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Originally Posted by setanta

Lol, is that not enough? Forget about honours because I could go on with that for awhile: lets just talk about general play and technique. Van Basten was on another level in terms of balance, strength, vision and dribbling ability. There's no comparison really. True, Lineker was a great poacher but Van Basten would be the one I'd pay to go and see.

i'll give you dribbling abilty and mabye balance, but not the other two and lineker was more brave, a better goalscorer, and could hold the ball up as good as alan shearer could, so dont say van basten was a stronger player than lineker