England's most "creative" players....

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    tobyornottoby Well-Known Member

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    .....there's been a general media consensus that we presently lack the imagination in midfield to unlock international defences. True.

    We've had industrious box to box superior class ball strikers like Gerard and Lampard, but did they have the class to beat or draw a man and play the killer pass?

    My idea of "creative" for England, in my lifetime, on a pissed up Friday night, boils down to Gazza and Hoddle.

    With a slight touch, if you chuck in what they did for their clubs, of Le Tissier and Currie.

    Anybody got owt else?

    Or the saviour?
     
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    David Batty?
     
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    My wife used to call him, “back pass Batty”... creative genius!
     
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    tobyornottoby Well-Known Member

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    no need for the question mark.
     
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    tobyornottoby Well-Known Member

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    Sure it wasn't "back passage Batty" she used to call him?

    He had those kind of eyes......
     
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    Scholes, but he was forced out wide and then into retirement. A real waste.
     
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    Waddle and Beardsley?
     
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    Emile Heskey!
     
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    I started this thread in the hope that I'd forgotten about all those creative players we refused to play all those years.

    Seems that there weren't any.

    So no need to bemoan where we are now. We need to live with it.

    Henderson is God!
     
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    Matt Le Tissier should probably have won more caps than he did.
     
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    Frank Worthington. Pure class.
     
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    Bobby Charlton still got his old booits?
     
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    Indeed. "Luxury player" apparently. I wish we'd had the luxury of being able to pick him in Russia this summer.
     
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    They're probably still soaking wet from the quagmire at Northampton when George Best scored six.
     
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    Best 'moment of creativity' though, for me -
    Italia 90, when Gazza did a 'Cruyff Turn', against, of all nations, Holland.
    Moment of genius.
     
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    That's my favourite English word ever. Whoever first said it was a genius.
     
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    A very interesting question, for me FRANK LAMPARD, loved him.
     
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