CF: Gijs Bos – Netherlands
I’m not picking loan players, which means no Davide Somma. Instead, there’s a European duo up top who could be described as cult heroes.
The giant Dutchman Gijsbert Bos arrived at Lincoln City in 1996 for a fee of £10,000. He was very different to the usual journeyman striker we’d been used to. First off he was tall, really tall. He stood at six feet and four inches, which suited the John Beck philosophy very well. It would do Gijsbert a disservice, though, to assume he was all height and no ability; he was stereotyped more by who the manager was than his own style of play.
He bagged ten goals in 44 appearances (36 starts), but eventually fell out with Beck. He spent time on loan with Gateshead, and appeared for Rotherham and Walsall before heading back across the English channel, where he resigned for IJsselmeervogels, the team City had lifted him from a couple of years before.