Best United team - wide midfield

Best United team - wide midfield

  • David Beckham

    Votes: 52 20.2%
  • Ryan Giggs

    Votes: 204 79.1%
  • Andrei Kanchelskis

    Votes: 23 8.9%
  • Cristiano Ronaldo

    Votes: 46 17.8%
  • Lee Sharpe

    Votes: 10 3.9%
  • Jesper Olsen

    Votes: 3 1.2%
  • Steve Coppell

    Votes: 12 4.7%
  • Gordon Hill

    Votes: 6 2.3%
  • Ian Moore

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Willie Morgan

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • John Aston

    Votes: 2 0.8%
  • George Best

    Votes: 190 73.6%
  • John Connelly

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Total voters
    258
  • Poll closed .

Livvie

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Nominate two - one left, one right.
 

Red For Ever

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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 !!!!:D
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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Centre midfield should cause some more thinking than we have needed so far
 

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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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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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That would seem logical :rolleyes:

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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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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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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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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032Devil said:
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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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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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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Scholesy_LEGEND said:
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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Sultan said:
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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MancFanFromManc said:
Absolutely. Suprised Steve Coppell isnt out in 3rd place though :eek:
Probably because most of the posters are too young to remember him.
 

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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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It´s pretty close for the first place and third too.
 

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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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032Devil said:
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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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.