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Totti.

I'd say Crespo had a bit more about him than just being a poacher, too.

Quite. It's one of these things I don't understand - the need to label pretty much every player overrated or underrated. What players have there been who have been considered to be exactly as good as they really were? Now, you get clear cases of people being vastly overrated or vastly...

Romario ahead of Ronaldo?

Too simplistic to say that. I'm sure Gentile wouldn't have played Maradona in the same fashion if faced with a modern ref. Whether he could have contained Maradona without doing what he did is, of course, another matter.

Wasn't commenting on Pele v Maradona. Was merely saying the English have been consistently stupid over the years, having never learned how to close down space in key areas of the pitch.

Against England? Yeah, they're stupid regardless of era.

One of the reasons it's so hard to compare players across eras and also why Mexico '70 is held up by a generation as some kind of perfect World Cup that is never likely to be replicated (unless the heat in Qatar is enough to make the games incredibly open).

He'd have been interesting too. Baresi makes the list largely due to how highly my dad speaks of him, despite disliking Italian football in general. Platini's France team is the last international side that he really speaks highly of.

Did you see Maradona? Wish I'd seen Cruijff, Beckenbauer, Platini, Maradona and, to a lesser extent, Baresi.

Who was the best you never saw?

Looks like it was against Cagliari. No idea beyond that.

I know. It's just not that interesting. Not off the top of my head. When I think of great Zidane games my mind tends to go to France matches.

It's all very pretentious. Would be better off just downloading a few games with classic Zidane performances in them.

I'm sure that has nothing to do with Zidane being a Real Madrid employee.

Roy Keane.

Well, if he's half as good as Jordi Cruijff...

Something you wipe off the floor.

Yeah, think so.

Is that the really naff, pretentious thing?