Moore is the greatest

Bobby Moore played for England 108 times, captained them in a record ninety matches (a record held jointly with Billy Wright), won the World Cup in 1966, the FA Cup, the European Cup Winners' Cup and was the 1964 Footballer of the Year.

Born in Barking on 12 April 1941, Moore made his debut for West Ham United against Manchester United on 8 September 1958.

He went on to spend fifteen years in East London, making 544 League appearances and scoring 24 goals. In 1974, Moore crossed the capital to join Fulham for £25,000 and he would go on to make another 124 League appearances whilst at Craven Cottage.

The 1963/64 season was possibly Moore's finest in club colours as West Ham won The FA Cup, beating Preston North End 3-2 in a wonderful Final. Moore was also named Footballer of the Year that season and followed those successes by helping West Ham to more Wembley glory as the they beat 1860 Munich to win the European Cup Winners' Cup. 

When Alf Ramsey took over from Walter Winterbottom as England manager in 1963, Moore was already the captain and this arrangement suited the new man at the helm.

Ramsey used Moore as the fulcrum for his new, tactically innovating side which saw the abandonment of the traditional 'WM' formation in favour of a more modern 4-4-2 style, without dedicated, touchline hugging wingers.

This new side, dubbed the 'wingless wonders' quickly made an impact and their, and Moore's, finest hour arrived on 30 July 1966 against West Germany in the World Cup Final.

England fell behind early on only for Geoff Hurst to equalise soon after. In the last quarter of the match, Martin Peters put England in front but, just as it seemed England were about to win the match, Wolfgang Weber stole in to level things at 2-2.

In extra-time two goals from Moore's Upton Park colleague Hurst secured the match for Ramsey's men and enabled Moore to climb the thirty-two steps up to Wembley's Royal Box to collect the World Cup from the Queen.

The now iconic image of Moore holding the Jules Rimet trophy aloft at Wembley is one that has since been engrained on every football fan's memory.BR>

The squad that flew out to the 1970 World Cup in Mexico as defending champions was in many ways a stronger one than that which had claimed the trophy four years previously. Moore, still playing at something near the peak of his powers, and others in the squad felt that the Three Lions had a good chance of retaining the trophy.

That they were knocked out at the quarter-final stage by West Germany was naturally a disappointment but the abiding memories of that World Cup come from the group match against eventual champions Brazil.

Gordon Banks' save and Alan Ball's hitting the woodwork are now legendary but possibly greater still is the sight of Moore holding the England defence firm, making one brilliant tackle after another and then at the end of the match swapping shirts with the peerless Pele.

Moore joined the elite group of players who have played for England 100 times when he captained the side against Scotland in February 1972.

He continued to play for England until 1973 when he made his last appearance for his country in a 1-0 defeat to Italy.

Sadly, in 1991 Moore was diagnosed with cancer and died on 24 February 1993, aged just 51.

There will never be anyone quite like the late, great Bobby Moore.

Moore polled 50% of the vote and won by some distance from his nearest challenger, Lion of Vienna Nat Lofthouse (18%).

In third place was England's leading scorer of all time, Sir Bobby Charlton (10%), who finished just ahead of the current England captain David Beckham.

Legendary winger Sir Stanley Matthews finished in fifht place infront of some more modern-day greats - Alan Shearer (6th), Gary Lineker (7th) and Paul Gascoigne (8th).

The top ten is completed by 44-goal man Jimmy Greaves and Kevin Keegan, the highest placed player from the 1970s.