Your favourite non-Boro player of all-time, with one caveat

Controversial but as a young (prolific) striker, I idolised Alan Shearer from 1993 onwards. I have great memories of meeting him after we walloped Blackburn 2-0 in 1995 and he signed my programme.

I even insisted on eating chicken and beans before a match on a Sunday morning "cos that is what Alan ate" before a game. I also remember my Dad coming home from the club on a Saturday night and watching MOTD with me just to catch Blackburn's (and even Newcastle's) highlights.
 
Rofesleg said:
I don't see it like that personally. Too much tribalism and passion for me to be entertained.
If I am watching a match live I can't relax until we are 4 goals ahead in the second half. Or 3 in the last 10 minutes.

If we win I might sit back and enjoy the highlights. Possibly a draw if we score a late equaliser or something.

But if we lose, not a chance. Even if everyone has been treat to a Thierry Henry style masterclass.

I can't watch football for entertainment only. I struggle to watch a match at all if I don't care who wins.
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I agree with you on a personal level - in terms of Boro, its result driven, and the entertainment is an added bonus!

However overall the purpose is to entertain, attract the crowds, pay the money etc - you are right, football is so personal there will always be a committed number who keep coming back regardless.

Anything outside of Boro, I demand SKY and TNT offer me 4-4 draws etc every week to justify my subscriptions! (They were lucky last week!)
 
I know Lee Tomlin won't have been compared to Ronaldinho very often, but in a way I used to enjoy watching him in exactly the same way (relatively speaking), even if he had a bad game there would be something worth going for.

If only he'd been 10 years younger, and a bit higher profile, he and Ronaldinho could have run the show for Barcelona against the Galacticos.
 
atypical_boro said:
Bobby had him at Barca too. Amazingly never capped until he was 29 though.
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Aye Robson was always the link as he rated him at Barca and gave him a big break. I’m sure there was a lazy article tenuously linking him with us too, but most decent players of that era were at some point! He was a quality player and it’s bizarre he only got a handful of caps in his later Espanyol years.
 
Smoggle said:
Aye Robson was always the link as he rated him at Barca and gave him a big break. I’m sure there was a lazy article tenuously linking him with us too, but most decent players of that era were at some point! He was a quality player and it’s bizarre he only got a handful of caps in his later Espanyol years.
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I think he was one of a few Barca players in the mid-90s who were seen as good but not indispensable, Nadal being another, who was constantly linked with us.
 
atypical_boro said:
I know Lee Tomlin won't have been compared to Ronaldinho very often, but in a way I used to enjoy watching him in exactly the same way (relatively speaking), even if he had a bad game there would be something worth going for.

If only he'd been 10 years younger, and a bit higher profile, he and Ronaldinho could have run the show for Barcelona against the Galacticos.
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Loved Tomlin, could be a box of tricks at times.
 
Paulo Montero, I love defenders who have good distribution skills as well as an assassin side to their play, he revelled in the dark arts. Teams need players like him to get through the difficult moments where they are up against it, is it an attitude, mentality, a skill, a coaching? I don't know, but I know we lacked it last season. The game against Leicester says we might be developing it.
 
Other than Steer's contribution, this appears to have turned into a "who do you think is the best non-Boro player" thread, whereas the question was "who is your favourite non-Boro player" so I'll go with what was requested and say Robin Friday, with an honorable mention for Charlie Wright (the mad Charlton keeper) and Steve Bull
 
I was fortunate enough to see Best play; he was sensational, even in the latter stages of his career. Henry was also a sublime player too and I admired his footballing talents.

One player I always had a soft spot for though just for his sheer graft and all round good egg-ness was Gary Speed, despite the clubs he played for. Sadly missed.
 
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