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Nice to find a kindred spirit! I’m older than you’d think, and an Australian, drawn here with good hopes for Ange and Spurs.
Football without rivalries is nothing. I’m not saying they can’t be friends, a lot of them have international bond, but the ones who don’t - it’s just weird.
Yeah, you would think that — but we still tolerate Saka Fan Boys on this site.
I think it depends on circumstances. I grew up in north London, At school most of the lads and most of my mates were Gooners and they loved to take the piss especially as it was in the Viera, berkamp and Henry era. Used to be painful listening to the smug bastard's, all banter of course but still would get your back up, didn't help that we we're proper shit then either.
Mate, I don’t hate rival fans as people, I hate their club and everything that comes with it. I’m talking about football side of things. Although Woolwich fans sre special bread anyway. I can’t stand them talking about football.
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The "gentleman" on the ball in this picture is a perfect example of modern football being broken, look at this for evidence:
Mbappe calls PSG 'divisive' in magazine interview
France striker Kylian Mbappe reportedly calls club side Paris St-Germain "divisive" in an interview with France Football magazine.
The amount of money that club is paying him and the amount of power they have also given him is pathetic, and for him to say things like that is a disgrace, regardless of how the club might be.
Also look at the strop he threw when he wasn't immediately made France captain after Hugo retired from the team, the guy has zero class whatsoever.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Messi or C. Ronaldo acting that way at his age at Barcelona or Man Utd respectively.
He's brilliant, but certainly not best in the world brilliant.
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Miroslav Klose: “I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”
He’s spot on.
