Neimi Ramsey Steele Lunekvam S Mills Holmes Paine Le Tissier Channon Drake Wayman subs Tom Finney (honest, he played once during the war) A bit of an attacking team. Holmes would have to be at his best!
I can only go on the players I've seen but the teams of the early 80s take some beating. I'll use a modern diamond formation with a defensive and attacking centre midfield and two wide. Goalkeeper - Peter Shilton Right-back - Ivan Golac Left-back - Mark Dennis Centre-half - Michael Svensson Centre-half - Chris Nicholl Defensive mid - Jimmy Case Attacking mid - Matt Le Tissier Right mid - Rod Wallace Left mid - David Armstrong Striker - Mike Channon Striker - Kevin Keegan Subs Anti Niemi Gareth Bale Alan Shearer Dave Watson Morgan Schneiderlin Steve Williams Steve Moran
On TSW we solved the problem of a best ever team by coming up with a best team for them to play. Therefore, we had an A team and a B team, and several positions to fill. After extensive weekly voting this is what came out of it: A-Team Manager: Lawrie McMenemy GK: Peter Shilton RB: Ivan Golac CB: Mark Wright CB: Michael Svensson LB: Wayne Bridge RM: Terry Paine CM: Alan Ball (C) CM: Matthew Le Tissier LM: David Armstrong RF: Mick Channon LF: Ron Davies Subs GK: Tim Flowers DF: Ken Monkou MF: Rod Wallace ST: Steve Moran UP: Nick Holmes B-Team Manager: Ted Bates GK: Antti Niemi RB: Jason Dodd CB: Claus Lundekvam CB: Dave Watson LB: Mark Dennis RM: Danny Wallace CM: Steve Williams CM: Jimmy Case (C) LM: Chris Marsden RF: Kevin Keegan LF: Marian Pahars Subs GK: Kelvin Davis DF: Mick Mills MF: Ronnie Ekelund ST: Alan Shearer UP: Peter Osgood Bear in mind that this was a fans vote. Although it was made plain that votes were not be to be based on whether a particular player was a fans favourite, or had once done something special, one or two players got the nod ahead of better players, in my opinion. The teams were generally voted for on their quality, and I think the line ups bear that out. Just noticed we had 5 subs. We could put 2 more on each bench now. Note, we also voted on managers.
I'll go with a more recent team more or less post Le Tissier. ---------------------Niemi------------- --Dodd----Svensson----Lundekvam-----Bale----- --------------------------------------------------- --Chamberlain--Svensson--Marsden---Lallana-- ------------------------------------------ ------------Beattie-------Lambert----------
Perhaps Alan Ball could be in there but this coming season you will see how good Morgan is. I would like to make a change though - Mark Wright should be in there in place of Dave Watson.
What this does show is how lucky we have been over the last thirty odd years! Some truly great players! Let's hope some of our current squal will appear in future lists.
I hope so mate, I really do. But for a list like this, too soon. He's unproven in the top division, which really, should prevent inclusion into a list like this. Like the rest of your picks though.
