that's my point exactly.Dion Dublin???
What makes Wright so great? His goals??...
Well Dublin scored 2 less than him for much shytter teams.
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What makes Wright so great? His goals??...
Well Dublin scored 2 less than him for much shytter teams.
Ian Wright - 113 premier league goals, mostly for ArsenalSO now Wrighty is Dion Dublin level, come on.
He was great player simple as, lets just leave it at that.
Tarnishing Wrighty like that
Dion Dublin - 111 premier league goals, mostly for Coventry and Villa
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So the First Division before it was renamed the EPL doesn't count?
Dude has something like 165 in the top league in England
I don't work for Sky, so I fully accept that football existed before 1992, but Wright only had one season for Arsenal before the inception of the premiership and Dublin wasn't really popping before the Prem days either.... so it's a reasonable time period to compare them both over.
Henry and Bergkamp were world class players.
Wright... just a very very good goalscorer.
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As far as this debate goes, nothing disgusts me more than people who somehow find it fashionable to shrug away world class finishers as being anything less than world class. Great dribblers who do fukk all but dribble (Iniesta) get dikkrode, great passers who do fukk all but pass get dikkrode (Pirlo), but for some reason people are okay at drawing the line at someone who simply puts the ball into the net with alarming accuracy and at an unnerving rate at the highest level.
I think I posted a prolonged rant about this on hamster.
Long Live #9's. I want to see someone score every goal with one touch on some Hugo Sanchez shyt.
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As far as this debate goes, nothing disgusts me more than people who somehow find it fashionable to shrug away world class finishers as being anything less than world class. Great dribblers who do fukk all but dribble (Iniesta) get dikkrode, great passers who do fukk all but pass get dikkrode (Pirlo), but for some reason people are okay at drawing the line at someone who simply puts the ball into the net with alarming accuracy and at an unnerving rate at the highest level.
I think I posted a prolonged rant about this on hamster.
Long Live #9's. I want to see someone score every goal with one touch on some Hugo Sanchez shyt.
RVP keeping the spirit alive.
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Ian Wright made more of out his career than the Fowlers, Collymores of the world did. Considering that Wright didnt play for a top club till he was about to turn 28 them breh where already
by that age. Wrights intenrational career was already over before it started just because of his age so I dont really hold that failure against him, he was always 3rd 4th choice.After Lineker the only strikers who done it at international level was Shearer & Owen and thats it. Everyone else been
Most of players who represented England havent do it international, they might of had a year or 2 but thats it. If i really think about the most consistent players for England since 00 have been defenders
Rio, Terry, Sol & Ashley Cole and thats pretty fukkin shockin isnt it
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While leaving out that Ian Wright done it in half the time
for a arsenal team who were ultra defensive
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To talk about 'top class players' and 'world class players' is admittedly slightly arbitrary....Ian Wright made more of out his career than the Fowlers, Collymores of the world did. Considering that Wright didnt play for a top club till he was about to turn 28 them breh where already
After Lineker the only strikers who done it at international level was Shearer & Owen and thats it. Everyone else been
Most of players who represented England havent do it international, they might of had a year or 2 but thats it. If i really think about the most consistent players for England since 00 have been defenders
And yeah, no one has done it for England, for whatever reason out of the creative players for the best part of a decade.
We get the chance to see Gerrard, Lampard, etc playing well in the big champions league games so we can see they're not as shyt as they make out in the international tournaments.... Cup Winners Cup was more prestigious than the secondary euro trophies are now, but I still don't think we've ever had a level that's fukking with the big champions league games now... that's the pinnacle and more competitive than a lot of international football tbh.
But Shearer, Rooney, Henry, Owen (before he fell off)... these guys would've walked into most sides around the world.
Wright made the most of his ability and absolutely carried the team for long periods... and I know it doesn't have to be adversarial, but he ain't on that level for me....
By the same token, Wright couldn't score the goals that Henry did or Bergkamp or Cantona or Le Tissier even.
Wright is better than Defoe and Bent... but he's not fukking with the best was my original point, which isn't too much of a stretch.