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[Draft] The People's Choice Draft

Discussion in 'Competition Corner' started by Callum McGregor, Mar 14, 2017.

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  1. Account Deactivated Gold Member Gold Member

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  2. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Same.

    It's not one of my first picks or even top 10 but it will have to do.
     
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  3. Keano88

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    I my player gets picked I have no idea who I'm going for.
     
    Keano88, Mar 25, 2017
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  4. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Would be good in a way if we all had at least 1 * pick or average player. Make it more interesting.
     
    Mr Shelby, Mar 25, 2017
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  5. Scotia Gold Member Gold Member

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    sorry mate no can do, I'm well satisfied with all my picks and am pretty confident of my last but one ( fits into a couple of categories and checking the pickees before it gets back to me youse have picked from them.
     
    Scotia, Mar 25, 2017
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  6. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    My last one isn't bad either but it's not ideal. Was just if everyone was struggling it would have been interesting to see what folk come up with.
     
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  7. obafgkmlt The Unseen Fenian American SpaceTeuchter

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    *Googles "Best players with no caps"*
     
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  8. obafgkmlt The Unseen Fenian American SpaceTeuchter

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    Minty - Lionel Messi (12), George Best (6), Gerd Muller (8), Rivaldo (7), Gaetano Scirea (13), Claude Makelele (9), Ruud Krol (1), Jurgen Kohler (16), Xabi Alonso (10)

    THG- Diego Maradona (13), Lotthar Matthaus (9), Roberto Baggio (11), Lev Yashin (12), Andrea Pirlo (8), Frank Lampard (6), Andriy Shevchenko (14), Sergio Ramos (10), Claudio Gentile (4)

    T.S. Eliot - Paolo Maldini (12), Marcel Desailly (4), Alessandro Nesta (9), Iker Casillas (8), Javier Zanetti (13), Denis Bergkamp (1), Michael Laudrup (11), Bastian Schweinsteiger (15), Bobby Charlton (6)

    Keano88 - Pelé (13), Marco van Basten (10), Xavi (8), Frank Rijkaard (9), Jinky Johnstone (6), Neymar (1), Giacinto Fachetti (12), Jaap Stam (16) Fernando Hierro (15)

    Padmill - Zinedine Zidane (10), Dennis Law (11), Ibrahimović (13), Steven Gerrard (6), Angelo Peruzzi (14) (+4)

    Moustache- Eusébio (4), Luís Figo (11), Manuel Neuer (8), Pavel Nedvěd (7), Juan Román Riquelme (15), Djalma Santos (1), Nílton Santos (12), Edgar Davids (14), Roberto Ayala (3)

    Mr Monaghan - Ronaldo (11), Thierry Henry (3), Michel Platini (7), Alessandro Del Piero (15), Carlos Alberto (16), Edwin van der Sar (8) Daniel Passarella (9) Fernando Redondo (14), Lucio (10)

    Scotia - Henrik Larsson (9), Marco Tardelli (1), Clarence Seedorf (8), Didier Deschamps (14), Kenny Dalglish (15), Packie Bonner (12) Craig Bellamy (16) Mattias Sammer (7), Patrice Evra (4)

    Idioteque - Ryan Giggs (12), Ronaldinho (1), Dino Zoff (13), Arjen Robben (3), Luis Suarez (16), Patrick Vieira (14) Paul Lambert (6) John Arne Riise (15), Jamie Carragher (8)

    Packybhoy - Toto Schillachi (1), Mark Hughes (9), Roy Keane (14), Siniša Mihajlović (16), Danny McGrain (13), Ashley Cole (11), Billy McNeill (8) Marc Overmars (15), Deco (3)

    Mr. Fawlty - Johan Cruyff (11), Ferenc Puskás (4) Ruud Gullit (7), Garrincha (16), Johan Neeskens (8), Zico (9), Paul Breitner (1), Velibor Vasović (10), John Charles (15)

    @mark82 - Franz Beckenbauer (7), Andres Iniesta (12), Gianluigi Buffon (13), Socrates (1), Raul (10), Gabriel Batistuta (11), Jairzinho (16), Alessandro Costacurta (14), Zé Roberto (3)

    obafgkmlt - Carles Puyol (12), Roberto Carlos (16), Bobby Moore (6), Lilian Thuram (14), Peter Schmeichel (11), Romario (3), David Beckham (15), Paco Gento (10), Luis Monti (4), Jimmy Case (2)

