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Here are my 25 least favourite footballers of all time. I challenge anyone to find a more 'orrible lot. Very scientific method used for this list 1. John Terry Captain. Leader. Legend. Carry on the list as you see appropriate ... 2. Sinisa Mihajlovic Nasty piece of work on and off pitch 3. Roy Keane My least favourite footballing cliche is "Man Utd have struggled to ever find a replacement for Keano ..." you mean when they were winning three straight premier leagues, reaching three champions league finals pretty much as soon as he left. Real struggle. Keane was a very good footballer but he's the most over-rated there is in terms of aura. Teams don't need a Roy Keane. 4. Diego Costa Obviously 5. Luis Suarez Obviously 6. Barry Silkman Better known as an agent, known for saying horrible self-justificatory things on Sky Sports News, but was also a journeyman player, so makes my list 7. Pepe Keeps on outdoing himself in major games ... 8. Paolo Di Cani

A fun list to put together. The first test match I watched was the second test of the 1984 series vs the West Indies. Anyone who's played a test match for England at all since then is considered (apart from Bob Willis and Derek Randall, who played their last games in that series). Only test match performance is considered. Looking through the full list of every single player, I remembered, or barely remembered, so very many, particularly in the late 80s and early 90s, who came and went. For balance and a bit of fun, I've added 50 of them, who cast no shadow on test cricket (some of them were rather good cricketers, it was all just a total shambles of selection and retention. And some are actually notorious due to the very brevity of their test career - the likes of Mark Lathwell and Darren Pattinson). There's not that much more to say - current ones are only up to this point, so Stokes and Root will obviously be higher soon. Only in English cricket could there b