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by jamesl24 on February 12, 2008
I am truly amazed, Steve finnan over Sagna!!!! I know the final 11 had to have one or two Liverpool players in it but you are having a laugh!!
by Gunner blog on February 12, 2008
Im sorry for CRASHING THE PARTY. But Bacary Sagna is better than both Finnan and Richards. In the second team you put Jamie Carragher over both John Terry or William Gallas. Come on man
by Goofle on February 12, 2008
David James; Bak Sagna Toure Vidic Clichy; Ronaldo Flamini Fabregas Hleb; Adebayor Torres. Looks a bit Arsenal heacy but name me a better set of central midfielders and full backs?
by Mark on February 12, 2008
No Adebayor? And it's totally UNBIASED (Van Persie is there) when i say that's got to be a joke right?! Re do the poll, it is NOT realistic.
by Freddie on February 12, 2008
Consistency over a silly hairdo every time James ;-)
by RedandDread on February 12, 2008
No Adebayor-surely this dismisses any credibility this poll pretends to have!
Arsenal fans unhappy that it's not all Arsenal players ... shock, horror
by Vinny B on February 12, 2008
Finnan has not been having a great season but he has been overlooked in years past but he is just as good as Sagna but why is Van Persie in and not Ade?
by Kopite on February 12, 2008
tell ya what - right or wrong - what a team that would be :) some quality in there fair play.
by I think u must b takin the psss on February 12, 2008
this is nonsense. complete shambles. im an arsenal fan but hleb and RVP? do me a favour. NO ADEBAYOR??! top stiker in the league? grow up! play 3 in midfield, drop hleb and RVP and put drogba, adebayor and torres upfront.
by berry on February 12, 2008
seriously guys I am a spurs fan, but to not see Sagna representing the first eleven is madness he's the best right back in the prem with no doubt. Adebayor should clearly be in there over Torres. Terry/rio/Gallas over vidic - and Gareth Bale and Petrov shouldnt even be mentioned on this web page. COYS
[quote]this is nonsense. complete shambles. im an arsenal fan but hleb and RVP? do me a favour. NO ADEBAYOR??! top stiker in the league? grow up! play 3 in midfield, drop hleb and RVP and put drogba, adebayor and torres upfront. [/quote] You aint an Arsenal fan if you think that Hleb should be dropped for drogba who has done nothing this year. Sagna is twice the player Finnan is.
by sal on February 12, 2008
you just don't get it do you..poll means independent voting. Its not wrong or right its the highest majority of opinion you flippin spanners
by matt d on February 12, 2008
everyone is right and wrong blah de blah.... But what about a charity football match every year involving the best players in each european league, premier ship versus Primera ect ect.....
by mike1973 on February 12, 2008
non of the arsenal team have won a champions leauge final, thats why finnan is in over sagna
finnan won a champs league title in an extremely fortunate liverpool side. he is consistent but never oustanding unlike sangna. article in times yesterday shows that sagna is the most succesful player in league this season wen comparing minutes on the pitch to games won - he is miles better than finan - finan is average played half his career in the lower leagues at fulham and weymouth - id take nicky hunt over him
by the guy on February 12, 2008
cech sagna vidic terry evra ronaldo gerrard fabrigas petrov torres Adebayor This are my best 11 no
by roonaldounited on February 12, 2008
what a surprise, 5 arsenal player's.. you obviously dont support arsenal right???
by Finsbury Parker on February 12, 2008
Where's Finnan in this table? http://www.pa-sport.com/en/actim/actim-index-p remier.html
by mac on February 12, 2008
but from an arsenal perspective, adebayor surely deserves to be placed ahead of van persie, and gallas, who has been outstanding this season, deserves a spot ahead of kolo toure. i'd also put sagna ahead of finnan without any hesitation. other than that, its exactly the team of the season (on form) that I would have picked
by noel reynolds on February 12, 2008
[quote]Consistency over a silly hairdo every time James ;-)[/quote] consistency freddy over 38 games not just a few good performances back in august!
