bluemoon32
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Johan Cruyff, best player i've ever seen 'live'
In the flesh has to be Silva. Yaya is superb but Silva is the most intelligent player I've ever seen. You could spend 90 mins just watching him and come away from the game educated.
I terms of others, xavi was the one for me, an absolute maestro.
Oh, and Quinton Fortune too. I got a lot of pleasure from watching him
Putting rivalry aside for a moment, Souness is the best I've seen live.
Some good names, surprised whenever these thinks come up that Rijkaard isnt mentioned. Slightly more defensive than most of the names but had it all both in defence, midfield and attack (scored the winner in a European Cup final from memory). Miles better football player than makelele for me. Also hated zee germans (Voller)!!
M Laudrup also!!
I take it you mean Ronnie Whelan not Glenn the full backIn the flesh.
David Silva
Roy Keane
Yaya
Paul McGrath
Pirlo
Luca Modric
Arjen Robben
Georgi Hadji
Bernardo Silva
Phil Foden
Frank Lampard
Shaun Wright Phillips
Gareth Barry
Damien Duff
Makalele
Mascherano
Figo
Veron
Diego Simione
Rui Costa
Milner
Essien
Gerrard
Tuncay
Nigel De Jong
Wesley Sneider
Dejan Stankovic
Stephen Ireland
Pjanic
Paulo Sousa
Stan Petrov
Ray Houghton
Glen Whelan (massively underrated)
Andy Townsend
Kevin Sheedy
Jao Mouthinho (saw him at the europa league final in Dublin 2011, Porto v Braga, Otamendi and Fernando lifted the cup that night too).
I think that’s most of them through the years. But thinking back I’ve seen some good football, most of those have been against Ireland. There’s probably a few more.
***I’ve not seen KDB in the flesh yet
I loved Italia 90, a few complained about the lack of goals but I loved everything about it. From Scilachi, Baggio, Klinsmann, Mattehus, Canniga, Miller, Maradona and of course Gazza to Pavarotti. Lots of spelling errors of course.
I'm glad we both went through at the time, it stitched up the Dutch but we got royally stitched up by them a few years later courtesy of some dodgy reffing and a certain Koeman. I'm pretty sure you got your own back USA 94 when Ray Houghton got a screamer v Italy, may have got the tournie mixed up? Correct me if I'm wrong
Even back then that's some shite wages for a professional footballer, I know they weren't on crazy wages of today but that's still pretty naff.
Good GT took care of him, he had a good heart, the way the media hounded him was pathetic, they couldn't wait for us to lose a game under him.
Good on McGrath lasting that long in the game too