Manchester uniteds - young center back/full back/midfielder Phil Jones compared to Duncan Edwards

Manchester uniteds - young center back/full back/midfielder Phil jones compared to Duncan edwards by a fan who saw duncan play and paddy crerand

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[thetoon99]

Jimmy Murphy -

If I close my eyes I can see him now, those pan ts hitched up, the wild leaps of boyish enthusiasm as he came running out of the tunnel, the tremendous power of his tackle, always fair but fearsome and the immense power on the ball. In fact the number of times he was robbed of the ball once at his feet, you could count on one hand. He was that sort of player.

[thetoon99]

A players player. Ask Bobby Charlton and he will tell you “The greatest? There was only one Duncan Edwards.” Yes even a man of Bobby’s international standing rated Edwards the greatest of them all, because any manager lucky enough to have him had half a team

[thetoon99]

10 Aug 2011 6:32 PM

nige49

Re: Phil Jones And Duncan Edwards

I am lucky enough to have seen Duncan Edwards play and you cannot make comparisons with any other players. Edwards was just unbelievable, he had the ability to take a game by the scruff of the neck and change it.

[thetoon99]

Matt Busby used to say to the players if we are in trouble just give the ball to Duncan. He was a great player at the age of sixteen. Also he played with a very heavy ball and boots that weighed a ton and against defenders who kicked the s*** out of you. He was certainly the greatest player i ever saw. So my opinion is no Jones is not like Duncan Edwards. I do believe though that Jones has the ability to be a great player and become a Manchester United legend.

[thetoon99]

@ellycat did you catch the dvd yet

[thetoon99]

I saw Duncan Edwards play, Walton Le Dale (21/06/2011 at 21:12)

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Bill, young Phil is a very good player now, and I fully expect him to eventually become a great player. However, I have never seen a single player that could be compared with Big Dunc.

The only way to describe Duncan Edwards is to take all the footballing attributes of say Bryan Robson, Wayne Rooney, Nemanja Vidic, and Paul Scholes.

[thetoon99]

Then mould those four players into one player. You then would have a footballer that could be possibly compared with him, but even then, this metaphorical player would only be half as good!

Unless you actually saw him play, you would never believe that such a player existed. When God created that incredible young footballer, he threw away the mould!

United 'til I die!

[ellycat]

@thetoon99 Will check them all out tomorrow, fella. Must go to bed, up early. Looking forward to watching the Big Dunc video. G'night, mate.

[thetoon99]

@ellycat typ this in Duncan Edwards - Englands greatest player then came munich

[thetoon99]

@ellycat yea i seen it good game som good young guns utd have and that ballotelli will never be as good as he can be the way he acts.

you seen my other videos in the last few months on duncan on my channel i have a 51 minute video about him.