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Despite the sheer volume of widely admired stars to have made their mark on the Beautiful Game as we know it today, defining football’s out-in-out ‘cult heroes’ remains a task somewhat easier said than done in the modern era.

The cult hero can seemingly stand out among his contemporaries on the basis of several different factors. Whilst many develop their promising reputation through a unique brand of flair and ability with the ball at their feet, others simply gain such a status for proving distinctly loyal to their club’s cause and hard working out on the pitch to boot.

Throughout the years, the cult hero has often been produced out of unlikely circumstances and against the status-quo. From the admittedly useless players that nonetheless manage to win over their fans through sheer determination alone, to the unpredictable mavericks whose very own inconsistency issues ultimately serve to heighten their overall mystique in the end – every club has made room for a few cult heroes along the way.

So then, in light of such discussion surrounding several of football’s more surprising poster-boys, here are 50 of the best cult heroes the Premier League has ever paid witness to…

50. Luis Garcia

49. George Boateng

48. Julian Speroni

47. Carlton Cole

46. Luis Boa Morte

45. Jonas Gutierrez

44. Juliano Belletti

43. Per Mertesacker

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42. Attilio Lombardo

41. John Arne Riise

40. Dennis Wise

39. Paulo Wanchope

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38. Adi Akinbiyi

37. Temuri Ketsbaia

36. Tim Cahill

35. Slaven Bilic

34. Massimo Maccarone

33. Carlo Cudicini

32. Eduardo

31. Niall Quinn

30. Mark Noble

29. Tony Hibbert

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28. Ivan Campo

27. Fabrizio Ravanelli

26. Jens Lehmann

25. Peter Crouch

24. Sami Hyypia

23. Diego Forlan

22. Shola Ameobi

21. Park Ji-Sung

20. Tugay

19. Jerzy Dudek

18. The Neville Brothers

17. Nolberto Solano

16. Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink

15. Vinnie Jones

14. Nwankwo Kanu

13. Emile Heskey

12. Jay-Jay Okocha

11. Dirk Kuyt

10. Ray Parlour

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9. Emmanuel Eboue

8. Duncan Ferguson

7. Jimmy Bullard

6. Olof Mellberg

5. Paolo Di Canio

4. Gianfranco Zola

3. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

2. Matt Le Tissier

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1. Eric Cantona

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