by M on February 12, 2008
Cech and Ronaldo are the only two I would pick from that. What a load of old twaddle? What are you people watching? You can't tell your a***s from your elbows.
by sds on February 12, 2008
finnan over sagna? lolz
finnan over sagna? torres, who only scores against weaker teams, over adebayor? lolz
by jude on February 12, 2008
I am an arsenal fan but i think terry better than both toure and vidic finan in the list is a joke pls tell the world that sagna is the best
by EB on February 12, 2008
And where is Mikel Arteta?
by RJP on February 12, 2008
Steve Finnan over Evra or Sagna is one error and i think it should be Drogba or Adebayor instead of Torres simply because the lack of appearances so far this season for Torres. How many Liverpool fans were voting??
by Jonny F on February 12, 2008
Drogba over Van Persie, and Terry over Toure, other than that it seems ok.
[quote][quote]Consistency over a silly hairdo every time James ;-)[/quote] consistency freddy over 38 games not just a few good performances back in august![/quote] More like consistency over the last few seasons but thanks for dropping by
[quote]finnan over sagna? torres, who only scores against weaker teams, over adebayor? lolz[/quote] Would that be the weaker teams like Chelsea?
by Voice of reason on February 12, 2008
RB - "torres, who only scores against weaker teams, over adebayor? lolz" That'd be the same Torres who scoed against Chelsea less than 20 minutes into his home debut? Oh, and pot calling kettle when it comes to strikers going missing against big teams - remember Henry turning it on when it REALLY mattered? Thought not. Just like your manager - 20-20 vision when it suits, but blind as a bat when it doesn't. PS - nothing against Adebayor, cracking player!
by justin on February 12, 2008
arsenal fans are jokers of football fans. time to grow up boys. :)
by Snap back to reality on February 12, 2008
[quote]RB - "torres, who only scores against weaker teams, over adebayor? lolz" That'd be the same Torres who scoed against Chelsea less than 20 minutes into his home debut? Oh, and pot calling kettle when it comes to strikers going missing against big teams - remember Henry turning it on when it REALLY mattered? Thought not. Just like your manager - 20-20 vision when it suits, but blind as a bat when it doesn't. PS - nothing against Adebayor, cracking player![/quote] Really mattered ? What about the time when Arsenal were knocked out of 3 cups in 10 days and we needed a win over a pathetic Liverpool side to get back on track in the EPL during the unbeaten season ? Voila one of the best hattricks the EPL has ever seen against the tossers leading to the tag "Invincibles". And when we played Inter Milan at the San Siro need ONLY a win to qualify for the knockout stages in the UCL ? Or the time when he scored a superb solo goal against Real Madrid in the bernabeu which in the end proved pivotal
by greg on February 12, 2008
arsenal fan - this is over this season then arsenal players should be in there, there is a reason why they are top of theleague! ade has got to bein ther and sagna - pleaswe tell me better full backs thant gael and backary?? thater isnt! steve finnan haha!! i wud rather have if not sagna! wes brown! hes ob doign alrite look at utd!! and liverpool fans! torres im afriad hasnt really done it!! his home debut he scored great but has he done since!! at item she sbeen amazin but not tha toften! in fact rarely!! no way does he top this if anything id put ronald alongside adebayor and add another midfielder! ronaldo acts more as a striker anyway
by gooner on February 12, 2008
ADEBAYOR IS THE BEST STRIKER AND RVP
by ynwa on February 12, 2008
[quote]Steve Finnan over Evra or Sagna is one error and i think it should be Drogba or Adebayor instead of Torres simply because the lack of appearances so far this season for Torres. How many Liverpool fans were voting?? [/quote] sorry m8 but i think u said it urself its the lack of appearences and he s still better than adebayor jus shows how gd he is
by Me on February 12, 2008
Obviously this was written by a gooner looking at that line up. clichy, hleb and rvp??? you're having a laugh
by tel on February 12, 2008
essien isn better than all those midfielders and ricardo carvalho would wipe the floor with those defenders including jt and im a chelsea fan.
