Geoff Shreeves
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Podcast Appearances
People just think Bellamy quick, running down the channels.
But your actual decision-making with the ball, I always felt was very...
underappreciate them is very good.
I'm not saying you were a number 10 playing people in, but you'd very rarely do anything stupid with the ball.
I always think it was a good sign of someone's football brain, even though you were renowned, as I say, for that pace.
Whenever you were in possession, you never lost possession.
I used to always use that with Roy Keane.
When he was playing, I was playing against him.
People would always say, Roy Keane puts his foot in, he's a great ball.
He'd never give the ball away.
His pass is really good.
I always feel that with players...
Obviously, we all know what the main strength of every player was.
So, Mam is being aggressive and organising people.
But, yeah, I was probably a better player than I was given credit for.
You were.
But I just think it's the nature of the game that we always have this sort of pigeonhole mentality of what a player... It's the same with managers.
You know, Ferguson was this ranter and raver, but it was Wenger or someone else who was the tactical guy who was Mr Cool.
Whereas, to be at that level, you've got to have a touch of everything.
And, yes, your main strength is one thing, but there's no way you get to the level of...