Most overrated footballers in history

[PeterParker]

Alan Smith

The Arsenal one? Or Leeds/Filth?

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

*Insert United player*

[Mase]

100% Giggs. The guy went missing for about 6 years! I remember the period when Bolton were doing well under BFS, they were linked with Giggs and I remember at the time every rag I spoke with said they'd happily let him go. Two years or three years later he was the 'best player in the world'. When anyone mentions him I ask apart from the trophies he won, what did he do in his career? The answer I ALWAYS get is "did you see his goal against Arsenal?!" exactly! One fuckin thing his whole career!

[edgeley blue]

Robert Carlos- he scored that freekick
Beckham - he scored a free kick against Greece
Robinho - half a good season doth not make a world class footballer
Pele - wasn't even the best player in the Brazil team let alone the worlds best
Balotelli - wasted talent
Wilshere - just don't get it
Wooney - might be a world class granny shagger but not footballer

[LoveCityHateUtd]

Always though victor valdes was very shit, could never understand how nobody else noticed it. Wrongly gets a lot of credit for being a good passer, was actually quite shit at everything, the team carried him for years.

[LoveCityHateUtd]

*Insert United player*

into brothers wife

[Alioune DVToure]

100% Giggs. The guy went missing for about 6 years! I remember the period when Bolton were doing well under BFS, they were linked with Giggs and I remember at the time every rag I spoke with said they'd happily let him go. Two years or three years later he was the 'best player in the world'. When anyone mentions him I ask apart from the trophies he won, what did he do in his career? The answer I ALWAYS get is "did you see his goal against Arsenal?!" exactly! One fuckin thing his whole career!

To be fair, he was shit hot when he burst onto the scene in the early 90s, and right through to about 2004/5ish. So good, in fact, that I think he banked a load of good will that landed him numerous undeserved contract extensions in the late noughties. Wingers are a bit passé now but they were still all the rage back then and he was the best one around by far.

I don't know how old you are (I was born in 85), but as a kid he was the one player in particular who would frighten the shit out of me when we played them. So typical of 80s/90s City that we waved the philandering fuck ta-ta.

Also, Roberto Carlos is the best shout so far, so well done the poster above who named him. The ultimate pre-Youtube star of the highlight reel.

[Mase]

100% Giggs. The guy went missing for about 6 years! I remember the period when Bolton were doing well under BFS, they were linked with Giggs and I remember at the time every rag I spoke with said they'd happily let him go. Two years or three years later he was the 'best player in the world'. When anyone mentions him I ask apart from the trophies he won, what did he do in his career? The answer I ALWAYS get is "did you see his goal against Arsenal?!" exactly! One fuckin thing his whole career!

To be fair, he was shit hot when he burst onto the scene in the early 90s, and right through to about 2004/5ish. So good, in fact, that I think he banked a load of good will that landed him numerous undeserved contract extensions in the late noughties. Wingers are a bit passé now but they were still all the rage back then and he was the best one around by far.

I don't know how old you are (I was born in 85), but as a kid he was the one player in particular who would frighten the shit out of me when we played them. So typical of 80s/90s City that we waved the philandering fuck ta-ta.

Also, Roberto Carlos is the best shout so far, so well done the poster above who named him. The ultimate pre-Youtube star of the highlight reel.

I was born in 85 also. Apart from the Arsenal goal what did he do that stands out in his career?

[Im_Spartacus]

I'll see your Giggs & Beckham who won every club competiition there is to be won, and raise you a Steve McPointalot and John Barnes

[Mase]

I'll see your Giggs & Beckham who won every club competiition there is to be won, and raise you a Steve McPointalot and John Barnes

Didn't Pointy score the winner in a Champions League final though?

[Im_Spartacus]

I'll see your Giggs & Beckham who won every club competiition there is to be won, and raise you a Steve McPointalot and John Barnes

Didn't Pointy score the winner in a Champions League final though?

He sure did, but he never did anything of that level of impact before or after

[Burt]

These threads get a bit silly when they turn into a 'who hates Stretford most' dick-measuring contest. Cantona, Robson and Scholes are three prime ballbags but they were all absolutely terrific players who would waltz into any current Premier League team.

