[Indo-Chinese Food]

Inspired to ask this question after watching MOTD today
Best, Giggs, Dalglish, Hansen, Linekar, Law, Shearer, Beckham, Banks, Charlton(s) Rooney, Charles .....? - who would you nominate?

[dews1290]

Big John Charles!!! This could be considered biased coming from a Welshman so I'm also going to throw in Alan Ball into the mix.

[DaveSmith99]

Gaza has got to be up there.

It's difficult to judge those I am too young to have seen play though, from those I have seen its Scholes.

[Deep456]

Keegan.

[charrrrles]

Stanley Matthews!! But yeah it's gotta be Scholes or Giggs from my era

[Beatlemania]

George Best and Tom Finney.

And by the way, Beckham doesn't even come close to being the best British player ever.

[jade74]

Gareth Bale

[Malevolent]

John Charles, Kevin Keegan, Dixie Dean, George Best.

[alexio91]

George Best

[The Rusty Spork]

The best in terms of peak ability would (judging by many accounts) be George Best. However, from my era I would have to say that it is probably Shearer. The man was a phenomenon, especially when you take into account the injuries to his knee!

[barnetlad]

Some of the 'Lisbon Lions' of 1967 must be worth consideration given their achievements, such as Jimmy Johnstone. Gordon Banks or Pat Jennings if you consider goalkeepers.

[Stu Laverty]

From what I've seen in my lifetime, Shearer. Not only in his Newcastle career where he became famous for scoring headed goals, but before his injuries in the late 90's he was pretty much the perfect striker: fast, could head the ball, great finisher, very good positioning, underrated passer of the ball. After his big injuries, he had to adapt his game to be more of a target man (despite just being six foot) and was still successful. When he was at Blackburn, there weren't many better strikers.

There's others like Scholes, Adams, Gazza that were all phenomenal too.

[Jim-Jam]

No Ian Rush? Man was a machine. 346 goals or something for one club.

Best, Dalglish, Gazza, Keegan, Shearer, there's actually a load of em.

[gozatron]

George Best wasn't British.

[SnoochToTheBooch]

how come nobody ever mentions peter beardsley in these lists? I don't know if he was the best ever EVER, but he deserves at least a mention.

[ROYP]

(Original post by gozatron)
George Best wasn't British.

Northern Irish wasn't he? Which is British

OP: from my lifetime, Paul Scholes

[Clip]

(Original post by gozatron)
George Best wasn't British.

Sorry. I missed the bit where Northern Ireland wasn't part of Britain.

He was the greatest, though. He was like Cristiano Ronaldo after a bottle of gin and a night at the casino - but still able to stagger on to the pitch and produce something that no-one had seen before.

[marcusmerehay]

Banks, Best or Finney for me.

[gozatron]

(Original post by ROYP)
Northern Irish wasn't he? Which is British

OP: from my lifetime, Paul Scholes

(Original post by Clip)
Sorry. I missed the bit where Northern Ireland wasn't part of Britain.

He was the greatest, though. He was like Cristiano Ronaldo after a bottle of gin and a night at the casino - but still able to stagger on to the pitch and produce something that no-one had seen before.

Britain is the term used for the island containing the contiguous nations of England, Scotland and Wales.

[Chicharito14]

Has to be Best.

Nobody could touch him, let alone get the ball off him, in that era.

I was there at Upton Park, the first United match since George Best passed away

My father managed to watch him play in front of his very own eyes, and he shed a few tears during the minutes applause.

What a man.