by United Fan on February 12, 2008
I assume that this list was compiled on the Arsenal website!!?? How can Clichy get in? Evra and Cole are easily better. Toure is very good, but to discount Ferdinand and Terry is a little silly, both are equals if not better. Finnan??? What?? A joke by a scouse man I assume!! Could never argue with Fabregas and Gerrard. Hleb??? Almost as big a joke as Finnan, good player but not even close to being one of the best in the league. Joe Cole wins by a mile. RVP? Very good player....when he plays! Darren Anderton was a very good player also, similar injury issues. For this reason he cannot even get close. What about Drogba, Adebayor, Rooney, Anelka, Berbatov, R.Keane... All are more consistent with either equal or better skills. Whoever voted on this list is either a numpty or an Arsenal supporter o the dole!
by villa109 on February 12, 2008
i can understand and pretty much accept the first XI but to have BALE, LENNON & PETROV in the 2nd really shows how delusional many people in this country really are. a major surprise is that no west ham players have been fixed into it.
by Paul on February 12, 2008
Czech, Bale, Terry, Vidic, Sagna, Ronaldo, Essien, Fabregas, Hleb, Drogba, Torres
Paul do you support MK Dons?
Surely fans get to watch enough football to understand that Alex Hleb, Clichy, Sagna and Flamini have been good enough to get into that team with relative distance from their opposition? Im not being biased, it is just what has happened. The voting took place over several months so that team cannot be taken seriousley but the people commenting must have more intellegence than to say that Drogba is better than Adebayor this season and that Finnan has been better than Sagna?
by Dunca on February 12, 2008
Fabregas should be the only Arsenal player in here. The rest at best make the bench. Hleb?!! Don't make me laugh! and little van persie has been injured most of the season. Lol, the make believe world of gooners is really imaginative.
by Duncan on February 12, 2008
Even the Arsenal fans who obviously control this site have got it wrong with their own players. Van Persie over Adebeyor??!!... um how many has van persie scored?! Pathetic you can't even cheat properly!
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by me on February 12, 2008
BIAS anyone? The MASSIVE amounts of comments from Arse fans might explain why there are so many Arsenal players. Being good for a season wouldnt put you in my starting line up!
by Scott on February 12, 2008
Cech Richards Terry Vidic Lescott Ronaldo Fabregas Gerrard J.Cole Adebayor Drogba Try To Be Least Bias As Possible As I Am A Chelsea Fan!
by jack on February 12, 2008
what are you on about best 11 are chec, richars, vidic, ferdinand, evra, ronaldo, anderson, hargreves,giggs, adebayor, tevez.
by 1878 on February 12, 2008
Lescott should be in there no doubt. Not only is he the best centre back in the prem he is also the best left back. Add to this the best hair do
by monster mach on February 12, 2008
i reckon stevie g laaaa and carra laaaa should be in there lad. true scowswers laaaar
by Sensible on February 12, 2008
The reason why all those names are up there, is because THE FANS put them there... if you all are bitching about it, why didnt you vote!? you complain only after the poll was done... bunch of clowns
by WILLIAMS on February 12, 2008
i picked a team that i thought wud be betta Cech Toure Vidic Lennon Clichy Bentley Fabregas Ronaldo Malouda Berbatov Adebayor Subs: Ferdinand Torres Elano Cahill
by Banksy on February 12, 2008
Gael Clichy over Patrice Evra?? Wise up you idiots
by Mel Britton on February 12, 2008
Cech is welll the best goalkeeper in premiership n i fink at least terry n essien or j.cole or drogba or lampard shud b der not alll scousee scum ..x
by davio on February 13, 2008
Bias? Chelsea are third in the league with two teams above that is three teams agreed? one of the teams above you has to have less players than your team because you don't want to be bias You chose 4 .. And the not only that you only want the two teams above you to have two players VIDIC, FABREGAS, RONALDO and ADEBAYOR blue tinted specs chap! THE LEAGUE DON'T LIE
