The great team in the sky

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05/09/2007, 9:01 AM
NeilMcD

The great team in the sky

Can anybody name the best dead 11.

Escobar Moore Edwards Puerta

Garrincha Bremner Ball Best

Puskas Di Stefano.

Fashanu
Foe
Cooper

Struggling for a keeper and a few more subs.
05/09/2007, 9:02 AM
DmanDmythDledge

John Charles has to be in that team.
05/09/2007, 9:21 AM
Bluebeard

You picked Justin Fashanu ahead of Garrincha!?!?!?
05/09/2007, 9:42 AM
NeilMcD

There is a difference between forgetting about and picking ahead of.
05/09/2007, 10:19 AM
macdermesser

Where are you going with Puerta?? Or Alan Ball?? Or Escobar!!

For this type of thing .. you need to be an old man ... or able to name off players who have died young .. because you're only going on clips and hearsay and players who normally make these kind of teams IMO
05/09/2007, 10:22 AM
galwayhoop

GK: John Thomson
05/09/2007, 10:25 AM
NeilMcD

Quote:

Originally Posted by macdermesser

Where are you going with Puerta?? Or Alan Ball?? Or Escobar!!

For this type of thing .. you need to be an old man ... or able to name off players who have died young .. because you're only going on clips and hearsay and players who normally make these kind of teams IMO

I think how you go should add to your inclusion. Escobar should get in because he has a bar named after him in Aarhus.
05/09/2007, 12:49 PM
TheBoss

Alfredo Di Stefano is still alive

GK: Lev Yashin - Best Goalkeeper Ever.
05/09/2007, 12:59 PM
macdermesser

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

I think how you go should add to your inclusion. Escobar should get in because he has a bar named after him in Aarhus.

fair enough then .. actually perhaps we could all come up with a team of players with bars after their names

here's mine

O Flaherty's in Galway after the great Ricky Flea, St Pats legend of the late 90s
Escobar in Aarhus

now I'm struggling ..
06/09/2007, 9:53 AM
Lionel Ritchie

What of Puskas? ...won't someone think of Puskas?
06/09/2007, 10:45 AM
R�iteoir

Quote:

Originally Posted by galwayhoop

GK: John Thomson

Lev Yahsin is much much better than that lad.
06/09/2007, 10:49 AM
R�iteoir

More to be added:

Nikolai Starostin
Eduard Streltsov
Kazimierz Deyna
06/09/2007, 11:42 AM
Armando

Stanley Matthews
Jimmy Johnstone
Giacinto Facchetti
06/09/2007, 12:29 PM
Bluebeard

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

There is a difference between forgetting about and picking ahead of.

That is a mighty relief;)
11/09/2007, 8:30 AM
seand

Bit of a ridiculous thread, just name a great teams from the early 50s back and you should be safe enough! apart from those mentioned there's Meazza, Piola, Hidegkuti, Kocsis, Woodward, Grosics, Ocwirk, Hapgood, daSilva ...............................
17/09/2007, 9:05 PM
stojkovic

Gaetano Scirea
04/10/2007, 6:55 PM
Thunderblaster

Yashin
Escobar
Moore
Carey
Facchetti
Best
Garrincha
Foe
Matthews
Dean
Puskas

Res: Thompson
Ademir
Leonidas Da Silva
Deyna
Bloomer
Didi
Meazza

Manager: Pozzo:ball::D
09/10/2007, 8:37 AM
CollegeTillIDie

Vittorio Pozzo has to be the coach. He was coach of an Italian team that were World Champions for 16 years after all ! :D
09/10/2007, 8:57 AM
OwlsFan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bluebeard

You picked Justin Fashanu ahead of Garrincha!?!?!?

What happened to poor Justin?
09/10/2007, 10:39 AM
Bluebeard

Quote:

Originally Posted by OwlsFan

What happened to poor Justin?

One of the first million pound footballers, his star quickly waned. Sometime in the 90s, he came out in some tabloid, and put the willies up professional football in Britain (Oh no, no people!). Died in controversial circumstances - suicide following allegations of some kind of sexual assault on a minor.

I'm sure the interweb can give you a more clear cut outline of the story, but that is what I can recall of it. Passably good footballer in his earlier career (Norwich?), but after the big move it all started to tumble.

And definitely NOT better than Garricha!