Friday, 22 June 2012

Greatest African Players of the Last 20 years


6. Roger Milla
5. Michael Essien
4. Abedi Pele
3. Didier Drogba 
2. Samuel Eto
1. George Weah

Not sure about Essien at number 5. I went for influence over skill from the likes of Jay-Jay Okacha and Kanu. Eygptians probably wouldn't agree with leaving out Hossam Hassan who scored 69 goals in 169 appearances for the Pharaohs making them such as sucess at the African Cup of Nations but that's just my list.

Special mention for being a Liverpool legend goes to Zimbabwe's Bruce Grobbelaar.

Update: Good call Laughlin, Roger Milla sneaks in at number 6 now. He deserves it just for his dance moves - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwM4z8xD_cU

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Premierships Best Penality Takers


8. David Unsworth (nearly always smashed it into the top corner)
7. Julian Dicks (not that many scored but when he did they were belters)
6. Christiano Ronaldo
5. Steven Gerrard
4. Alan Shearer
3. Eric Cantona
2. Frank Lampard
1. Matthew LeTissier (Missing only one from 49)

Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Premierships Most Technically Gifted



Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/football_focus/6968715.stm
(in no particular order)
Berkamp
Zola
Henry
Gazza
Le Tissier
Cantona
DiCanio


Who did I leave out?

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Top 6 Teams of the 90s


6 Man Utd ‘98/99
5 Real Madrid ‘99/00
4 Barcelona ‘93/94
3 Ajax ‘95/96
2 Juventus ‘96/97
1 AC Milan ‘92/93

AC Milan won the European Cup in 93/94 season but I've gone for the '92/93 because Milan stretched their unbeaten run to 58 matches over two seasons. Also because Marco Van Basten was playing then, being voted the European player of the year, becoming the third player after Johan Cruyff and Michel Platini to win the award three times.
AC '92/93 Full Squad:
Goalkeepers
Francesco Antonioli
Carlo Cudicini
Sebastiano Rossi

Defenders
Franco Baresi
Alessandro Costacurta
Filippo Galli
Enzo Gambaro
Paolo Maldini
Stefano Nava
Frank Rijkaard
Mirco Sadotti
Mauro Tassotti
Martino Traversa

Midfielders
Demetrio Albertini
Zvonimir Boban
Fernando De Napoli
Roberto Donadoni
Stefano Eranio
Alberigo Evani
Ruud Gullit
Cristian Pallanch
Dejan Savićević

Forwards
Davide Dionigi
Gianluigi Lentini
Daniele Massaro
Jean-Pierre Papin
Aldo Serena
Marco Simone
Marco Van Basten

Manager
Fabio Capello
Source : http://www.worldfootball.net/teams/ac-milan/1993/2/


Fantastic perm and Ronnies. Macro looking the part in classy crown. 

Is that squad as good as Barcelona's current team?