    V For Vendetta - Cristiano Ronaldo (13), Alfredo Di Stefano (4), George Weah (11), Kaka (7), Stanley Matthews (9), Ronald Koeman (16) Robert Gardner (5) Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (8) Eric Cantona (15), Francis Benali (2)

    Pennywise - Franco Baresi (12), Fabio Cannavaro (13), Philip Lahm (1), Cafu (14), Gareth Bale (6), Oliver Kahn (8) Hristo Stoitchkov (7) Hernan Crespo (16) Stefan Effenberg (10) Pablo Aimar (3)
     
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  9. Keano88

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    I'm pretty much guaranteed my last pick.

    It's only Fawlty who can take him, but I'm 99.9% sure he won't.
     
    Keano88, Mar 25, 2017
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  10. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Minty - Lionel Messi (12), George Best (6), Gerd Muller (8), Rivaldo (7), Gaetano Scirea (13), Claude Makelele (9), Ruud Krol (1), Jurgen Kohler (16), Xabi Alonso (10)

    THG- Diego Maradona (13), Lotthar Matthaus (9), Roberto Baggio (11), Lev Yashin (12), Andrea Pirlo (8), Frank Lampard (6), Andriy Shevchenko (14), Sergio Ramos (10), Claudio Gentile (4)

    T.S. Eliot - Paolo Maldini (12), Marcel Desailly (4), Alessandro Nesta (9), Iker Casillas (8), Javier Zanetti (13), Denis Bergkamp (1), Michael Laudrup (11), Bastian Schweinsteiger (15), Bobby Charlton (6)

    Keano88 - Pelé (13), Marco van Basten (10), Xavi (8), Frank Rijkaard (9), Jinky Johnstone (6), Neymar (1), Giacinto Fachetti (12), Jaap Stam (16) Fernando Hierro (15)

    Padmill - Zinedine Zidane (10), Dennis Law (11), Ibrahimović (13), Steven Gerrard (6), Angelo Peruzzi (14) (+4)

    Moustache- Eusébio (4), Luís Figo (11), Manuel Neuer (8), Pavel Nedvěd (7), Juan Román Riquelme (15), Djalma Santos (1), Nílton Santos (12), Edgar Davids (14), Roberto Ayala (3)

    Mr Monaghan - Ronaldo (11), Thierry Henry (3), Michel Platini (7), Alessandro Del Piero (15), Carlos Alberto (16), Edwin van der Sar (8) Daniel Passarella (9) Fernando Redondo (14), Lucio (10)

    Scotia - Henrik Larsson (9), Marco Tardelli (1), Clarence Seedorf (8), Didier Deschamps (14), Kenny Dalglish (15), Packie Bonner (12) Craig Bellamy (16) Mattias Sammer (7), Patrice Evra (4)

    Idioteque - Ryan Giggs (12), Ronaldinho (1), Dino Zoff (13), Arjen Robben (3), Luis Suarez (16), Patrick Vieira (14) Paul Lambert (6) John Arne Riise (15), Jamie Carragher (8)

    Packybhoy - Toto Schillachi (1), Mark Hughes (9), Roy Keane (14), Siniša Mihajlović (16), Danny McGrain (13), Ashley Cole (11), Billy McNeill (8) Marc Overmars (15), Deco (3)

    @Mr. Fawlty - Johan Cruyff (11), Ferenc Puskás (4) Ruud Gullit (7), Garrincha (16), Johan Neeskens (8), Zico (9), Paul Breitner (1), Velibor Vasović (10), John Charles (15)

    mark82 - Franz Beckenbauer (7), Andres Iniesta (12), Gianluigi Buffon (13), Socrates (1), Raul (10), Gabriel Batistuta (11), Jairzinho (16), Alessandro Costacurta (14), Zé Roberto (3), Tommy Gemmell (6)

    obafgkmlt - Carles Puyol (12), Roberto Carlos (16), Bobby Moore (6), Lilian Thuram (14), Peter Schmeichel (11), Romario (3), David Beckham (15), Paco Gento (10), Luis Monti (4), Jimmy Case (2)

    V For Vendetta - Cristiano Ronaldo (13), Alfredo Di Stefano (4), George Weah (11), Kaka (7), Stanley Matthews (9), Ronald Koeman (16) Robert Gardner (5) Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (8) Eric Cantona (15), Francis Benali (2)

    Pennywise - Franco Baresi (12), Fabio Cannavaro (13), Philip Lahm (1), Cafu (14), Gareth Bale (6), Oliver Kahn (8) Hristo Stoitchkov (7) Hernan Crespo (16) Stefan Effenberg (10) Pablo Aimar (3)
     
    Marty McFly, Mar 25, 2017
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  11. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Callum McGregor, Mar 25, 2017
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    Kenny Miller!
     
