3 Added Minutes pick their dream five-a-side team made up solely of Premier League skippers from down the years - would you pick Roy Keane or Patrick Vieira in the middle of the park? Tony Adams or John Terry to marshal the defence? And would you want Alan Shearer handing out the bibs or Eric Cantona to sort the opposition out afterwards?
Who was the Premier League's best goal-bound captain? Schmeichel vs Lloris
Which defender would you want in your five-a-side squad? Adams vs Terry
Who will come out on top in a classic clash of the titans? Vieira vs Keane
Which Champions League-winning Liverpool captain should get the nod? Gerrard vs Henderson
Which Nineties legend should lead the line? Shearer vs Cantona
Who was the Premier League's best goal-bound captain? Schmeichel vs Lloris
Which defender would you want in your five-a-side squad? Adams vs Terry
Who will come out on top in a classic clash of the titans? Vieira vs Keane
Which Champions League-winning Liverpool captain should get the nod? Gerrard vs Henderson
Which Nineties legend should lead the line? Shearer vs Cantona
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00:00 And look, I mean, the Keen vs Fiera debate is so badly played out by this point that
00:04 everyone watching this is either going to be too young to care, or sufficiently old
00:09 that they would have made up their minds 15 years ago.
00:11 So I'm fully aware that we are beating the deadest horse you could possibly imagine at
00:16 this point.
00:17 Hello, I'm Jason Jones, one of the three ad administrators of Fantasy Fiberside, a
00:28 programme in which we put together the best possible five man team based on some extremely
00:31 specific requirements.
00:32 This week, we're going to come up with the best possible team made up of Premier League
00:36 captains, and I'm joined by Matthew Gregory to help me out.
00:39 Here's how it works.
00:40 We each take it in turns to propose a legendary former captain from the Premier League for
00:44 our team, have a heated argument, and then settle on a skipper that will make it onto
00:48 the pitch.
00:49 And as always, we do have to start in net, so I'm going to propose that we begin our
00:52 Fiberside team with Peter Schmeichel.
00:55 Probably the greatest son of a Polish jazz musician ever to play in top flight football.
01:01 A gigantic figure on and off the field, just filled the frame of the goal pretty much every
01:07 single game he played.
01:08 He seemed to be twice the size that he really was.
01:12 Captain of course, when Manchester United won the treble in 1999, he had the armband
01:16 during the Champions League final in the Nou Camp, and just a massive figure.
01:21 He was always famous for shouting the pants off of the defenders in front of him.
01:26 He was one of those real generals, one of those guys who would just scream a defence
01:30 into order.
01:31 And he was just such a titanic figure.
01:33 I think he put off so many strikers that he was...
01:37 It wasn't just that he was a great shot stopper that allowed him to make so many saves, keep
01:41 so many clean sheets down the years.
01:42 It was that he was just enormous.
01:45 And he would just terrify a lot of opposing strikers into making bad finishes, into getting
01:51 things wrong, because you'd see this gigantic red-nosed Dane bearing down on you.
01:56 And I think it just was one of those things that put the frighteners up quite a lot of
01:59 the opponents.
02:00 And if we're building a fiver-side team, I think terrifying the opposition into submission
02:04 is a reasonable strategy to go about things.
02:06 So they're certainly not going to get any high-quality management off of us.
02:10 So if we can just use psychological warfare, I think that's probably our best bet.
02:14 So yeah, I think Peter Schmeichel would be a pretty great addition to the side.
02:18 You imagine how good he'd be in a seven-a-side net as well.
02:20 We're talking about him playing in an 11-a-side net.
02:22 In a seven-a-side net, he'd probably dwarf it, wouldn't he?
02:26 When I was a kid...
02:27 Yeah, he made full-size goal look like a fiver-side goal.
02:30 Absolutely, mate.
02:31 When I was a kid, I used to think that his name was Peter Schmeichel.
02:36 I thought his surname was Michael.
02:38 Yeah, I know.
02:39 Bit of a rude awakening.
02:42 Yeah, no, I think it's hard to disagree with Peter Schmeichel.
02:46 I think that there's a strong argument to him to be made for him being maybe the best
02:51 Premier League goalkeeper of all time.
02:52 He's certainly in the sort of top three, top five in that discussion, isn't he?
02:55 So yeah, I think that's a very, very fair shout.
02:58 I'd quite like to give an honourable mention though to Hugo Lloris.
03:02 Now, I know Hugo Lloris maybe doesn't have the sort of domestic silverware to compete
03:07 with a Peter Schmeichel, but we are talking about a World Cup winner here, of course.
03:10 And I think what he did, obviously he's still at Tottenham, although it would appear that
03:14 his time is sort of slowly winding down there, but what he's done during his spell at Tottenham
03:20 and he's been captain for a long, long time there as well, let's not forget, has been
03:23 quite remarkable.
03:24 He's consistently been one of the best shot-stoppers in the Premier League.
03:29 He was really a key figure in sort of reinvigorating that Tottenham side when you think about Ronda
03:34 Pochettino, the likes of Kane and Ali, when they really sort of pushed on and looked like
03:38 title contenders.
03:39 Lloris was obviously there through all of that.
03:42 And yeah, I just think he's been a wonderful mainstay, a real steadfast figure at Spurs
03:46 for such a long, long time and a real model captain as well.
03:49 The other end of the spectrum is Schmeichel, obviously you're talking about this real sort
03:52 of vocal figure.
03:53 I feel like Lloris is perhaps a little more understated, maybe goes about things in a
03:58 slightly different way.
04:00 But I still think that he, throughout his time at Tottenham, has shown fantastic leadership
04:04 credentials.
04:05 And I do think that he's been really a remarkable presence in the Premier League for a long,
04:09 long time.
04:10 That being said, Matt, I do think I'm going to sort of struggle to argue against Peter
04:15 Schmeichel on this one.
04:16 I think he might have this one in the bag, mate.
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