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Best United team - wide midfield


View Poll Results: Best United team - wide midfield
David Beckham 52 20.08%
Ryan Giggs 205 79.15%
Andrei Kanchelskis 23 8.88%
Cristiano Ronaldo 46 17.76%
Lee Sharpe 10 3.86%
Jesper Olsen 3 1.16%
Steve Coppell 12 4.63%
Gordon Hill 6 2.32%
Ian Moore 0 0%
Willie Morgan 1 0.39%
John Aston 2 0.77%
George Best 191 73.75%
John Connelly 1 0.39%
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:16   #1 (permalink)
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Best United team - wide midfield
Nominate two - one left, one right.
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:18   #2 (permalink)
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You messed it up the first time
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:19   #3 (permalink)
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:21   #4 (permalink)
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Giggs, Best.
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:36   #5 (permalink)
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I messed up, I should have put Best and Giggs
I have put Best and Ronaldo,
Can it be changed, Please !!!!
Ronnie is a great player but I should have gone for Giggs, he has been doing it for years, with no dramas or hassle, if in another 4 or 5 years of top performances from Ronnie, then maybe I will reconsider, thats if he is still with us then, hope so, not sure if he will be
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:46   #6 (permalink)
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Giggs and Best will romp this in.
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:47   #7 (permalink)
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This one was easy...Giggs and Best.
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Old 6th October 2006, 14:50   #8 (permalink)
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This one was easy...Giggs and Best.
Most of them have been easy to date. Especially the Goalkeepers one.
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:01   #9 (permalink)
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Centre midfield should cause some more thinking than we have needed so far
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:12   #10 (permalink)
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Obviously Best.

Coppell and Hill were brilliant. Straight-forward, no-nosense typical English wingers. Sadly careers cut short by injuries.

Giggs has been great since he's moved to midfield but too inconsistant throughout his career though. Brilliant player.
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:20   #11 (permalink)
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It's tempting to pick Ronaldo based on his performance so far this season, but I don't think he could even get close to an all-time (spare busby babes) best United team.

Have to pick Best, and Giggs is a strong candidate.
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:33   #12 (permalink)
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God can you imagine Giggs & Best in the same team?
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:39   #13 (permalink)
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God can you imagine Giggs & Best in the same team?
Best with either Giggs or Ronaldo.
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:46   #14 (permalink)
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Livvie are you going to do central midfielders nxt?
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Old 6th October 2006, 15:58   #15 (permalink)
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That would seem logical

Centre midfield and attack is going to be really hard to pick

Out of interest why hasn't some spazzer started moaning about the 4-4-2 yet?
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Old 6th October 2006, 16:03   #16 (permalink)
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i think george best wasnt a wide midfielder. he was more like the playmaker, more like henry who drifts to wide areas a lot.
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Old 6th October 2006, 16:14   #17 (permalink)
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what about terry cooke?
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:11   #18 (permalink)
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Bestie obviously.

And Giggs equally obviously - although I used to love watching Gordon Hill play and many of the others, Giggs is the best of the rest.
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Gaaaaah! Why do I vote before reading other posts. Went and voted for only Best (he's the obvious choice) while I could have had Giggs in there as well.

Multiple choice... bugger.
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:20   #20 (permalink)
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Did jesper Olsen vote for himself?
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:24   #21 (permalink)
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Giggs and Best obviously, but Becks in his pomp would have to be on the subs bench ready to come on and convert that last minute free kick!
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:28   #22 (permalink)
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This is getting a bit predictable, other than the centre backs. You pick your option(s), and hey preston, it confirms that you're right!

Edit: I'm not going to bother edit "hey preston", because I like it!
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:36   #23 (permalink)
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Obviously Best.

Coppell and Hill were brilliant. Straight-forward, no-nosense typical English wingers. Sadly careers cut short by injuries.

Giggs has been great since he's moved to midfield but too inconsistant throughout his career though. Brilliant player.
Ian Storey-Moore was another who suffered with injuries and sadly United never saw the best of him. He averaged nearly a goal every 2 games at Forest and scored about a dozen in 40 odd appearances for United before an ankle injury more or less finished his career.
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:39   #24 (permalink)
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There's no better site in football than having wingers running at full backs - United have traditionally been blessed in this department...

Sorry Livvie can't bring myself to vote for just two - the seasons long...

Left: Best and Giggs

Right: Beckham and Ronaldo
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:50   #25 (permalink)
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Id have Kanchelskis before Beckham to be honest
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:52   #26 (permalink)
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who honestly thinks that at THIS time in his career Ronaldo is better than Coppell, Hill, Sharpey?

Ive gone for Best and Kan Kan. Best left, Kanchelskis right. Tough decision to leave Giggs out but im thinking of a balanced team
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:55   #27 (permalink)
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i think george best wasnt a wide midfielder. he was more like the playmaker, more like henry who drifts to wide areas a lot.
That's an interesting one, because though Bestie often wore the #7 or #11 shirt, he also wore #8 and #10, and for much of his United career was a striker. What was it, 4 seasons on the trot top scorer? 28 in one season if memory serves.

Anyway, Bestie clearly walks in, and it's difficult to argue against Giggs, though Steve Coppel and Lee Sharpe were always favourites.
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Old 6th October 2006, 17:56   #28 (permalink)
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There's no better site in football than having wingers running at full backs - United have traditionally been blessed in this department...

Sorry Livvie can't bring myself to vote for just two - the seasons long...

Left: Best and Giggs

Right: Beckham and Ronaldo
Shh Sultan - don't give the game away.

(I voted for three).
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Old 6th October 2006, 19:03   #29 (permalink)
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Bestie and Giggsy. Clearly
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Bollox!! messed that up good and proper. voted Giggs and Beckham before i spotted Best on the list DOH!!!
Giggs and Best.......thats pure fantasy football...
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Old 6th October 2006, 19:22   #31 (permalink)
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Giggs and Best everything you could possibly want
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Old 6th October 2006, 19:29   #32 (permalink)
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George Best


Ryan Joseph Giggs
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Old 6th October 2006, 19:54   #33 (permalink)
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Bestie and Welsh Wizard Ryan Giggs of course !
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Old 6th October 2006, 19:58   #34 (permalink)
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Giggs and Best everything you could possibly want
Absolutely. Suprised Steve Coppell isnt out in 3rd place though
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Old 6th October 2006, 22:12   #35 (permalink)
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Absolutely. Suprised Steve Coppell isnt out in 3rd place though
Probably because most of the posters are too young to remember him.
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Old 6th October 2006, 22:13   #36 (permalink)
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Wasn't Brian Kidd a winger? And what about Peter Barnes when he came across the city.
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Old 6th October 2006, 22:24   #37 (permalink)
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Itīs pretty close for the first place and third too.
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Old 6th October 2006, 22:24   #38 (permalink)
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Willie Morgan was very good but not many rate him because he suffer's from anonymity caused by being around at the same time as Best.

He was probably as good as Giggs.
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Wasn't Brian Kidd a winger? And what about Peter Barnes when he came across the city.
Kidd was a striker, Barnes didn't many games for United...
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Old 6th October 2006, 22:43   #40 (permalink)
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I went for Ryan and Andre. I doubt you'll see a better, more explosive pair of wingers in the same team ever again.

George just never struck me as traditional winger, he had more of a free role. In the modern game he'd be classed as a second striker or advanced playmaker.
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