Best player you've ever seen in the flesh

BwfcDan · Post by **BwfcDan** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:40 pm

Well in the Wanderers colours i would have to say;
Jay Jay, Youri and Hierro are all clear winners

Everyone else hmmm;
That dirty geezer Christiano Ronaldo

and that posh frenchy Terry Henry are just two of a number of stars i have seen in recent years.

mikegarbz6 · Post by **mikegarbz6** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:41 pm

i remember how good freddie lungberg was in are 1st season back in the prem when he scored 2 goals

bobby5 · Post by **bobby5** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:16 pm

Peter Thompson for making fools out of most full backs. Recently, Fernando Hierro, a class side step sending Lampard the wrong way. Cool under pressure.

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:19 pm

Lord Kangana wrote: It may be cos he was a sub, or it may have been against Anconna, but it was deffo Branagan. The fact we sang ooh aah Branagan whilst he did it is the dead give-away

Must have been the 5-0 thrashing we handed Ancona, who i remember rightly had only just ben relegared from Serie A. Keith had done his knee ligaments against Derby a few weeks before the Brescia game iirc.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:20 pm

Okocha was mindblowingly good on the ball, yet the clever play of Heirro and Youri was a joy to behold. Some of the freekicks Fernando sent in...

Outside Bolton? W*nker that he is, Cristiano Ronaldo does things with a football most other players cannot dream of.

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:40 pm

Against us in no order

Shearer
Bergkamp
Henry
Vieira
Keane
Scholes
C.Ronaldo
RVN
Oliver Kahn
Franck Ribery on those 3 performances.
Luis Figo

One day maybe we can say we saw Sergio Aguero make a prat of himself.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:44 pm

ribery munich ribery was a thousands times better than ribery marseile ribery

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:48 pm

Though he was still pretty handy, remember being impressed with his touch and movement even in the 0-0 when Marseille played that ridiculous negative system.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:49 pm

ronaldo has never ripped us apart (touch wood)

i also saw Pirlo play when i took a spare ticket for Milan v Man U in the Chumps League, he was treemendous

Soldier_Of_The_White_Army · Post by **Soldier_Of_The_White_Army** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:53 pm

Batman wrote:ronaldo has never ripped us apart (touch wood)

i also saw Pirlo play when i took a spare ticket for Milan v Man U in the Chumps League, he was treemendous

Watched him at Old Trafford (sat with the scum) when they beat us 2-0 (think it was New years day). He got subbed after 70 mins to a flurry of abuse from the mancs. He was toss that day!

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:55 pm

Batman wrote:ronaldo has never ripped us apart (touch wood)

You may wish to check that with your mate Nicky Hunt. Ronaldo's debut. Remember?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:56 pm

my mate??

and point taken, but i wasn't at that game, so technically, in some obscure way, i'm still right

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:58 pm

Batman wrote:my mate??

and point taken, but i wasn't at that game, so technically, in some obscure way, i'm still right

Err, no you're not!

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:04 pm

i have yet to see Ronaldo rip us to shreds, in a game that i attended

bw@bw · Post by **bw@bw** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:39 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:I saw Pele against Bulgaria (brutal swines they were) and against Eusebio's Portugal in 1966. Just down the road it was... (well, Goodison Park I think). Wasn't his best day as he was fouled and hurt a lot. Eusebio looked pretty good mind.

me too

saw all brazil's games

so Pele and Eusebio has to be very high on the list.

also,

Best and Law of Stretford

Gullitt

Gunther Netzer

Bobby Moore

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:49 pm

bw@bw wrote:
Montreal Wanderer wrote:I saw Pele against Bulgaria (brutal swines they were) and against Eusebio's Portugal in 1966. Just down the road it was... (well, Goodison Park I think). Wasn't his best day as he was fouled and hurt a lot. Eusebio looked pretty good mind.
me too

saw all brazil's games

so Pele has to be very high on the list.

I don't think Brazil ever lost when Pele and Garrincha (sp?) were in the same team. They both played against Bulgaria, but Pele missed the second against Hungary and Garrincha the third against Portugal, and they lost both. Bit of a disappointment really. The quarterfinal between Portugal and Korea was fun and looked like a big upset at half time - did you get to see that one?

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:58 pm

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:59 pm

officer_dibble · Post by **officer_dibble** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:30 pm

so good you named yourself twice CWE?

Gullit for me, though it may have had something to do with the standard of our team when we played against him, he was phenomenal, first touch, the passes he sprayed about, what a legend.

Youri runs him close though.

Seen Henry, Ribery and Ronaldo in their primes, Arshavin I suppose as well a couple of years ago. Hierro, Okocha for tricks, all worthy of mentions. Oh - Jeremy Goss as well.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:40 pm

officer_dibble wrote:so good you named yourself twice CWE?

.

yes, once for in goal, once for outfield

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