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[Furball]

Furball's all time favourite Rangers XI

GK: Allan McGregor

RB: Allan Hutton
LB: Arthur Numan
CB: Lorenzo Amoruso
CB: David Weir

DM: Rino Gattuso
CM: Giovanni van Bronckhorst
CM: Paul Gascoigne

RW: Ronald de Boer
LW: Brian Laudrup
CF: Ally McCoist

Subs:

Michael Mols, Neil McCann, Richard Gough, Barry Ferguson, Kevin Thomson, Madjid Bougherra, Andy Goram.

 

[Furball]

Non-Rangers XI

GK: Jens Lehmann

CB: Paulo Maldini
CB: Frank de Boer
CB: Carles Puyol

DM: Roy Keane
CM: Xavi
CM: Juan Roman Riquelme
AM: Zinedine Zidane

RW: Roberto Baggio
LW: Robert Pires
CF: Ronaldo

Subs: Lionel Messi, Mario Balotelli, Cristiano Ronaldo, Thierry Henry, David Beckham, Dennis Bergkamp, Jose Luis Chilavert

 

[Pothas]

Loving that midfield.

 

[Furball]

Loving that midfield.

van Bronckhorst was a gun; it really infuriated me that he was utilised as a left back once he went to Barcelona because he was an incredibly gifted midfielder who I felt was wasted at left back.

Yes, I know you meant the non-Rangers midfield

 

[Pothas]

To be fair that Rangers one is pretty great as well, that side of yours really does show how badly Scottish football has fallen in the last few years.

 

[Eds]

GK: Pepe Reina

RB: Cafu
CB: Jamie Carragher
CB: Sami Hyypia
LB: Roberto Carlos

CDM: Patrick Vieira
CDM: Roy Keane

RAM: Steven Gerrard
CAM: Zinedine Zidane
LAM: Pavel Nedved

ST: Alan Shearer

 

[Uppercut]

From the vague memories of Football Italia, Fifa '96, Championship Manager '97/'98 and France '98 I give you: Uppercut's Cult 90s XI:

GK: Jose Luis Chilavert

RB: Cafu
CB: Ronald Koeman
CB: Frank Leboeuf
LB: Dan Petrescu

CM: Zinedine Zidane
CM: Zvonimir Boban
LW: Jesper Blomqvist
RW: Youri Djorkaeff

ST: Gabriel Batistuta
ST: Tony Yeboah

 

[Furball]

From the vague memories of Football Italia, Fifa '96, Championship Manager '97/'98 and France '98 I give you: Uppercut's Cult 90s XI:

GK: Jose Luis Chilavert

RB: Cafu
CB: Ronald Koeman
CB: Frank Leboeuf
LB: Dan Petrescu

CM: Zinedine Zidane
CM: Zvonimir Boban
LW: Jesper Blomqvist
RW: Youri Djorkaeff

ST: Gabriel Batistuta
ST: Tony Yeboah

George Weah for Gabriel Batistuta would be a bit more cult IMO.

 

[Furball]

To be fair that Rangers one is pretty great as well, that side of yours really does show how badly Scottish football has fallen in the last few years.

Down to wage hyper-inflation in the last 20 years. Granted, our spending in the late 90s/early 00s wasn't sustainable, but looking back I think we really missed a trick in the mid 90s. Gascoigne was on about £18k a week at Rangers and I can remember the outrage when Ravanelli joined Middlesborough on a £40,000 a week contract, which was completely unheard of. We could compete with absolutely anyone in Europe in terms of wages back then; had we allowed Walter Smith to leave in 1997 like he wanted to and appointed Advocaat we could have signed Ronaldo from Barcelona. That would have been immense.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Only ten men. I presume that's because Balotelli's been sent off again.

Hahaha, you're alright Upper****.

