Tosker
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contender of the month for most ignorant postWhat do Mourinho and Wenger even know to rate Özil? Have they ever even won anything?
contender of the month for most ignorant postWhat do Mourinho and Wenger even know to rate Özil? Have they ever even won anything?
You're talking about circa 1% change though. If footballers are running 1% faster or 1% more, these are not the sort of changes that will make a huge difference to the game, is all I'm saying. To pontificate that the Liverpool team now would smash the Liverpool dominating team of the 70s or Klitschko with his more modern training methods would knockout Ali in the first round is all too easy. I still think the invincibles team would take some beating, even today.I'm from the UK too To be fair, a 1.2 second difference in the world record from Seb's day to now is quite a margin of improvement considering the race is only 100 seconds or so long.
If you google the list of World Records in Athletics, out of the 42 events, only 2 world records stand from the 80's, The Discus and Javelin, both by East Germans, which given their record with doping makes their world records highly dubious.
In comparison 6 new world records have been set this year alone even with all the Coronavirus stuff going on.
contender of the month for most ignorant post
I don't see how we can compare the stars of the 70s and 80s to today.
For all the talk about how drunk and unfit they all were back then compared to the physical specimens we have now. They would all be on the same fitness programs today. If they could do what they did, pissed to the eyeballs, imagine what they'd be like in the modern game.
Moreover, I think personal responsibility comes into it. Look at how unfit Rooney was every offseason when he was playing for the biggest club in world football, during their most successful period. How many players have been caught with a cigarette in their mouth in public? Lord knows what they do behind closed doors. Messi famously isn't the most strict with his diet. Yet, Rooney was pretty amazing for a while there.
You're talking about circa 1% change though. If footballers are running 1% faster or 1% more, these are not the sort of changes that will make a huge difference to the game, is all I'm saying. To pontificate that the Liverpool team now would smash the Liverpool dominating team of the 70s or Klitschko with his more modern training methods would knockout Ali in the first round is all too easy. I still think the invincibles team would take some beating, even today.
Christ, we haven’t moved on that much from 2004! Are you taking the piss? ‘Even today!’, he saysI still think the invincibles team would take some beating, even today.
^ the same guy who was saying current Liverpool was better ladies and gentleman.
Christ, we haven’t moved on that much from 2004! Are you taking the piss? ‘Even today!’, he says
We would have only needed to turn it on for 20 minutes and the game would be done. This is the weakest era since the PL began.
2004 the oligarchs hadn't yet impacted on the EPL assembling the richest teams in the world. Chelsea was about to outspend Arsenal by a factor of 10 and City create the first £1bn 25 man squad. These teams were minnows when the invincibles won the league.Christ, we haven’t moved on that much from 2004! Are you taking the piss? ‘Even today!’, he says
There's just a bigger gap between the have's and have nots, so 100 points is more achievable.Does anyone think that teams nowadays chase scoring records and points records more than teams in the past?
I felt Ferguson teams used to take their foot off the gas completely when the league was won. Same for us during Wenger's first period.
Now I feel like teams are going hell for leather to get 100+ points. Or has the quality of the league dropped that much?
Better than the invincibles? You’re probably misquoting me again.^ the same guy who was saying current Liverpool was better ladies and gentleman.
They are definitely more aware than they were years ago. Mainstream and social media get on the ‘new invincibles’ talk and start the comparisons with ours as soon as someone goes unbeaten in 10 games ffs. I remember talkSPORT having a phone in poll on whether that dogshit Man Utd side that last won the league were better than the invincibles when after they’d hoofed their way to 20 odd unbeatenDoes anyone think that teams nowadays chase scoring records and points records more than teams in the past?
I felt Ferguson teams used to take their foot off the gas completely when the league was won. Same for us during Wenger's first period.
Now I feel like teams are going hell for leather to get 100+ points. Or has the quality of the league dropped that much?
What? Nothing dubious about the good old DDR sporting machine. All doping totally above board!The Discus and Javelin, both by East Germans, which given their record with doping makes their world records highly dubious.
You see this?You know when I was growing up Brazil had Ronaldo, Romario, Rivaldo, Juninho, Denilson, Edmundo etc, you look at Brazil now, after Neymar you’ll have a generation of beep test merchants and guys like Oscar, Willian, Fabinho etc, guys who can run all day and play multiple positions etc.
Football is dead when man like Mesut are pushed out.