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  13. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Don't think Padmill may ever return from Spain.

    We hardly knew ye....









    Now can I have Zidane?
     
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  14. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    No.
     
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  15. Idioteque I’ll laugh until my head comes off

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  16. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Packy.

    Padmill has missed 4 picks and isn't looking likely to return because he's on his holidays.
     
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    Horst Blankenburg (2)

    Career span 1967-85
    Country West Germany
    Clubs Nürnberg, Wiener SK, 1860 München, Ajax, HSV, Xamax, Chicago, Münster, Lüneburger
    Position centre-half, sweeper
    Medals 3 European Cups, 1 Intercontinental Cup, 1 Cup Winners' Cup, 3 Domestic Titles (2 Netherlands, 1 Germany), 2 UEFA Super Cups, 3 Domestic Cups (2 Netherlands, 1 Germany)



    It's no good being next in line to the throne if the Queen lives until she's 274. Ask Prince Charles. Or Horst Blankenburg. In football years, that's how long Der Kaiser, Franz Beckenbauer, lived when he was blocking the route of Blankenburg to the West Germany team. Beckenbauer started 60 consecutive games over nearly seven years before retiring from international football in 1977, so the closest Blankenburg - the ultra-smooth libero in Ajax's three consecutive European Cup wins in the early 1970s, who played good cop to big Barry Hulshoff's bad - got to international football was when he picked for a star-studded select XI in The Six versus The Three match at Wembley in 1973 to celebrate the UK's entry into the EEC. Irony or ironies, he played alongside Beckenbauer - and was managed by Helmut Schön, the man who consistently ignored him with West Germany.

    Blankenburg's is an odd case. He was at Ajax between the ages of 23 and 28 but did scarcely anything either side of that, and had been headhunted from a relegated Bundesliga side, 1860 Munich, to replace the brilliant Velibor Vasovic. He was the only regular outfield player in Ajax's Total Football side not to play international football (the goalkeeper, Heinz Stuy, was also uncapped). Hennes Weisweiler, the legendary German coach, said Blankenburg came closest to his ideal of a libero, yet there was an alternative school of thought. Some felt that Ajax were so good that any Tom, * or Horst have played sweeper; others retorted that Blankenburg was so sophisticated that only Ajax were intelligent enough to get the best out of him.

    Blankenburg's bigger achievement might have been to fit in with Ajax off the field. At the time they were embroiled in perhaps football's most interesting rivalry, and in the Venn diagram that had Ajax and Holland on one side and Bayern Munich and West Germany on the other, Blankenburg was the very small bit in the middle. He owed that to making such a majestic first impression. The late, great Bobby Haarms, Ajax's assistant manager throughout the 1970s, takes up the story: "He asked me when he came to Ajax how to present himself to the other players. I basically said: 'They're all typical Amsterdam arseholes. Full of themselves.' Blankenburg walked into the dressing room, said: 'I'm Horst, I'm a Kraut and I've come to play football with you.' And that was it. He was immediately accepted." A German taken to the Ajax bosom; we really can't stress how unlikely this was.

    Blankenburg starred when Ajax humiliated Bayern in the European Cup in 1973, their signature performance. Johan Cruyff even asked him to play as a naturalised Dutchman in the 1974 World Cup, which would have added another twist to the already heavily loaded final against West Germany in Munich. Reports vary as to whether Blankenburg declined, still hoping to play for his country, or was not allowed. Either way, he had no chance of playing for West Germany, and not just because of Beckenbauer.

    "Maybe I was too inconvenient for the national coach; I always said what I thought," says Blankenburg. "It is partially my fault. After I won the European Cup with Ajax for the third time in a row (in 1973), a journalist told me that Schön had said 'I've never noticed Blankenburg. I don't know why I should select him.' Of course I was angry and said to the journalist 'Schön can lick my *!' That didn't go unpublished - and that was the end of my dreams of the national team." Three European Cups and eternal love in his spiritual home of Amsterdam, where a bridge is named after him, is not a bad compensation.

