20 Seasons of the Premier League

Tom84

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I'm sure you've seen the stories about how Cantona is up for multiple awards you can cast your votes below

http://www1.skysports.com/20seasons

I went for the following;

Match: Man Utd 4-3 Man City
Goal: Henry v Man Utd
Celebration: Cantona v Sunderland
Save: Schmeichel v Newcastle (Hart v Liverpool came close and lol at PIG having 2 entries)
Team:

---------------VDS---------------
Neville--Ferdinand--Vidic--A.Cole
Ronaldo--Keane--Scholes--Giggs
---------Shearer--Henry---------

:)
 
Lets be honest only Sky would come up with this, it's really 20 years of a TV deal, other than that nothing really changed in 92 but Sky always seem to want to hype it up as if football didn't exist before that date


still put my votes in though :p
 
Match: Liverpool 4-3 Newcastle
Goal: Bergkamp
Celebration: Ketsbaia (Would've chosen Fowler's coke sniffing celebration had it been there)
Save: Jussi
Team:

-----------Schmeichel------------

Neville--Ferdinand--Adams--A.Cole

Ronaldo---Keane---Gerrard---Giggs

---------Shearer---Henry---------
 
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How is Sami Hyypia not an option for the team of the Premier League? For 10 seasons he was one of the best CB's in the league and the best for a few of those too.
 
Rotty said:
Lets be honest only Sky would come up with this, it's really 20 years of a TV deal, other than that nothing really changed in 92 but Sky always seem to want to hype it up as if football didn't exist before that date


still put my votes in though :p
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To be fair there's a big spread on the bbc and the official premier league websites as well, I just happened to be on Sky Sports website at the time I thought I'd link it :)
 
Tom84 said:
To be fair there's a big spread on the bbc and the official premier league websites as well, I just happened to be on Sky Sports website at the time I thought I'd link it :)
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It's perhaps not this really it just that we forever get it shoved down our throats all the time, whenever they show stats before a game 1992 is used as a cut off for "all time" stats :p
 
Match: Liverpool 4 - 4 Arsenal
Goal: Bergkamp v Newcastle
Celebration: Bullard
Save: Jaaskelainen
Team:

---------------Seaman---------------
Neville--Stam--Adams--A.Cole
Ronaldo--Keane--Vieira--Giggs
---------Bergkamp--Henry---------

I went for Bergkamp up top, but in truth I was very torn between him, Zola and Shearer.
 
Get a bit annoyed with these goal things because it always has the popular goals from certain players not necessarily the best (MLT scored better goals than the one vs Blackburn, and Bergkamp's wasn't as good as vs Sunderland in 1997 IMO).

edit: I think we all know there is going to be some heavy bias in voting towards the most popular teams, so I'd be surprised for example if the team wasn't dominated by MU players (as the best club in that era obviously you'd expect them to be well represented anyway, but even so... e.g. wouldn't surprise me to see 2x MU CBs in the team when IMO they shouldn't be)
 
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HangTime said:
Get a bit annoyed with these goal things because it always has the popular goals from certain players not necessarily the best (MLT scored better goals than the one vs Blackburn, and Bergkamp's wasn't as good as vs Sunderland in 1997 IMO).
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Wasn't Bergkamp's goal against Sunderland in the FA Cup?

Also, I voted for Bergkamp's against Newcastle because I remember my reaction as a kid, and to me that emotion was much more than which is the best technically or anything like that. It just blew my mind, after that goal I went and got his name on my Arsenal shirt (I followed Arsenal because I was a goalkeeper and Seaman was my "inspiration" - I also had the keeper shirt with his name on;)).
 
Match: Newcastle 5 - 0 Man Utd (3 amazing goals including THAT lob by Albert :D)
Goal: Cantona v Sunderland
Celebration: Ketsbaia (for his insane pointless rage attack :D)
Save: Schmeichel v Newcastle
Team:



---------------Schmeichel----------
Neville--Campbell--Adams--A.Cole
Ronaldo--Keane--Scholes--Giggs
---------Shearer--Cole---------
 
CasKirensys said:
Wasn't Bergkamp's goal against Sunderland in the FA Cup?
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I thought that after I posted but didn't think anyone would realise :o
I'd maybe put his 3rd against Leicester ahead of the one vs Newcastle though.

I don't need any excuses to break out Le God video: http://youtu.be/XAjgL0YIXUg
Skip to 4:38 if you want to see the best goal celebration ever as well, ridiculous casual volley with outside of foot from a wide angle using spin to take it round the keeper, then just turn round and start walking back towards his own half, little wave of acknowledgement, just another day at the office for the most talented Englishman of his generation...
Should be a top 10 MLT goals, would be higher quality than top 10 all time premier league list :p
 
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Surely Warren Barton as best RB.

Yeboah's goal vs Wimbledon was better than the one on there. And how about Trevor Sinclair's overhead from outside the box?
 
HangTime said:
I thought that after I posted but didn't think anyone would realise :o
I'd maybe put his 3rd against Leicester ahead of the one vs Newcastle though.

I don't need any excuses to break out Le God video: http://youtu.be/XAjgL0YIXUg
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Haha :D

I know the video and I know how good Le Tiss/God was, but I think my opinions mainly come from my younger days when I was first starting to take an interest in football. Those are the memories that are strongest for me, so I guess they will always be "the best", even if they aren't.. Back then Seaman and Bergkamp were pretty much the only footballers I cared about. Except the smaller players from Sheff Utd like Petr Katchouro, Marcelo, Vass Borbokis.
 
Match: 4-3 Newcastle
Goal: Can't choose between Henry/Bergkamp/Shearer
Celebration: Shearer, very like how players used to celebrate, looks ace. (Gerrard/Cantona close)
Save: Hart maybe. (Reina's quadruple save should be there vs Man U)

Team:

---------------Schmeichel----------
Neville--Vidic--Adams--A.Cole
Ronaldo--Keane--Gerrard--Giggs
---------Henry--Ruud--------


Some pretty hilarious choices in there for best team, David Silva, Bale, Ashley Young???
 
David Silva is the craziest, less than 2 years in EPL. I think it must be because LW is one of the weakest positions in our league historically in terms of numbers, in terms of the big clubs you had the likes of Giggs/Pires dominating the position for a number of years. Compare to others lists and there's a lot of strong names, although Petit looks out of place.

In fact thinking about it, it is a bit silly having 10 choices for all positions, meaning 20 fullbacks and 20 wingers vs 10 CBs and 10 CMs :/
I mean look at some of the names on the wide lists, you know full well they haven't got a hope in hell of getting in the side.
Should have been shortlist of 5 for GK/LB/RB/LW/RW, or if not then double the number of choices for CB/CM/FWD.

Here's my team:

................Schwarzer
Petrescu...Desailly...McGrath....Harte
Stone........Ince......Petit........Duff
...............Cole.....Wright
 
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