"Pele should poll back to the museum." I Love Football Favourite Footballers Of All Time Poll Ends June 30th

Sb darragh

1. Vote for 22 ranked players and 2 managers.
2. Points will be awarded 25 points for your #1 player and then 21-#2, 20-#3 etc. Both managers will just get a point for a mini countdown in the middle of the results week for a bit of fun.
3. Feel free to discuss players here, list names, post youtubes etc.
4. Voting ends June 30th
5. Send your ballots to me through ilx webmail or to samuelpooley @ gmail.com (no spaces obv).
6. Hope this is more successful than my rap or the FOOTBALLS poll.

mitre ultimax imo

Oh man. 22 makes me feel a moral obligation to do a balanced squad - Steven Warnock as reserve left back. All-time makes me feel an obligation to balance out the eras - good news for Steve Bloomer.

was kinda hoping for that actually :D

alphabet bump. today's letter is A for Tony Adams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4UehS4PGUc

and A is also for Pablo Aimar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQENhZfRLoA

dunno how well this system of bumps will work come X.

there can be only one
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_gJMCSTp8SGs/SQjwwC61BHI/AAAAAAAABrc/VrCcQ61VPRk/s400/abel-xavier.jpg

This is too ambitious too soon I fear. We should just roll through the summer with individual Youtube/reminiscing threads about Stoichkov/Hagi/Culverhouse instead.

lol sure, just was thinking about finding another one.

btw feel free to vote for female players as well as male ones. there should be no restrictions.

Really wish Youtube had some sort of autodetect software that went "Football highlights? Crowd noise/commentary only or gtfo."

YES.

Montages soundtracked by Bette Midler doing Wind Beneath My Wings, co-ordinating Berbatov leaping for a header with the "I can fly higher than an eagle" bit >>>>> Clive Tyldesley

Unfortunately the football clips with crappy music vastly outnumber the au naturel ones.

No captions. And you people who run your own credits sequences.

Alphabet bump. Today's letter is B for Gabby Batistuta!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdjOo4rj66c

And B is also for Zvonimir Boban!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR797B5wR0E

(Possibly my favourite goal ever at about 1:07)

In fact B is a beautiful letter kids, as Left Back In The Changing Room's Greatest B Team article suggests:

1) Gordon Banks (73 caps)
2) Giuseppe Bergomi (81 caps)
3) Paul Breitner (48 caps)
4) Franco Baresi (81 caps)
5) Franz Beckenbauer (103 caps)
6) Danny Blanchflower (56 caps)
7) George Best (37 caps)
8) Zvonomir Boban (8 caps Yugoslavia, 51 caps for Croatia)
9) Marco van Basten (58 caps)
10) Roberto Baggio (56 caps)
11) Jim Baxter (34 caps)

Subs: Gianluigi Buffon, Andreas Brehme, David Beckham, Oleg Blokhin, Dennis Bergkamp

Those who miss out include Zbigniew Boniek, Patrick Battiston, Gabriel Batistuta, Michael Ballack, Thomas Brolin, John Barnes, Igor Belanov, Giampiero Boniperti, Billy Bremner, Emilio Butraengo, Bebeto. Astonishing!

Paul breitner hell yes

Damn, just noticed 'favourite' in thread title - do I go with the gods, or to hell with them and give all my votes to Inzaghi?

Inzaghi would be up there for my least favourite

oh, come on

I'm not saying it's rational. I've just always hated him for some reason.

With nn tbh

Goalhangers suck

Apart from Van Nistelrooy

Oddly true

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John Sillett
George Curtis

Well who am I to criticise strong feelings towards Pippo? There's but a thin line between yours and the true path.

How are y'all planning to approach players who retired before you were born? There's Youtube and DVDs and books but I still feel a bit of a fraud writing down "Alfredo Di Stefano" when I've seen more of Angel Di Maria.

well i'm almost certainly going to vote brady, eusebio and cryuff and have no trouble doing so. maybe garrincha as well.

giles 4eva

Tho duncan edwards was sooooo overrated

dutch 1970 team could well fill half a ballot without reproach, inc manager

If it's favourite player, no research should be necessary. Otherwise it's like listening to a load of Beatles albums to judge whether you should vote for them in an ILM poll.

i dont see why you had to use beatles there, yet agaun tryin to reinforce your tired 'canon' on the debate

What's the rule on fictional players?

