gnasher16
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If you look over time at where the great players have come from more often than not they were kids with nothing.....how many times do we hear stories of how kids from Brazil would play on the beech or with a rolled up newspaper as a ball on the streets of Rio etc etc................from a very young age these players have a solid grasp of a football at their feet,they feel comfortable with it.....as they grow and develop they learn about support play and shooting etc......eventually when they mature they learn about strength and fitness....... In Britain we do all of that totally arse about f
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A pal of mine is an Arsenal season ticket holder he gets passes into training sessions and all that bollocks......i had nothing to do one day and went along with him to watch a training session......Wenger had a 11 against 11 game going on........................inside 1 half of a pitch !!.......The support play and the way they held the ball so comfortably in such a tight area totally blew my mind......and you can see that in the way they play the game......same as the Spanish.............apparently Wenger has done this for years..... Now look at what we do ( we meaning Brits )..............
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I dont remember saying that....where did i say theres a lack of quality in todays players ?............. Apart from that Baw you make some great points that are certainly worth thinking about ..............As regards whats competetive.....i dont see simply " going in hard " like they did in the good ol days,as being more competetive.................Wee Jimmy Johnstone who you refer to might of been able to run rings round big bruising defenders ( your words ) back then......but would he be able to to out think and out manouvre todays defenders who are not only big bruisers but can also play
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I think it also needs to be taken into account Rooney will never thrive or be seen at his best playing Hodgsons style of football......he,s going to spend most of the game with his back to goal......must say i agree with Wilf about that Andy Carrol goal that was a great example of perfecting what you are good at.
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" People have their opinions "..................i love listening to peoples opinions on sport...but not when they are too blind to have one of their own.....you jasper are not a fan of football your an armchair critic...so your opinion dont count...............and if you dont give a flying f**k then what you talking about it for you toby !! As for my application......i,ll send mine off when you send yours off for Alex Ferguson or Roy Hodgsons job......who do you thinks going to have the longer wait me or you
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Didnt know there was different types....dont really know i dont use it often.............. Anyway sod it better to be patient than sorry ........cheers anyway.
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I totally agree......i didnt see the games on telly but in and around the ground i never saw 1 Utd or City flag......a couple of Chelsea and Arsenal.......and maybe 1 Liverpool.........i saw literally hundreds of lower division clubs from Millwall to Grimsby.......Torquay to Norwich......all corners of the country.................the footballing knowledge some of these lads have is immense it was so refreshing to talk football with folk who have a genuine love and passion for the game thats not dictated by following success.....i really admire some of them who aint got 2 bob to rub together bu
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Do you know that for fact mate ?.....not questioning what your saying just want to be sure as im about to do it now and its a tidy little sum so if i come unstuck......im blaming you
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In all honesty i dont hold much weight in the theory that you have to go to games to be a true supporter i think thats bollocks....im no bigger fan than the next man it just so happens i love live sport and am in a position where i can go to games,no big deal it dont make my opinions or support and more valid than anyone elses.......my grievance is with those type of people who slagged us off before the competition,then started singing a few Engerland songs when we won a few games and are now back to slagging us off..............the same type of people who think because they watch a big club o
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Does anybody know if when somebody sends you money through Paypal you get charged anything for it ?......In other words if someone sends say 100 pound......will you as the reciever get the whole 100 pound.......or do they take a fee of any sort.......thanks.
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Says a man sitting saying what the England football manager should of done and what players one of the greatest football managers in British history should and shouldnt play !!!................unlike you Jasper im just a plain football fan.....im not an armchair critic,a glory hunter or headline reader....your all of them.......your the worst kind of England fan there is and typify everything thats wrong with football and English people of this nation in general in many ways......you stand for nothing !
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My tongue is lodged firmly in my cheek .....i also stated he was better than Messi............clearly it sailed over your nut No of course he wasnt as good as Pearce,but he wasnt far behind and certainly not far enough behind to warrant NEVER getting even 1 England cap !!!............same as the fa bottled it with Harry they bottled it with " The Terminator "...............if your not a squeaky clean character.....your not coming in.
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Nothing to do with ethics of football its to do with basic common sense....both as a supporter ( which you are not ).......and as a manager of footballers ( which again you are not )....................yet you seem to have all the answers from your armchair !
