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[Drico]

But that’s still contextual.

We all have our own classification of who qualifies as the greatest players we’ve known and loved.

I take your point that in the long, proud history of Everton FC, Duncan Ferguson wouldn’t be anywhere near the all-time first 11. I happen to think his legend is bigger than the reality also, for what it’s worth.

I also take the point I think @Eggs is making that it’s a shame that fans who idolised Dunc didn’t have someone more successful (or better) to idolise.

But people do idolise him - and I think that deserves, if not agreement, then at least acceptance that they are entitled to think like that.

Absolutely.

People love who they love. I have no argument at all with that.

Duncan, for all his faults, gave me some indelible moments - and I was a teen of the 80s. The towering derby header on his debut, the towering shirt-twirling header that made idiots of Bruce, Pallister, and Schmeichel, the sight of him lining up to come on as a sub and intimidate United in the cup final, the towering header that basically put us into the Champions League (play offs)...

He was a definitely a "legend" in the truest sense of that word - where stories of his exploits were legion. Unfortunately, many of those stories were of off-field stuff or dubious on-field belligerence.

A great player? No. But he really should have been. A force of nature, but missing that most underrated success factor: a brain.