    Minty - Lionel Messi (12), George Best (6), Gerd Muller (8), Rivaldo (7), Gaetano Scirea (13), Claude Makelele (9), Ruud Krol (1), Jurgen Kohler (16), Xabi Alonso (10)

    THG- Diego Maradona (13), Lotthar Matthaus (9), Roberto Baggio (11), Lev Yashin (12), Andrea Pirlo (8), Frank Lampard (6), Andriy Shevchenko (14), Sergio Ramos (10), Claudio Gentile (4)

    T.S. Eliot - Paolo Maldini (12), Marcel Desailly (4), Alessandro Nesta (9), Iker Casillas (8), Javier Zanetti (13), Denis Bergkamp (1), Michael Laudrup (11), Bastian Schweinsteiger (15), Bobby Charlton (6)

    Keano88 - Pelé (13), Marco van Basten (10), Xavi (8), Frank Rijkaard (9), Jinky Johnstone (6), Neymar (1), Giacinto Fachetti (12), Jaap Stam (16) Fernando Hierro (15)

    Padmill - Zinedine Zidane (10), Dennis Law (11), Ibrahimović (13), Steven Gerrard (6), Angelo Peruzzi (14) (+4)

    Moustache- Eusébio (4), Luís Figo (11), Manuel Neuer (8), Pavel Nedvěd (7), Juan Román Riquelme (15), Djalma Santos (1), Nílton Santos (12), Edgar Davids (14), Roberto Ayala (3)

    Mr Monaghan - Ronaldo (11), Thierry Henry (3), Michel Platini (7), Alessandro Del Piero (15), Carlos Alberto (16), Edwin van der Sar (8) Daniel Passarella (9) Fernando Redondo (14), Lucio (10)

    Scotia - Henrik Larsson (9), Marco Tardelli (1), Clarence Seedorf (8), Didier Deschamps (14), Kenny Dalglish (15), Packie Bonner (12) Craig Bellamy (16) Mattias Sammer (7), Patrice Evra (4)

    Idioteque - Ryan Giggs (12), Ronaldinho (1), Dino Zoff (13), Arjen Robben (3), Luis Suarez (16), Patrick Vieira (14) Paul Lambert (6) John Arne Riise (15), Jamie Carragher (8)

    Packybhoy - Toto Schillachi (1), Mark Hughes (9), Roy Keane (14), Siniša Mihajlović (16), Danny McGrain (13), Ashley Cole (11), Billy McNeill (8) Marc Overmars (15), Deco (3)

    Mr. Fawlty - Johan Cruyff (11), Ferenc Puskás (4) Ruud Gullit (7), Garrincha (16), Johan Neeskens (8), Zico (9), Paul Breitner (1), Velibor Vasović (10), John Charles (15), Horst Blankenburg (2)

    mark82 - Franz Beckenbauer (7), Andres Iniesta (12), Gianluigi Buffon (13), Socrates (1), Raul (10), Gabriel Batistuta (11), Jairzinho (16), Alessandro Costacurta (14), Zé Roberto (3), Tommy Gemmell (6)

    obafgkmlt - Carles Puyol (12), Roberto Carlos (16), Bobby Moore (6), Lilian Thuram (14), Peter Schmeichel (11), Romario (3), David Beckham (15), Paco Gento (10), Luis Monti (4), Jimmy Case (2)

    V For Vendetta - Cristiano Ronaldo (13), Alfredo Di Stefano (4), George Weah (11), Kaka (7), Stanley Matthews (9), Ronald Koeman (16) Robert Gardner (5) Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (8) Eric Cantona (15), Francis Benali (2)

    Pennywise - Franco Baresi (12), Fabio Cannavaro (13), Philip Lahm (1), Cafu (14), Gareth Bale (6), Oliver Kahn (8) Hristo Stoitchkov (7) Hernan Crespo (16) Stefan Effenberg (10) Pablo Aimar (3)

    @packybhoy


    I'm worried about you taking my keeper.
     
    Mr. Fawlty, Mar 26, 2017
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  18. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Interesting pick Fawlty.

    Some trophy haul he has for such a short period at the top.
     
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    Honestly hadn't heard of him, enjoyed the read up @Mr. Fawlty
     
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  20. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    'Schon can lick my *' :56:

    Reminded me of a Father Ted sketch.
     
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