Best v Healy

[Balboa]

I have just heard that the BBC are looking into the voting patterns as they have traced 90% of Healeys votes to a Jack Fullerton and a Stephen Watson.

[The Real Laoislad]

Best was 100% the better footballer but Healy has been a much greater servant to Northern Ireland than Best ever was. 

Indeed I'd rather someone like Healy on my team than someone like Best.

I doubt your gonna get too many posters who are gonna agree with ya there pog...
I'd rather have a half fit,half blind and fully drunk Best on my team than Healy

Depends on who you'd want on your team - I'd take a hard working ordinary player over pissed up prima donna anyday. 

Ah come on pog the man was a footballing genius, And while no one can argue with you over his drinking habits he done more for Man Utd in the few years he was with them than Healy will do over his whole career with lowly Premiership and lower league teams

[J70]

Come on Pints! Best might have pissed it all away and may not have been much of a role model in terms of how to handle fame and fortune, but no other player from the British Isles has ever come close to him in terms of footballing ability.

You disagree that there haven't been any better players, or are you disapproving of my use of the term "British Isles"?

[pintsofguinness]

I don't care  LL a woman beating drunk gets no respect from me.

[J70]

I don't care  LL a woman beating drunk gets no respect from me.

Fair enough, but I don't think the poll is addressing their conduct in their private lives.

[The Real Laoislad]

I don't care  LL a woman beating drunk gets no respect from me.

Im not gonna get into that with you Pog and in fairness that hasn't anything to do with the question posted

[pintsofguinness]

I don't care  LL a woman beating drunk gets no respect from me.

Fair enough, but I don't think the poll is addressing their conduct in their private lives.

Yes but Best's private life affected his football.

[dodo]

Come on Pints! Best might have pissed it all away and may not have been much of a role model in terms of how to handle fame and fortune, but no other player from the British Isles has ever come close to him in terms of footballing ability.

You disagree that there haven't been any better players, or are you disapproving of my use of the term "British Isles"?

The latter.

[heganboy]

This is the dumbest thread I have ever read on this board.

[Square Ball]

This is the dumbest thread I have ever read on this board.

Why

[ONeill]

I'd have to go for Best as Healy has Kyle Lafferty playing off him. I would score the guts of 7-8 campaign goals if I was playing alongside Kyle Lafferty.

[Leo]

Why do people get so worked up about these polls which are basically the preserve of age group 10 - 16, none of whom would ever have seen Best play?
For the record - he was the best ever player to grace a British or Irish soccer pitch bar none. Only Thierry Henry comes anywhere near.
Do not answer this post unless you saw Best in more than one live game. I've been attending games for over 35 years.
By the way I am seriously impressed with Healy's NI record - I just can't figure it out.

[Evil Genius]

It would help if someone could post the exact question!

But in its absence, as someone who has seen both play live, in footballing terms, Healy has moments of genius, but Best was  a genius, so there is no real comparison. (Sorry David)  Best was European Footballer of the Year at 23 - who knows what he might have achieved had he carried on playing, instead of just carrying on!

However, if the assessment is of their worth for the NI football team, I'd have to say Healy wins every time. (Sorry, George). Statistics can be used to mislead as well as illuminate, but George scored 9 goals in 38 appearances for NI, whereas David has already got 33 in 61. And since strikers tend to get better as they gain experience; at 28, Healy is probably just approaching his peak.

[magpie seanie]

This thread is just ridiculous.

[Evil Genius]

This thread is just ridiculous.

I agree. Unless the question is, who has been ni best player in the last year? The answer will always be Best.
Strange that ni supporters have always compared Best with Pele and Maradona and are now comparing him with Healy.

I've not heard one NI fan compare Best with Healy, not one.

Mind you, if he goes on scoring like he has been lately (25 in 32 internationals)...