why I say he is the worst left back of my lifetime. Lightweight, one footed, poor going forward, even worse defensively, gung ho at times and a diver to top it off. And that's talking him up.
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Weird, I always liked Lee. I have no idea why you'd have such a poor opinion of him. He was actually very good on the ball, and was a good foil for a Tainio, Davids or Malbranque type player in a lopsided 4-4-2.

The only massive mistake I remember from him was when he was robbed by Park Ji Sung
 
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