Al Needham Loyal
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And "the cry was no surrender, surrender or you'll die"Up there with “may the streets be broad or narrow”
And "the cry was no surrender, surrender or you'll die"Up there with “may the streets be broad or narrow”
That’s was my feeling about Owen’s goal against ArgentinaMaradona’s England goal is the greatest World Cup goal of all time. Sorry but it just isn’t, you’ve got England players on yellow cards scared to touch him after the initial spin to peel away on the half way line (which was impressive), but after that the first serious attempt at a challenge comes from Shilton.
Maradona’s England goal is the greatest World Cup goal of all time. Sorry but it just isn’t, you’ve got England players on yellow cards scared to touch him after the initial spin to peel away on the half way line (which was impressive), but after that the first serious attempt at a challenge comes from Shilton.
Fact 1. Association Football is a non contact sport.My top 3 accepted truths in football that I'm calling bullshit on.
(1) Gordon Banks' save from Pele was the best ever
Nah, there's probably a save every month as good as that nowadays. David de Gea alone probably makes 5 saves a season as good as that.
(2) Spitting on an opponent is the worst thing you can do
It's not nice, and anyone that does it deserves a punch in the face in return, but what Roy Keane did to Alf Inge Haaland - intentionally injuring him to end his career - is much worse.
(3) You're more likely to concede a goal after just scoring
I don't know if this is true but I think it's just the 1 time in 10 it happens people notice. I'd be very surprised if it's statistically true that in the 5 minutes after a goal you're more likely to concede.
What accepted truths of football do you think are wrong?
I don't think being judged differently is helping us at the moment.It's totally fine to kick players, dive, cheat - loads of football is just educated cheating.
It's not a football teams job to entertain - more so neutrals at home watching a game on TV with no investment in the match - folks who watch Newcastle v Southampton and expect to be entertained have no concept of how sport works.
Refs should manage games in context within reason - a foul in a Rangers v Celtic game should be judged a bit different in a Rangers v Hamilton game
You can practice putting the ball in the corner with pace all day and not miss one, you can't account for a goalkeeper moving going the right way and saving it, no shot is unstoppable so this makes it a bit of a lottery.“Penalty shootouts are a lottery”
No they aren’t. The more you practice penalties, the better you get. The more the entire team practice penalties, the better the team will be at shootouts.
Maradona’s England goal is the greatest World Cup goal of all time. Sorry but it just isn’t, you’ve got England players on yellow cards scared to touch him after the initial spin to peel away on the half way line (which was impressive), but after that the first serious attempt at a challenge comes from Shilton.
That sectarianism is a huge issue in Scotland that everyone is offended by. Refuse to believe anyone actually cares, it’s all just “look what the other fans are doing” faux outrage.
Souness always said he preferred home leg first. It makes sense because in the event of a draw then you have an extra 30 minutes to get an away goal. Think 1971 v Sporting Lisbon!Having lived for 8 years in Manchester, all over the city, I concur. It is nonsense.
As for generally accepted truths that are wrong, playing a second leg at home in a two-legged tie is best. Rangers played Bremen away, Sporting away and Fiorentina away second en-route to Manchester and Liverpool played Porto, city and Roma away last year yet also reached the CL final.
"There's a player in there."
Only ever used for players who have no player "in there".
being used for Borna a lot recently which gives me the fear for him,
In the same vein as this, the Brazil Carlos Alberto goal is seriously overrated. No team in todays game would be allowed so much time on the ball, it's nearly at walking pace! It's a good pass and finish, iconic goal obviously, but the defending during the build up is terrible.
Very few teams mix up style and tactics.
Waburton was mocked and ridiculed for Plan B being doing Plan A better - that applies to about 99% of football teams.
if you have a Plan B all you are doing is spending less time working on Plan A in training - the majority of training is repetition, drilling in structures and building muscle memory to take to games - a team who can transition from 4-4-2 to 3-5-2 is mostly likely equally bad at both rather than good at both.