re: gimme your Premiership all time XI

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Peter Schmiecel needs to be in goal. I'd put Thiery Henry over Shearer too. Henry in his prime was the best center forward in the world. I don't think you could ever say that about Shearer. I like the rest. Of course this is all highly debateable.

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Yeah, I don't think many people will have a matching team. That's what makes it great.

I prefer Seaman because he was a better shot stopper IMO, I think Schmeichel was a much better communicator and organiser for his defence, and better at coming out.

I never liked Henry as a player for some reason, I liked watching him, but I dunno, I always just felt he got too much credit, he's like the Darren Bent deluxe version - amazing when a team make chances for him but can be shut out of a game. He definitely benefited from Arsene Wenger being so ahead of his time in terms of playing culture and the transfer market, but he did get it done on the pitch when he went out there. I just like a big hard count of a striker and Shearer had it all, power, accuracy, great in the air, could hold it up, could even come short, he was physical as frick.