Goat

[macstheman]

I think some of the nominations provided to date are excellent, whether it be the likes of Besty or Pele or Big Dave may I make a suggestion for the true and unrivalled greatest and one that I have had the pleasure to have seen.
Considered to be the most complete CENTRE HALF since WW2 but who was also, remarkably but very accurately, described as being unmatched as the greatest CENTRE FORWARD to have graced the planet. How can one player achieve that without having an unbelievable level of ability? Well he had and he did.
Considered to be a God and revered forever in Italy I give you that Welsh giant JOHN CHARLES!
There is great and there is John Charles. Here was a player who was utterly brilliant and we go was a lovely man as well!

[ramAnag]

I think some of the nominations provided to date are excellent, whether it be the likes of Besty or Pele or Big Dave may I make a suggestion for the true and unrivalled greatest and one that I have had the pleasure to have seen.
Considered to be the most complete CENTRE HALF since WW2 but who was also, remarkably but very accurately, described as being unmatched as the greatest CENTRE FORWARD to have graced the planet. How can one player achieve that without having an unbelievable level of ability? Well he had and he did.
Considered to be a God and revered forever in Italy I give you that Welsh giant JOHN CHARLES!
There is great and there is John Charles. Here was a player who was utterly brilliant and we go was a lovely man as well!

Great call...I think (!) and I did actually see him play...although I can’t actually remember.
To explain...when I was somewhere between three and five my Dad took me - across the border - to watch Leeds (narrow escape there) specifically to watch John Charles - the ‘gentle giant’ - play.
He told me later that we went because he thought JC was a player we’d ‘never see the like of again’. Seems he may have been right, and although I remember what I thought was my first visit to any sort of sports stadium - sometime later as a going on seven year old - as vividly as if it was yesterday, I regrettably have no memory of watching John Charles.