I wont judge players on a couple of minutes game time (with one exception in this team) and wont put players in who at least did something good at some point (Gareth Farrelly, Tony Thomas in the Ferguson hat trick game etc) so that leaves me with....
GK Paul Gerrard - Was always going to struggle replacing Southall. I remember him most for the McAllister Derby and for almost killing Earl Barrett against Man Utd when coming to punch a ball he had no right in going for.)
RB Paul Holmes - Way out of his depth. A Kendall mkII budget signing and you could tell.
CB Antolin Alcaraz - There is a player in there somewhere. Never when playing for us though. The Kiev game was one of the worst player performances I have ever seen.
CB Slaven Bilic - As discussed above a joke of a player for us. 28 games, 4 red cards and a miraculous recovery from a career ending injury to play in the 98 World Cup. Complete charlatan.
LB David Burrows - He is David Burrows. Anyone who doesnt have him in their team needs their head testing.
RM Peter Degn - This is the exception. Only played one game I think (Oxford in the cup when Mitch Ward captained us...) but he was so laughably bad. He tripped over the ball with his first touch and it all went downhill from there. I was expecially annoyed as I always wanted him to get a game as I had heard good stuff about him beforehand.
CM Stephen Hughes - Massive let down. I'm not even sure if he was that bad he was just totally nondescript. You know how Linderoth was pretty nondescript? Well he was noticebly nondescript. Hughes didnt even manage to do that.
CM Claus Thomsen - Ill always remember him playing a five yard side footed pass under no pressure into the second tier of the main stand. I actually think he did an ever so slightly above awful job at centre back but in midfield he was awful.
LM Simon Davies - See Stephen Hughes. I'm not even sure I have him in the right position here thats how nonexistent he was. I toyed with putting Bilyaletdinov in here but his goals were all boss.
ST John Spencer - Such an odd signing. He was decent at Chelsea but never looked like scoring for us. Only played 7 games or so and I dont even think he touched the ball in most of them.
ST Brett Angell - Lovely bloke, great lower league scorer, awful footballer. Weird think about Angell is he was the one who got away yet we brought him back anyway. Signs on loan under Kendall, manages zero games and then gets bought by Walker anyway. The only player I have seen where our own fans chanted "off off off" at him when he was going to get booked (QPR away, Hinchcliffe last minute goal.)
