Click on the above link and you will find yourself in dreamworld. It is Glen Hoddle's birthday today and he is celebrating his 59th year. This little snippet shows you what a genius he was (on the pitch), not so off it and you will notice that you do not need sound to enjoy his passing and scoring.
He is a tall lad (6') and has long legs and whilst on some human beings they might get tangled up like Crouch, Glen was able to use the long levers to pass a ball over great distances and from a short backlift.
We all know his career path through Watford as a schoolboy, scouted by a bloke passing his local school match while taking a dog for a walkies.
Then Spurs (377 times-88 goals)), AC Monaco (69-27 goals)), Swindon (67-2) and Chelsea (31-1). His international record was 53 games and 8 goals.
Glen was player manager at Swindon (introducing the sweeper to their ranks) and Chelsea, he also managed Southampton, Tottenham and Wolves and of course England between 1996-9.
He never stayed long at any post and finished up at Wolves in 2006. Hoddle was inducted into the National Football Museum Hall of Fame in 2007. He now runs the Glen Hoddle Academy in Spain, hoping to find young stars from the English leagues who have been ditched and hoping to revitalise their careers.
We won't mention any of the funny stuff that marred his career, though he survived and is now a TV pundit; always perceptive.
He shares the day with David Bryant, the multiple Bowls World Champion and John Cleese, who also had long legs.
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