Best international 11 from your country that play/have played for your club

So as an irish Villa fan

Shay Given

Ciaran Clark
Paul McGrath
Richard Dunne
Steve Staunton

Andy Townsend
Ray Houghton
Stephen Ireland
Mark Kinsella


Robbie Keane
Tony Cascariono.

(Have changed mine as was originally going to to do since prem, but doesn't need to be).

Liverpool, England

Ray Clemence

Phil Neal
Jamie Carragher
Phil Thompson
Emlyn Hughes

Steve McManaman
Steven Gerrard
John Barnes

Michael Owen
Robbie Fowler
Kevin Keegan

Man Utd, England

Gary Bailey

Gary Neville
Duncan Edwards
Rio Fedinand
Nobby Stiles

David Beckham
Bobby Charlton
Paul Scholes
Bryan Robson
Ray Wilkins

Wayne Rooney

I have a soft spot for Villa, so:

Spink

Barrett
Southgate
Ehiogu
Barry

milner
cowans
Platt

collymore
withe
merson

Stella wrote:I have a soft spot for Villa, so:

Spink

Barrett
Southgate
Ehiogu
Barry

milner
cowans
Platt

collymore
withe
merson

Good team that.
Near what I would have chosen. Only changes.

Teale for Ehiogu
Dublin for Collymore.

Graham Taylor to mange the team.

Wot. No Brian Little?


David James

Chris Lawler
Sol Campbell
Jimmy Dickinson
Glen Johnson

Peter Harris
Len Philips
Neil Webb
Jack Froggatt

Jermain Defoe
Peter Crouch

Nigel Martyn

Gary Stevens
Derek Mountfield
Brian Labone
Leighton Baines

Trevor Steven
Alan Ball
Peter Reid
Andy Hinchcliffe

Dixie Dean
Bob Latchford

Think I sold out a bit on my left winger but couldn't think of anyone better.

Kevin Sheedy?

Another Kevin.........Radcliffe for Mountfield?

Kevin Sheedy is my favourite player ever but he's Irish.
Ratcliffe is Welsh.

MIG wrote:Kevin Sheedy is my favourite player ever but he's Irish.
Ratcliffe is Welsh.

DOH!!!!!

Sorry!!!

I was thinking Lineker but he was only there one season, wasn't he?

Lineker crossed my mind yes but as you say he was only with us for 1 season albeit a very successful one. Then he moved on to some little team......Barcelona!

MIG wrote:Nigel Martyn

Gary Stevens
Derek Mountfield
Brian Labone
Leighton Baines

Trevor Steven
Alan Ball
Peter Reid
Andy Hinchcliffe

Dixie Dean
Bob Latchford

Think I sold out a bit on my left winger but couldn't think of anyone better.

Good and interesting mix of generations there, MIG.

Although he was shamefully only selected once for England, I think Colin Harvey deserves a place in the midfield alongside his old mate Alan Ball.

Also, Ray Wilson might well ask Leighton Baines to show him his World Cup medal!

Good to see a recognition that football existed before the Premier League with the inclusion of Dixie Dean. Mind you, he wouldn't thank you for calling him 'Dixie' - that was something the press coined and it just stuck. My great uncle knew him when he played on the other side of Stanley Park and it was always 'Billy' to family, friends and opponents!

Ray Wilson should have been an obvious choice, but I had to go with my heart and include Baines as he is my current favourite player and thought I should include at least one current player.

Obviously I knew about Dixie not being his real name but not being from that generation I've only ever known him as that.  I hope he wouldn't be too offended!

Also went for Reid in midfield as I just about remember him in my earliest years of support (along with my dvds!)

Basically I've tried to go with best along with some personal favourites.  But I still think even then the team is pretty damn good.

No Rooney?
Much as I will forever be a Bob Latchford fan, Rooney is a curious omission. Unless it's payback for abandoning ship.

These are a very interesting pair of threads, this one especially. Brain working overtime, which is an unusual thing.

MIG - from what my great uncle told me (now he's been gone for years, I so wish I had asked him more), Dean wouldn't have minded too much what you called him as long as you bought him a drink! Always fond of a jar, apparently.

Understand your reasoning over team selection and, yes, it is pretty damn good.

kwinigolfer wrote:No Rooney?
Much as I will forever be a Bob Latchford fan, Rooney is a curious omission. Unless it's payback for abandoning ship.

These are a very interesting pair of threads, this one especially. Brain working overtime, which is an unusual thing.

I'll be completely honest he didn't even cross my mind! Strange!

Code:

guildfordbat wrote:MIG - from what my great uncle told me (now he's been gone for years, I so wish I had asked him more), Dean wouldn't have minded too much what you called him as long as you bought him a drink! Always fond of a jar, apparently.

Understand your reasoning over team selection and, yes, it is pretty damn good.

Sounds like me and him would have got on well! Two things in common at least

MIG wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:MIG - from what my great uncle told me (now he's been gone for years, I so wish I had asked him more), Dean wouldn't have minded too much what you called him as long as you bought him a drink! Always fond of a jar, apparently.

Understand your reasoning over team selection and, yes, it is pretty damn good.

