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Yeh obviously it was down to Fergie, but it's the reason that despite being a United and PL legend I wouldn't go as far as to say he was a Welsh legend. Perhaps the most talented Welsh player ever, but didn't show enough in the shirt to be labelled more than that. National sport or not, there's only one sport for me.If you want, you could say that what Bale did for Wales is an even greater achievement than what Cristiano did with Portugal. I mean, it is not as if Wales have loads of world class players in the team. With the feigning injury bit, I probably would put that down to Sir Alex having a say to keep his players fresh. Just as Arsene Wenger is doing with Ozil and Germany at the moment. Either way, credit to Bale for doing his bit for a small country (don't take that badly) where football isn't really the national sport; yes, I know, you are a supporter of Glamorgan CCC aren't you?
Those would be 4 of the 5. I'd be inclined to go with Speed ahead of Southall but I'm not sure if that'd be based on what he did while he was playing, or due to what he did as manager. Or a bit of both I guess.Who would be your top 5?
Without putting too much thought in and in no order
Bale
Southall
Bellamy
J.Charles
Rush
Giggs would of course be in there if I was judging just on talent. I also think with the change in culture about playing for Wales, Giggs would have massively benefitted from playing in today's Welsh setup.
Yeh Giggs would have benefited massively if he was playing today, if he was in his prime now I doubt he'd be using the international breaks to regain his fitness for United. But in saying that the team Giggs played for was solid enough, and who's to say that a Bale like presence in that 02-04 team wouldn't have been able to lift them enough to get through the qualifiers/playoff.