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Soccer/Football

oldironside

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7. "he wasn't the best or most important player in most of them"

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #6)

Fri May 24, 2013, 08:40 AM

May 2013

You could say that about a lot of all time greats.

Johnny Giles at Leeds: Great player, but as important as Bremner? Doutbful. Was Glenda Spurs' best and most important player? Not while Ardiles was there. Cruyff? Johan Neeskens might have something to say about that. The same goes for Beckenbauer and Gunther Netzer.

Being (arguably) second best to Scholes and Giggs doesn't make you a bad player. Would that I'd been that average.

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