Greatest ever foreigner

iregk

Vote for the greatest ever foreigner in prem history.

www.premiershipsgreatest.com

Me personally voted for Roy Keane.

p.pete

Bruno Cheyrou!

iregk

Stig Bjorniebe (or however you spell it)

p.pete

iregk wrote:

Stig Bjorniebe (or however you spell it)

he was actually decent - did a job for us in not our best team ever.
Went for Hamann, just for his Wembley goal

growler

Zola

Kingp35

Maybe slightly biased but went for Lucas Radebe. Great to see him in third at the moment

Chong

I went for King Eric.

AnCapaillMor

no mention of Zola or bergkamp is a bit mad.

casanova_kid

Keane by a country mile.

frobisher

Did somebody say Massimo Taiba? He was Venitian and blind but you couldn't hang him on your windows.

Revelation Joe

Marco Boogers
Gary Neville's bestest friend...

Del

growler

AnCapaillMor wrote:

no mention of Zola or bergkamp is a bit mad.

you probably missed the bit where I said "Zola"

super_furry

Dennis Bergkamp, just ahead of Thierry Henry for me.

SCULLY

growler wrote:

you probably missed the bit where I said "Zola"

You went for Zola over W Bogarde??.....Controversial

AnCapaillMor

growler wrote:

you probably missed the bit where I said "Zola"

Heard ya. i meant the overall top 10 on the site, sites a bit like The chieftains getting best song ever on the BBC poll.

ZENER

King Eric for me followed by Roy Keane.

ZEN

MrJoeSoap

Ali Dia followed by Hassan Kachloul followed by Pahars followed by Ken Monkou followed by...

el rabitos

bergkamp by a country mile, he's probably the best player in the history of the premiership

PHB

I think bergkamp, then a close tie between Keane and Vieira, then Eric and Henry. Zola was overrated imo, and has been made better than he was of late due to various reasons.

Rikand

Henry, probably

Zola or Ravenelli maybe aswell!

Little-Devil

Roy Keane:) for me, The greatest midfielder ever to when a manu shirt and play in the premership without doubt.

jimmyboy

Roy Keane then Gianluca Vialli

Sandals

I voted for Keane about 100 times, he's still 9th though, it actualley works, cause I moved Lauren up 3 places by repeatedly voting for him, so every one give one for Keano

Pepe LeFrits

Henry!

Chucky the tree

This is the porblem with public polls. Letting the public vote always ruins them.


Cristiano Ronaldo in the top 10? priceless.

growler

PHB wrote:

. Zola was overrated imo, and has been made better than he was of late due to various reasons.

such as?

scully, bogarde was my second choice, t'was close.

besty

I voted for Roy 3 times, but I have a nagging feeling for not voting for Eric the King

cournioni

King Eric
Royston Keane.

zAbbo

Henry, makes Cantana look like an amatuer.

jimmyboy

Chucky the tree wrote:

This is the porblem with public polls. Letting the public vote always ruins them.


Cristiano Ronaldo in the top 10? priceless.

Yeah your exactly right Chucky. Ronaldo is a great player and I am a huge fan of him, but it is rediculous to see players like him ahead of Roy Keane and Zola

MrJoeSoap

If I was to vote honestly it would be almost impossible to look past Henry. Unbelievable player.

Kingp35

Faustino Asprilla. What a legend.

MrJoeSoap

Don't forget Tony Yeboah.

Big Nelly

Funny the lack of support for Keane, he drove Utd on for so many season to winning trophy after trophy and got numerous player of the year awards but even the Irish arnt supporting him.

Henry? Vieira etc are no where near the player Keane was in his day. When has Henry taken a game by the nuts and drove the team on to win it like Keane done? when its starts to go wrong you see Henry lose it, no good crying about what a great player he is when he knock in 3-4 against the lower teams in PL, when the chance came to score a goal to win the biggest club trophy he fluffed it numerous times

MrJoeSoap

Big Nelly wrote:

When has Henry taken a game by the nuts and drove the team on to win it like Keane done?

They're completely different players, Henry doesn't take "a game by the nuts", he just scores tonnes and tonnes of goals (against all clubs, not just the lower ones), plenty of them out of absolutely nothing.

If you want an example of Henry being a match winner, you don't have to look very far. There are just so many examples to choose from.

The last game at Highbury even?

Big Nelly

MrJoeSoap wrote:

They're completely different players, Henry doesn't take "a game by the nuts", he just scores tonnes and tonnes of goals (against all clubs, not just the lower ones), plenty of them out of absolutely nothing.

If you want an example of Henry being a match winner, you don't have to look very far. There are just so many examples to choose from.

The last game at Highbury even?

