CHRIS DUNLAVY on why a time machine is required to decide who’s the greatest of all time

IS Wayne Rooney an England great? Do the scoring feats of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo elevate them to the company of Pele and Maradona?
We hear these sorts of question asked all the time, generally when some sort of record has been smashed.
Just this month we have seen Messi simultaneously become the leading scorer in both Spanish football and European Cup history. Statistically, he has no peer.
But football is not statistics. And as much as OptaJoe and the FinkTank would like us to bo...