Rio Ferdinands ALL TIME XI

[Vermilion]

I don't care who Rio has chosen for this pointless exercise but I nearly did spit out my coffee when I read about how difficult it was for him to choose between Gary Neville and Wes "current third choice right back for Manchester United but second best right back out of all British players ever" Brown.

****in hilarious... absolutely the funniest thing i've heard for a while, and it's even more daft when realising he likely believes it too.

[Kev_81]

...The 30-year-old makes some interesting choices - explaining why he nearly slapped team-mate Anderson when he asked him who John Barnes was.

At least you did one thing right you duck faced ****. As for Brown/Neville

[pondus]

...The 30-year-old makes some interesting choices - explaining why he nearly slapped team-mate Anderson when he asked him who John Barnes was.

At least you did one thing right you duck faced ****. As for Brown/Neville

Didn't get it quite right though did he?

[Maxiedge]

oh des walker! i thought he'd picked Roy Walker!

You said what you saw. Fair enough

[Jennings]

He picked himself!?

He isn't fit to lace the boots of great centre halves before him (Moore, Hansen, Lawro) ...and with my red-tinted glasses I include big Sami!!

[Tee]

Fair play to him regarding John Barnes:

One of my heroes as a kid, I know he was a left winger but he has to be in my team. Ryan Giggs is on the left, John Barnes is on the right cutting in and whipping the ball into the top corners.

For a winger to be scoring 20-30 goals a season, which he was doing at Liverpool, says it all. Cristiano Ronaldo's doing it now, scoring 42 last season, but Barnes was doing it years ago and he was twisting people up left, right and centre. I used to love him, I had videos, the lot.

When I see him I salute him every time. He even sent me his actual FA Cup final shirt, I begged him to sell it to me, the one with Crown Paints on the front.

He was the most underrated player ever to play football in England. He wasn't appreciated, he was ahead of his time, he was doing things that Thierry Henry, Ronaldo, all these guys are doing now; whipping the ball in the top corner, going past players like they weren't even there.

If he had played in the 1986 World Cup, England would have got further. He was brought on in the quarter-finals and he set up a goal against Argentina. I was telling Anderson about John Barnes and he said "who?" I almost had to slap him.

[wiw]

Picked himself?! says it all really cunt

[Dessy]

What an absolute ****.

[Ferrrrnando]

Fair play to him regarding John Barnes:

Fair Play? Barnes scoring 20-30 a season

Did he do it once, twice?

Gary Neville over Nobby Stiles

No Souness

No Robson

No Dalglish

No Charlton

No Keegan

No Woan

Should read

Banks

Stiles Hansen Edwards Kennedy

Best Souness Robson Giggs

Dalglish Rush

Subs: Moore, Charlton, Keegan, Shearer, Robert Green

[Matt]

Fair Play? Barnes scoring 20-30 a season

Did he do it once, twice?

Gary Neville over Nobby Stiles

No Souness

No Robson

No Dalglish

No Charlton

No Keegan

No Woan

Should read

Banks

Stiles Hansen Edwards Kennedy

Best Souness Robson Giggs

Dalglish Rush

Subs: Moore, Charlton, Keegan, Shearer, Robert Green

Ian Woan?!?!

[Shaggy]

No Woan!

Class. No Chettle either!

[Ferrrrnando]

Ian Woan?!?!

Robert Green?!?!

[Neil Young]

Ferrrrnando is Ian Woan.

[PTP]

You said what you saw. Fair enough

[Red Chilli]

Astonishing

Not one world cup winner amongst them.