Simple. Trippier breaks both of Messi's legs. Gets red. They become worse without messi, we become better without Trippier. Win the game. Trippier gets Ballon Dor.
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No, Paulinho is.
You mean when he barged Damon Hill outta the way ?
Don’t think this changes to much. Only idiots go you can’t be the greatest without winning a World Cup as if Maradona being born in Luxembourg would make him automatically crap.
However it does cap his career nicely. Still hard for me to split him and Maradona, Maradona had it a lot harder arguably but Messi far more longevity. Crazy that the two best players of all time are from Argentina. What luck for them.
However it does cap his career nicely. Still hard for me to split him and Maradona, Maradona had it a lot harder arguably but Messi far more longevity. Crazy that the two best players of all time are from Argentina. What luck for them.
I think this illustrates it nicely. Fucking hell.
...and that was a month ago.
...and that was a month ago.
With modern drug testing he’d probably only play about three games a decade.
And precisely 0% of the goals scored at the Bet365 Stadium
Sissoko was robbed
It hilarious how tournament that's every 4 years determinate who's best player ever.
But being on top level for 15 years is not.
Who has been this good for 15 straight years? Ronaldo is up there. No-one else.
That's far more important to me than WC where are so many things have to get together for someone to win it.
But being on top level for 15 years is not.
Who has been this good for 15 straight years? Ronaldo is up there. No-one else.
That's far more important to me than WC where are so many things have to get together for someone to win it.
Exactly. When have you ever seen Ronaldo play passes like that? Even if he could he wouldn’t do it because he’s a prick.
At least we'll be spared the 'childhood dream', 'can't wait to wear the shirt', 'so happy to be here' bullshit.
"Well, I had to play somewhere and thanks to your murdering, oil-stealing, women-hating sugar daddies, it's here."
"Well, I had to play somewhere and thanks to your murdering, oil-stealing, women-hating sugar daddies, it's here."
I'm thankful to have lived in not only the same era as him, but also Pele, Cruyff and Maradona.
This fella is the best ever.
The end.
The 80s was definitely the best era for football.
2 quality world cups
An incredible selection of footballers:
Maradona, platini, zico, rummenige, boniek, Rossi, Socrates, van basten, dalglish, Hoddle, scifo, matthaus, cuelemens, blochin, giresse, gullit, Rush, lineker, souness, scirea, laudrup to name but a few
Quality euros in 84&88
all taking plce with brutal tackling, limited ref interventions, moderate pay, with terrible hairdos and unfeasibly tight shorts.
2 quality world cups
An incredible selection of footballers:
Maradona, platini, zico, rummenige, boniek, Rossi, Socrates, van basten, dalglish, Hoddle, scifo, matthaus, cuelemens, blochin, giresse, gullit, Rush, lineker, souness, scirea, laudrup to name but a few
Quality euros in 84&88
all taking plce with brutal tackling, limited ref interventions, moderate pay, with terrible hairdos and unfeasibly tight shorts.
Everything you say about Messi is true, I'm not in disagreement with. He's a genius, one of the best there is.
His Barca side though was stacked with talent, this is impossible to deny. A crisis at Barca (and Real Madrid) have different meanings than any other football team, this crisis team were 2000 semi-finalists of CL, Semi-finalists copper del rey, 2001 semi-finalists UEFA Cup & copper del Rey, 2002 CL semi-finalists, 2003 CL quarter-finalists, there were not shit! Take a step back and make the comparison against us, we are runners up finalists and semi-finalists on the domestic scene and lets see in Europe, but we are seen as a very, very good team. I'm only bringing us up into this conversation not to compare the sides side-by-side but just to point out that they were arguably better than us today, the context of Barca in crisis is somewhat overblown I guess is what I'm saying, if only we were in as much crisis as them, I'd love to get to semi-final of CL. The subsequent years were of course phenomenal, but look at the team he was in, in every position you could make an argument the player was the best in his position in the World (always subjective and not always the case as the team as a whole is the biggest factor).
As I said, nothing you have written about Messi I disagree with. I do disagree with the context in which you placed him. The context is key in which Maradona should be viewed too, always difficult to make but having watched both in my lifetime the comparisons of the two era's they played in is night and day to me and why Maradona for me is the better player. (I can't make a case for Pele vs Best vs Puskas vs Eusabbio etc.. as I never saw them play).
