greatest player epl

[Bulld0g]

i dont think you are too far away m8 but i would have to stick the king eric in and have keane ahead of viera anytime remember the confrontation in the tunnel at highbury viera 5hited himself and went missing in the game keane won the battle hands down as for better going forward i disagree a million percent keane was great at going forward in his early days and much much better than viera his goal tally only dwindled in the last few year because of injury toll and scholes more advanced roll

roy keane bagged over 50 goals for united viera got around 35 for arsenal so kind of disproves your theory you must be a bit younger than me because roy keane was an excellent going forward for both for forest and united

just one more thing dennis irwin spent most of his united career at left back but i would give him the nod in the best epl team ever because of his ability to play on either side which cole and neville cant and patrice evra is much better than ashley cole at left back

0HH FFS stop being so biased and pick a fair team.

[thered]

thats about as fair as i can make it


but to be fair it has to be predominanty filled by united players as they have dominated the epl since it was founded so it makes perfect sense to me

[krazylegz]

the leagues all time leading scorer.... big alan shearer for me.....if he had of used his head instead of his heart and went to man ure i'm sure most people would agree with me, but since he was at newcastle he sort of gets over looked

[thered]

you may have a point krazy but he didnt



and he scored too many penalties but i may be biased cos he turned us down

[ruudvandan]

are you sure about that one mate??

yep

[ruudvandan]

the leagues all time leading scorer.... big alan shearer for me.....if he had of used his head instead of his heart and went to man ure i'm sure most people would agree with me, but since he was at newcastle he sort of gets over looked

fair point but he was also in the premier league much longer than Henry and Zola. If Henry had spent his entire career in the Premier league then I'm sure he'd have scored more than Shearer.

[thered]

fair point but he was also in the premier league much longer than Henry and Zola. If Henry had spent his entire career in the Premier league then I'm sure he'd have scored more than Shearer.

yes i agree with that and i think nistelrooy would of too and both had more flair

[krazylegz]

ha ha van nistlerooy never had any flair and i dont really recall a goal he score outside of the box....but yes gotta agree he was and still is a deadly finisher....agree with henry though he was and still is superb

[sandiemag]

you may have a point krazy but he didnt

and he scored too many penalties but i may be biased cos he turned us down

You will not be surprised to find that the goalscoring order doesn't change that much and indeed the man with the most Premier League goals to his name, also has the most penalties to his name and tops the chart whichever way you look at it. That man is of course Alan Shearer, who scored 260 Premier League goals and 58 penalties to top of both charts, with or without spot kicks. Second place belongs to a man who only ever took and scored one penalty and on a recent Goals on Sunday appearance, said he preferred to score "proper goals"! That is Andy Cole, who scored 187 goals in all. Third is Thierry Henry, who scored 23 penalties to reduce his tally to 151. Here is a top 10 of the all-time leading scorers excluding penalties and as you can see, one man to join the Premier League's 100 club this season gets in, Wigan's Emile Heskey, who has no penalties to his name!

Here is a top 10:

Goals minus penalties

Alan Shearer 202
Andrew Cole 186
Thierry Henry 151
Les Ferdinand 150
Robbie Fowler 146
Michael Owen 130
Teddy Sheringham 126
Dwight Yorke 117
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 113
Dion Dublin 101
Emile Heskey 101


Premier League penalties scored

Alan Shearer 58
Matthew Le Tissier 24
Thierry Henry 23
David Unsworth 23
Teddy Sheringham 21
Frank Lampard 19
Ruud van Nistelrooy 19
Peter Beardsley 18
Gareth Barry 17
Robbie Fowler 17
Gary McAllister 17

[thered]

wow does that make andy cole the 2nd greatest striker in epl history


btw dont remember she-ra doing this very often


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0fFl9S1QEY]YouTube - van nistelrooy solo goal against fulham[/ame]

[sandiemag]

wow does that make andy cole the 2nd greatest striker in epl history


btw dont remember she-ra doing this very often


YouTube - van nistelrooy solo goal against fulham

Got to give you that one m8, it was a top goal. The way he burst out of the stalls in midfield and galloped through the defence was quite breathtaking, worthy of Kauto Star himself.

[becauseisaidso]

Ruud only puts that as his second best goal in a red shirt.Le Tiss has got to be one of the best ever to grace the Prem,worth my vote.

[thered]

Ruud only puts that as his second best goal in a red shirt.Le Tiss has got to be one of the best ever to grace the Prem,worth my vote.

excellent player le tiss but couldnt do it for england and didnt have the balls to take his talent to a bigger club preffered to be a big fish

[andy4]

[QUOTE=thered;149849]excellent player le tiss but couldnt do it for england and didnt have the balls to take his talent to a bigger club preffered to be a big fish

cudn't agree more m8 excellent player but shud have moved to a big club & furthered is career

[Bulld0g]

Totally disagree. Thats what you call LOYALTY. He was a full International earning good money and playing for a club he loved.Why should he move if he was happy there.
Thats the problem with football today, there are too many mercenaries in the game .