Of course

Charlton and Stiles are the only British footballers to have won both the premier national competition and the premier club competition. And probably the only ones that ever will IMO.

Posted By: Mr Creosote on August 7th 2008 at 12:00:54

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Who are the two most succesful British footballers of all time? (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 11:48:47
- George Cohen ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 7, 12:21:22
  - It's already been done. Answers were Bobby Charlton and Nobby Stiles (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 12:24:23
    - Is it Nobby Stiles ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Aug 7, 12:33:06
- Worthy and Ashton (Other Football) - BB_King, Aug 7, 12:07:46
  - haha (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 12:08:41
- Chris Llewellyn and Adrian Forbes (n/m) (Other Football) - Partial Angler, Aug 7, 12:05:47
  - You done four - which is 2x2 (n/m) (Other Football) - malkybarkid, Aug 7, 12:08:59
- Flem and Paul Dickov (n/m) (Other Football) - malkybarkid, Aug 7, 12:02:01
- Dean Coney and Peter Thorne (n/m) (Other Football) - Partial Angler, Aug 7, 12:00:56
- giggs? (n/m) (Other Football) - mattg, Aug 7, 11:58:22
- ant and dec? (n/m) (Other Football) - Cheltenham_Canary, Aug 7, 11:54:11
- graham bristol?? (n/m) (Other Football) - Cheltenham_Canary, Aug 7, 11:53:51
- Souness (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 7, 11:52:59
  - ? (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 11:53:31
    - Medals as a player, 14 trophies as a manager too (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 11:57:56
      - Well on that basis (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 11:58:42
    - Liverpool, Rangers, Sampdoria (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 7, 11:54:48
      - are you seriously suggesting that the Scotch league "really counts"? (n/m) (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 7, 11:57:07
        
        Scotch???? (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 12:25:57
        
        he ya, enjoy (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 12:32:45
        
        "he definitely did" rofl (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 12:37:40
        
        i have no sound at work so YouTube clips are lost on me (n/m) (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 7, 12:37:35
        
        It's a gig in glasgow where stewart lee (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 12:44:38
        
        i was only aware that Scotch was the original form of how the Scots referred to things (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 7, 13:00:47
        
        hahha (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Aug 7, 13:08:42
        
        No, but I'm guessing at the trophy count (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 7, 11:58:16
        
        It does to Rangers fans I imagine (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Aug 7, 11:57:54
  - Should be a ? after that. I have no idea. (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 7, 11:53:23
- Giggs? (n/m) (Other Football) - samcd84, Aug 7, 11:51:19
- You need to define success (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Aug 7, 11:51:15
- depends how you measure success (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 11:51:12
- How are you defining 'successful'? (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 7, 11:50:00
  - Winning stuff that really counts (n/m) (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 11:51:49
    - World Cup is generally considered the ultimate prize in football (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 11:54:15
      - Indeed (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 11:54:48
        
        Nobby Stiles? (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 11:56:23
        
        Nobby Stiles (n/m) (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Aug 7, 11:56:21
        
        Nobby Stiles in that case I guess (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 7, 11:56:19
        
        Of course (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 12:00:54
        
        Did you say British just to confuse people? (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 12:03:24
        
        No just so that the answer would emphasise (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 12:09:39
        
        ah fair enough. Giggs and Best did alright on the club side of things (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 12:18:59
        
        Not Best particularly (Other Football) - Mr Creosote, Aug 7, 12:20:32
        
        I didn't think we were doing numbers really - just honours (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, Aug 7, 12:21:06
    - Rush? (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Aug 7, 11:54:03
    - how are you defining what "really counts"? (n/m) (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 7, 11:53:34
- how are you defining success? (n/m) (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 7, 11:49:46

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