Best Football Players From the UK

The Top Ten
1 George Best George Best (22 May 1946 – 25 November 2005) was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A highly skillful dribbler, Best is regarded as one of the best players in the history of the sport. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, two-footedness, goalscoring and the ability to get past defenders.

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2 Ryan Giggs Ryan Joseph Giggs is a Welsh football coach and former player who is currently the assistant manager at Manchester United and co-owner of Salford City.

UNITED have had 5 of the top ten and giggs is at the top of my list. he is the best by far and sh

ryan giggs is one of the best player from Manchester United and surely from the UK too

3 Gordon Banks
4 Bobby Charlton Sir Robert "Bobby" Charlton is an English football player, regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time. He was an essential member of the England team that won the World Cup in 1966, the same year he also won the Ballon d'Or.

Bobby Charlton makes the top 3 with Stanley Matthews and George Best.

5 David Beckham David Robert Joseph Beckham is (born 2 May 1975) is an English former professional footballer, the current president & co-owner of Inter Miami CF and co-owner of Salford City.. He played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, LA Galaxy, Paris Saint-Germain and the England national team, for which he held the appearance record for an outfield player until 2016. He is the first English player to win league titles in four countries: England, Spain, the United States and France. He retired in May 2013 after a 20-year career, during which he won 19 major trophies.
6 Kevin Keegan Joseph Kevin Keegan (born 14 February 1951) is an English former football player and manager. A forward, he played for several clubs including Liverpool and Hamburger SV.
7 Gary lineker Gary Winston Lineker is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He holds England's record for goals in FIFA World Cup finals, with 10 scored. Lineker's media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day since the ...read more.
8 Alan Shearer Alan Shearer is an English retired footballer. He played as a striker in the top level of English league football for Southampton, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United and the England national team.
9 Michael Owen Michael James Owen is an English former footballer who played as a striker for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United and Stoke City, as well as for the England national team.

What a striker
What a rocket
What a gun
What a player

Michael Owen is truly the best strike that I have seen in the world cup for england
Man I still think that goal against Argentina as a 16 yr old is one of the best 10 goals I have seen

10 Sir Stanley Matthews

The best of all.

The Contenders
11 Jimmy Greaves
12 Bobby Moore Robert Frederick Chelsea "Bobby" Moore was an English professional footballer. He captained West Ham United for more than ten years and was captain of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup.
13 Roy Keane Roy Maurice Keane is an Irish football assistant manager and former professional football player. He is the joint-most successful Irish footballer of all time, having won 19 major trophies, 17 of which came at Manchester United, in his club career.
14 Jimmy McGrory

Jimmy McGrory was a Scottish striker, who played for Celtic between 1922 and 1937.
A short player (5 ft 6 in) but the greatest scorer in British football history, he is the 7th top division scorer of all times. He has also notched up a British top-flight record of 55 hat-tricks, 48 coming in League games and 7 from Scottish Cup ties. He won three Scottish Championships and five Cups.
According to the criteria of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS), which are top division goals and National Cup tied amount, he is still (as of January 2020), the 3nd best scorer in football history with 487 goals, coming after only to Josef Bican (649 goals) and Ferenc Puskás (580 goals). Although this aspect for goalscoring evaluation is not widely acceptable, it has supporters within the football statisticians.

15 Wayne Rooney Wayne Mark Rooney is an English professional footballer who plays for and captains both Manchester United and the England national team.
16 Jimmy Smith
17 Dixie Dean
18 Kenny Dalglish
19 Tom Finney
20 Denis Law
21 Steve Bloomer
22 Emlyn Hughes
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