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FourFourTwo 50 Best Football League Players

Sunday 02 March 2008 22:30

Ladies and gentlemen, here it is, FourFourTwo’s definitive rundown of the 50 Best Football League players.

This is our fourth annual Top 50 and, as ever, it’s been a fraught process, involving painstaking research, meticulous planning, copious amounts of booze and good, healthy argument.

Our thanks to every one of you who cast your votes, and to our team of experts who told us who they thought were the best players up and down the country.

Congratulations to Kevin Phillips, Jermaine Beckford, Keith Andrews and Michael Kightly who walked away with the individual prizes.

Congratulations, too, to the other 46 players who make up our list, all of you deserve a huge pat on the back for their endeavours this season.

To the other 1,000-plus players in the Football League – pull your fingers out! We hope to see you next year…

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FourFourTwo’s 50 Best Football League Players

1.    Kevin Phillips, West Brom: Football League Player of the Year
2.    Andy Gray, Charlton
3.    Michael Kightly, Wolves: Football League Young Player of the Year
4.    Jon Greening, West Brom
5.    Zheng Zhi, Charlton
6.    James Beattie, Sheffield United
7.    Clinton Morrison, Crystal Palace
8.    Dean Windass, Hull City
9.    Michael Mifsud, Coventry
10.    Zoltan Gera, West Brom
11.    Robert Koren, West Brom
12.    David Norris, Plymouth
13.    Adriano Basso, Bristol City
14.    Wes Hoolahan, Blackpool
15.    Ricardo Fuller, Stoke
16.    Brian Howard, Barnsley
17.    Akos Buzsaky, QPR
18.    Andy Keogh, Wolves
19.    Jay DeMerit, Watford
20.    Paul Robinson, West Brom
21.    Dan Shittu, Watford
22.    Wayne Hennessey, Wolves
23.    Ryan Shawcross, Stoke
24.    Jermaine Beckford, Leeds: League One Player of the Year
25.    Chris Iwelumo, Charlton
26.    Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, Wolves
27.    Jonathan Walters, Ipswich
28.    Darius Henderson, Watford
29.    Liam Lawrence, Stoke
30.    Chris Dickson, Charlton
31.    Lee Trundle, Bristol City
32.    Jason Scotland, Swansea
33.    Lee Camp, QPR
34.    Marvin Elliott, Bristol City
35.    Peter Halmosi, Plymouth
36.    Joe Garner, Carlisle
37.    Andrew Surman, Southampton
38.    Keith Andrews, MK Dons: League Two Player of the Year
39.    Mark Hudson, Crystal Palace
40.    Jack Lester, Chesterfield
41.    Filipe Teixeira, West Brom
42.    Aaron McLean, Peterborough
43.    Joe Ledley, Cardiff City
44.    Kris Commons, Nottingham Forest
45.    Jason Puncheon, Barnet
46.    Casper Ankergren, Leeds
47.    Andy Robinson, Swansea
48.    Richie Wellens, Doncaster
49.    Anthony Gerrard, Walsall
50.    Derek Holmes, Rotherham

50 Best Football League Players, a 36-page magazine, is FREE with the new issue of FourFourTwo, on sale Monday March 3.
In it you’ll find:

• The reasoning behind our Top 50 selections
• Exclusive interviews with 15 of the Top 50 players
• Who Henry Winter, Jeff Stelling, Chris Kamara, Dave Jones, Darren Ferguson and many more voted for
• Our choice of the best player at each of the 44 clubs who didn’t get a player in our Top 50
• A look at what's happened to the stars of our previous Top 50s
• Bristol City boss Gary Johnson on what the Football League's taught him

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Comments

	March 3, 2008 12:46 Kivo said: Chris Brunt or Derek Holmes? Hmmmm... How any League 1 or 2 player is in there is baffling, if they were good enough they'd be in the Championship.
	March 3, 2008 13:00 Football League Awards said: So there we have it, the FourFourTwo Top 50 has been revealed ( see full Top 50 ) and the general consensus
	March 3, 2008 15:07 TommTyke said: Adriano Basso but no Heinz Muller, are you having a laugh? Muller is quite easily the best keeper outside the Premier League, and better than most in it, as is proved by Arsenal,Liverpool and Villa's interests. Also how on earth are players like James Beattie,Wes Hoolahan and David Norris above Brian Howard? Felipe Texeria should be way further up, and wheres Lewin Nyatanga and Anderson De Silva?
	March 4, 2008 20:20 Sam Hatter said: May as well be the 50 best Championship players
	March 7, 2008 17:14 David Penniall said: He's Big! He's Scouse! He'll Rob You F**king house! ANT GERRARD! ANT GERRARD! Who needs Steven ai?
	March 18, 2008 10:16 lawrence gary ryan said: Pingback from  lawrence gary ryan
	April 7, 2008 17:04 riley12 said: wheres wade elliott as he has to be in the top 3 right wingers in the championship and as a burnley fan andy gray 2nd i cant believe as he has no pace and hasnt scored a goal for charlton yet
	April 8, 2008 12:40 Adam Zammit said: wayne hennessy is clearly the best keeper in this league, 21 yeas old and being tracked by the like of everton, portsmouth and villa. also sylvan ebanks-blake is the top goal scorer, again only 21 years old and is the best striker outside of the premiership. finally, how has andy gray made second, what has he done except score 8 goals this season???
	June 29, 2008 10:03 football player paul dickson said: Pingback from  football player paul dickson
	July 10, 2008 15:50 mrposh said: lester ahead of Mclean, are you having a laugh
	November 25, 2008 16:52 greg said: yo steven Gerrard is the best man u lot am on crake to say he a
	November 25, 2008 16:54 greg said: how can u say steven Gerrard is not good u lot am on crake