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Never heard of Julian Dicks.....................was he a footballer?.. :angel: I think your point about athletes getting better is a very good point but i dont think that can be carried over to football as its a team sport and not an individual one. George Best never played lots of International football because he was from NI, if he was English he would have played loads. Pele i cant really speak about that much as i never even seen him play but i do think listening to others he wasn't to bad a football player....... I also think the best player in the EPL is Drogba by a country mile at t
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Perfectly put Malt i totally agree .....we know even from our dogs.....a highly tuned super conditioned dog is quite a delicate little athlete.....a big lazy v8 engine is bullet proof,start f****n with the finer tuning and theres more to go wrong.........highly tuned athletes bodies are not robust......do you sacrifice reliability for performance,you just cant do it in todays top level sport.
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I,ll bow down on the Lisbon Lions thing as id be talking about a side i have no real knowledge of.......the simple point i was trying to make being the nature of competetive sport dictates very few athletes/teams from " yesterday " would beat their equivalents today.........in any sport.......that doesnt stop them being greats of their era. As regards Best/Pele....................Both these great players would of spent more time in the physios room than on the pitch.......Pele never played in the Spanish or Italian leagues club level so never witnessed tough tackling on a week to week basi
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Sport evolves Baw.....Pele or George Best as they was then wouldnt last 5 minutes in the premier league today,does that mean they wasnt some of the greatest players ever to play the game of course it doesnt it simply means the game has become just as much about speed/strength/discipline as it is about sexy football..............ive been watching football since the 70,s and i can honestly say hand on heart i enjoy the game today more than ever for excitement......i cant play the game for toffee never could but i believe i have a decent understanding of competetive sport to know that the way it
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There we go i knew it was coming.....those famous words " IM A REALIST "........................................ I must have had this conversation 20 times with 20 different people over the last few weeks........if your a realist then why pretend to be a football supporter !!! I support one of the shittiest most crappiest football clubs in the English Premier League...........I know they,re crap,you know they,re crap..................but if you think im going to stand by and let someone tell me my clubs shit you got another thing coming......thats because im A SUPPORTER.....thats what you
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I cant agree with that Baw.....i dont think the game is in decline i think its stronger than it ever has been throughout history i think Utd,City,Chelsea,etc are far better sides dometically than the strong Liverpool side of the 70,s and ,s......i think the Germans are a better side than they have ever been......right down to individuals id say Messi/Ronaldo are better players in their era than Pele/Beckenbaur etc were in their times........The Brazil side of years gone by were competing at a time when skill was the deciding factor 9 times out of 10......today the game is so much faster requir
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We was speaking to some Italians after the game they said our game ( England ) is in exactly the same position their game was in back in the ,s and i think they spoke a lot of sense......we all remember great British players like Trevor Francis,Souness,Liam Brady,Platt,Mcmanaman,Gazza all going out to Italian clubs.....then the likes of Lineker,Hughes etc going to Spain.........its no different now only the place to be is England...................after a while Italian clubs were not only bringing over the great foreign players but the average ones too........and thats what we are doing now in
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Thats the typical wishy washy outlook..................................Man Utd didnt " lose it "......a different team who also play football " won it " When people start realising that other teams and other countries play football as well and want to win just as much as we do..................we might start realising we are not entitled to anything,we have to go out and win just the same as anyone else does.
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Reading some of these posts its hard to argue with these folk who say we ( England ) are arrogant and deluded......i said before going out there id be happy to get out the group as im realistic enough to accept we are not at the highest level of the sport,naturally you get down and disappointed when you lose but that dont mean you lose sight of reality......some of you lads sitting there scratching your cannisters wondering whats wrong with our game and 100 reasons why its not working...................do you wonder the same about our other sportsmen who are not at world level,swimmers,sprinte
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Oh for f**k sake here we go again.......awwwww bless do you want someone to rub your belly and wipe your bottom lip because im victimizing you.............its called a conversation mate not a fight you dont need to keep pulling me up on my faults and doing a personal character assessment to score a point ! If you want to call it your number 1 rivalry thats fine......but dont tell other people what THEIR number 1 rivalry is i cant see why its so important to you......unless of course you think it gives you something to shout about as everyone else has forgotten who Scotland is ! Anyway
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If you lose at something your passionate about....and afterwards go and have a jolly ol singsong and a giggle about it then no your not as competetive as me because while your partying about losing i,ll be practising at winning.................................. Not me as in myself you understand......just the mentality......i say again,look at how the Italins and Germans react when they lose,then look at Brits......its embarrassing really.
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Baw why do you always turn any conversation we have into a personal duel you say " kind of shot your own argument down in flames with that one ".........then you start coming out with" you have to realise gnash "..........and " you have your opinion "........and" your not right all the time "..............if you dont want a conversation dont have one !.......or is this the closest you get to " being competetive "......Baw i dont natter with folk on here to " win " i like to listen to folks views ( even yours ) if i agree thats great if i dont i might give my own view it doesnt mean its anyth
