Unsworth

[Eggs]

Remember him hitting the bar against Sheff Wed.

...thought so too. Gwladys St me thinks.

 

[Dell Boy]

I absolutely loved Rhino when he was with us. You really felt that he cared more than it just being a pay cheque.

Thinking about Unsworth just now got me to consider Tim Cahill in a different light. Maybe it's an age thing (me being mid 30s) but whilst I always appreciated Cahill as an effective player who gave his all for us I never elevated him to the status of an Everton legend as I often see him described on here.

Unsworth for me was at one time arguably the top left back in the league and potentially I could make a case for him playing in the 85 team whereas for me Tim Cahill would never get close.

Anyway great to see him back and hopefully he, Stubbs and Duncan will progress up the ranks within the club before too long.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

...thought so too. Gwladys St me thinks.

Think he missed about 3 out of 20-odd

 

[fitzyefc]

Gutted, get rid of Neville and now we get my second most hated player ever. Oh well im sure he can teach our young boys 80 yard diagonal long balls over the striker

 

[Goat]

Gutted, get rid of Neville and now we get my second most hated player ever. Oh well im sure he can teach our young boys 80 yard diagonal long balls over the striker

How can you hate Unsworth?

 

[BoysInBlue]

Made up Unsworth is back, top bloke.

 

[fitzyefc]

How can you hate Unsworth?

Because I had to watch him every week for about 10 years continually be one of the worst players I have seen in a blue shirt, same reasons I hated Neville.
Nothing against him as a person unlike Nevile but he was terrible at footy and the only player I can remember being booed by his own fans on more than one occasion

 

[Goat]

Now your just making stuff up, Unsworth was never booed by Everton fans.

 

[Dell Boy]

Because I had to watch him every week for about 10 years continually be one of the worst players I have seen in a blue shirt, same reasons I hated Neville.
Nothing against him as a person unlike Nevile but he was terrible at footy and the only player I can remember being booed by his own fans on more than one occasion

That statement is absolute bollocks. A complete and utter fabrication. I probs had a season ticket for 75% of Unsworth's time at Goodison and went to a load of aways. The idea that we booed him on more than one occasion is a joke. Yes of course he sprayed a few long balls a mile wide but so too did he make a dozen crunching tackles a game.

 

[toffee matt]

Because I had to watch him every week for about 10 years continually be one of the worst players I have seen in a blue shirt, same reasons I hated Neville.
Nothing against him as a person unlike Nevile but he was terrible at footy and the only player I can remember being booed by his own fans on more than one occasion

Unsworth was always extremely popular with our support. Never heard him being booed at goodison

 

[BoysInBlue]

Unsworth was a major crowd favourite.

To the point that when he retired, he famously tried to sit as a spectator in the Lower Gwladys Street end for a derby match, only for him to be mobbed by fans and have to be moved to the Main Stand at half time for his own safety.

 

[blueser]

Great lad Unsy happy he's back where he belongs.

 

[mythbuster]

Legend! Pretty sure he took a pay cut in order to rejoin us from Villa. Welcome home Unsy.

 

[fitzyefc]

How can you hate Unsworth?

Unsworth was booed at Goodison lads, not sure on the specific games, one game he done not one but 2 backpasses what the opposition scored from, Sheffield wed maybe? Think Ipswich might of been the other game. I was a season ticket holder (not that it matters) and went to every away game between 97 and 02 and the majority for the rest of his career (again not that it matter) he was never a crowd favorite until he retired, its like saying Neville was a crowd fave because half our fans like him and half didn't.

 

[Rupert's Tower]

I absolutely loved Rhino when he was with us. You really felt that he cared more than it just being a pay cheque.

Thinking about Unsworth just now got me to consider Tim Cahill in a different light. Maybe it's an age thing (me being mid 30s) but whilst I always appreciated Cahill as an effective player who gave his all for us I never elevated him to the status of an Everton legend as I often see him described on here.

Unsworth for me was at one time arguably the top left back in the league and potentially I could make a case for him playing in the 85 team whereas for me Tim Cahill would never get close.

Anyway great to see him back and hopefully he, Stubbs and Duncan will progress up the ranks within the club before too long.

I think you should take the tinted specs off, as much as Rhino was an icon he was never actually that good, he wouldn't even be good enough to dislodge Distin in today's side and he'd be nowhere near the mid 80s side. Hinchcliffe was better than him and as a centre half I'd have big Dave Watson over him everyday who wasn't even that good