I thought Giggs was pretty useless for the final 7-8 years of his career and managed to get by on past glories. In recent years, Adel Taarabt and Ricardo Quaresma have been bafflingly highly regarded on the back of absolutely cock all. So too Adnan Januzaj.

I you can't stomach seeing rags quite correctly being brought into question then maybe you're on the wrong forum matey;o)

I don't buy into the rag loving media hype that boasted Paul "Nistelroy shagged my wife senseless" Scholes as a top player who they made excuses for because "he can't tackle". What top central midfield player can't fuckin tackle for fucks sake?!!! That fact alone dismisses him from being a top player and the fact that he was a dirty, snuidey cunt who did some damage to a number of players with vicious, premeditated assaults (remember the one on Zabba in the semi-final at Wembley when the cunt tried to cut him in half and was sent off?)

[Wonderwall]

Christophe Dugarry

[Slim]

Charlie Adam has to be up there.

If you're the England manager, Emile Heskey, Peter Crouch and Wayne Rooney.

[Alioune DVToure]

These threads get a bit silly when they turn into a 'who hates Stretford most' dick-measuring contest. Cantona, Robson and Scholes are three prime ballbags but they were all absolutely terrific players who would waltz into any current Premier League team.

I thought Giggs was pretty useless for the final 7-8 years of his career and managed to get by on past glories. In recent years, Adel Taarabt and Ricardo Quaresma have been bafflingly highly regarded on the back of absolutely cock all. So too Adnan Januzaj.

I you can't stomach seeing rags quite correctly being brought into question then maybe you're on the wrong forum matey;o)

I don't buy into the rag loving media hype that boasted Paul "Nistelroy shagged my wife senseless" Scholes as a top player who they made excuses for because "he can't tackle". What top central midfield player can't fuckin tackle for fucks sake?!!! That fact alone dismisses him from being a top player and the fact that he was a dirty, snuidey cunt who did some damage to a number of players with vicious, premeditated assaults (remember the one on Zabba in the semi-final at Wembley when the cunt tried to cut him in half and was sent off?)

So you are trying to get a who-hates-them-most, dick-measuring contest up and running?

As I said myself, Scholes was a horrible bastard on the pitch ('prime ballbag'). He was still an excellent footballer. Yaya can't tackler either (though he's not such a filthy bastard).

[Alioune DVToure]

100% Giggs. The guy went missing for about 6 years! I remember the period when Bolton were doing well under BFS, they were linked with Giggs and I remember at the time every rag I spoke with said they'd happily let him go. Two years or three years later he was the 'best player in the world'. When anyone mentions him I ask apart from the trophies he won, what did he do in his career? The answer I ALWAYS get is "did you see his goal against Arsenal?!" exactly! One fuckin thing his whole career!

To be fair, he was shit hot when he burst onto the scene in the early 90s, and right through to about 2004/5ish. So good, in fact, that I think he banked a load of good will that landed him numerous undeserved contract extensions in the late noughties. Wingers are a bit passé now but they were still all the rage back then and he was the best one around by far.

I don't know how old you are (I was born in 85), but as a kid he was the one player in particular who would frighten the shit out of me when we played them. So typical of 80s/90s City that we waved the philandering fuck ta-ta.

Also, Roberto Carlos is the best shout so far, so well done the poster above who named him. The ultimate pre-Youtube star of the highlight reel.

I was born in 85 also. Apart from the Arsenal goal what did he do that stands out in his career?

To be fair, you could pick out Maradona's similar goal against England in 86 and claim that people always cite that moment in his career. It doesn't mean he did nowt else. Giggs terrorised full-backs for a good decade and a bit.

[dazby]

Dirk Kuyt

[Chopper]

Surprised Jamie Redknap hasn't made the the list.

[Alioune DVToure]

Surprised Jamie Redknap hasn't made the the list.

I always thought he was a decent, ball-playing midfielder who was unlucky with injuries. Not a world-beater but good enough to get into decentish Liverpool and Spurs teams, and to get a few caps for England. In what quarters do you feel he's over-rated?

He is a terrible pundit.

[ColinBell8]

Jack Wilshire is the first name that comes to mind, never understood why the media fawn over him.

The media are responsible for a lot of them though. Jamie Vardy is one this year, a couple of years ago it was Michu & you only have to string a couple of decent games together if you play for Arsenal, Liverpool or U****d & the media will turn you into an over night sensation .