Who is the greatest player you ever saw live?

[Rookie]

zidane (Madrid v Barca)

 

[bathseagull]

Player-wise - Zidane v England at Wembey in 1998

Performance-wise - Conceicao v Germany at Euro 2000 or Rooney v Croatia at Euro 2004

and not forgetting Booby Zee against Reading at a rain-soaked Withdean in 2002...

 

[Barrow Boy]

Seeing Kenny Dalglish the first time Albion played Liverpool at the Goldstone in the old First Division. The whole Liverpool team gave us a footballing lesson but Dalglish's performance stood out for me in a team full of great players.

 

[Scotty Mac]

thierry henry banging in a hat-trick at camp nou against valencia

 

[clapham_gull]

Maradona probably.

 

[stu7878]

Maradona at Wembley 1987 it was i think?
He's still a c u next tuesday tho.

 

[humpy]

pele being presented to teams at wembley game !! well no-one said he had to be playing

 

[Tomo1794]

Torres when Real Murcia played Atletico Madrid. First ever football match I went to.

 

[Arthur]

Bomber Canning

 

[rcf0712]

Jimmy Greaves at White Hart Lane is a memory from the early 60's - my godfather, who was a Spurs director, took me along because he was concerned at my developing allegance to BHA.
Saw Bobby Moore, Rodney Marsh and George Best playing for Fulham at Selhurst Park around 1977. Fulham murdered Palace 3-1 but Best was involved in an incident that resulted in Ian Evans breaking his leg.
Bobby Charlton playing for Preston NE at the Goldstone. By then he was a shadow of the player he once was and I spent most of the game thinking he should have retired years beforehand - very sad.

 

[rcf0712]

There seems to be a pattern developing here, the two players you named, plus Romario and Gazza...all seemed to bring out their best under the management of Sir Bobby. If we were to have a thread about the greatest manager of all time I would be very surprised if his name was anywhere other than right at the top.

It was, just the other day - loads of people named him.....

 

[public school boy]

Frank Worthington, pure class

 

[Ecosse Exile]

Went to see a friendly between Glasgow Rangers and AC Milan a couple of years ago, Kaka was immense and got the biggest cheer of the evening as only that week he turned down Man City's millions. Ronaldinho was also superb and a very young Alexandre Pato tore Rangers to pieces. The game ended 2-2 but you felt Milan could have stepped up a gear any time they wanted.

Kaka gets the vote from me though.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Ginola, outstanding skill. One game against Wimbledon he was beating Thatcher for fun by the end of it.

 

[El Presidente]

Ruud Gullit for Chelsea at Maine Road. He was immense, all over the park, two passes ahead of the rest of his team, but ripped Citeh to pieces by himself with power, pace, grace and flair.

 

[fire&skill]

Gianfranco Zola. Wembley '97.

 

[galebs]

It was the Graham Moseley testimonial, Spurs kindly obliged with Gazza, Lineker and co shortly before the 1990 World Cup.

How times have changed, I doubt Fabio would have let his 'stars' play in such a game prior to SA............

A 19 year old David James turned up from Watford with his boots on the night and Mose didn't have the heart to turn him away.

He's come a long way........

Thats for sure it's defo not the man in the streets game anymore . Thanks Harty for the info never was really sure why he was in goal that night .

 

[BensGrandad]

George Best but then I consider him to be the best player ever.

 

[Kumquat]

Richard Tiltman. For Worthing.

 

[Was not Was]

Watching Zidane at Euro 2000 was the only time during a match I thought "this is something I'm going to tell the grandchildren about". Felt really privileged.