Okay so for a bit of fun and a bit of football related chat. Using your own criteria, give me a 5 aside team that you would pick. Just list the criteria you've used, e.g. former Sunderland players, a team made up of keepers only, one player only from a team etc. I'll start it off in honour of a couple of club legends and create a 5-aside team of Kevin's. GK: Kevin Pressman DF: Kevin Muscat DF/MF: Kevin Ball MF: Kevin De Bruyne FW: Kevin Phillips A solid keeper who can also take a mean penalty, 2 tough nuts at the back not afraid to be physical and an abundance of skill in attack.
Team Gary Vault 108 GK; Gary Bailey DF; Gary Neville DF; Gary Pallister FW; Gary Lineker FW; Gary Rowell Man U back 3, solid as owt. No midfield, just long ball it to Rowell and Lineker and score a boat load.
1900s footballers. GK. Leigh Richmond Roose DF. C. B Fry FWD. Billy Meredith FWD. Steve Bloomer FWD. Vivian Woodward (29 goals in 23 games for England) Formation is a reference to the forward-heavy line ups of the time.
Another from me. A team of players who have missed penalties in world cup knock out stages against Brazil. Baresi De Boer Cocu Platini Baggio No need for a keeper because that defence is impenetrable and the attack will never let you have the ball anyway!
To compensate for having no goalkeeper, this is my team only of keepers (excluding premier league): Gk: Jan Oblak - the actual best keeper in the world DF: Manuel Neuer - the start of this movement of sweeper keepers MF: Jose Luis Chilavert - the solid Chilean scored over 50 goals in his career, good enough for me MF: Rogerio Cena - not only is he the most prolific goalscoring keeper of all time, but he's loyal as well, staying at the same club for over 20 years and playing into his 40's FW: Jorge Campos - not only was the little Mexican a professional striker early in his career, but he could design the team strip as well and if it's anything like his 1994 effort, he will blind the opposition!
All been to clink 5 a siders. GK; Rene Higuita. Sent down for involvement in kidnapping. DF; Tony Adams. Sent down for drink driving. MF; Jan Molby. Sent down for drink driving. W; Mickey Thomas. Sent down for counterfeiting and money laundering. FW; Duncan Ferguson. Sent down for head butting some lad in a match. Special mention to Nizar Trabelsi. Played once for Fortuna Dusseldorf before getting a 10 stretch on terrorism charges.
The never made it to a World Cup 5 GK: Neville Southall MF: Ryan Giggs MF: Eric Cantona MF: George Best ST: Alfredo Di Stefano Who needs defenders anyway
All appeared in movies Gk: Paul Cooper (stand in for Stallone Escape to Victory) DF: Frank Leboeuf DF: Paul Breitner MF: Zinedine Zidane FWD: Eric Cantona Couldn't have two from the same film