Your top 5 footballers in your lifetime

[pishhead]

The 5 I enjoyed watching the most
Ronaldinho
Kinkladze
Ibrahimovic
Bergkamp
Zidane

 

[wallyback]

Best
Gascoigne
Ward
Vicente
Cruyff

 

[fosters headband]

Eusebio
Pele
Duncan Edwards
Cruyff
Bobby Charlton

 

[Mackenzie]

You obviously never saw Peter Ward play then!

Only in videos, just missed him due to my age.

I liked Terry Connor too

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Zidane
Bobby Moore
Gordon Banks
Messi
Pele

 

[wolfie]

Amazing ! Five pages - and no mention of Dave Mackay.

 

[Weststander]

Obika
CMS
Graeme Smith
Hoyte
Akpom

 

[Weststander]

Amazing ! Five pages - and no mention of Dave Mackay.

You'll find that on Spuds forums from old timers.

 

[wolfie]

British: Haynes, Wright (Billy) Mackay Charlton Greaves (could also include Baxter and Charles J)

World: Pele Eusebio Puskas Di Stefano Cruyff

Don't like more modern ones - the balls are too light, pitches too good and they are paid too much !

 

[boik]

Usual suspect I guess.

Cruyff
Best
Marsh
Bowles
Le Tissier

Were the ones that would regularly make me go "Oh my, what have I just seen?".

 

[Marshy]

Messi
Ronaldo
Ronaldo
Gazza
Knockaert

 

[Del Fenner]

1. Robin Friday. A meteoric career, left none unmoved.
2. Stan Bowles
3. Vinnie Jones
4. Jerry Murphy
5. Charlie George

 

[beefypigeon]

Messi
Zidane
Ronaldinho
Scholes
Hagi

 

[BangaloreGull]

Robin Friday. A meteoric career, left none unmoved.

Just reading the biography of his life. Wish I had seen him play.

 

[Napier's Knee]

Cruyff
Le Tissier
Maradona
Paolo Maldini
Taribo West for moments of spectacular and unexpected violence

 

[ManOfSussex]

Maradona
Messi
Ronaldo
Platini
Van Basten

 

[northernseagull]

Jay Jay Okocha
Ronaldinho
Zidane
Cristiano Ronaldo
Edgar Davids

 

[Diablo]

They don't have to be the best 5 footballers just the 5 that your enjoyed whether that was due to skill, enjoyment, personality or some other reason.
The only caveat is that theymust have been playing 1st team football during your life.

Mine

1. Pele
2. Cruyff
3. Best?
4. Zoff
5. Gentile

Leon ??

 

[Kumquat]

Georghe Hagi
Jari Litmanen
Dennis Bergkamp
Eric Cantona
Matt Le Tissier

 

[Kumquat]

I could watch Hagi and Litmanen all day long.