Tens of thousands of Mail Sport readers have voted over the summer to choose the greatest-ever player at every current Premier League club.
Thank you to everyone who participated either through our online poll or by email.
With the 2024/25 top-flight season beginning on Friday August 16, we are revealing all the winners this week.
Here are your selections for SOUTHAMPTON, TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR, WEST HAM UNITED AND WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
SOUTHAMPTON
WINNER: MATT LE TISSIER (1986-2002) Games 543, Goals 212
Le God as he was called by Southampton supporters was the ultimate one-club man, spurning opportunities to join bigger clubs to spend his entire career on the south coast.
He probably boasts the best highlights reel of any Premier League player, scoring a range of spectacular goals, from mazy dribbles and ferocious volleys to the most delicate of chips.
Largely due to his individual brilliance, Southampton were able to stay in the top flight for the entirety of his career, his skills winning the admiration of team-mates spanning a teenage Alan Shearer to Wayne Bridge.
He also understood the sense of occasion. His winner against Arsenal in 2001 was the final goal ever scored at The Dell, Southampton’s home for more than a Century.
Commentator Jon Champion said: ‘Who better to say farewell than one of the finest players to wear the red and white?’
In fact, you’ve decided he is the very finest though Mick Channon, star of the 1976 FA Cup-winning side, also garnered a lot of support in finishing second.
Long-serving Terry Paine, who played a remarkable 816 times for The Saints, finished third to leave Kevin Keegan fourth – the position he also occupied in the Newcastle vote.
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
WINNER: JIMMY GREAVES (1961-70) Games 379, Goals 266
Though Harry Kane managed to surpass Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham goals record before he left for Bayern Munich, Spurs fans have decided the No1 spot in their all-time list still belongs to Greavsie.
Signed from AC Milan in 1961 to join a “Glory Glory” Tottenham Hotspur team that had just won The Double, Greaves managed to make a huge impact.
He won the FA Cup in 1962 and 1967 and helped Spurs make history in 1963 becoming the first English club to win a European trophy. Needless to say he scored twice in the 5-1 Cup-Winners Cup final romp over Atletico Madrid.
Greaves was a pure goal machine, gliding past defenders in tight spaces and an exponent of being able to pass the ball into the net from seemingly any angle.
Though injury cost him a place in the England team during the 1966 World Cup finals, his status at White Hart Lane never dwindled.
‘The greatest goalscorer there ever was and ever will be,’ said his former team-mate Cliff Jones after Greaves’ death in 2021.
He later became well-known to a younger generation for the way he conquered alcoholism to become a TV star on the Saint and Greavsie show with partner Ian St John.
But Spurs fans remember him as a lethal forward first and foremost. WMcBtF writing into Mail Sport from Exeter said: ‘Jimmy Greaves by a mile. How much would he be worth today.’
Glenn Hoddle, who played midfield like a Quarterback in the 1980s with his range of passing, was a worthy runner-up to Greaves, and Kane a strong third despite not winning a major trophy with his boyhood team.
WEST HAM UNITED
WINNER: BOBBY MOORE (1958-74) Games 646, Goals 27
As the only Englishman to lift the World Cup as captain, Bobby Moore’s status as a national treasure was assured well before his untimely death from cancer in 1993.
But West Ham fans also remember him as their Wembley-winning captain, leading them to both the FA Cup in 1964 and European Cup-Winners’ Cup in 1965 underneath the famous Twin Towers.
Immaculate on and off the pitch, Moore introduced a new style of defending to English football, encouraged by his senior West Ham team-mate Malcolm Allison to build play as well as stop the opposition.
His presence helped the claret-and-blues enjoy the best period of their history, in addition to the cup victories, there were two League Cup semi-finals and an unbroken run in the First Division including a sixth-place finish the year before he left for Fulham.
His former team-mate Harry Redknapp says of him: ‘What a man. The straightest, most honest bloke you could meet in your life. Won the World Cup, and even the opposition loved him.’
Mail Sport reader Antony from Watford put it simply: ‘Mooro as a player, head and shoulders above everybody else.’
West Ham have enjoyed a revival during the Premier League years with Italian maverick Di Canio voted second in the all-time list and Eastender Mark Noble third after spending his entire career with his local club.
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
WINNER: BILLY WRIGHT (1939-59) Games 541, Goals 16
More than three-quarters of Wolves voters went for one of two legends – divided by time and position but both universally loved and respected at Molineux.
Ultimately, former England captain Billy Wright – the first player to win a hundred caps for his country – was selected over goal machine Steve Bull, helped that Wright was part of the most golden period in Wolves’ history while Bull had to score his goals in the lower divisions.
Wright overcame fear he’d be too small to be a central defender to lead Wolves to three league championships and the FA Cup in 1949.
He was voted Footballer of the Year in 1952 and after retirement was awarded the CBE.
His marriage to Joy Beverley, part of the acclaimed singing group The Beverley Sisters, made him part of the country’s first truly “celebrity couple” recognised everywhere they went.
A statue of Wright greets visitors to today’s Molineux. As his Wolves and England team-mate Bert Williams said; ‘You don’t get 100 caps unless you are exceptional.’
“Bully” was a clear second in the poll as recognition for the record 306 goals he scored for Wolves. Charismatic 1970s striker Derek Dougan pipped Premier League midfielder Ruben Neves for third.