Best Footballer in History ( Archived) (105)

Oh and you think Alex Steptoe better than Banks, not a chance.

Here's a tune for you D.

Yes but I guess history is selective eh G ? lol

I see you have 'The Holy Trinity' in that team Pat.

did anne robinson not pick ryan giggs as the best footballer ever?

True...but you wont be getting a 6th next year, that's for sure.

What may have been.


Duncan Edwards: The greatest footballer who ever lived?

The Munich air crash of February 1958 destroyed one of the greatest teams in the history of sport. But no member of that tragic Manchester United side was as talented as Duncan Edwards.
There was no way, not then, that you could divide and quantify the grief in the streets that filled with mourners when it came to the burying of the brilliant young football team that perished in Munich 50 years ago.
An extraordinary – and utterly impractical – hope was snuffed out when the news came in; news that Sir Bobby Charlton, a survivor who was rehabilitating among his own people in the North-east, still describes as the worst moment of his life.
Duncan had everything. He had strength and character that just spilled out of him on the field. I'm absolutely sure that if his career had had a decent span he would have proved himself the greatest player we had ever seen. Yes, I know the great players – Pele, Maradona, Best, Law, Greaves and my great favourite Alfredo di Stefano – but my point was that he was better in every phase of the game. If you asked such players as Stanley Matthews and Tom Finney about Duncan their answers were always the same: they had seen nothing like him.