Best player??

Spin-off from Best thread: Knowing that theres a few footie fans on here (and Steve aka 7_V) just out of interest who is the best person you've seen play for YOUR team, not of any team but yours.

Mine is quite easy, after watching Blackburn for what is nearly 20 years now ( am I getting old?!?) it has to be Shearer. In the 94/95 season he was simply amazing, Ive never seen a striker like that since. Duff was good and Garner is just a legend full stop but Shearer is da man.

 

Ray Kennedy,now sadly dead.A truly great midfielder and voted the best midfielder of the seventies.Roy Keane my arse,he couldn't a candle to Ray Kennedy.Imho,he was better than Dalgleish as well.

If I could choose a player from another team,it saddens me to choose a player from ****ty Leeds.Eddie Gray was sublime,a true genius.

Obviously I am not picking George Best,it goes without saying he is the best British player of all time.

 

Only one, Georgie Kinkladze. Never saw Bell, but I wish I had. I've met him and a true gentleman he is.
Best ever from any team, probably Henry, unbelievable at his best

 

Yeah Kinky was good. Ive met Ronnie Clayton who played 500+ times for Rovers and has 50+ England caps and even captained England. He was way before my time so I cant count him in but he's the nicest bloke you can meet, puts today's footballer to shame.

From other clubs; I always get a cold shiver when Henry gets the ball round our box so he'd be up there for me. Ginola had his moments of pure brilliance when he visited Ewood and I'll never forget some of the stuff Gazzer did in his last days with Boro and Everton, that guy could sell the whole crowd a dummy!

 

Only saw Hoddle once, and he didn't have a good game, but he looked awesome on telly, think he was too sporadic to be great. Kinky's problem too I guess.

 

To expand abit, even though I watched long-ball 2nd division dross in my formative years I always loved watching the 80's Liverpool sides; Rush, Beardsley, Johnson, Barnes, McMahon, Aldridge, Hansen, Grobby, Houghton etc etc were all top-class players and I learnt alot from watching them.

 

T-Bone

sounds like you missed out on Ray Kennedy,which is a shame,he was true great

 

Man, I had no idea. I'm so-o-o-o sorry to hear that. You must have been through hell. Respect man.

Oh, and the best player ever to play for the mighty Clarets was Jimmy Mac, although he was just before my time (or at least before MOTD). The best player I saw was Leighton James - sheer magic. One moment he would have the ball and there would be 2 or 3 defenders between him and the goal, the next moment he would be past them and I could never work out how. My personal favourite though was Ralph Coates. What spirit! During his era he was Burnley.

 

I was fortunate to see Colin Bell from when he signed for City to the end of his career. Without doubt the greatest player in a City shirt I ever saw.

 

Best I've seen with my own eyes playing for Celtic would have to be Henrik Larsson. Di Canio and Lubomir Moravcik were pure class too, but Larsson was on a different level. Not just the goals, but the ones he made. And although all football players are MOney grabbing ****s, he comes across as a genuinely top bloke too. Players before my time that i've only seen on video are the likes of Dalgleish, Jimmy Johnston (voted the greatest ever), and Jimmy Mcgrory....

I seen rivaldo playing for barca in the nou camp, not a great game and far too far form the pitch (without contact lenses) so see much.

Ronaldinho was mentioned on the Best thread, and it's easy to dismiss current and newer players with so-and-so has done it all before, but the guy's the genuine thing.
See his performance against real the other day? WOW!

And Zidane needs to be mentioned too!

 

regarding ronaldinho check this out if you missed it....

https://www.audio-forums.com/as-rediect/showthread.php?t=10662

 

coming from a scum fan thats funny, very very funny. But yes winning the title and league cup were hell, though beating you ******** made up for it all.

 

Matt Le Tissier for Saints. Great long range efforts. Brilliant to watch.

 

Got to admit Rooney does have all the attributes to be one of the greats, I hope he has a blinding world cup to show it.

 

We can agree on that then - except for the 'blinbing'

 

actually dingle bell, the typo was 'blinbing' not 'blimbing' as you tried to point out. You look foolish and infantile in your extremely poor attempt to show my typing error, which, ironically lead to your own typing error. I have now corrected the mistake that you saw fit to mock.

5-0

130 years, 4 weeks, 3 days since Blackburn Rovers were formed

91 years, 30 weeks, 5 days since Burnley won a domestic cup final

38 years, 33 weeks, 3 days since Burnley last played in Europe

29 years, 32 weeks, 1 days since Burnley last played top flight football

26 years, 33 weeks, 4 days since Blackburn last lost to Burnley in the League

10 years, 28 weeks, 5 days since Rovers won the Premier League

9 years, 33 weeks, 0 days since this website was first opened

5 years, 14 weeks, 6 days since Jack Walker passed away

4 years, 34 weeks, 4 days since Blackburn last played Burnley in the League (5-0)

4 years, 14 weeks, 5 days since Blackburn returned to the Premier League

3 years, 39 weeks, 5 days since Blackburn won the Worthington Cup

2 years, 6 weeks, 3 days since Blackburn last played in Europe.

 

Sorry about that. I've now corrected my typing error too.

 

What worries me T-bone is you keep track of these things. Personally I really enjoyed playing Burnley. Every time we play them we score buckets. Last season we stooped to their level we beat them 4-2 and 5-1. I wish we could play them every week

 

Yes lord, down to the minute, oh and its also on www.brfcs.com but thats purely coincidence................

I enjoy playing them too, not only do we get to beat them but its also funny to watch them turn on each other and have a scrap amongst themselves. When we beat, nay thrashed them 5-0 at Ewood they went on the rampage afterwards.........in their own town! brilliant stuff. Luckily for Stevie M, he's not actually a Dingle by birth (he's a southner which is (only just) slightly better than being a dingle) thus not actually having Dingle gene's.

The funny thing is I much prefer Rugby League these days.

 

I dont have a team im afraid (although it would be spurs if i was pushed). Best player ive seen is Zinedine Zidane at the 2002 Champions League Final (I won tickets - only decent thing ive ever won!) he was amazing to watch and his goal was unbeleivable.