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Pele.
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George Best. In his own words "I was the best in the world - just not for long enough."
Norman Whiteside.
It's me innit. 😉
Yang Chanpeng of China is 6'8"
Norman Whiteside.
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The Magnificent Seven - Henrik Larsson.
If ANYONE says Mara "bloody cheating scum bag drug crazed prat" dona they want flaming!!!!!!!!!! Not fit clean Pele's boots or George Best or Gordon Banks. Cheating Argie scumbag.
Diego Maradona. Without doubt.
The above 🙄 irritates me immensely. As a footballer he was unrivaled. He cheated on one occasion. Get over it. Before that goal he was running rings around the whole team.
Jim Baxter
Question about that incident: what were the referee and linesman who let the goal stand called?
Talkemada are you ***ing me? Were you a fan in his day?
messi without ANY doubt
Jinky Johnstone
Kenny Dalglish from videos
Best I've seen in the flesh would be Van Basten, Gullit or John Barnes. Steven Gerrard is up there too but it's difficult to compare modern day players to greats of the past for me. Something to do with all the media hype nowadays and the way you view things from your childhood!
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Jim Baxter
Slim Jim sure showed the World Champions a thing or two in 1967. 😛
da funk
messi without doubt, and hes only 21/22 isnt he? he is and will be the best for a long time to come yet, IF he stays fit
messi
maradona
gazza - yes gazza
in that order, messi due to the speed of the game now over maradona
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Hadge - MemberIf ANYONE says Mara "bloody cheating scum bag drug crazed prat" dona they want flaming!!!!!!!!!! Not fit clean Pele's boots or George Best or Gordon Banks. Cheating Argie scumbag.
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deluded - MemberDiego Maradona. Without doubt.
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Made me chuckle 😀
Ryan Giggs, only problem is he's Welsh so didn't get to play on the world stage. 😥
Maradonna.
Best.
Ronaldo.
Messi.
Are we just restricted to outfield? Peter Schmeichel??
cynic-al; Pele or Whiteside? 🙄
Pele without doubt, for me. I'm too young to remember him playing, so my judgement is based on what footage I've seen of him, but it's more than just his playing that makes him the Greatest. He came from poverty, but was always humble and respectful of others. He was a brilliant team leader, and an inspiration to generations of kids. What that man has done for football, is unparalleled.
Maradonna and Messi are possibly the best players I've seen playing, but hand of God and a regrettable lifestyle have tarnished Maradonna's image sadly. Same with George Best; remembered as an alcoholic wife beater almost as much as a player.
Then you've got yer Johan Cryuffs, yer Eusebios, yer Ferenc Puskas'. I suppose each nation and generation has it's own heroes.
Goalkeepers seldom get a mention in such lists, but Gordon Banks, Lev Yashin and even Peter Schmeichel are names that can't be ignored.
Currently, Messi, Kaka, Ronaldinho and Wayne Rooney are some of the best players in the World. Are any capable of becoming greater than Pele? Only time will tell.
Norman Whiteside; that's made me laugh... 😆 Good player mind.
Justin Fashanu
Hughie Gallacher
Owen Coyle
Get the link?
Alan Hensen is the greatest. Look at the way he talks ... he is the best of the best.
The rest shite!
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All played for Airdrie?
I read that Aidrie fans used to sing about Justin Fashanu;
[b]He's Black, he's Gay, he plays for Airdrie; Fashanuuu, Fashanuuu![/b]
Very sad story, Justin. Poor bloke. 🙁 Deserves enormous respect for struggling to cope against adversity in ignorance and bigotry. RIP.
paolo rossi, michele platini, kenny dalglish, zidane, schmicheal or
Beckham!!
Correct. All legends.
yep,+1 for
messi
maradonna
Maradona over Pele.
And anybody who still goes on about the "hand of God" needs to ask how did somebody so short out-jump Peter Shilton? And his individual goal against England has to be one of the greatest world cup goals ever.
Zinedine Zidane for the most amazing silky ball skill. Watching him play is like poetry in motion.