Sounds like me and him would have got on well! Two things in common at least

MIG - so as well as being a boozer, you also scored 60 top level league goals in a single season!

Picked only players I saw play.

Second delivery on the post for the legendary Neil Webb eh Kwini!!

Shilton

Charles
Walker
Cooper
Pearce

Stone
Hodge
Webb

Davenport
Clough
Collymore

United ireland (pun central)

Gregg
O'shea Moran McGrath Irwin
Mcilroy keane Giles
Whiteside Stapleton best

Some side that.

guildfordbat wrote:

MIG wrote:

guildfordbat wrote:MIG - from what my great uncle told me (now he's been gone for years, I so wish I had asked him more), Dean wouldn't have minded too much what you called him as long as you bought him a drink! Always fond of a jar, apparently.

Understand your reasoning over team selection and, yes, it is pretty damn good.

Sounds like me and him would have got on well! Two things in common at least

MIG - so as well as being a boozer, you also scored 60 top level league goals in a single season!

Haha I wish! Just a boozer and the Everton link I'm afraid!

Hibbz wrote:Picked only players I saw play.

Second delivery on the post for the legendary Neil Webb eh Kwini!!

Shilton

Charles
Walker
Cooper
Pearce

Stone
Hodge
Webb

Davenport
Clough
Collymore

Hibbz - you also had some seriously good footballers in the '70s or, probably put more accurately, some reasonable footballers that Clough & Taylor got playing some seriously good football - particularly Anderson, Burns and Robertson.

Didn't see Anderson so he misses out (Shilton gets poetic licence because I saw him for other clubs), likewise didn't see Burns or Robertson and they're both Scottish so miss out twice!!

westisbest wrote:

Stella wrote:I have a soft spot for Villa, so:

Spink

Barrett
Southgate
Ehiogu
Barry

milner
cowans
Platt

collymore
withe
merson

Good team that.
Near what I would have chosen. Only changes.

Teale for Ehiogu
Dublin for Collymore.

I''m pretty sure Teale never played for England

Hibbz,
Was "post" a pun intended??!!
Was the great Trevor Francis before yr time?

Confess I picked two players I read about in the Football Mail but never saw, except thru my Dad's eyes, Len Phillips and Jack Froggatt. Legends to a young lad.

Arsenal

All time XI

Seaman

Anderson
Adams
Campbell
Cole

Eastham
Ball
Platt

Bastin
McDonald
Drake

Can't justify putting in a few of my personal favourites like Merson, Wright and Rocastle, as they never showed there best form for England.

kwinigolfer wrote:Hibbz,
Was "post" a pun intended??!!
Was the great Trevor Francis before yr time?

Confess I picked two players I read about in the Football Mail but never saw, except thru my Dad's eyes, Len Phillips and Jack Froggatt. Legends to a young lad.

Of course mate, hope it gets your stamp of approval.

Tricky Trev had finished at Forest before I started watching though I remember seeing him play for QPR in the late eighties alongside another balding/bald legend Ray Butch Wilkins.

I saw most of the home games of Trev's breakthrough season, with a young Kenny Burns coming thru also. Loved watching him in those days - good that he largely franked his early promise.

English Brighton

GK David Stockdale
RB Andy Whing
LB Wayne Bridge
CB Matt Upson
CB Adam Virgo
RM Elliot Bennett
CM Charlie Oatway
CM Dean Hammond
LM Will Buckley
ST Glenn Murray
ST Bobby Zamora

Nakatomi Plaza wrote:

westisbest wrote:

Stella wrote:I have a soft spot for Villa, so:

Spink

Barrett
Southgate
Ehiogu
Barry

milner
cowans
Platt

collymore
withe
merson

Good team that.
Near what I would have chosen. Only changes.

Teale for Ehiogu
Dublin for Collymore.

I''m pretty sure Teale never played for England

You make a good point.

Just checked, Spink got one cap.

Ent wrote:United ireland (pun central)

Gregg
O'shea Moran McGrath Irwin
Mcilroy keane Giles
Whiteside Stapleton best

Some side that.

Must have been 11 NI international players who have/do play for Utd.

Evans
Gillespie
McNair
Carroll

And, without going back to the Johnny Carey era, you could have added Jackie Blanchflower and Billy Whelan from the Munich squad.

As an alternative to MIG's Everton team:

Gordon West

Tommy Wright
John Stones
Phil Jagielka
Ray Wilson

Leon Osman
Ross Barkley
Colin Harvey
Derek Temple

Wayne Rooney
Joe Royle

Tragic not to find a place for Keith Newton.

Best English footballer never to get an international cap in my lifetime: Howard Kendall.
Though not far behind is John Hurst.

And that's before even older-times like Tommy Lawton, or fleeting fly-by-nights like Lennon, Lineker and Gascoigne; fact is that a third team might be pretty good too, Fred Pickering being among the forward options!

QPR - England

Seaman

Fenwick
Parker
Ferdinand (Rio)
Sansom

Sinton
Sinclair
Wilkins
Francis (Gerry)

Ferdinand (Les)
Bowles

Manager - Venables

Nods to John Gregory, Rodney Marsh, Trevor Francis and probably a host of others that could (should?) have made it. Still, makes a decent bench...