Thomas Gravesen aka Mad Dog

[Toast]

Or Tim Howard (pre beard)
NB I'm sure there was an 'Everton slap-heads eleven' (or something similar) thread on here years ago. Just searched and can't find it. Anybody remember it?

Ian Wilson, Terry Darracott and Howard Kendall.. off the top of my slap head.

 

[kev]

Ian Wilson, Terry Darracott and Howard Kendall.. off the top of my slap head.

I think it was 'totally bald or shaved' - Barkley? distin? ferrari? off the top of my distinguished silver head.

 

[Paulie]

He could look world class for one half and an amateur the next half. He really did have ability but was too inconsistent and erratic.

 

[Rudolf Hucker]

I quite liked him, but yeah I never thought he was anything special but he played for real so who knows.

In reality, he was a bizarre signing for RM.

 

[everton fan number one]

The fact that he was rubbish then turned good made me like him more I think, kind of like the team as a whole back then.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I remember a wonderful solo goal against Villa. Think we beat them 5-1 and Schemichiael may have scored for them!

 

[MikeH72]

He really was a 22 carat nutcase, he used to give Bent loads in training, telling him how crap he was, one day Bent had enough, lost it completely, wanted to fight Tommy, Tommy said "why are you upset, Tommy 's mad everyone knows I'm mad, behave. Marcus just looked at him still fuming but let it go.

Another time when Radzinski came back playing for Fulham, in the tunnel waiting to go on the pitch, Tommy is in his face
booing him going " boo, boooo boo, that's all your going to get when you run out here" he wasn't far wrong either.

But Tommy was never a hard man, Carsley was a real hard man, on and off the field, playing football if you put the two of them together you'd be lucky to get a decent player out of the two of them, that's just my opinion

Lee Carsley was excellent and I won't have any dissenting opinion of him. Took us about 5 years to properly replace him.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Lee Carsley was excellent and I won't have any dissenting opinion of him. Took us about 5 years to properly replace him.

We properly replaced him?

 

[MikeH72]

We properly replaced him?

I’d probably say McCarthy in that first Martinez season had a similar influence in that role. Even that was only for a season though.

 

[Cameron Manning]

Lee Carsley was excellent and I won't have any dissenting opinion of him. Took us about 5 years to properly replace him.

If you liked him fair enough, you'll have to have a different opinion from me, he was master of the five yard pass then having made it he was like a traffic policeman pointing in all directions to the player receiving the pass to get rid of it, the goal he scored in the Derby game, a good goal, influenced a lot of people, Inremember the game versus Aston Villa when Tim Cahill was tackling a Villa player, Carsley decided to help him out and joined in, Cahill got carried off and was out for about six weeks, Carsley had got Cahill, a few minutes later in the same game he did it again when Alan Stubbs was on the receiving end of Carsley's tackle, Stubbs glared at him as if to say " your playing for us not them", Carsley never did it for me, but each to his own.

 

[maccavennie]

I remember a wonderful solo goal against Villa. Think we beat them 5-1 and Schemichiael may have scored for them!

3-2 that game finished where Schmeichel scored at the end. I think Tommy did score a boss goal though that game. I'll find the link Ron

 

[COYBL25]

Lee Carsley was excellent and I won't have any dissenting opinion of him. Took us about 5 years to properly replace him.

We properly replaced him?

We`ve never replaced him.

McCarthy isn`t fit to lace his boots.

The poor mans Makelele.

 

[Connor]

We`ve never replaced him.

McCarthy isn`t fit to lace his boots.

The poor mans Makelele.

First season McCarthy-Barry is the closest we've ever come to replacing the Carsley-Gravesen brilliance

 

[dano26]

Liked Gravestone, determined, gave his all and really did have ability. Definitely someone I remember and will stick in my mind.

Only two real 'mad dogs' I've ever seen in my 40 years though.......Ferguson and Van Der Howe!!!!!!!!!!

Serious players with serious attitudes too. However, both nice fellas off the pitch by all accounts!!!!!!

 

[Albertini78]

I'm sure there was a game at The SOL when Moyes took him off after 20 odd mins was either that or he was getting sent off