by cassidy on February 13, 2008
cech-made too many mistakes finnan-been terrible for us this season toure-been consistent but others more deserving vidic-fantastic another season making rio look like a decent defender clichy-close but only 2nd/3rd best in the league at the minute ronaldo-way overrated,never performs in big games but still deserves his place for goals scored gerrard-should have been the season he'd prove himself best in the world but hes gone missing when liverpool needed him fabregas-first half of the season looked world player of the year material 2nd half has looked average not consistent enough for me hleb-his dribbling and ability to thread the trickiest of passes have kept arsenal's title charge on course would pick him as cm rather than left wing however van persie-has he played for arsenal this season? his run of injuries would make him envy harry kewell has been overrated since THAT volley not done enough to even make the 2nd team and has been far outshone by adebayor torres-been outstanding hard to beli
by untitled on February 13, 2008
u clearly are a arsena fan
by johnpanda on February 13, 2008
cech richards, toure, vidic, evra ronaldo, fabregas, scholes, petrov adebayor, torres subs: lescott, dunne, anderson, rooney
by disco dave on February 13, 2008
Do me a favour.
by ronaldo on February 13, 2008
all that matters is Ronaldo's in there, he'd win the game alone!!!!
by Kemo on February 13, 2008
Bwst team my a***. How can it be the best with out the two best players in the league, Rio Ferdinand and Ronaldo? On top of having no Adebayor
by The best on February 13, 2008
This season's best players in the EPL: Cech evra - vidic - dunne - clichy ronaldo - gerrard - fab. - petrov Torres - Adebayor 2nd best: James sagna - ferdinand - toure - cole cole - flamini - elano - bentley tevez - keane 3rd best: Green Beleti - Lescot - Tery - Richard SWP - Hleb - Giggs - Arteta Bebatov - Senta Cruz There. End this non-sence, although I do have trouble finidng better full-backs other than Clichy and Sagna, and I'm really not trying to be biased. Let's see, Brown sucks for utd, finnan and riise suck, belletti is ok and a.cole can't really defend but def. can f... lol THIS IS ONLY THIS SEASON. IMO. You do have to admit, that Rooney isn't really living up to being a striker... and Drogba is either injured or gone, berbatov is a sore loser like Ronaldo, but both can play. Everyones opinion will differ but I believe that these are the best 3 teams that the Premier League has to offer.
by james on February 13, 2008
Sagna?? Are you joking? Malbranque has murdered him twice this season. Finnan isnt greatbut give me Richards over that yellow booted dreadlocked mug any day
by tobbe on February 13, 2008
This eleven is from a poll taken by regular people such as yourselves!! if you dont like it, ok, but remember this eleven is the ruling of the majority of the people
by waz on February 13, 2008
last year in ppta ratings finnan was the 6th best player in the premiership. not defender, player. so thats why he is in the team.
by undefined on February 13, 2008
why has gently been over looked? He is in the form of his life, also RVP is quality but should not be in the starting 11. Adebayor should. Also torres is quality the only reason there are any disagreements is because of rafts rotation. Finnan and clichy shouldn't be in either, evra is better than both and Richards should be there too.
I apologise I meant bently with a b!!!!!!
by Tim on February 13, 2008
..Van Persie better than Drogba. What planet are you on? All of a sudden the best 11 players contain 5 Arsenal players - Hleb? Please, he's good but not that good. Kolo Toure - obviously written by a stereotypically myopic Arsenal supporter...jog on
by sucker on February 13, 2008
No drogba no lampared no terry no carvalho no joe cole that theam sucks
by sds on February 13, 2008
by deboy on February 13, 2008
does the best 22 nearly all have to come from the big 4 what about benjani score on the board tim cahill arteta bentley kenwyne theyve all played some great football.
