top 5 favourite (non albion) players past/present

[cattlin'srockshop]

Braders - Fowler was an enigma for me. A man who loved his club sufficiently to re-sign for them without even reading the contract apparently, who scored goals for fun, who supported working class people and got into trouble with the authorities for doing so, who tried to tell a referee at Arsenal that he hadn't been fouled for a penalty. Most fun of all though, was holding up four fingers of one hand and two of another, representing the total European Cups won (at that time) by Liverpool and Man Utd, while being taunted by the Utd fans. This while he was playing for City!

However - he also taunted Graeme Le Saux about his sexuality in front of millions of people and simulated snorting a line of coke as part of a goal celebration. Ill-considered at best, downright boorish bollocks at worst - I can't work out what to think of him.

I maintain that Fowler dived looking for a pen, suddenly realised his fishing buddy Seaman would be sent off and then, and only then, told the ref he didn't think (his dive) was a pen. Mind you, the stony silence on their next fishing trip might have led to tem catching a few more fish.

Fascinating character though Fowler for the above reasons stated by Herne Hill Seagull, and a successful businessman too.

Probably mentioned somewhere but deciding to take on Keane nd or ian Wright when we ad the chance might have been a good idea.

So many great players we could have had, but I will limit myself to wshing for at least one morE seasOn from MARK GALL, he and Kurt Nogan the next season...

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Cryuff, Maradona, Bergkamp, Hoddle and Platini. Footballers of the Gods.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

Paul Gascoigne - Genius
Stuart Pearce - Bags of passion, loads of aggression and limited skill (Oops)!
Tony Towner (1st Albion Hero)
David Beckham - Say what you will has been a quality player
Matt Le Tissier - Fabulous skill, passion, wrong club!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Matt Le Tissier - for those astonishing goals against Newcastle and many more.
Ferenc Puskas - for his part in England being demolished 6-3 and 7-1 by Hungary, and his four goals for Real madrid against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960
Johann Cruyff - beautiful player. Played in one of my favourite games of all time, Ajax v Inter in 1972.
Peter Weir - for his mazy runs for Aberdeen in the 1983 European Cup Winners' Cup final v Real Madrid
Paul Mariner - very under-rated player for Ipswich and England. Great on the ground and in the air. Some of his goals were sublime.

 

[seagullsoverlincoln]

ryan giggs-amazing consistancy over a long period
glenn hoddle-matchless passer of the ball
stan bowles-sublime genius when in mood
stuart pearce-heart of a lion,superb character
jarzinho-pele got the plaudits but amazing 1970 world cup performance

 

[jonesie]

George Best
Ryan Giggs
Robin Friday
Pele
Gabrielle Batistuta

 

[MattBackHome]

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Paolo Di Canio
Paolo Maldini
Zinedine Zidane
Roy Keane
Tony Adams

 

[Stevie Boy]

Lee Sharpe
Bobby Moore
Matt le tissier
Eric Cantona
Tony Adams

 

[Albion Edd]

David Ginola
Jay Jay Okocha
Roberto Carlos
Pavel Nedved
Alan Shearer

 

[Mackenzie]

Di Cannio, Le Tissier, Cantona, Cohen Griffith, Eric Gates

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Zola, Shearer, Pearce, Brady, P Jennings

 

[Herne Hill Seagull]

Mattbackhome, forgive me but Maradona? How on earth can he be a favourite? A rampant cheat who Berndt Schuster said practised that handball manoeuvre in training at Barca, who went to a world cup pumped full of drugs, and who used to affect a limp to persuade refs that he hadn't dived?

Why on earth is he a favourite of yours? Are you (genuine question) Scottish perchance?

 

[We're the Stripes]

Dennis Bergkamp
Juan Roman Riquelme
Zinedine Zidane
Romario
Paolo Maldini

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Di Cannio, Le Tissier, Cantona, Cohen Griffith, Eric Gates

Eric Gates

 

[Gully]

I will only go for players I have actually seen play:

Romario, Thierry Henry, Henrik Larsson, Paolo Maldini and Gazza!

 

[Danny-Boy]

Ian WRIGHT, WRIGHT, right?

 

[Oscar]

Gary Lineker - one of the best natural goalscorers ever. His goals at Mexico 86 with that standout bandage on his wrist were the reason I got into football in the first place.

Dennis Bergkamp - As above, just class.

Bryan Robson - The classic hard-as-nails English midfielder. A great leader.

Eric Cantona - Arogant but with the skills to allow him to be. His kung fu kick topped it all off for me.

David Beckham - Another great leader on the pitch but in a different way to Robson. A legend in the game even though he is a total ponse off it. Still a great ambassador for this country and the game though.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Best
Pele
Cryuff
Le tiss
Tony Currie.