⚽ 🤷‍♂️ The Best Footballer Of All Time?

So many outstanding players in their generation, and all playing in different leagues makes it very difficult to settle on one. All the usual suspects are there - Messi, Ronald, Pele, Cruyff, Le Tiss (obviously biased…lol), Maradonna, but the common thread would be players that you would pay to go and watch regardless of who they played for - which I guess is why they are all attacking players. Some great players miss out though. The likes of Beckenbaur, Bobby Moore, even Dino Zoff, Lev Yashin or Gordon Banks.

For me, the one player I would pay to go watch regardless of who he played for, would have been Georgie Best in his prime. What a waste of a talent, though.

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I saw George best when Dubai used to hold the British Championship match between the English Champions and the Scottish champions So he must have been playing for Celtic.

We were staying in the Ramada hotel Bur Dubai and we left to go to the match and George left the bar at the same time. After the match finished we left straight back to the pub and George had beaten us there. :lou_lol:

Best was awesome but the really big players have won really big prizes. He was never going to win a World Cup with N Ireland. As good as he was though I always thought that Pele and Maradona were better. Pele for example played in arguably the best team ever (Brazil 1970) and still managed to be a class above his team mates. As good as Best was, was he that much better than Charlton for United?

Not sure I can look beyond Carlton Palmer

Great Irony!

I don’t agree with that first sentence at all. Nobby Stiles won the greatest prize of all, but with all due respect you could never call him one of the best in the world.

There is no right or wrong answer to the question (ok…there are definitely some wrong answers…lol), but for me it’s about the genius of the individual. The one moment in a match that makes you shake your head in disbelief, or think “what the hell did I just see” and you still talk about years later.

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Most of the “big” players have won major prizes. I cant think of many who havent.

The top 100 players of 2019, according to the Guardian. Today they run down 100 to 71. There’s no saints players in it so can only presume they’re higher placed. There is a player called “Everton” who I think Everton should sign as player-manager-chairman

The 100 best male footballers in the world 2019: 100-71

Carlton Palmer is a racist cunt.
He is on Malaysian TV a lot did not want to go to Saints but eventually it was come to us or not play at all. which is why he did not appear to try and was basically fucking useless.

He was useless before he came to us. He just wasn’t that great a footballer.

What makes you say he’s racist?

Because of what he says on Malaysian TV blaming Caucasians (white people) for all the problems in his life (of which there are many) none of his life problems were his fault they were all because of the Managers / owners / other players and he keeps saying because they were white and didnt like him.

I suspect the truth is they just did not like him,… but just happened to be white

Irrefutable evidence that the man is a complete and utter bell end. Regardless of what colour he is.

Being fair, MLT started that spat and Palmer was just responding.

Bletch is the best player the world has ever seen, especially the way he tells it.

And yet nobody wants to swap shirts with him.

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So true. If only he hadn’t succumbed to all those terrible wanking footballing injuries, we wouldn’t even be mentioning the likes of Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Zidane or Messi.

The tale of Bletch’s rotator cuff will live forever when men quaff and talk about football.

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You’ve all played with me and been left in the wake of my turn of pace, all been tricked by my dipped (and broken) shoulder, all fallen for my step over and all picked the ball out of the back of the net.

I was the best, old, tall, bald, sweaty, yet charming footballer ever to play 5-a-side football at Fleming Park that was called Bletch who also co-ran an internet forum and wore this shirt…

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This is beyond dispute. Especially the bit about the shirt.

You weren’t fit to lace my… corset?

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