#3 Billy Bremner
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William John Bremner has a statue outside Elland Road to honour the greatest Leeds United player of all time; a man built of "10st of barbed wire". Coincidence? Not at all.
With an FWA Footballer of the Year award, 2 league titles and 2 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Billy Bremner was the beating heart of one of England's most dominant football teams. The cracking midfielder typified much of his team's exhilarating quality on the ball and brutal pressure off it, despite his small stature. He was only 1.65m tall but he stood head and shoulders above most of the league.
In 1964, Bremner was one of the main protagonists in a fiery fixture against Everton that resulted in the referee calling for an anger management break ten minutes before half-time so the players would regain their composure.
Manchester United were one of Leeds' major rivals, and Bremner, as usual, flew into some brutal challenges to remind them of that. His alleged clashes with Brian Clough played a major part in the latter surviving only 43 days as Don Revie's choice captain kept their older traditions alive - despite the new incumbent's criticism of their methods.
In their record-breaking 1968/1969 season, Bremner played each and every match as Leeds only lost 2 matches on the way to setting a 34-match unbeaten run that spilled over into the following campaign.
