http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...k-in-Englands-history-says-Frank-Lampard.html Ashley cole is the greatest English left back. he is the best english left-back. But what Lampard said that no one got the better of him was wrong. Did he forget What Antonio Valencia did to him? Valencia made him look average. Nani too sometimes got the better of him.
Cole is the best english left-back but Lampard's quotes as no one got better of him is wrong because a certain Antonio Valencia gave him nightmares
Every top player has their Kryptonite. Cole's is Valencia, Ronaldo's is Cole. Messi's is Ryan Shawcross on a wet Tuesday night at the Britannia.
Ronaldo has put him on his arse a good few times when they played against each other and Valencia has made him look stupid as well.
I saw him play in 1936, great player, I was about 45 then. It makes no odds he was/is considered the best leftback in English football.
This is a pretty pointless thread. Yes Ashley Cole has had games when the right winger has beaten him, like every other player ever. As a relative neutral I'd much prefer him in my team to any other left-back in the premiership and i think the fact that partisan fans argument against him is that there may have ever been better left-backs in the history of English football speaks volumes for how good the player has been for the past decade.
If ashley cole is the best left back we have ever had it just about proves why we have never win anything.