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The best Spurs team of all time - centre back

Who is going to partner King in the back two for our all time best Spurs team?

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King's through. I'll wipe the votes and edit the poll so that we can choose between Mabbutt and Mackay
 
milo said:
And then we'd have a bugger of a job picking a striker. Whatever the formation, we would have had problems fitting in someone, somewhere along the line.
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Not really, we have had some great forwards yes, but we've had one on another level.
 
I think I'll change my vote in the new poll, from Mackay to Mabbutt. As much as I want to get Mackay in this team, he was never really a centre-back for us was he?
 
Voted Mabbutt, I understand why Mackay is in the poll, but personally I can't vote for someone who hasn't really played in that position. Plus I love mabbutt, very underrated player and gets a lot of unfair stick because of his later playing days.
 
Sticking with Mabbutt, but mainly because I never saw Mackay play. We're not going to whittle all of the great Spurs players from history down to 11, so some sort of selection criteria have to be used. For me - it's a case of only voting for people I have direct experience of (so my "all-time" 11 is really a "since-1977" 11 when I first started watching Spurs). Otherwise I might as well just get out a stats book and base my votes on that.
 
As for formation... whatever we choose is going to result in some great players being left out. 4-4-2 allows us to choose 2 out-and-out strikers, but 4-2-3-1 gives us more space to add midfielders. When I think of the great Spurs teams of my life, it's generally been more about the midfield than the strikers (generally, not always of course); so I'd tend towards 4-2-3-1 for that reason. But ultimately there's no perfect solution.
 
Difficult decision between Mabbutt and Mackay as both were midfield players for most of their careers and then finished up at the back. However, as there is still some doubt about the formation that the 'best team' will play I will vote for Mackay as we really must get Mackay in the team somewhere. He is definitely in the best 11 players to have ever paid for Spurs.
 
With the quality of strikers that we will have to choose from, i.e. Greaves, Chivers, Gilzean, Lineker, Klinnsman, Sheringham, Berbatov etc it is going to be pretty difficult to narrow it down to 1 striker. Would 4-3-3 be better, perhaps with a qualification that 1 of the 3 strikers must be a winger?
 
Abbeyspur said:
With the quality of strikers that we will have to choose from, i.e. Greaves, Chivers, Gilzean, Lineker, Klinnsman, Sheringham, Berbatov etc it is going to be pretty difficult to narrow it down to 1 striker. Would 4-3-3 be better, perhaps with a qualification that 1 of the 3 strikers must be a winger?
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