1. Capped 71 times for Ireland.
Kevin Moran
Frank Stapleton
Mark Lawrenson
David O'Leary
2. Former Aston Villa striker who scored the winning goal in their 1982 European Cup final victory over Bayern Munich.
Gary Shaw
Tony Morley
Peter Withe
Dennis Mortimer
3. Ex-Brazilian international who featured at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.
Falcão
Socrates
Eder
Zico
4. This West German midfielder played club football for Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
Paul Breitner
Franz Beckenbauer
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
Andres Brehme
5. This guy spent 12 years on the books with Liverpool from 1984.
Gary Ablett
Jan Molby
Steve Nicol
Craig Johnston
6. Name the former AC Milan player on the left.
Mauro Tassotti
Mark Hateley
Franco Baresi
Ray Wilkins
7. This Dane made 139 appearances for Manchester United between 1984-1988.
Jesper Olsen
Arnold Muhren
John Sivebaek
Nikola Jovanovic
8. Spanish forward nicknamed El Buitre (The Vulture).
Míchel
Txiki Begiristain
Emilio Butragueño
José Antonio Camacho
9. Member of Wimbledon's 'Crazy Gang', who scored in the 1988 FA Cup final.
Terry Gibson
Vinnie Jones
Lawrie Sanchez
Dennis Wise
10. Name the ex-Italian striker.
Paolo Rossi
Marco Tardelli
Roberto Mancini
Gianluca Vialli
You scored out of !
You're Diego Maradona.
Top of the world.
You scored out of !
You're Michel Platini.
Now facing uncertainty as Uefa boss, but what a player in his day.
You scored out of !
Ray Houghton.
A valiant effort, like just Ireland at Euro '88.
You scored out of !
You're Harald 'Toni' Schumacher.
Like the ex-German keeper against France in 1982, you deserve a straight red for that horrible performance.
How many of these 90s footballers can you name from just their haircuts?
How well do you remember the 1995 football year? · The42
Advertisement
Watch Royal Rumble 2003. Around the 8 minute mark Edge and Rey Mysterio give him a double dropkick but Edge goes right across his face and breaks his nose!
The worst one pat. Remember m n m? When the guy got the ladder right in the face. Complete botch. His nose spread across his face
Joey hasn’t been the same since and is effectively retired (training in nxt now). One of the worst injuries I’ve witnessed.
Oh God. Yeh, that one is foul!
I love watching NFL, but the number of former players committing suicide because of the CTE-related dementia is scary and really needs to be addressed.
It’s not just just the older guys suffering symptoms either, linebacker Jovan Belcher who was only 26 and still playing for the KC Chiefs last year, murdered the mother of his child and committed suicide.
How long before they wake up and change the rules?
Where is it claimed that this had to do with cte? The reasoning behind that particular tragedy says he had a row with his gf over whether their daughter was his or not.
I think it’s really admirable what chris is doing but other tragedies shouldn’t be cited to push an agenda…
Belcher was a 3 time All America wrestler as well as a crunching linebacker whose job it is to crash head first repeatedly into 250lb+ blockers and running backs… head trauma much?
It is also well documented by close colleagues and friends that he displayed all the early stage signs of cte, e.g. depression, memory loss, confusion, aggressive behaviour etc…
…but hey if you think shooting his girlfriend 9 times and then himself was a perfectly sane, rational response to a row over the daughter then fair enough.
Like I said I love watching nfl, but it doesn’t take a genius to realise that repeatedly leading with their helmets, as they are taught to do from a young age, causes major problems later in life.
Was the same story with the Chris Benoit murder suicide. Everyone put it down to roid rage or personal issues with his wife but Nowinski worked with Benoits father closely and when they did an autopsy on the brain of Chris Benoit they discovered that due to the number of concussions Chris Benoit suffered he had a brain the equivalent to an elderly person suffering dementia. It was then argued how many dementia sufferers kill their family but I would argue back how many are physically capable of doing so.
After this was high lighted WWE took steps to prevent this. Unprotected chair shots to the head are banned, certain moved such as piledrivers and top rope head butts (incidentally one of Benoits finishers) are banned. On the other hand American Football associations have stuck their head in the sand.
Billy Korgan.
Karl Pilkingtons twin. :)
I agree that the NFL has to do more to
protect players – the constant impact to the brain in the sport is definitely related to depression later in a players life, as seen with linebacker Junior Seau. I also think that the NFL isn’t strict enough in regards to PEDs – so many players nowadays are on HGH and other banned substances – the combination of both brain trauma and dangerous substances does even more damage to the body. No wonder ex players are suing.
Interesting piece, but the link on Twitter was called “We’re putting our kids at too much risk by letting them play certain contact sports. Here’s how we can change that:”
This doesn’t really come close to addressing that…