Is Everton’s Leighton Baines the Premier League’s best left-back of all time?
The official Premier League Twitter account sent out a suspect tweet about one Everton player on Sunday.
Leighton Baines signed a one-year extension with the Toffees last week, and the account’s social media manager asked its 19.7 million followers if the Everton man was the best left-back of the Premier League era.
Baines has made 412 top-flight appearances for the Goodison Park club and Wigan Athletic, 27 more than former Arsenal and Chelsea left-back Ashley Cole.
But Cole lifted the title on three occasions and went on to earn 107 caps for England, 77 more than the Everton ace.
Cole, who helped Derby County reach the playoff final at the age of 38 last season, is widely considered to have been one of the world’s best left-backs during his peak, and a lot of fans on Twitter are perplexed as to why the Premier League’s Twitter account put Baines’s name forward as the competition’s GOAT.
It’s worth pointing out that Baines has 32 goals in England’s top tier, 17 more than Cole who has 22 less assists than the Toffees ace [53].
Perhaps things might’ve been different had Manchester United signed the Liverpudlian way back when, because he would’ve won more trophies and maybe would have earned ‘world class’ status.
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