In 2022 I started a series of posts on Twitter to try and rank the 30 best players of the prior 30 years for each position. This roughly aligns...
I always post these each year. First up is FourFourTwo's list: 100. Busquets 99. Nahuel Molina 98. Diogo Costa 97. Micky van de Ven 96. Benzema...
Back in November FourFourTwo included their best 100 players in the world, prior to the World Cup kicking off. I'll post that and any more similar...
In another thread recently we were discussing the concept of "ceiling/floor raising" players which comes from Ben Taylor's book Thinking...
Please use this thread for anything related to the 2022 World Cup. I'll put some interesting links in to start things off.
Thoughts welcomed on the best players of the 2010 World Cup. Some materials: FIFA Dream Team Casillas; Maicon, Ramos, Puyol, Lahm;...
Every year I post up the various publications' lists of the best players in the world at the end of the year. Here are an assortment of those so...
This is a little late but these are the 30 nominees for the Ballon d'Or along with the write up from France Football on why they were nominated....
Please use this thread to post any interesting articles or comments on anything to do with the tournament.
Any help or thoughts appreciated on the best players of the 2009-10 season: Goalkeeper Julio Cesar (Inter and Argentina) 38 games, 0 goals...
We’ve reached that point again where various publications release their lists of the best players in the world. First up: ESPN...
As always, thoughts and comments appreciated on the best players of the season for 2008-9. Who is missing? Who shouldn't I have included? At...
As always, thoughts, suggestions, comments welcome including erroneous inclusions and omissions. Goalkeeper Iker Casillas (Real Madrid and...
Thoughts please on the best players of the 2006-7 season. The players are roughly in order but far from finalised. Any notable omissions,...
I just asked this question on Twitter. What do people think of this as a tentative ranking of the best leagues in Europe? Tier 1: England & Spain...
As always, any thoughts much appreciated. Some contemporary assessments and ratings below: Official FIFA Squad: Goalkeepers Gianluigi Buffon...
Some initial thoughts about players to consider: ESM Team of the Season Cech; Puyol, Lucio, Cris; Ronaldinho, Lampard, Cambiasso, Juninho;...
This time around I'm trying a slightly different way of working. I've tried to collate a large number of the sources I use and will then list the...
Here are some materials I found that might help identify the best players of Euro 2004 (apologies for the formatting!). Any thoughts welcome...
All thoughts welcomed on the best players of the season for 2003-4. I've highlighted some achievements/ratings for certain players just for my own...
We've reached that time of year when people start to put out the lists of the best players in the world. First up is Goal with their 25 best...
It's that time of the year again when various publications start to put out their lists of the best players in the world. I'll use this thread to...
In 2015 France Football published a special edition which looked at the history of the Ballon d'Or. One of the articles included was a review...
Please use this thread for any useful or random chat about the tournament. To kick things off here is a quite staggering guide from the Guardian...
Any help gratefully received. My initial suggestions are below: Goalkeepers Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus and Italy) 6.38 Francesco Toldo (Inter...