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#2 Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker has been described as one of the finest to have played football from England. To quote The Telegraph,
A goal machine for Leicester, Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham and England whose reflexes, courage, calmness and positioning made him the closest thing English football has had to its own Gerd Muller since Jimmy Greaves.
Lineker was an amazing goalscorer. He was highly rated at Leicester City, with whom he began his career and played for the likes of Everton, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur with a brief spell in Japan.
Lineker plundered defences and managed a career total of 238 goals in 461 games as an elite level striker. It is almost astonishing that he failed to win a league title with the collection of clubs he played for. He joined Everton from Leicester in 1985. Everton were then the defending Champions of England and had won the European Cup Winners Cup the previous season beating Bayern Munich on the way to a memorable victory.
In Lineker's sole season at Goodison Park, he scored 40 goals in 41 games and Everton finished runners-up to Liverpool. The Heysel Disaster meant that English clubs were banned from European competitions and Lineker left to join Barcelona under Terry Venables.
He played for four seasons at Camp Nou winning the European Cup Winners Cup and the Copa Del Rey but failed to win the league title before leaving for Spurs. He won an FA Cup at Spurs in his last season and he left for Japan where he wound out his career.