by Zulu on February 13, 2008
hahahaha... in my opinion, that second team could even beat the first one! that drogba-rooney combination would run riot! also, richards and evra are better than finnan and cliche (i know those blinkered arsenal fans won't agree - as they surely think sagna and cliche are the best... what a joke) one more thing... where is bentley? he's much better than lennon!
by Gooner4life on February 13, 2008
I'm an Arsenal fan, and even I think this lineup is bias.
by Dan on February 13, 2008
Don't believe Van Persie should be in this squad.
by sammy on February 13, 2008
Reina iz better than Cech!
by Mimi on February 13, 2008
The obvious flaws in that first team are Van Persie and Hleb! I think most people can accept that the inclusions of Cech, Vidic, Ronaldo, Fabregas and Gerrard are not debatable... whereas Toure, Finnan, Cliche and Torres are heavily debatable!
by .. on February 13, 2008
finnan over the seasons in the epl has proven that he should be in the 11. if it's not him, it has to be gary neville. sagna? not even close. have a nice day.
by Tara on February 13, 2008
Cant believe Micah Richards (and to a lesser extent Carragher) isnt in it... but most of all Pepe Reina! He hasnt made any mistakes this season and has been consistently the best for the last 3 seasons. He's won the last 2 golden glove awards AND according to MOTD's stats, he was the best keeper in the world last year. Cech is overrated and the voting was stupid on this because most people just voted for the players in their team!
by ram on February 14, 2008
cech vidic lescott sagna evra fabregas ronaldo helb cahill adebayor tevez
by Ant T on February 14, 2008
I cannot take a list of best players seriously if it has Gerrard in.
by LFC Anfield on February 14, 2008
All this argueing over the right back position, im a liverpool fan and finnan is not the best right back, and all you arsenal fan i've got something for you too Sagna isnt either, i know everyone likes to rep there team but if you have a footballing brain you'll come to your senses, i think this season Belletti for Chelski has been outstanding(sagna i cant belive you lot think hes the best in the prem and tell him to sort his gay looking hair out)
by Andy Robertson on February 14, 2008
My Team: James, belletti, Vidic, Ferdinand, Clichy, Ronaldo, Gerrard, Scholes, Rooney, Adebayor, Torres Bench: Cech, Fabregas, Terry, Drogba, Tevez
by v z on February 14, 2008
i dunno ... wtf??? r u joking ok ur an arsenal fan ... and u see football like once a month ... thats what i concluded from watching this list ... F OFF
by simon ryan on February 15, 2008
i'm a liverpool fan but i try to be as fair as i can. finnan is in there because he's been the best right back for the past 3 years fact! richard dunne should have a least been listed , van persie is too injury prone and bale and lenno have not done much and i'm not taken a dig at spurs fans!
by gary coulson on February 21, 2008
James, Sagna, Vidic, Wheater, Evra, Ronaldo, Gerrard, Lampard, Adebayor, Rooney, Benjani. All picked on what they have done over the entire season, not reputations!
by falana adebowale on May 14, 2008
to me all the comment i have been going through since monring is yet to be complet without talking about john mikel obi i really want to no if fabrigas is better than him in all area of football
by Alex Bradford on August 08, 2008
that team is totally wrong! here's the proper team Cech Bosingwa Terry Ferdinand Clichy C.Ronaldo Deco Gerrard Robinho(if he comes)/J.Cole Adebayor Torres Second team: V.Der Saar Richards Vidic R.Cavalho A.Cole Babel Essien Fabregas Petrov Drogba Santa cruz/Rooney/Owen i wasn't sure who to choose as my second team striker so i've got 3 options, Santa Cruz,Rooney or Owen, i was also thinking about Tevez and kuyte, who do you think is best?
by louis brennan on October 31, 2008
this team is hilariously bad! you cant just put in candidates for every position, you should get everybody to submit an eleven and then see who appears the most, here's mine Cech Bosingwa Terry Vidic Evra Essien Gerrard Lampard Ronaldo Torres Rooney
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