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I'll spare you the end of that sentence but I'm intrigued to know what fellow Blues make of The Times' Top 50 Everton Players and how they came to the decisions they made.

I'm not sure how Wayne Rooney can be placed higher than Mikel Arteta, for instance, or Anders Limpar can be rated higher than current Talisman Tim Cahill unless footballing ability carries as significant or more weight than the player's importance to the Club at the time.

Few would doubt that the Swede was better technically than Cahill as a player but perhaps there's a case for saying that Dave Watson was more important to Everton than any of the Holy Trinity individually (though not collectively, surely). And Thomas Gravesen on that list at all? I'd wager that a player like Joseph Yobo or Joleon Lescott have already proven better players than the Mad Dane. Certainly, they are more consistent.

I'll leave it to our more seasoned readers to decide whether such vexing questions as to whether Alan Ball was better than Alex Young, but it's an interesting discussion starter if nothing else.
Lyndon Lloyd     Posted 09/03/2009 at 19:22:21

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