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Man Utd Fan · 08-11-2008, 04:08 PM

Pompey fielded an all non-white team last season, rascits....

**Ste** · 08-11-2008, 04:17 PM

In all fairness I would not like to be in the shower with Pompeys team if i were someone like Defoe

Emperor DC · 08-11-2008, 04:24 PM

I saw Stelling do that live on Gillette.

Legend. Anyone else, you would feel miffed at the bias, but Stelling is just iconic, you just don't get bored of him.

**-TheEnigma-** · 08-11-2008, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by totti10

I can't disagree he dives alot, can be abit of a cheat and abit of a drama queen. He is one if not the greatest player of all time. You can go on about Zico, Garrincha, Beckenbauer, Best, Pele, Maradona, Zidane, Fontaine etc. but they are all just hype. Totti never turned up on the big stage but when called upon wasn't afraid to back down(pen. v austraila). He is the most underrated player of all time. Not in the top 25 best players according to fifa 'cause of the lack of international football that season....Zidane didn't play for half a season club and country but came 2nd....bunch of hippocrates. His ball control is second to none, his techinque is perfect, he uses his weakness as strengths, might not have the speed but is too clever for oppositions...to simply put it he is naturally gifted.

Totti is a good player, great at times but he is nowhere near one of the best players of all time.

**T-C** · 08-11-2008, 05:43 PM

Honestly I think that, a long with Paul Scholes, Totti is the most underrated player of this generation.

Emperor DC · 08-11-2008, 05:46 PM

I fail to see how Scholes is underrated. Everyone I talk to sees him as a genius and even I, as a Liverpool fan, can admit how much he has brought to your team.

**T-C** · 08-11-2008, 05:54 PM

Scholes is the best English player since their world cup winning side. It says a lot that whenever picking their all time Manchester United midfield Pat Crerand and Sir Bobby Charlton think about who should play alongside Scholes as they consider him to be a guarantee in the middle.

Over the last few years people have gone on about Gerrard and Lampard as the best midfielders in England even though Scholesy has been consistently better than them. We missed him for a whole season and struggled, then he comes back and in those two seasons we win the league twice and the champions league, that is no coincidence.

There is no other English player who could have adapted their game the way he has. For years he did the Lampard/Gerrard role better than both of them and now since his legs have started to go a bit has become a deep lying playmaker, and is probably the best on the planet at that role.

I just think he tends to get taken for granted due to the way he goes about his business.

**Role Model** · 08-11-2008, 06:01 PM

And the best part is, he still can't tackle.

**T-C** · 08-11-2008, 06:03 PM

If he could tackle it just wouldn't be fair.

**KME** · 08-11-2008, 07:22 PM

For my money, when Lampard was at his best, Scholes did that "Lampard/Gerrard" job nowhere near as well. Lampard has probably played in that position better than any other central midfielder in England.

Credit to Scholes for the adapting, but I don't think he's the best at all his roles. If we're talking deep lying play makers, Makelele's name always sticks out to me.