Angel Rangel of course should be in there, and Emlyn Hughes came to my school one day and he was wonderful
Emlyn is becoming a bit of a recurring theme - so definitely gets in (I'm beginning to sound like Frank Skinner on Room 101!!) .. if, as I suspect, Angel Rangel is only there on his name then I'm afraid he misses out ... otherwise I'll end up with Ian St John, Sean St Ledger, several Mexicans named Jesus.. plus Eidur Godjohnsen and Sainty Cazorla (see what I did there?)
At risk of being seen as a 'know all' I had him in originally in place of Maldini - but then thought I was getting too 'Leicester centric' - fabulous player - and a real gentleman who could forget the 'job' he did on Juninho in that League Cup final .. and absolutely fairly ... he's probably still in his pockets somewhere ... the best thing 'Cheer Up' Mark McGhee did whilst at our club (although I also like Steve Corica to be fair) ...
I had a mate who worked for Chelsea's official charity, so he met the players a lot, and said Lampard and, surprisingly, Terry and Cole were all really nice blokes. Michael Essien too, who does a lot of stuff for said charity in Ghana.
might get some heckles up but I think Crouchy always seems a decent lad. Never comes across as a billybigballs, seems to accept the fact that he's underrated and interviews quite well. Also deserves it for his response to the question "what would you be if you weren't a footballer?" "a virgin".
He seems to have a good sense of humour and certainly seems willing to laugh at himself. Perhaps that's a different category... funniest footballers XI. I vote for Gazza. The whole nation loves to laugh at the crazy antics of a manic depressive.
.. I'd simplify it even further - he took out a loud mouthed twat who thought he was 'safe' to insult the man from the perceived sanctuary of the terrace .... I'd lay money that the bloke would not have mouthed off to Eric face to face anywhere else .... can't really condone Eric losing it but at the same time the twat got his just deserts ...
