That Forum and its untrammelled lunacy worry me greatly.
And I fear this is not its final form. Horrors await.
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That Forum and its untrammelled lunacy worry me greatly.
And I fear this is not its final form. Horrors await.
It’s kind of like a miniature social experiment to see just how unbelievably stupid ideas can foment, develop, and gain a hold on the truth amongst focused populations. You can easily see how this is about one step away from Nazi Germany.
It's very weird. City have hardly been at the top table for long. Sure they can boast an impressive record over the last 5-6 years since McOil came to the party. For every Aguero (who is great IMO) there is a Robinho. If they win it then good for them. I'll be posting them a shit sandwich for real if they do though. I'll make sure I eat something spicy the night before 🥷
they're such fucktards.
They must be convinced that the goal decision system fucked up big time when it allowed the goal yesterday?
They must be fuming that VVD won player of the season.
♪Blue fume, you left our Sterling alone,
Without the best gong for his home...♪
Getting my coat.
In think someone ought to check this nonces harddrive...
a transgender lesbian?
a pony tailed smalling?
I love him!
a pony tailed smalling?
I love him!
He's got serious issues. At the very least he's on the spectrum.
Yeah, the one that leads from ManU fans to homo sapiens.
Incel in the UK don't have access to guns, thank God
They Are depressed over at Redcafe. One guy posted this piece from Irish times which is a good read actually.
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/so...s-philosophies-of-the-past-1.3874358?mode=amp
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/so...s-philosophies-of-the-past-1.3874358?mode=amp
Right, yeah. The game's changed again. Revolutionised once more.
And Roy Keane and Graeme Souness are relics of a bygone age; antediluvian.
Are we supposed to believe that those two in their prime wouldn't be two of the best players in the Premiership? That they would struggle to get a game in the Catalan Mekon's team of highly-evolved footballing superbeings?
Great read, thanks.
No. I think they would be able to adapt. You have the need for hard players, but the game is really changing. I think it is noticable how fit footballers need to be to cope today when looking only 15 years back.
What I found interesting was some of the facts regarding passing, who is crossing etc etc. I mean I watch the games and it is no big surprise but it is interesting to see the real numbers.
Was it last season we did over 900 passes when killing Huddersfield which was a New record in PL. But the old record was only 15 mins old when Arsenal out together 800 something in their loss against Fulham in a game starting 15 mins earlier.
They would likely be excellent players, but their manager would have different expectations of them.
I do wish more was made of the way city foul though. Maybe it's because, aside from Liverpool, I've paid most attention to them but they do genuinely seem to constantly foul after possession is turned over and more often/cynically than others.
Like the article suggests it's probably quite important to their style of play, with the time it gives to reset any players caught high up the pitch. Fernandinho is the king of it.
Like the article suggests it's probably quite important to their style of play, with the time it gives to reset any players caught high up the pitch. Fernandinho is the king of it.
You "think" two of the greatest midfield players in the history of the game would be able to adapt?
Hahahaha. Phew.
Yeah I think so. It is retorical so no point arguing either way.
However a newer example is Mascherano who left us for Barcelona where he didn't manage to utilize his strengths (similar to Keane and Souness) to improve a ball passing Barcelona and was changed to CB. For Our style he was a midfielder maestro, for Barca who played more less direct than us and more passing style he didn't fit into the midfield. Some years before that again Madrid used Redondo as the midfield maestro. His strengths was on the ball more than winning it back (although they had so much ball winning it back wasn't required that much.)
AC Milan used Gattuso much the same period, who was very limited on the ball, so there was definately also back then a big variation on styles and what players were required.
Not sure why the Mancs would be posting this as it's about football. That said it is an interesting piece about the changes in organisation. As for comparisons between players from yesteryear and now, the skill level back in the day was the same, the pitches and therefore the ability to slog up and down a pitch for 90' was impossible and therefore not the same and so today's conditioning wouldn't have been appropriate back then. All in all player comparison doesn't work on any level but skill, and as we all know just being skilful isn't enough.
I'm glad that article pointed out the crossing decrease, I've been trying to explain to one of my mates that teams don't cross the ball anywhere near as much & why & he's utterly convinced that teams need to do it more & that somehow they're all managing to miss a trick.
Although he also hates the idea of zonal marking, thinks every team must have a man on the post at corners & gets angry when we play it out from the back, so I guess he's never gonna get over the fact that the game is different today.
Although he also hates the idea of zonal marking, thinks every team must have a man on the post at corners & gets angry when we play it out from the back, so I guess he's never gonna get over the fact that the game is different today.
That's not the point. The reason you don't see players like that is cos players are moulded as they come through, at every stage, & teams aren't moulding players into that style of player anymore.
The game has moved on, there's no escaping that fact, & if you could somehow drop a Keane or Souness in their prime into citeh or our team then they would have to adapt, that's clear. Fuck, Stevie played a few years ago & he would have to adapt as well.
You simply can't get stuck in & tackle as much as previously cos teams play the ball quicker than they have in the past, which, alongside the way hard tackling has become more restricted by referrees has changed the defensive & offensive side. It is as much about blocking passing lanes as it is about actually tackling, in as much as it is about trying to draw players into a tackle so you can open a passing lane to start a counter.
Of course we've seen evolutions in the game before, & at some point a side may come through with hard tackling players & an aggressive style, that maybe doesn't play it out from the back all the time, who still win games, & then it'll all change again.
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