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Favourite ever non-Liverpool Premiership player

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Possibly take some shit for this but for me It's Shearer. Absolute fucking beast of a striker in his prime, consummate professional who told the mancs to get fucked whenever they tried to buy him (and will be forever hated by their fans for doing so). His partnership with Les Ferdinand was top class, but one wonders what he could have achieved in the game if he hadn't chosen to stay with his boyhood side.

 

I can probably trace back when I stopped giving a shit about England (and international football as a whole) to when the likes of Shearer stopped playing. Euro 96 was a sensational tournament for England and he was responsible for much of that (despite being udner pressure beforehand for his goalscoring form in internationals, as is typical of the national media).

 

On all scores he compares favouribly with the man who was his successor, a certain human rat from Croxteth.

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Like you, Section, I'll probably take some stick for my choice, but it's Gianfranco Zola.

 

Yeah, I know he played for Chelsea, but it was before they became the twattish monstrosity they are today. Sums the classiness of the bloke up when he knocked back Abramovich's advances to get him to re-sign because he'd given his word to Cagliari.

 

A wonderful player and I just used to love watching him. Plenty of skill, panache, intelligence, but also didn't feel it was beneath him to graft like you find with a few flair players.

 

I was there at Stamford Bridge for our game against them back in 2003, which was effectively a Champions League play-off match, and he came on as a sub for his last ever Chelsea appearance. I remember he got a great reception from the fans in our end and I gave him a warm round of applause myself.

 

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To me he was the most influential player the prem has seen. Forget your Cantona's, your Giggs', Shearer's. Zola's.

 

Rioch bought Wenger the man that would completely change the face of the most boring side in football to the most exciting and Bergkamp only got better with age.

 

It really was a privilege to watch the man play.

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