and is replaced by you,

¿WHO is footballer of the year? Sonny Anderson (Lyon), Roberto Baggio (Brescia), Fabien Barthez (Manchester United), Gabriel Batistuta (Roma), David Beckham (Manchester United), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Cafu (Roma), Vincent Candela (Roma), Eric Carriere (Lyon), Hernan Crespo (Lazio), Alessandro del Piero (Juventus), Marcel Desailly (Chelsea), Stefan Effenberg (Bayern Munich), Giovane Elber (Bayern Munich), Rio Ferdinand (Leeds), Luis Figo (Real Madrid), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (Chelsea), Ivan Helguera (Real Madrid), Thierry Henry (Arsenal), Sami Hyypia (Liverpool), Oliver Kahn (Bayern Munich), Harry Kewell (Leeds), Patrick Kluivert (Barcelona), Sami Kuffour (Bayern Munich), Henrik Larsson (Celtic), Bixente Lizarazu (Bayern Munich), Gaizka Mendieta (Lazio), Hidetoshi Nakata (Parma), Pavel Nedved (Juventus), Alessandro Nesta (Lazio), Emmanuel Olisadebe (Panathinaikos), Michael Owen (Liverpool), Pauleta (Bordeaux), Robert Pires (Arsenal), Raul (Real Madrid) Rivaldo (Barcelona), Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid), Manuel Rui Costa (Milan), Ebbe Sand (Schalke), Paul Scholes (Manchester United), Andriy Shevchenko (Milan), Lilian Thuram (Juventus), Damiano Tommasi (Roma), Francesco Totti (Roma), David Trezeguet (Juventus), Juan Sebastian Veron (Manchester United), Patrick Vieira (Arsenal), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)

can anyone tell me why Fabien Barthez or Zidane are on that list?

I would go for either Beckham or Owen

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Answers

Barthez? Comedic value? ;-)

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Desailly? Apart from moaning, what has he achieved.

Swift, Zidane's achievement is to have been bought for such a large sum of money.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Desailly? Apart from moaning, what has he achieved.

Swift, Zidane's achievement is to have been bought for such a large sum of money. For that matter, why's Pires on the list?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

As Marketing Manager of Nike, I wouldn't choose Adidas Beckham or Umbro Owen.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Dougal, Pires is on the list because he is on of the better players in the EPL, at least i think so. He's been great for France too.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Beckham after the one man England show that was Greece.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Craig F****n' Bellamy!!!!!

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Nikos The rock Dabizas. Correct me if i'm wrong but the big Newcastle Stoppper has played better than Desailly AND i reckon Shay Given is a better keeper than Barthez, even Sorensen is...

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

I agree that Pires is a great player but a candidate for Player of the Year?

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Agree about Barthez - Given and Sorensen are definitely better

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Ryan Giggs? You have to be joking.

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

I wouldn't work for Nike if they paid me a million quid - bunch of unethical thieving bar stewards. So I'm not answering your question Swifty!

-- Anonymous, November 13, 2001

Jacko, I know what you mean: it quite upsets me that Lovely Aaron Hughes is sponsored by them.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001