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Talent and greatness are different things though. We're talking about greatness. So this Kuwaiti player. how would you know he was the greatest of all time? You could never really know and he would, unfortunately, lose his claim to be the greatest ever. To get the greatest of all time sort...

The truest of the greats can do it despite being not being in a good team. That’s what places you above the ordinary players

Not at all One world cup, (especially where the player was injured) isn’t enough to reach a judgement. If Salah never influences a world cup, then his claim for all-time great status is seriously damaged (crap was your word). If Messi doesn’t get near his club record in international...

Three world cups is easily enough to form a judgement.

The only really reliable way to compare across eras is to judge the player against the best of the day and ask, “how much better was he than the rest in that era?” I’m inspired in this by an interesting Cricinfo article I read claiming WG Grace to be better than Bradman because of his average...

I also think that your attitude on this is likely to be influenced by whether you have Sky Sports. I’ve never had it, so my judgement is based on the World Cup performances I’ve seen. This puts Messi and Ronaldo in the Zico, Cruyff, Platini bracket rather than the Maradona, Pele bracket...

Full disclosure – I’m age 42 My sense is that there’s probably very little between, Pele, Maradona, Messi and Ronaldo Impossible to properly compare over the years but these factors make me think that you should be given more weight the greats of yesteryear • Messi and Ronaldo have...