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  1. Jezz511

    Jezz511 Well-Known Member

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    People talking about Maradona/Messi, Pele/Neymar and so on got me thinking. If we had an english talisman (we don't, so just...don't), who would we be comparing them to?

    In short, who's the best English player you've seen? I tried to think of one an nobody really stands out, and also, have we ever really had a talisman player?
     
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  2. bigfattiger

    bigfattiger Well-Known Member

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    Torn between Gascoigne and Scholes.

    Gascoigne was a talisman and the most gifted English player I've ever seen play football.

    Scholes was technically unsurpassed in the past 30yrs of English football.
     
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  3. pompeymeowth

    pompeymeowth Prepare for trouble x
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    Mark Hateley
     
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  4. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    You can't look further than Carlton Palmer
     
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  5. Hank Scorpio

    Hank Scorpio Well-Known Member

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    Heskey
     
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  6. Quill

    Quill Bastard

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    Definitely Carlton Palmer.



    In the real World, for me, Scholes.
     
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  7. mostynthecat

    mostynthecat Active Member

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    Chris Bart-Williams
     
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  8. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Bobby Charlton. Greatest English player ever.

    Gazza was touched by genius for a short time.
     
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  9. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    Stevie G
     
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  10. Spook

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    Charlton or Gascoigne, I'll be surprised if an English player can surpass them in my lifetime.
     
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    Bryan Robson. Captain marvel, always a cut above the rest. Just a shame he kept getting crocked in world cups.
     
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  12. Party Hull!

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    Paul Gascoigne or Graeme Le Saux.
     
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    Party Hull!, Jul 10, 2014
  13. bigfattiger

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    "My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder."

    Zinedine Zidane
     
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  14. DMD

    DMD Eh?
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    Ryan Giggs.
     
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  15. WhittlingStick

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    Best retired English players ive seen - in no real order

    Beardsley LeTissier Gazza Scholes Woodcock Hoddle
     
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    Sir Tom Finney or Sir Stanley Matthews
     
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  17. Carmine Galante.

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    I tell you who doesn't get the recognition he deserves;

    Alan Shearer.

    Between 96 and 98 he was, in my opinion, the best centre forward in the world barring Ronaldo.

    He'd have walked into any team in the world.
     
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  18. BrAdY

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    gazza scholes and hargreaves
     
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  19. Happy Tiger

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    I am aghast no one has mentioned the unstoppable Heskey.

    Shame on you all.
     
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  20. Carmine Galante.

    Carmine Galante. Well-Known Member

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    They have you blind old sod.

    You need to get yer sen some Beverleys.
     
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