I'll add:

GK: Joe Hart (won me over Shay)

LB: Aleksandar Kolarov (***iest man alive not named Nathan Patrick)
LCB: Sylvain Distin (kept us in the Premier League for 2 seasons in a row)
RCB: Richard Dunne (c) (as above)
RB: Micah Richards (beast)

DM: Nigel de Jong (could work for the Mafia)

LAM: David Silva (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)
CAM: Elano Blumer (what a legend this man was <3)
RAM: Sergio Aguero (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

Second Striker: Mateja Kezman (Batman baby)
Front Man: Edin Dzeko (are you shocked? you shouldn't be)

Bench:
Juan Mata (sooooo sxc)
Eyal Berkovic
Ali Bernarbia
Vincent Kompany
Shaun Goater
Gabriel Batistuta
Yaya Toure

 

[Julian87]

Mark Schwarzer

Christian Wilhelmmson
Anton Ferdinand
Sylvain Distin
Eric Abidal

Mark Van Bommell

Juan Roman Riquelme
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Tim Cahill
Arjen Robben

Nicolas Anelka

 

[sledger]

van Bronckhorst was a gun; it really infuriated me that he was utilised as a left back once he went to Barcelona because he was an incredibly gifted midfielder who I felt was wasted at left back.

Yes, I know you meant the non-Rangers midfield

Arsenal very foolish to sell him in my opinion. Granted he had a pretty shocking injury and then lost his place to Gilberto. But the guy was twice the player Edu was, and better than Flamini as well. Remember he had one bad game at left back against Blackburn where I think Damien Duff tore him to pieces and he never really came back after that, big shame.

Remember once when he got taken out from behind against Liverpool and was shown a second yellow card for diving. Was fuming.

 

[Furball]

Arsenal very foolish to sell him in my opinion. Granted he had a pretty shocking injury and then lost his place to Gilberto. But the guy was twice the player Edu was, and better than Flamini as well. Remember he had one bad game at left back against Blackburn where I think Damien Duff tore him to pieces and he never really came back after that, big shame.

Remember once when he got taken out from behind against Liverpool and was shown a second yellow card for diving. Was fuming.

If it's the Anfield incident I'm pretty sure he slipped. He certainly made absolutely no appeal for a penalty anyway.

 

[Nate]

Mark Schwarzer

Christian Wilhelmmson
Anton Ferdinand
Sylvain Distin
Eric Abidal

Mark Van Bommell

Juan Roman Riquelme
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Tim Cahill
Arjen Robben

Nicolas Anelka

Epic side. Would be interested in hearing some of the explanation for your choices.

 

[Pup Clarke]

To kick things off, why is Wilhelmsson playing at RB...

 

[Nate]

Off-Season is so boringgggggg

GK: Eugene Galekovic
RB: Cassio
CB: Martin Kelly
CB: Daniel Agger
LB: Michael Zullo
RM: Jordan Henderson
RCM: Steven Gerrard (c)
LCM: Marcelo Carrusca
LM: Suso
CAM: Dario Vidosic
ST: Mathew Leckie

Players out of position, but whatevs.

 

[Pothas]

Because no full backs really leap out at me and defending is boring.

GK: Francesco Toldo

LCB: Paolo Maldini
CB: Philippe Albert
RCB: Carlos Puyol

LM: Pavel Nedved
CM: Andres Iniesta
CM: Benat Etxebarria
RM: Nolberto Solano

F: Beppe Signori
F: Ronaldo (fat)
F: Lionel Messi.

Will ignore the fact that Signori has been done for match fixing in recent years.

 

[Pothas]

Brentford:

GK. Wojciech Szczesny

LB. Jake Bidwell
CB. Michael Turner
CB. Ibrahima Sonko
RB. Kevin O’Connor

LM. Harry Forrester
CM. Jay Tabb
CM. Gavin Mahon
RM. Sam Saunders

CF. DJ Campbell
CF. Clayton Donaldson
.
Missed lots of players off from the 90s but went for those that I can remember well.

 

[sledger]

Robert Pires in every position.

 

[sledger]

Brentford:

GK. Wojciech Szczesny

LB. Jake Bidwell
CB. Michael Turner
CB. Ibrahima Sonko
RB. Kevin O’Connor

LM. Harry Forrester
CM. Jay Tabb
CM. Gavin Mahon
RM. Sam Saunders

CF. DJ Campbell
CF. Clayton Donaldson
.
Missed lots of players off from the 90s but went for those that I can remember well.

No Ijah Anderson?