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Twitter went all nostalgic on Tuesday afternoon as #BestFootballerINeverSaw trended in the UK.
Football fans stormed onto the social media website to share with the world the names of players that they knew only through stories from their parents and grandparents, and from old documentary footage.
There were are few funny joke tweets too.
Here are the best of the tweets…
@talkSPORT #BestFootballerINeverSaw Tony Adams! pic.twitter.com/asphfSFILA
— Olly Keane (@FistPump65) March 3, 2015
#BestFootballerINeverSaw is definitely george weah saviour of african football and african to lift the ballon d’or pic.twitter.com/TrjyMLnvs3 — ayuub ahmed daahir (@ayuubahmed12) March 3, 2015
#BestFootballerINeverSaw Brian Little #Avfc pic.twitter.com/bYp6zSGt0Z
— Jason Wheatley (@JaseWheatley) March 3, 2015
Stanley Bowles #BestFootballerINeverSaw pic.twitter.com/c5GYpNY1bd — Luke (@Pvmment) March 3, 2015
#BestFootballerINeverSaw It has to be the incredible Eusébio right? pic.twitter.com/hZeKT4068E
— // Ryan // (@_RyanBarton_) March 3, 2015
#BestFootballerINeverSaw would have loved to see @NormanWhiteside play pic.twitter.com/OfwvpRroqd — Jamie (@HealysChip) March 3, 2015
#BestFootballerINeverSaw – George Best pic.twitter.com/w6xwJUMdXX
— Chris (@MusicMan_CP) March 3, 2015
@talksport Ed Balls… #BestFootballerINeverSaw pic.twitter.com/zUNBKopGZF — The Franklin (@TheFranklin_) March 3, 2015
@talkSPORT my Grandad told me this guy was the best he’d ever seen! #BestFootballerINeverSaw pic.twitter.com/MJtssWDXQM
— Adam James Jones (@AddaIago) March 3, 2015
@talkSPORT any old boy related to #MCFC worships Colin Bell… especially my grandad #BestFootballerINeverSaw pic.twitter.com/CoOlAdYxHe — Matthew Bunting (@bunni1966) March 3, 2015
@talkSPORT has to be Big Duncan Edwards #BestFootballerINeverSaw pic.twitter.com/MJZ77ghFUC
— Jord (@Jordash1988) March 3, 2015
@talkSPORT #BestFootballerINeverSaw Johnny Haynes. The effect he had and still has on Fulham is unbelievable! pic.twitter.com/8xHfx2l0zx — Craig Weight (@Craig_W_) March 3, 2015