29 May 2026 09:45:57
It's a tough question but if you had to name your 5 favourite players since starting to support United to would they be.
Born in the 60s so I've a wide enough choice.
Mine are
Robson
Scholes
Beckham
Stam
Hughes. Just ahead of RVN.
I'd have an honourable mentions for Duxberry Buchan Coppell and
Hill from the 70s.
There is not 1 signing over last 10 years that I'd even consider to be in my top 50.
Who are your all time fav players?
No Keane no Cantona no Rio Vidic etc in my list so I accept it is hard to pick 5.
29 May 2026 11:36:41
I started supporting in 1962/3, so hard to look beyond Law, Best and Charlton. Then there was relegation. Hard to pick any heroes during that period. I moved to the US in 1982, when it was a football black hole, so I didn't really start watching games regularly until they were being televised regularly. I largely missed the Robson and Cantona eras. Scholes and Beckham. I never much liked Ronaldo, as good as he was. I have a soft spot for Ole. Rooney, Giggs (notwithstanding his scurrilous behavior), and then the Glazers arrived and heralded in a new era.
The globalizing of the sport changed everything. Players came and went more frequently. Support and finances moved away from pure local generation.
I like some of the current players, but it will take something special for any of them to ever rise to the heights achieved by the holy triumvirate of my first years as a preteen and teenage fan in the 1960s. First loves are always special.
29 May 2026 12:19:53
Born n 1983
Robson
Keane
Cantona
Scholes
Vidic.
29 May 2026 12:45:13
Born 1981.
Irish.
Keane.
Rooney.
Beckham.
Scholes.
Vidic.
Unbiased view.
Robson.
Cantana.
Irwin.
Hughes.
Giggs.
29 May 2026 13:11:30
Great question, and difficult to answer.
Robson, an awesome player, one of a kind.
Cantona, found his spiritual home.
Schmeichel, best GK in the world for a time.
Giggs, People forget how good he was.
5th is hard, too many competing - Rvn, Scholes, Coppell, Rooney.
Can I also say Carrick was massively underrated.
29 May 2026 13:27:04
1971
Robson
Cantona
Keane
Irwin
Stam.
29 May 2026 13:41:06
Born in the 1980s.
Keane - just a phenomenal player and leader.
Giggs - longevity and reinvention.
Cantona - gave us the edge and flair to win a title.
Rooney - he frustrated me to no end because I think he should have got to the level of Messi and Ronaldo, but still the most naturally talented player I've seen at the club.
Van der Saar - most people would point to Vidic and Rio, but this guy was the foundational stability that got the team over the line in the 00s.
29 May 2026 13:43:10
Many different choices from everyone.
Rooney is number one for me.
Chicharito.
Schmeichel.
Carrick.
Giggs.
29 May 2026 13:45:12
Best was head and shoulders above everyone to play for Utd, but from whom I actually saw.
Schmeichel
Scholes
Robson
Beckham
Ruud.
29 May 2026 14:22:51
Born in the early 80's, so for me it's
Scholes
Rooney
Keane
Ronaldo
Cantona
If I had to pick my favourite, it would be Cantona. The flair, attitude, skill and aura he had was unmatched... all us playing in the park with the collars turned up. Those were the days.
29 May 2026 14:38:18
Born in 1949.
Attended a Home match against Aston Villa in 1957, a 1-1 draw. I think Duncan Edwards and Bobby Charlton played.
I would add Denis Law and George Best.
And, finally, I would add Eric Cantona.
29 May 2026 14:43:17
Born 1975.
Robson
Cantona
Beckham
Scholes
Rooney.
29 May 2026 15:22:42
Born in 1963.
Definitely George Best.
Then it's hard, it just shows how difficult it is to choose the other 4.
I love entertaining players, but have to put Roy Keane in there for his leadership and the example he set.
Next 3, Cantona. What a player.
Charlton, as above.
Hughes.
So difficult to choose, but, like others have said, I wouldn't have anybody in there from the last 15 years.
29 May 2026 17:38:39
I'll do two lists: one with my overall 5 favourite players, and one with my favourite 5 underrated/overlooked players.
Overall:
1. Keane
2. Cantona
3. RvN
4. Scholes
5. VdS
Underrated/overlooked:
1. Park Ji-Sung
2. Irwin
3. Evra
4. Nani
5. Carrick.
29 May 2026 20:00:42
Robson - Will always be my hero.
Cantona - Eric the King, because I didn't get to see the King.
Sharpe - For a few years, his combination with the lad below was rock and roll football, from an era where that's where the excitement came from.
Giggs - I think his footballing ability is overlooked due to subsequent events.
Rooney - Brilliant player and underappreciated.
I also grew up being told that Robson wasn't fit to lace Edwards' boots, and this was from people who loved Robbo. Even now, in my head I have the impression that Big Dunc was, or would have been, the greatest player ever, but for tragic events, and I was born 20 years after the tragedy.
29 May 2026 21:49:42
Born 1970
I've chosen captains who were true leaders.
In no particular order:
Buchan
Robson
Bruce
Cantona
Keane
To me, they all made other players better.
29 May 2026 22:05:42
Born in 70.
Robson
Whiteside
Cantona
Giggs
Rooney.
29 May 2026 23:03:29
Hill
Coppell
Whiteside
Hughes
Scholes.
29 May 2026 23:24:06
1989 - personal faves
Rooney
De Gea
Ronaldo
Berbatov
Nani.
30 May 2026 00:52:27
Good read that. So many great players. Over the years, interesting to see a few names repeated so often.
30 May 2026 04:21:36
Born late 80s, supporting since 2000.
No particular order.
- Vidic
- Scholes
- Giggs
- Vds
- Ronaldo
Last one is a bit of a question mark even as I typed it (left too soon, ego too big), but eff it, he was very very good.
Honorable mentions / soft spots.
- Rooney (was between him and Ronaldo in the first list)
- DDG
- Carrick
- Park
- Rio
Very weird that the second list names automatically started with caps but not the first.
30 May 2026 10:05:12
Early 60's
Georgie Best
Billy Foulkes
Keane
Cantona
Ronaldo.
30 May 2026 10:31:30
'86
- Cantona
- Scholes
- Berbatov
- Ronaldo
- Rooney.
30 May 2026 11:39:04
Born in the 80's.
Cantona - The reason I still wear my collar up on polo shirts.
Sharpe - Just something about him that made me love watching him play.
Vidic - Went into battle every game.
Schmeichel - As a kid I was a goalkeeper. Just made me want to be like him.
Rooney - Just an absolute beast.
30 May 2026 14:27:38
Just to add that growing up Andrei Kanchelskis was a player I really liked watching.