Your all time Arsenal XI

[Red Carpet]

BEST
Jennings/Seaman (half each !!)

Anderson
Adams
O'Leary
Sansom
(how odd that I have chosen so few of arguably the greatest back 4 in English history)

Rocastle
Vieira
Brady
Pires

Henry
Bergkamp (for me the greatest Arsenal player ever)

Close but no cigar to Campbell, Wright, Petit, Overmars
Notable mention to Supermac, just because I idolised him when a kid.

WORST

Barnett

Stepanovs
Mancini
Caton
Ceaser
(clearly struggling for full-backs !!)

McGoldrick
Hillier
Helder

Hawley
Hankin
Chapman (pretty scary that all three strikers were at the club at around the same time trying to fill Stapleton's boots - great days eh !!)

[U.F.G Anfield '89]

with my bad team selection i've decided to do something a little different, i have included one player in each position that is a present or former Arsenal legend but considering them on the basis of how shit they were at the start or the end of their arsenal career, these players will have in brackets what point in their career when they were shit.

GK) Seaman (the one that lost us the title in '03)

DF) Kolo (anyone remember the horror that was left back Kolo in his first season for us? how the hell is that the same player we have now?)
DF) Cygan
DF) Stephanovs
DF) Ceasar

MF) Parlour (pre wenger era)
MF) McGoldrick
MF) Helder
MF) Hillier

FD) Henry (first few games for us, Shocking!)
FD) Aliadiaire

[Cus Geezer]

Best

GK - David Seaman

DR - Pat Rice
DL - Silviniho
DC - Tony Adams
DC - David O' Leary

ML - Marc Overmars
MC - Patrick Viera
MC - Liam Brady
MR - Robert Pires

FC - Ian Wright
FC - Thierry Henry

Subs: Kenny Sansom, Dennis Bergkamp, David Rocastle, Kolo Toure, Pat Jennings


Worst

GK - Vince Bartram

DR - Gus Caesar
DC - Jeff Blockley
DC - Terry Mancini
DL - Ashley Cole

MR - Mark Flatts
MC - Gilles Grimandi
MC - David Hillier
ML - Glenn Helder

FC - Lee Chapman
FC - Perry Groves

[exiled in notts]

What? No mention in anyone's worst team for the foxes in box Jeffers & Baptista? How about the wing wizard who was Kris Kiwomya? And the deperate time wasting tactic that was bringing on Remi Garde?

[burns718]

Almunia

dixon KOLO ADAMS clichy

petit viera
cesc

ICEMAN

wright/anelka henry

[EdgeOfTown]

right I'm still a youngster so can only go on players I've seen in the flesh, obviously cant put Brady/Graham or any of the old guard...

Seaman
A.Cole ( )
T.Adams
K.Toure
Ralph
Pires
Overmars
Vieira
Cesc
Bergkamp
Henry

too many players to leave out so I'll make a bench too...

Mad Jens
Manu Petit
Keown
Overmars
M.Thomas (for THAT goal- 1st Arsenal memory..)
Ian Wright, Wright, Wright
Perry Groves (number 1,2,3,4,....)
RvP

[Cockerill's chin]

Can't put the likes of Bastin in as I never saw him, but my eleven and subs are:

GK - Jennings
LB - Winterburn
CB - Adams
CB - O'Leary
RB - Sansom
LM - Overmars
MF - Rocastle
MF - Brady
RM - Pires
FW - Bergkamp
FW - Henry

Subs: Seaman, Keown, Vieira, Merson, Wright, George.

Worst ever players would be bootboys/batchcleaners:
Caesar (sorry Gus), McGoldrick, Jensen, Nicholas

[dvbrisgooner1]

I can only base my team on players I have seen (I have been going since 1982/83). My best team is:

David Seaman
Lee Dixon
Nigel Winterburn
Tony Adams
Martin Keown
David Rocastle
Patrick Vieira
Manu Petit
Robert Pires
Thierry Henry
Dennis Bergkamp

Subs: Jens Lehmann, David O'Leary, Anders Limpar, Ian Wright, Paul Davis.

My worst team (really difficult)

Vince Bartram
Matthew Rose
Gio Van Bronckhorst (playing at left-back)
Pascal Cygan
Igors Stepanovs
Eddie McGoldrick (the worst player ever at Arsenal)
Alberto Mendez
Ian Selley
Jimmy Carter
Julio Baptista
Martin Hayes (post 1987)

[collins]

Gio Van Bronckhorst (playing at left-back)

lol i didnt know u cud do that
heres my worst then

GK- dixon

RB- anelka
CB- henry
CB- pires
LB- ME

RW-lehman
CM-wilson
CM-jennings
LW-lukic

CF- luzhney
CF- cygan

[26may1989]

Not much original here, but has anyone else noticed that lots of George Graham's 1990s signings make the "worst" lists? Says a lot for what he did post 1991.


Best:

GK - Jennings

LB - Clichy
CB - Adams
CB - O'Leary
RB - Dixon

LM - Pires
CM - Vieira
CM - Fabregas
RM - Brady

ST - Henry
ST - Bergkamp


Worst:

GK - Wood

LB - Cygan
CB - Caton
CB - Stepanovs
RB - Ceaser

LM - Helder
CM - Song
CM - Hillier
RM - Carter

ST - Jeffers
ST - Baptista

[dvbrisgooner1]

My worst team (really difficult)

Vince Bartram
Matthew Rose
Gio Van Bronckhorst (playing at left-back)
Pascal Cygan
Igors Stepanovs
Eddie McGoldrick (the worst player ever at Arsenal)
Alberto Mendez
Ian Selley
Jimmy Carter
Julio Baptista
Martin Hayes (post 1987)

I have made a huge mistake on my worst team and I have to apologise to Ian Selley - if you ever read this Ian, please note that I am sincerely sorry and take it all back. I forgot (and so did most by the looks of it) about STEFAN MALZ!

Message to "collins" - anyone who saw Gio play at left-back for us will know why I selected him there!

[All_Arsenal_1886]

I only picking players since 1997/98 season because tha was the season i had my first game

GK - D.Seaman

RB - L.Dixon
CB - T.Adams
CB - K.Toure
LB - N.Winterburn (I just couldn't put Cashley in)

RM - F.Lungburg
CM - C.Fabregas
CM - P.Vieira
LM - M.Overmars

CF - D.Bergkamp
CF - T.Henry

Subs,
GK - J.Lehmann,
DEF - G.Clichy,
MID - R.Pires,
MID - R.Van Persie,
ST - I.Wright.

Bloody hell that was harder than i thought and i was only choosing from the last 10 years.

[Eboue Can't Defend]

All Arsenal 1886,

You've got your Left and Right Backs the wrong way around!!

Having watched Arsenal since the late sixties, this is much too difficult for me so I'm not even going to attempt to pick a team. Unless, of course, it consists of at least 30 players!!

[All_Arsenal_1886]

All Arsenal 1886,

You've got your Left and Right Backs the wrong way around!!

Having watched Arsenal since the late sixties, this is much too difficult for me so I'm not even going to attempt to pick a team. Unless, of course, it consists of at least 30 players!!

Cheers ECD, my bad