MOTD Top 10: Premier League's best number 10s

The number 10 role has been played by so many of the greats of the game it makes it one of the most iconic positions in football.

Often playing just behind the striker, they are tasked with creating goalscoring opportunities and there's been many Premier League legends to have made it their own.

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards will return in the spring with their latest series of BBC Match of the Day: Top 10, ranking their top 10s from an assortment of topics across the Premier League era.

But we're giving you an early chance to get involved, by letting you pick your top three for each of the upcoming shows, and the trio will get to see your choices before they record the pod for BBC Sounds.

Today's subject is the Premier League's best number 10s.

Rank your favourite Premier League number 10s

«Part of this chat is going to be about what a number 10 is, because it is difficult to define exactly,» Lineker told BBC Sport. «There are lots of players on the list who are definite 10s and others who can play there and did for a while.

»It's an interesting position, and the one everyone wants to play in because you can just mess around a lot of the time. You don't have to make too many runs behind defences, you don't get kicked by defenders, you get plenty of space and you don't have to chase back too much.

«It's the perfect role, really. If I'd been able to pass the ball I would have played there.

»They have always been around, but Peter Beardsley was probably the first number 10 for England and when it happened, at the 1986 World Cup, that was a drastic change by Bobby Robson.

«Normally it was a big striker and a small striker up front — it was Mark Hateley who I played with when I first got into the England team and