Taking sport too seriously

This is the third time I’ve had a go at this list. I seem to be doing it every 3 years.  Since I last compiled it, a lot has happened which affects the order - whereas, even in 2017, it felt like the great Manchester City players were still on their way somewhere they hadn’t yet reached, and were consequently hard to judge, they’ve now had a full era (perhaps complete, perhaps not)  as a dominant Premier League side. It’s also possible to look at the players of the freak Leicester season and see how good the individuals really are. Liverpool have put together a couple of seasons the likes of which we’ve hardly seen before. The Ferguson years are completely and utterly in the past, and look all the more remarkable for it. Saying all that, most of my main ‘opinions’ are still the same. In a sporting sense, talking about greatness only makes sense if you know what you personally mean by greatness and you can, to some extent, explain that. I have a specific thing in mind here, and the be