Most Dirty Player you've seen facing Argyle Home or Away...?

Reminded me currently watching Good Morning Britain and Chris Kamara on the Show. Mind you Micky Horswill didn't have the best of reputations either !
Another away to Bolton in mid 70's was Sam Allardyce....

Wise for being a sneaky little shite, hardly Vinnie Jones in the tackle, but pinching, poking, little taps and a constant windup down the lug ole.

Who was it up upended Ossie Ardiles at Home Park....?? For life of me I cant remember

Nicky Marker done him big style if i remember rightly

He wasn't generally a dirty player, but I've always hated Graeme Sharpe for breaking Summerfields leg at Goodison in the replay. Cnut. Summers was never really the same player after that.

Ian Holloway was a right nasty bastard as a player.

David Speedie, not particularly 'ard in a Graeme Souness kind of way but a horrible, dirty cnut.

This guy wasnt a dirty player but i always hated that ginger twat from Shitty, Ronnie Jepson

Saw Chopper Harris at Stamford Bridge dont think against Argyle (could have been) but dirty fecker he was Jeez...

Czarcasm wrote:

He wasn't generally a dirty player, but I've always hated Graeme Sharpe for breaking Summerfields leg at Goodison in the replay. Cnut. Summers was never really the same player after that.

I think Everton appeared in Shoot magazine shortly afterwards.
I managed to rip his face from all the magazines sold in the local newsagents.

John Sheridan back when He got Friio sent off.

Another vote for Chopper Harris, and I also saw him do his nasty business against Argyle in a midweek cup match at the Bridge, on the back of a lost week hitching around. Played a couple of times later in the 70s when we rubbed shoulders with them, and each time he was a horror.

Surprisingly, I also thought Terry Paine was a dirty player. As a youngster, I was shocked an international winger could be so nasty. He delighted in studs up dangerous tackles.

Think theres already a thread on this somewhere may bump it in the small hours

George Kirby for Argyle was a vicious sod and I concur with the above about Terry Paine, what a dirty player he was !

Paine and Harris were dirty little Shi'ites, there were loads of them about in that era. Two who spring to mind were Alan Stephenson of Palace-saw him put a huge gash in Mike Bickles knee at HP-and Duncan Forbes of Norwich. Mind you, Nelson was an animal as well-those blokes would have looked after Costa and no excuses. Kevin Muscat was one of the biggest psychotics ever to take the field although I don't remember him playing much against Argyle but there was a good clash once at HP between Vinnie Jones and John Matthews-felt sorry for the ball in some of the tackles. A lot of the really vicious stuff has been eradicated by rule changes over the years, quite right too.

What's interesting is how the interpretation of the rules has changed, and what is considered a cheating player these days. Virtually every penalty area action is marred with such obvious pulling, that it almost makes the game a farce, with every player indulging. Hardly dark arts any more, given the so obvious ubiquitous cheating.

For me, the modern continual constant upper body pulling/dragging is ruining the game far more than ever the flying high tackle from 50 yards out. It's a different game. And not a better one.

Lord Biro wrote:

What's interesting is how the interpretation of the rules has changed, and what is considered a cheating player these days. Virtually every penalty area action is marred with such obvious pulling, that it almost makes the game a farce, with every player indulging. Hardly dark arts any more, given the so obvious ubiquitous cheating.

For me, the modern continual constant upper body pulling/dragging is ruining the game far more than ever the flying high tackle from 50 yards out. It's a different game. And not a better one.

Maybe there is a balance to be struck somewhere.Agree that some of the antics that go on,especially at corners and free kicks,are incredible-it was exempified on Tuesday night when Brunt [i think] was hauled to the ground, going back again to days gone by,Mick McManus would have been proud of it.The matter is in the referees hands AFAIC-doesn't matter who started it,the first offence that he sees should be a free kick or penalty.Quite difficult though i suppose when a lot of it occurs when the ball is dead.Don't think the game lost much though by outlawing the crash-through-the -legs tackle from behind,by which a lot of carthorse defenders negated the effect of more talented players.