Quote Originally Posted by champs95 View Post
So what do you think the best striker in Europe would have gone onto do for Man Utd you absolute cretin. Pearce was decent. Not anywhere near the best. Shearer was. And he won his only league title with my small club.

Shearer and Pearce were in the same England team on a regular basis, enuff said. Alan Shearer can lay claim to England's best ever striker, it's between him, Lineker and Charlton, maybe some would say Stan Matthews and Duncan Edwards. Best in Europe at the time, maybe a bit difficult considering there were strikers like Weah, Van Basten, Papin and a host of Italians and Brazilians, But he would be mentioned along the same lines I'm sure.
Best shielder of the ball I've seen though, you could never get the ball off him except via a foul.