Showing articles in category Graham Hyde.

Players Who Look A Bit Like Famous People

Concise, to the point and imaginatively titled this piece does exactly what it says on the tin.

Inspired by a chance sighting with Jimmy Greaves’ doppelganger in a Birmingham café, this is a celebration of players who bear a similarity to a famous face.

I’m sure at this point you have high hopes that the player featured has a reputation that stretches across the globe and on the pitch he is/was feared and respected in equal measures.

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John Lukic

“Where’s Lukic? He’s nowhere. He’s nowhere.”

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Illie Dumitrescu

Within days of signing for Spurs, Dumitrescu was splashed all over the News of the World with accusations that he was chasing prostitutes. A blow to all those at White Hart Lane hoping he would add to the formidable attacking line-up of Klinsmann, Sheringham and Dozzell.

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Peter Beagrie

Peter Beagrie is perhaps best remembered for his somersaulting goal celebrations and a career that saw him play until he was 40, but often overlooked is the fact that he once rode a motorcycle through a hotel plate glass window.

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Steve Ogrizovic

Steve Ogrizovic is one of those players who I have no recollection of ever being young. In my mind he has always been old and was born in goal for Coventry City.

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Neil Ruddock

Where’s the referee in this picture? Where’s the ball? Is a headlock a legitimate tackle?

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Owen Coyle

Yeah yeah, Owen Coyle has guided Burnley into the Premier League for the first time in their history in only his second season at Turf Moor, but who cares when you’ve starred in Hollywood film, A Shot At Glory alongside Oscar winner Robert Duvall.

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Alan Shearer

Alan Shearer won pretty much every individual honour going, including PFA Players Player of the Year twice, in 1995 and ‘97, Writers Association Player of the Year in ‘94 and he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2004. In his role as manager of Newcastle United he has been less successful though.

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