Last game was against Wigan?? hardly World beaters now. The one game that counted this season was the Barca one and he flunked it.

When Utd had a season like that and came up against Juve in the semi's what happened then?

I know they are different types of players but Keane in his days was a better player than Henry will ever be,

MrJoeSoap

Big Nelly wrote:

Last game was against Wigan?? hardly World beaters now.

Possibly one of the biggest occasions in the clubs history, and he single handedly ensured all Arsenal fans will remember it for the right reasons. The guy is a genius.

And if you really need more examples:

His incredible display and two goals against Inter at the San Siro to keep Arsenal in the CL... They won 5-1.

The performance he gave (and that goal he scored) against Liverpool to pretty much ensure Arsenal would win the league a couple of seasons back.

The wondergoal at Highbury in 2000 against United, the one he flicked up and smashed over Barthez from 25 yards. Worthy of winning any game, never mind one against one of your biggest rivals at the height of the rivalry.

My personal favourite is his performance against Middlesbrough at Highbury a couple of years back, think it finished 5-3. He scored a couple and made at least two that day, after Arsenal had been behind. But that probably doesn't count because it was only Middlesbrough... Maybe an Arsenal fan can correct me but wasn't that the game he nutmegged Danny Mills by the corner flag and Mills was just so stunned/pissed off that he stood still for about 30 seconds?

There was another game where they were 2-0 down to Villa at half-time I remember, and he scored twice and they won.

True bouncebackability, he really did grab all those games by the balls, so to speak, but in a different way to Keane.

PS -
I don't think I should really mention his moment of genius at Lansdowne...

iregk

To be honest Joe I have to agree with Nelly (for a change) on this one. Henry is a fancy dan player and is no where near Roy Keane in his prime. Give me the option of the two and I would pick Roy anyday.

Big Nelly

MrJoeSoap wrote:

PS -
I don't think I should really mention his moment of genius at Lansdowne...

Nobody is allowed to mention that on here anymore. Ok put it this way, if you had the choice of a player for Southampton at this very moment would you go for Henry or Keane in his prime?

I know for certain if I had the choice I would stick Keane into the middle of the park for Shef Wed. He would have more of an affect on the team etc than a sulkying striker up front.

Again Im not saying Henry is crap or anything but just that Keane in his day was a better player than Henry will ever be.

Kingp35

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Don't forget Tony Yeboah.

Yeboah will never be forgotten! What a find he was.

Enjoy

V Wimbledon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xAFTHchD0Q&search=yeboah

V Liverpool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4KF07wRJ-A&search=yeboah

Seaneh

Zola, hands down.

MrJoeSoap

Big Nelly wrote:

Nobody is allowed to mention that on here anymore. Ok put it this way, if you had the choice of a player for Southampton at this very moment would you go for Henry or Keane in his prime?

I know for certain if I had the choice I would stick Keane into the middle of the park for Shef Wed. He would have more of an affect on the team etc than a sulkying striker up front.

Again Im not saying Henry is crap or anything but just that Keane in his day was a better player than Henry will ever be.

Henry, honestly.

Superdub2

to this date the foreigner with the most significant inpact on the premiership has been Roy Keane by a country mile! but i know king Eric will win the popularity vote!

Superdub2

just checked out the poll, what a complete fu*kin joke! Cantona isnt in the top ten and Yakubu is!

regi

Definately Lombardo

theCzar

come on Kilbane you legend.

MrJoeSoap

Superdub2 wrote:

just checked out the poll, what a complete fu*kin joke! Cantona isnt in the top ten and Yakubu is!

Its an absolute joke of a poll tbh.

Revelation Joe

All of these polls get manipulated.
I remember Craig Hignett (ex-Boro) being voted 'Greatest Ever Human Being' :eek: after one poll was hijacked!

Del

Jimi-Spandex

Cantona for me.

Hard to not vote for Keane, Bergkamp or Henry though.

MrJoeSoap

Revelation Joe wrote:

All of these polls get manipulated.
I remember Craig Hignett (ex-Boro) being voted 'Greatest Ever Human Being' :eek: after one poll was hijacked!

Del

Sure wasn't Juventus' (at the time) very own Irishman Ronnie O'Brien up for Time Magazine's 'Person of the Millenium' or something mad like that?

KdjaCL

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Sure wasn't Juventus' (at the time) very own Irishman Ronnie O'Brien up for Time Magazine's 'Person of the Millenium' or something mad like that?

BBC sports personality of the year, 30 somfin page thread about it and all our admittances of voting for him numerous times, think i clocked up a few thousand on one shift.

Also Spain Ireland game being voted the best game in wc2002 the website let you multivote so we did.



kdjac