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Best Premier league defender of all time

Ernie_blue said:
Thinking about centre backs its easily JT for me, the longevity of his career and how long he played at a top level and still winning trophies. I would put Adams in second, seeing alot of him live he was some defender and scored one of the most iconic goals in PL history.

At left back is one of the easiest decisions anyone can make in Cole.
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Agreed about Cole at left back. Just thought Stuart Pearce deserved a mention. 

 
Boyne said:
This is the BBC PL Top Ten Defenders as chosen by Shearer and Richards with Lineker chipping in. List includes Desailly and Pallister. Can't see their names mentioned elsewhere. Apologies if mentioned. Desailly oozed class.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56739737
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Pleased to see they agreed on last night's show that JT is the best Prem defender of all time. Shearer actually put Adams as his no 1 but JT finished above him 'on average' as it were. (Cue howls of outrage on Merseyside as VvD was placed 5th).

All of them spoke glowingly about all aspects of JT's game, not just his toughness, positional play, reading of the game and leadership, but his massively underrated footballing and passing skills. Lineker had to check JT is actually rightfooted, because they all raved about his ability to hit pin-point passes with his left. Richards said his skill and passing was ridiculously good after seeing him in training at Villa. He also highlighted his superb goal-scoring record.

Desailly and Carvalho alo earned glowing praise but were placed 10th and 9th respectively. Personally I think that's fair enough, as we only rarely saw the very best of Marcel at Chelsea, and RC did have a few flaws in his game.

They discussed a few players who didn't make the shortlist like Carjacker and Bruce, but totally overlooked Paul McGrath, who in my eyes was a far superior player to Stam, Vidic and Pallister who were in the top 10. Apparently the 10 were selected for them to discuss, not chosen by themselves (probably a Manure fan, with 4 on the list, Ferdinand being the other one).

I've really enjoyed this Top 10s series. Some of the banter is quality. All three pundits can laugh at themselves and go along with the piss-taking in very good spirits. Especially Micah Richards, who clearly knows he doesn't belong in the company of proper legends - and is constantly reminded of the fact.

 
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