Greatest Premiership Defender

Thank you all for voting. The votes for the greatest Premiership defenders are as followed 

Ashley Cole
Former Arsenal Defender
Current Chelsea Defender
Made Over 100 caps for England

Rio Ferdinand
Former West Ham Defender
Former Leeds Defender
Current Man United Defender
Former England Captain

Tony Adams
Former Arsenal Defender
Made 65 Caps for England

Jaap Stam
Former Man United Defender
Made 67 Caps for Holland

Gary Neville
Former Man United Defender
Made 85 Caps for England

Jamie Carragher
Former Liverpool Defender
Made 38 Caps for England

Ricardo Carvalho
Former Chelsea Defender
Has 75 Caps for Portugal

Sol Campbell
Former Tottenham Defender
Former Arsenal Defender
Former Portsmouth Defender
Former Newcastle Defender
Made 73 Caps for England

Paul McGrath
Former Aston Villa Defender
Former Derby Defender
Made 83 Caps for Republic of Ireland

Russel Martin
Current Norwich Defender
Has 5 Caps for Scotland

Micheal Turner
Former Hull Defender
Former Sunderland Defender
Current Norwich Defender

Ashley Cole easily. Best LB in the world since 2004.

Duty please could you vote in the next round please mate? 

I shall aspire to, my dear fellow.

is turner on this list just to wind wilko up? ha!

Wheres Terry.

GSC wrote:Wheres Terry.

Nobody nominated him?

Why. Tezza's better than half the list

I really should have nominated. It does hurt me that a true-born noble Englishman, our rightful captain, hero of many great victories, is off that list.

Terry is overrated. I voted for Cole and Campbell to be put on the list

Spoiler:

Oh John Terry, I want to be a legend too.

I'd have Terry easily above Campbell, Carragher, Carvalho and Ollys votes.

GSC could you send some votes in next time mate? 

I wasnt aware I had the opportunity  

Everyone welcome to vote! Must be PM'ed to me!

Carvalho made Terry look like a top defender for a few years.

Terry is massively overrated, good at recovering but the top defenders don't have to recover.

Terry was a rock for club and country. Under Jose he one was of the best in the world easily.

Carragher (certainly) and Campbell can't say the same really.

I still remember the day with tears. The day that John Terry kept out the cheating Portuguese for 2 hours. What valiant defending that was, pride and passion. No thought given to himself, just to his country, and his people. What a legend.

People that should have been on the list as at least options;

Denis Irwin
Sami Hyypia
Martin Keown
Gary Pallister
Nemanja Vidic
Des Walker
Brett Hangeland
Vincent Kompany
Ledley King
Steve Bruce

I'm surprised Vidic isn't on the list. I'm not saying he is/was the greatest ever defender in the PL but he'd be near the top of any list.

I think Carvalho made Terry "great". Chelsea haven't been the same defensive unit since he left and now they have someone half-decent to play alongside Terry in Cahill, Terry's past it. I'm struggling to keep the vomit down but my vote probably has to go to cAshley.

Terry was easily one of the top defenders in the world in his prime. He hasn't aged well tho

Clearly Michael Turner

Forgot about Sol Campbell when I voted.............doh!

Ashley Cole was one of my votes. Excellent defender.

Somebody mentioned Des Walker. He wasn;t as good after his spell in Italy.

Also liked Keown. No nonsense, just hit row Z. As a defender myself, I always preferred to play with somebody like that.

It's weird to see how intelligent Keown seems now as a pundit considering his reputation as a defender, known for annoying strikers with little kicks and just booting it out.

His one let down was the Van Nistlerooy incident. But I bet most strikers who played against him would name him in their top three defenders that they faced.

Let down? That is one of my all time favourite Premier League moments, I remember how big the Arsenal-United matches felt those days, even my family who don't like football used to sit around for them and that was hilarious.

Keown deserved a smack that day. Now that would have been hilarious.

Crimey wrote:Let down? That is one of my all time favourite Premier League moments, I remember how big the Arsenal-United matches felt those days, even my family who don't like football used to sit around for them and that was hilarious.

 Quite agree. A lot of passion was on show, and when he hit the bar, it was just amazing.

NickisBHAFC wrote:

Crimey wrote:Let down? That is one of my all time favourite Premier League moments, I remember how big the Arsenal-United matches felt those days, even my family who don't like football used to sit around for them and that was hilarious.

 Quite agree. A lot of passion was on show, and when he hit the bar, it was just amazing.

Passion is great, but no need to cowardly hit somebody on top of the head, from behind.

Also could everyone now send me votes for the greatest Premiership Midfielder of all time. This is both wingers and tough tackling center midfielders!!! Cheers guys

I'd do wingers and CM separate

Stella wrote:Also liked Keown. No nonsense, just hit row Z. As a defender myself, I always preferred to play with somebody like that.

The first time I saw Arsenal play live was Dennis Bergkamp's debut against Middlesborough in 1995. We must have had an injury crisis in midfield as Keown played there alongside David Platt. He ran around like a headless chicken for most of the match, but did a Cruyff turn which bamboozled the Boro midfield and had the North Bank applauding.

A few weeks later, he had to play in the middle again, against Blackburn, and tried to do another Cruyff turn. This time he went over his ankle and was ruled out for a month. Funnily enough he never got picked in centre mid again after that.

Stella wrote:Forgot about Sol Campbell when I voted.............doh!

Ashley Cole was one of my votes. Excellent defender.

Somebody mentioned Des Walker. He wasn;t as good after his spell in Italy.

No he wasn't certainly but prior to that he was up there as one of the best going.

Hero wrote:

Stella wrote:Forgot about Sol Campbell when I voted.............doh!

Ashley Cole was one of my votes. Excellent defender.

Somebody mentioned Des Walker. He wasn;t as good after his spell in Italy.

No he wasn't certainly but prior to that he was up there as one of the best going.

Indeed he was, although his career curtailed a little once the EPL started.