TRon Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I never thought Beresford or Barton were very good full backs tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Bez was fckin class...we had the second best defence in the league while playing total football. Playing like that your full backs will get exposed and centre backs will be exposed. give me that anyday of the weem over allerdyce...pardew and steve bruce set ups Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm not intent on bashing anyone, I just didn't think Bez was that good. Great days as a team obviously, but he wasn't anything special. You my friend get more and more bizarre by the day. Pro Pardew and anti Beresford . . . . You are a loony tune. Are you serious? You can't be. You just have a very strange grasp on the game of football. Bez did a cracking job for us. "He wasn't that good"?? Absolutely baffling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Happy birthday Bez!!! The best LB we had in the happy days.. can't think of any who has replaced him better apart from Santon and Enrique Beresford was a far better defender than Santon is - Enrique was a better defender than Beresford but not as good coming forward. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm not intent on bashing anyone, I just didn't think Bez was that good. Great days as a team obviously, but he wasn't anything special. You my friend get more and more bizarre by the day. Pro Pardew and anti Beresford . . . . You are a loony tune. Are you serious? You can't be. You just have a very strange grasp on the game of football. Bez did a cracking job for us. "He wasn't that good"?? Absolutely baffling. I'm definitely not the only person who didn't rate Beresford, you're just having a go for the sake of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Happy birthday Bez!!! The best LB we had in the happy days.. can't think of any who has replaced him better apart from Santon and Enrique Beresford was a far better defender than Santon is - Enrique was a better defender than Beresford but not as good coming forward. IMO Bez wasn't really that good at coming forward either. Yes he did overlap and support the wide players but he usually just passed sideways at the end of it. He wasn't a great crosser so there wasn't much in the way of assists from what I can remember. A lot of hustle and bustle without much end product. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm not intent on bashing anyone, I just didn't think Bez was that good. Great days as a team obviously, but he wasn't anything special. You my friend get more and more bizarre by the day. Pro Pardew and anti Beresford . . . . You are a loony tune. Are you serious? You can't be. You just have a very strange grasp on the game of football. Bez did a cracking job for us. "He wasn't that good"?? Absolutely baffling. I'm definitely not the only person who didn't rate Beresford, you're just having a go for the sake of it. I wasn't having a go fella, you were the first person to say anything anti Beresford in the thread about him not being very good. Was just replying to that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bealios Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Brilliant bloke. Went out with him and Rob Lee for a few beers after the QPR championship game a few years ago. I had had far too much beer but he was still happy to talk about the Keegan era, how close they got to the title, how gutted they all were when Keegan left etc. for what seemed like hours, and I can't imagine I was the most sparkling conversation at that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Some bizarre reactions there to some honest opinions about a player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Seems like a smashing bloke and an integral part of the best NUFC team I've ever had the pleasure to watch (and probably ever will). He'll do for me. Many happy returns Bez. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
womblemaster Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Always thought he was gay, for some reason. Happy birthday! just cos of his hairstyle, or the way he ran? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I know a little story about him that is true and it involves ,well i can p.m anyone who is interested but not for an open forum and it isnt unlawful what its about Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 anyone knows what Darren Peacock is up to these days? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 anyone knows what Darren Peacock is up to these days? Manager of Lancaster City. Still has long hair. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 For some reason I always remember Robbie Elliott with more fondness than John Beresford. That said, in those days I was lucky to get a few minutes of highlights per week on TV; the rest I had to read in the British Football Week newspaper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hughesy Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I always thought Peacock was underrated. He improved a lot as his career with us went on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I always thought Peacock was underrated. He improved a lot as his career with us went on. True that..he was a quiet character and never got into too much (as far as I can remember).. hope he has ambitions to get into a big job one day..maybe with one of the Football League sides.. *now wait for the younger fans to start bashing Peacock too... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I always thought Peacock was underrated. He improved a lot as his career with us went on. Totally agree. He won player of the season for us the year we nearly won it too in 95/96. That took some going when you look at the players we had and how well they performed. That season, he was fantastic. He started a little slow, but turned into a quality defender for us. Will be good to see both him and Bez playing in Harper's testimonial. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 '1997 October 1 Dinamo Kiev Ukraine 2 Newcastle United England 2 Champions League' on youtube. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bendewar Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 he's still a canny player. Played in a charity match i played in. Played in the middle and he's still got a beauty left peg on him. Rob Lee played too, he was shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andymc1 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I refereed his son a few year ago and he was watching. It was down Blackpool at a tournement and I suppose the last thing he expected was a conversation with a Newcastle fan but he had some good crack and was happy enough to chat. His son must be around 16 now, he was class for his age group at 12/13 and if he has kept up his progress he'll be a pro. Billy Beresford - remember the name. In fact, just googled it and he's currently at Scunthorpe, probably didn't progress as much as I'd expected Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Good player for us and model pro who'd walk into our current team. Though I do remember him sometimes getting a bit of lighthearted stick at the time. One away game in particular "Ah, Beresford, man!" became a kind of running gag catchphrase, epseically after a guy who'd been moaning about Beresford most of the game shouted it after Barton lost the ball (any error thereafter by any player being greeted with "Howay man Beresford, not again!"). Don't think anyone actually thought he wasn't a good player, just in a very strong squad he had a reputation for dropping the odd clanger amongst some people. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 We got into the Champions League thanks to his double v Croatia Zagreb which gave us a crucial lead going over there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 I proper loved Bez, but once we got to the 95/96 season I thought he looked like a weak link. Having said that, I was like 11, so what did I know? It was probably Ginola's fault, but I defended him to a fault. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby_solano Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 got a lot of time for Bez, cracking left back. happy birthday Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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