What like the prisoners in porridge the movie?

Specifically Johnny 'The Hard Man' Dexter.

Stallone in Escape to Victory

roy of the rovers

suddenly realised this was favourite players so i can be as cussed and idiosyncratic as i like. sweet.

splitting it into goat imo xi, personal faves xi. There's obv overlap so i'm just filling in on whim tbh

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No pele, simply haven't seen enough tbh. Sorry pele ;_;

DARRAGH ORDER YR SHIT FOR POINTS OR I'M TAKING YR BONUS TEAM FOR MAX POINTS

ffs

My methods are clear

Give everyone average points

only a cad of the highest order brings my bonus team into this

Thudd and Messi getting equal weighting. Like it.

6. Hope this is more successful than my rap or the FOOTBALLS poll.

Hmmmmmmmmm

hell of a weighing scale malfunction, that

No messi fwiw?

lol just to be clear no thudd either

Ledley King and Maradona then.

My prediction is this poll will be heavy on yer legends of USA 94.

Aldridge then?

http://blogs.ya.com/agentesfifo/files/salenko.jpg

dunno are we printing our ballots itt?

no!

well then speculate away

Sorry, got caught up in hip-hop.

Today yr bump comes from the letter C - Iker Casillas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdr3p8Ppb0

C also stands for Allesandro Costacurta!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpRnRJaiNqg

Not enough for y'all how about C for Cafu!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRCfLnITTw

john collins

did i ever weight mine for points

no

hmmm.

bump

VOTE

damn skippy

Forgot to vote for Cruyff, stupidly, but I did laugh at the story of his testimonial in The Guardian today:

"Which is the least successful testimonial match ever?" tweets Matthew Britton. "Has one ever been done at a loss to the player and club?"

Success, where testimonials are concerned, is somewhat subjective. It's fair to suggest the 17-man brawl that enlivened Julian Dicks' testimonial was a bonus for fans who attended, though hardly conducive to an afternoon of backslappery. And take Johan Cruyff's farewell fixture for Ajax against Bayern Munich. You might think the result doesn't matter in a testimonial and, by and large, you'd be right, but what about when the team you invite turn up and give you a proper shoeing?

"The German champions wanted to show their Dutch counterparts something after earlier defeats and not being welcomed at Schiphol Airport," writes Dave G Boham. "They even had to sleep at a sub-par hotel. After jeers from the crowd, they showed their hosts something. Three goals were disallowed during the 8-0 hammering dished out by the Bavarians. The Ajax players just wanted to have a good time. In 2006, Bayern apologised."

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Ismael, whole documentaries were made about Cruyff's testimonial here in Holland :-)

My dad was at that game. Seeing the footage is quite amazing. Never I think has a crowd in a testimonial match been so quiet. Dirty and vile play, too, haha.

I must hunt it down on youtube. It does sound like a quintessentially Dutch event.

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what cunt's not voted then

I haven't :( Half-formed ballot somewhere, weekend maybe? Weekend.

ey I have nothing better to do than trolling Ailsa and onimo.

VOTE!

(fyi i am thinking of changing the date, due to getting caught up in the hip-hop poll. but don't let that make you put this further back on the back burner)

I'll try to get my ballot done today.

Will have mine in by Monday.

polls suck but complaining about their results rools

otm

bump now that my (ridiculously '90s & '00s-tilted) ballot is in.

boxall my new favourite person

MATT CAN YOU CHANGE THE THREAD TITLE TO JULY 30th?

Voted. Didn't feel right voting for players i haven't seen live so it's all '90s and '00s i'm afraid.

So is the deadline Saturday?

sure whatever

I think mine's going to be full of Liverpool players I'm afraid.

hell i'll just be happy to get a 6th vote