Pele political? or alltime great

[pabird]

Always believed Pele to be the greatest player I have seen (1948 forward) but in his attempts to push the game in the emerging (football) nations his list of the 100 greatest ever must be a long term mistake

No Bobby Moore? no Jimmy Greaves and maybe the biggest no no being no Tom Finney? whilst the exclusion of John Charles beggers belief

Only opinion and others can name and will name other players who should be in there but for Pele to name a present Liverpool player (African) who could not lace the boots of those ommisions strongly suggests he was got at by the FIFA politico!s before making the list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[CANV EFM]

the players on the list had to still be alive didnt they?..

must admit i only glanced at the england bit of it.. micheal owen..? are you sure.? ok he is welsh but surely ian rush would be in before him.. i lost intrest after that

[pabird]

No it was to be an all time greats list

[Exile]

Just checked Fifa's website, it was for the (allegedly) greatest living players. Strangely the list of 125 players includes two US women footballers. I don't think it should be regarded as a definitive list, it was "chosen by Pele and approved by Fifa" - not sure what "approved" means in this context but let's just say for anybody not on the list they should not lose any sleep over it.

[CANV EFM]

pele should get back to cameo appearances on 'mike basset england manager' and doing adverts for knob stiffeners

[mala_D]

 

Well...he looks happy enough <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

 

[pabird]

I was at Wembley (Trophy final Daggers) when Pele was present to hand out the silverware

No group of players could have been prouder than those lads meeting the one and only, he should stick to what he is good at

[mala_D]

If Pele was playing today...

...he'd probably turn out for the stiffs <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Billericay Blue]

Sorry to but in,

 

Mal thanks for the Enfield tip off,

 

I can hours of fun playing with Sam I thinks