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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.
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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 
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[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.
Kennyp - I knew Andy Ritchie really well.
Also Got bought a drink by Norman Whiteside,(a long time ago) although I didn't know who he was at the time.
Edit: Whoops I just googled him and the one I knew played for Man Utd. guessing you mean the Scottish one?
Peter Beardsley - great work rate, vision, and immense skills.
I keep thinking of the "jumpers for goalposts" guy from The Fast Show.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles ]John Charles [/url], Wales's greatest player
Charles' accomplishments with Juventus led to him being voted 'the greatest foreign player ever in Serie A', ahead of Maradona, Michel Platini, Marco Van Basten and Zinedine Zidane - this in 1997, 34 years after his last appearance in the league
Diego Armando Maradona.
Not just for his outrageous individual ability, but as Garry_Lager above says, taking teams like Napoli and Argentina, full of ordinary players, and dragging them to titles with the most unbelievable will to win.
We could fill a page with the names of players with incredible talent who produce amazing things on the pitch, but Maradona's achievements in workaday sides, and on the biggest of stages, sets him apart for me. Wish I'd seen him in the flesh.
Best player I've ever seen in the flesh though was Eric Cantona. When he picked up the ball in the middle of the park, he had a magic ability to make space appear in front of him in a way I've never seen anyone else do - bar el Diego!
Bunnyhop. Yes, I meant the Scottish one. He was a lazy big sod, but could strike a deadball better than pretty much anyone I've ever seen.
Gazza was the best player in the world in 1990-91, after knee injury nowhere near the same. He would have been better than Best otherwise.
Saying that, Best was four levels off Maradona, who was on the same level as Pele. Messi is lined up to join them.
Other great players in the same bracket as Best: Beckenbauer, Zidane, Cruyff, and Van Basten (and probably Rooney). UK has produced two of the world's most clinical strikers ever in Greaves and (the early) Robbie Fowler.
William Ralph (Dixie Dean)
Charles "Charlie" Charles.
Messi . The future
Pele . The past
Ronaldo. The cheat
Di Canio. The truth
Maradona . The God
Beckham. The legend
Giggs . The speed
Cruyff . The turn
Zidane . The nutt
Rooney . The strike
Eric. The eccentric
Moore . The gentleman and how we'd all love football to be remembered!