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Best English centre half in the last decade

Best English centre half in the last decade

  • King

    Votes: 57 76.0%

  • Campbell

    Votes: 3 4.0%

  • Terry

    Votes: 2 2.7%

  • Ferdinand

    Votes: 10 13.3%

  • Woodgate

    Votes: 3 4.0%
  • Total voters
    75
El Guepardo said:
Was Des Walker really better than King? :O My interest in football was only really starting from World Cup '90 so I knew Walker was good but didn't know that he was 'that' good.

King is standout defender and that's without reaching his full potential. If he hadn't suffered the injuries perhaps he could have become the World's greatest ever centre back...maybe.
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If he HAD become the player he should have been, would he have stayed his whole career at Spurs? It's not an easy subject to approach, but I don't think we would have seen the best defender in the world spend his whole career with a club that wasn't CL regulars. We would have gotten some serious offers.
 
Jordinho said:
If he HAD become the player he should have been, would he have stayed his whole career at Spurs? It's not an easy subject to approach, but I don't think we would have seen the best defender in the world spend his whole career with a club that wasn't CL regulars. We would have gotten some serious offers.
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After his big international breakthrough at Euro 2004, he'd've gone to Madrid or someone by 2005 or 2006 had injuries not intervened IMO.
 
Gutter Boy said:
After his big international breakthrough at Euro 2004, he'd've gone to Madrid or someone by 2005 or 2006 had injuries not intervened IMO.
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No disrespect to King, but he's a legend with us because he didn't fulfill his potential. Had he gone, he would be a much bigger name worldwide, but we might not hold him in such high esteem.
 
Jordinho said:
If he HAD become the player he should have been, would he have stayed his whole career at Spurs? It's not an easy subject to approach, but I don't think we would have seen the best defender in the world spend his whole career with a club that wasn't CL regulars. We would have gotten some serious offers.
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Sadly yes, he would have gone. He could have played at any level he wanted to!
 
El Guepardo said:
Was Des Walker really better than King? :O My interest in football was only really starting from World Cup '90 so I knew Walker was good but didn't know that he was 'that' good.

King is standout defender and that's without reaching his full potential. If he hadn't suffered the injuries perhaps he could have become the World's greatest ever centre back...maybe.
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Late 80s and very early 90s Walker was one of the very best in the world. He was in the 1990 team of the tournament. I guess anyone under 30 might have an unfairly negative opinion of him due to his long dotage at Wednesday.

He was quite similar to King in style actually - quick, fantastic clean tackler and very calm.
 
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Jordinho said:
No disrespect to King, but he's a legend with us because he didn't fulfill his potential. Had he gone, he would be a much bigger name worldwide, but we might not hold him in such high esteem.
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Probably true. Although maybe he'd've carried us with him - led us to CL and beyond under Jol in tandem with Carrick, Keane and Berbatov etc.
 
I have to say Ferdinand for what he has achieved at the very top level ( world cups, CL etc ), Ledley is what might have been for me, upon saying that Leds is the best Spurs CB I have seen followed by England, Norman and Gough.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Late 80s and very early 90s Walker was one of the very best in the world. He was in the 1990 team of the tournament. I guess anyone under 30 might have an unfairly negative opinion of him due to his long dotage at Wednesday.

He was quite similar to King in style actually - quick, fantastic clean tackler and very calm.
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King was a far better footballer than Des, Des used to train with the team I played for when he was only eight years old, always used to be getting in the way, lovely lad and really quick.
 
The fact that people beat Ledley King with the "he hasn't won anything" stick is absurd. Nobody holds it against Matt Le Tissier or Alan Shearer even though they didn't exactly win a hatful of medals.
 
Jurgen the German said:
The fact that people beat Ledley King with the "he hasn't won anything" stick is absurd. Nobody holds it against Matt Le Tissier or Alan Shearer even though they didn't exactly win a hatful of medals.
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did Hasselbaink ever win anything?
Des Walker who has even been mentioned in this thread won the league cup twice, Ledley won it once (we won it 99 but I believe he didnt get a medal?)
Ginola hardly won anything, 1 league cup
di Natale doesnt have a single trophy
 
McGrath was born in England and probably qualifies for an English passport. How technically English that is, I don't know.
 
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