He came from poverty, but was always humble and respectful of others. He was a brilliant team leader, and an inspiration to generations of kids.
What a soppy daft thing to say.
The hand of god ... Madonna.
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Piss off you, Ernie. Nothing better to do, than come on here and be nasty to folk. 😥
The definitive guide.
Best Goalkeeper – Peter Schmeichel
Left Back – Roberto Carlos
Right Back – Cafu
Centre Back – Franz Beckenbauer (1)
Centre Back – Booby Moore (2)
Left Midfield/Wing – Ryan Giggs
Right Midfield/Wing – George Best
Centre Midfield – Zinedine Zidane (1)
Centre Midfield – Lothar Matthaus
Attacker/Striker – Diego Maradonna (1)
Attacker/striker – Pele (2)
No need to be rude mate.
Tell me Talkemada, if you saw footage of Nelson Mandela or Mother Teresa kicking a football, would they be amongst the 'greatest footballers ever' too ?
Maradona
Zidane
Cryuff
Bergkamp
No, because they weren't professional footballers so don't be so stupid.
You've got nothing better to do than upset people. Why? Because I said something nice about someone else, is that it? Do you want me to say something nice about you, is that it? Do you feel left out?
You could try being nicer, if you want people to be nice to you. 🙁 You're horrible, mean and nasty and thoroughly unpleasant.
Zinedine Zidane.
Had the privelidge to see him play in Madrid. Astonishing ability.
For me, the true mark of a great is that they can prove it at the World Cup or the Euros to such an extent that their team wins it- or almost wins it in the case of Cruyff. However, Messi and Rooney for that matter have yet to to prove themselves at that level.
Gazza - Could have been really special...
Maradona - Most skillful player i've seen in my lifetime (Shame he was a Twunt)
Pele - Reputation, footage, character, etc. Didn't he score over a 1000 senior goals aswell?
Messi - Time will tell
Ronaldo??? Spits
Steve Bull - ;0)
Cruyff.
Who else has a turn named after them?
You've got nothing better to do than upset people. Why? Because I said something nice about someone else, is that it?
😕 You are "upset" ? ........because I said your comment was daft and soppy ?
You're even more daft and soppy than I thought 😐
Super Steve Fletcher. Up the cherries!!
I'd rather be 'soppy and daft' than be all eaten up with hate and nastiness like you.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele ]
[/url]In 1967, the two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.
The man even stopped war..
Check out his stats. In 1120 appearances for Santos, he scored 1087 goals. That's almost a goal a game. Incredible.
Check out his stats. In 1120 appearances for Santos, he scored 1087 goals. That's almost a goal a game. Incredible.
Yeah that's all very well, but "he wouldn't have made it in the EPL" 😉
LOL!
You may be right, I don't suppose you'd have seen him turning out for Wigan away to Bolton on a wet freezing January afternoon!
The magic No 7 for the mighty Glasgow Celtic........Henrik Larrsen
We'll never know but I'd like to offer up Duncan Edwards.
Like Best he was "[i]the best in the world - just not for long enough[/i]".
Unlike Best it was out of his hands.
I don't suppose you'd have seen him turning out for Wigan away to Bolton on a wet freezing January afternoon
Surely the [i]true[/i] test of greatness.........
All time - William Ralph Dean. [i]The greatest centre forward there will ever be[/i], in the words of Bill Shankly.
Modern era has to be Maradona. When Messi puts a mediocre team like Napoli or Argentina on his back and drives them to a title we can talk about best ever.
Zizou!
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Hand of God Linesman - Bogdan Dotchev
Hand of God Ref - Ali Bin Nasser
Johnathan Jones is the greatest or in the modern era Draco Kapitous.
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Dennis Berkamp
Pele
Maradonna
George Best
Johann Cruyff
Ruud Gullitt
Paul Gascoigne
I can't stand watching football, but love watching any of that lot play.
Does there have to be 1 "greatest"?
Hmm, tough one.
JPR, perhaps? Maybe it was Gareth Edwards. Jean Pierre Rives has to be in with a shout from the back row, and Jason Leonard from the front.
