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5 Players who made you fall in love with Southend and Football

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Stan
Freddie
Crownie
Ricki

And in this time of calamity comes the new kid on the block who gets excitement level up when he gets on the ball Charlie K.

Heroes of other teams and yesteryear.

Pat Jennings
Thierry Henri
Stan, again, and at L'pool and Nott F.
Rodney Marsh
George Best.
 
Actually scrap that second answer I'm going for

Andre Kana-Biyik
Emmanual Kuende
Victor N'Dip
Claudio Cannigia
Benjamin Massing
 
Southend:

Alan Moody
Terry Nicholl
Stuart Parker
Steve Yates
Neil Freeman

Non Southend:

Pele
Bobby Moore
Peter Bonetti
George Best
Billy Bremner (just very memorable, not that I particularly liked him!)
 
Sorry I know this is off topic, but I see George Best's name appearing a few times, anyone remember his one and only appearance at RH for Bournemouth? An otherwise boring 0-0, he was overweight & unfit (& probably drunk) & still had more class in his big toe than the other 21 players on the pitch. Barely left the centre circle & just sprayed passes around.

Anyway, here's my first 5 truly memorable shrimpers:

Alan Moody
Bill Garner
Colin Morris
John Burridge (on loan but what a keeper and entertainer)
Ron Poutney

Non-Shrimpers:

George Best
Pat Jennings
Martin Chivers
Gazza
Kenny Dalglish
 
Southend:

Darryl Flahavan
Adam Barrett
Kevin Maher
Freddy Eastwood
Barry Corr

Non-Southend:

Thierry Henry
Ronaldinho
Roberto Carlos
Cristiano Ronaldo
Lionel Messi

Of those two lists I think I’d probably credit Freddy the most for my love of Southend and Ronaldinho the most for my love of football in general. I used to be in absolute awe of Ronaldinho. Huge amount of skill, huge amount of technical ability, likeable and one of the most entertaining to watch.
 
Difficult to pick 5 and I'll probably kick myself as soon as I've posted this for forgetting somebody.

Southend top five
  1. Colin Morris
  2. Ron Pountney
  3. Billy Best
  4. Stanley Collymore
  5. Freddy Eastwood

Non-Southend
  1. George Best
  2. Gordon Banks
  3. Gazza
  4. Alan Ball
  5. Ashley Cole
 
Well, I selected mine based on my first experience of watching Southend, so my first couple of seasons. Seems others have gone for their favourite all time 5 players. Nevertheless, an interesting thread and a great read.
 
Leigh_Seasider said:
Well, I selected mine based on my first experience of watching Southend, so my first couple of seasons. Seems others have gone for their favourite all time 5 players. Nevertheless, an interesting thread and a great read.
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Mine were from different eras, teams and some where as seen as a young'un, others as a reborn follower. I have never been a non attending supporter but there have been some lean years when the call to go to games (as in under Bond) has been hard to remain enthusiastic.
 
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