Those defenders had about one more season in them before being too old. Apart from Stones of course who got his start in that time.
It was not a good defence. People keep peddling this myth that it was.
right so it was coincidence that the man that shipped goals for fun at Wigan, a manger that had been beaten 9-0 just so happened to take over when all of the players in the back line had exactky the same amount of time before they deteriorated? The longer he was here the worse we got, the higher the goals conceded column got , the softer we became , the more leads we threw away.