Oh, sorry, you meant Soccer? That game for women? Ah. I see.
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Ooh Aah. Cantona.
Ronaldo, the Brazilian - not that diving cheating giraffe necked Portugesse twunt has a missus who holds (held) the world record for keep-em ups so she's more skillfull than that cheating, drug taking gun totting dog-attacked my face Mara frigging dona!!!!!!! How can any English man stick him up there!!! Grrrrrr makes my blood boil 
pele
[url= http://www.football-history.net/best-players.htm#maradona ] Maradona was voted best player of all time in an internet poll held by FIFA[/url]
Check the goal at 38 seconds. Awesome skill 😉
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who's going to argue!
Terry Hurlock.
No-one likes us. We don't care.
Cammie Fraser :¬)
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Same old Shearer, always scoring!
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David May.
Superstar.
Got more medals than Shear....aarrr.
Socrates and Cruyff come to mind...being that good [i]and[/i] being tabbers. Now that's an achievement.
Isn't that the same May that made The Times’ list of the 50 Worst Players to play in the Premier League era, published in 2007? lol
Hmm, tough one.JPR, perhaps? Maybe it was Gareth Edwards. Jean Pierre Rives has to be in with a shout from the back row, and Jason Leonard from the front.
Oh, sorry, you meant Soccer? That game for women? Ah. I see.
PMSL at that collection of fatties. Like comparing The Hare and Hounds alehouse 11 with FC Barcelona.
Oh, sorry, you meant Soccer? That game for women? Ah. I see.
Ah, bless.
Sorry, I've never heard of any of those people you've mentioned. What sport is that?
Bit before my time, but my old man reckoned Duncan Edwards was the best he ever saw
Hate to say it, but Maradona was a class apart on his day
That second goal against England was amazing and just knew he was going to score when he started that run
I wouldn't mind if he'd come up with something original...he does tend to repeat the same one over and over. Personally, it's far easier to appreciate all types of football.
Shearer euro 96 era was imense, him bergkamp and ronaldo (real one) were being compared as beat players in the world at that time. As a NUFC season ticket holder he provided me some of the best displays I have ever seen (after timo hatrick against barca)
carbon337 (i think me and you could just well be best friends) ha. There will only ever be one Alan Shearer.
Best i ever saw - Paul Gascoigne, when he was a kid at Newcastle up to Italia 90. I hate to say it but I wish he'd gone to Man Utd. For all that I hate him, Fergie would have stopped him wasting his talent and then we'd have seen him fulfill his ability.
Best GK - (my old position and I am a bit of an aficionado of the 'modern' era). Hmmm; Shilton was so dedicated and probably worked harder at his game than anyone before and since and was great as a result. Seaman for a brief period was superb. Schmeichel - consistently good and at times great. But the best and most natural of them all was a giant irishman, with hands the size of JCB buckets. Pat Jennings.
Best player you never saw - (sadly in his 'other' team's colours in this picture)
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David Fairclough, super sub!!!
Isn't that the same May that made The Times’ list of the 50 Worst Players to play in the Premier League era
Yes, the one with more silverware than his old team-mate Shearer.
Andy Ritchie when he was at his peak at Morton. The best I've ever seen, or at least the most entertaining. He'd regularly score from corner kicks, or from the halfway line.
so many greats from so many era, my grandad said Duncan edwards, bobby charlton, george best, Jinky johnson, and kenny dalgleish, and puskas, my dad would say eusebio, best, pele and cryuff, i would say having only seen video of some of them that best and pele are most peoples benchmarks, but the modern game has given us dalgleish, gullitt, van basten, bergkamp, gazza, ronaldo, zidane, zola, maradonna, messi, and rooney,very difficult to choose one as they all have special qualities, but at the moment rooney and messi are the top 2 for sure
having grown up through the 80's and 90's maradonna is the greatest for me. lead a pretty average side to win a world cup. also gazza in italia 90 was as good for england, as maradonna was for argentina. think he was only 19 at the time. such a shame how his professional and private life went after that.