Gary Lineker
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Because if it was one-on-one, he'd kill you.
It's like Messi now.
You can't just mark him.
And he's very difficult because you can't then go, well, we'll put three players on him because then you're outnumbered everywhere else.
But he was so good.
I mean, he played like a different game.
It's like Messi and him, for me, the two players that my lifetime, I didn't really see much of Pele, I only caught the end of his career.
But in my lifetime, those two, they do stuff that's impossible.
And they were so similar, you know, diminutive, left-footed, Argentinian.
Just so creative.
Just wonderful.
And they beat people.
I mean, his goal.
And the pitch was like a cabbage patch.
It was so bad, that pitch, and bumpy, because they'd had problems with it.
So how he did that little bit of skill on the halfway line, I'll never know.
I think people will know that one.
This one.
I'm sure you don't have to say.
It was mad because I definitely know the linesman saw it.