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Far too difficult a task, so just chucking a few names in and sticking with those I've seen.
Paolo Maldini, Lionel Messi, Ruud Gullit, Zinedine Zidane, Gigi Buffon, Diego Maradona, Paul Gascoigne, Lothar Matthaus, Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona, Zico. |
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Maradona.
Greaves. beckenbaur. messi. C.Ronaldo. Hoddle. Cruyff Charlton. Platini. Best. |
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Liking the list your list darlo, the people that put pele into their top 10 are shirley lemmings ?
I dont know whether he is great, i have read that he was great. |
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i forgot over di stefeno, muller oops
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Messi
Maradona Fat Ronaldo Ronaldo Ronaldinho Figo Rivaldo Hagi Stoichkov Xavi |
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pat jennings
cruff di stefano puskas cantana best charlton finney iniesta hurley 1st reserve bobby mitchell. |
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This is actually very difficult. In cricket you at least have averages which don't give you the full story but at least give you a shart. I know you now have stats in football but they are a recent development and apparently last year highlighted Lovren as the best defender in the Premier League
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Cryuff was the best all rounder by a mile, and Jimmy Johnstone was the best winger by a mile and Richard Gough was the best centre half. cheers.
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One measurement of a great player is to make his team-mates, like Didier Deschamps seem great players too.
Another measure is World Cup performance, the only question against Messi. And then the feeling that watching a certain player is completely different from watching other footballers.Force of personality. Platini and, on a smaller stage, Cantona had it in spades. George Best didn't And legacy: taking your club or your country from there to there. For me the greatest of them all was Cruyff, for transforming Ajax, Holland and Barcelona. I can't have Messi above Maradona and I think Pele trumps them both with three World Cups. Never saw Di Stefano but it's him or Zidane for fifth place. |
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Jim Baxter is a shocking omission,if only for his mickey taking at Wemberleigh in 1967.
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Wilshere will be on all of your lists by the time his career is over
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Wilshere? Are you on the right thread?
My 10 are Cruyff Maradona Pele Ronaldo Ronaldo Messi Zidane Boniek Platini Eusebio |
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cafu...............baresi.............ayala............maldini.... ..............................makelele........................... .............zidane.........................socrates...................... messi........................pele...................cruyf.................. |
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This list shows how some posters select their wagers,totally disregarding form,and just selecting their preferences for personal reasons,as opposed to what they achieved.
Both of those Italian greats played as full backs as well as centre backs.Their performances spoke for themselves,hence the expression "defending is an art-form" in Italy. |
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Not your list G1,which is pretty good.
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Pleat Hodgson Sven All quality players back in the day. |
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DONT GET ANYONE SAYING CANTONA,oops caps,fine player but an all time great?no dont get that at all
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1. Lionel Messi
2. Diego Maradona 3. Jordi Cryuff 4. Pele 5. Alfredo Di Stefano 6. Laszlo Kubala 7. Zinedine Zidane 8. Lev Yashin 9. Ferenc Puskas 10. Ruud Gullit |
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Your order of the football gods is plausible, marychain.
Messi is by far the greatest in the consistent brilliance and unshakeable temperament he brings to all games, and I suspect that all managers would pencil him in first on a Friday night. But Maradona won a World Cup on his own and damn near pulled off the same trick in Rome four years later. Platini said that Maradona could make an orange obey him as well as Zidane controlled a football but I think there was jealousy. Jordi Cruyff, bless him, was about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. But imagine having Johann as your father! |
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I thought Peter Shilton was the best goalie in the world for a number of years. Funny how we struggle so much in that department now when 30 years ago we possibly had 5 of the top 10.
I think Desailly was the best centre half |
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its about which are your top 10
its nice to see some other opinions, and odd that some people cant realise that others will not agree with opinions of others its a betting site and if we all agreed we would not get a bet matched |
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Ive had my say already but have forgotten Greaves,Xavi, Bobby Charlton, Gullitt. Special mention to Willie Young who wasnt the best ever, but nobody ever tried harder.
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after reading your opening post --- no ZIDANE
so I will never return you divvy |
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maradonna is no1! no question simply the best ever.
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sorry - I am back , as much as I respect your opinions I have a very strong view on the greatest of all time .
NUMBER 1 DIEGO ARMANDO MARADONA NUMBER 2 ZENEDINE MALCOMN ZIDANE The rest nowhere |
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Bobby Charlton the only legitimate contender from these islands for a top ten place imho.
If you are of a certain age, you will remember him only after 66. He still was magnificent in the 68 European Cup final and against Brazil in 70. Sadly, he was subbed in the QF. Played a lot of crap games for Man U before retirement. |
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Next to no mentions of Henry or Bergkamp, instead a load of people harking back to their yoof, Henry pisses over most the players mentioned
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Diego Maradona
Gerd Muller Bobby Charlton John Charles Ferenc Puskas George Best Gabrial Batistuta Jarzinho Pele Andy Ritchie |
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kin hell mesmerised why dont go whole hog and get arsenal legends gus ceasar, lee chapman, john radford, jeff blockley in too ???
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1. Harry Kane.
2. Pele. 3. Diego Maradona. No one else can match those 3. |
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maradona cruyff best messi beckenbauer dalglish moore zidane le tissier |
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. Jordi Cruyff, bless him, was about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike
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The greatest footballer, Jimmy Greaves.
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Greaves, before he got meningitis in his mid 20s, which he always felt took away a little of his blistering pace was as good as Messi,not just a great goalscorer but nobody could glide past players in quite the way Greaves did, he would turn and beat 3 or 4 players and pass the ball into the net, there has never been a player quite like him.
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He would have struggled in today's game.
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1. Matthews
2. Banks 3. Messi 4. Van Basten 5. Pele 6 Gerd Mueller 7. Platini 8. Beckenbauer 9. Baresi 10.Maradona |
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1. Maradona
2. Zidane 3. Messi 4. C Ronaldo 5. Ginola 6. Cafu 7. Bobby Baggio 8. Waddle 9. Hagi 10. Raul |
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SORRY BEEN AWAY RESULT ON FRIDAY THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING
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