It's not every day that you see a football club make a highlight video of a player making them look like fools.
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It's not every day that you see a football club make a highlight video of a player making them look like fools.
Guy in the VAR booth obviously bent as fuck not to call the ref over to the pitch side monitor for that!
Best league in the world?
do you even know why Maradona didn’t win it?
Pele and Diego Maradona – Never eligible to win the Ballon d’Or
The Ballon d’Or was first handed out in 1956. At the time, the award was only given to the best European player. In 1995, it was changed to all nationalities, but the players had to be based at clubs in Europe. Due to the rules, Pele was never eligible for a Ballon d’Or trophy. However, even if he had been, journalists outside of South America may not have voted for him.
Diego Maradona also famously never won the award. Although he did play in Europe, he wasn’t plying his trade at a club on the continent in 1995. Maradona was a shell of his former self by then anyway. The Argentine would have won the award multiple times in the late 1980s had he been eligible as Napoli won two Serie Atitles and a UEFA Cup. He also won the 1986 World Cup with Argentina.
The modern Ballon d’Or didn’t come into existence until 2010. The award was combined with the FIFA Player of the Year allowing players from all nationalities playing in all corners of the globe to win the trophy. Of course, it is highly unlikely that anyone playing outside of Europe will win the trophy.
Liverpool want players to take both knees ahead of this weekend's games as a tribute to Maradonna.
That’s lineker. He’s not as funny as he thinks. At all
You know who cheated us, the referee in CL final let’s not be precious Owen cheated the Argies when his legs decided to collapse I’ve never heard anyone in Argentina (where I spend a considerable amount of time) even mention that
Exactly, I would love to have seen the likes of pele, best and maradona playing in the modern era.
All had the proverbial kicked out of them every time they played, unlike today's players who get a free kick if you touch their shirt.
Messi has never led his country to WC glory nor taken a team outside of the elite and made them Champions of their country. Twice.
In many ways his exploits for Napoli really show what a great player he was more so than '86.
Messi has been in his comfort zone at Barca all his career, surrounded by world class talents. Xavi AND Iniesta in the same team? No wonder Barca dominated as did Spain as well when those two were in their pomp.
Third CL title Messi won he had both Neymar and Suarez for company.
Messi is undoubtedly in the Top 5 players of all time but both Maradona and Pele are better.
The Messi fanboys should be gracious and accept this.
In many ways his exploits for Napoli really show what a great player he was more so than '86.
Messi has been in his comfort zone at Barca all his career, surrounded by world class talents. Xavi AND Iniesta in the same team? No wonder Barca dominated as did Spain as well when those two were in their pomp.
Third CL title Messi won he had both Neymar and Suarez for company.
Messi is undoubtedly in the Top 5 players of all time but both Maradona and Pele are better.
The Messi fanboys should be gracious and accept this.
Ah but Napoli were still up against giants like Milan and Juve so it's wasn't as if they had zero competition.
Oh and football fans remember who won CL finals but Sports fans remember World Cups.
The World Cup is still the pinnacle of the sport, please don't let Sky or BT tell you any different.
Win a CL and you're a great, win a WC though and your name passes into legend.
Oh and football fans remember who won CL finals but Sports fans remember World Cups.
The World Cup is still the pinnacle of the sport, please don't let Sky or BT tell you any different.
Win a CL and you're a great, win a WC though and your name passes into legend.
Jamie Vardy has to be up there after leading Leicester to Glory!
Slightly unfair. He got bang average Argie sides with shit managers to 3 major finals.
Carrying them in 2014.
There was also the state of the pitches in those days too..........
That grass isn't far off from Hackney Marshes in the summer nowadays, for us having a kick about it's great compared to the boggy winter waterlogged ones (he would also have played on back then) but this was the best of the best they could be back then, the grass is long and the ground was hard as concrete. This wasn't an issue for Terry Butcher lumping it into row Z but for a baller, dribbling around an entire team to score, is the mark of a genius.
Note Shilton's arm, half of it deep in two inches long grass???
With the rules today Maradona would be untouchable
there wouldn’t be enough columns or rows to tally his stats
Yeah but next week there was a spot of rain and look what happened when Pat Jennings did a diving saveWhereas the pitch here looks pretty great for its time:
He didn't need to tie his laces, ergo there was nobody around fit to lace his boots.
He’s clearly never heard of Charlie Adam and a rainy Wednesday night up in Stoke.
Messi would cry in his panties.
Charlie Adam would run the midget outta town
Absolutely agree, Maradona was chopped brutally week in week out in a manner that modern footballers wouldn't even dream of. He would get hacked and if he was able, would not go down. The pitches at times were atrocious and not only prevented decent football but offered the opportunity of career ending injury. He was sublime and played for Napoli which were at the bottom of Serie A and he wasn't always surrounded by other stars.