Chris Waddle

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Voldemort

6,229 posts

280 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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Amirhussain said:
Cheib said:
Kompany
Really?
Really.
Would be first name on the team sheet at virtually every club in the world. (And I hate bought in teams in general and Man Chitty in particular)

Cheib

23,340 posts

177 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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Voldemort said:
Amirhussain said:
Cheib said:
Kompany
Really?
Really.
Would be first name on the team sheet at virtually every club in the world. (And I hate bought in teams in general and Man Chitty in particular)
Read the whole thread....I mentioned those names in the context of best ever PL players...........

London424

12,829 posts

177 months

Tuesday 21st May 2013
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Cheib said:
Voldemort said:
Amirhussain said:
Cheib said:
Kompany
Really?
Really.
Would be first name on the team sheet at virtually every club in the world. (And I hate bought in teams in general and Man Chitty in particular)
Read the whole thread....I mentioned those names in the context of best ever PL players...........
The above highlights my point earlier perfectly. It's the "what have you done for me lately" society.

Listing Kompany as "great" of the premier league is a joke. He had 1 good season when they won the title last year. Been very average this year.

Conveniently forgetting players like Bruce, Pallister, Adams, King, Terry, Ferdinand, Carragher etc etc

gregd

1,660 posts

221 months

Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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I think "outside the top 1000" is taking it too far (and makes it smack of sour grapes) but I can see what the Waddler is getting at here.. The earlier poster who compared Beckham to Keegan (ie making the most of reasonable natural ability through hard work) hit it on the head.. This is what Beckham has done for me.. both on the field and off it through making the bvest of what he's got.

Waddle was a totally different type of player... MUCH more naturally skillful but unlucky enough to be not as good looking, not representing teams with a realistic chance of winning as much silverware or playing in an era when the financial rewards were as great. Channel 9 News always seemed to rate him highly too smile

Check these out if you're not convinced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xg8wg0FFu0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCOB5q1f6_k