Your favourite players side

[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

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Uppercut

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 (sexiest 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]

Originally Posted by GingerFurball

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.

[GingerFurball]

Originally Posted by sledger

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.

[Nnanden]

Originally Posted by 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

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...