Post by dannyc on Feb 4, 2011 16:30:41 GMT
In a poll on Sky Thierry Henry was voted the greatest Premiership player of all time and I have to agree. Henry defined the word unplayable because at his peak there was no other word for him. His sheer pace, close control, goalscoring and general world class ability stood him out as the best ever. He scored hat tricks in Rome and the San Siro where he singled handedly massacred Inter Milan, their defence was begging for mercy by the end. He scored 187 goals in 254 appearances, better than 2 goals every 3 matches.
Cantona and Zola were legends in their own right but Henry raised the bar. Cantona will be remembered for Kung Fu Kicks and Seagulls, Zola was the showman but no player was as deadly and as effective going forward as Henry.
100% disagree. Don't bother quoting a Sky poll, thats no proper yardstick.
Interesting that pace is listed first by you among his attributes. Linford Christie had that in abundance too. Henry couldn't manipulate a football in the way Cantona or Bergkamp could and if you took out his searing pace then you're removing about 75% of the player. Henry, to me, was a bit of a show pony. The number of really big games that he went missing in was alarming and of the 22 who started the CL final against Barcelona Henry came 22nd in terms of performance level.
Get him against Wigan or WBA and he was awesome.
to me shearer is better because he didn't have henrys pace so he had to work harder to score imagine shearer with the same pace henry had .