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More the latter. Where sport (particularly football) is concerned the national psyche is over-sentimental and predicated around not failing. It harks back either to a win so long ago it may as well have been a different sport, or losing but A: being hard done by (hand of God, Lampard’s disallowed goal, etc.) or B: in some horrendously painful way (missed penalties from poorly trained players who shouldn’t be taking penalties).
Our successes, 1966 aside, are trivial things like the 5-1 win over Germany. Rather than view football in an objective fashion the tabloid press fixate on these failures to the extent that young footballers grow up with them hanging over them. It’s clearly not just this, the FA are a bit of a joke and we have also made many, many shit managerial appointments, but I think it plays a part. Southgate has done a pretty good job and the last World Cup showed plenty of signs of improvement. It feels like parts of the media are starting to cast a more objective eye over the national team’s performances but English football still seems way behind Rugby and Cricket for how it’s run at a national level. IMHO, you know...
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Can't imagine the current GOATs coping with this
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Long may it continue!
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The following season.. The Butcher nearly decks Maradona in the fight above with a studs to the chest kick (i'm not going to attempt to spell the hardman defenders hardman's name).
Need to find the link to the nut stamp on another thug defender by the 5' 5'' genius.
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And just to fill the thread with 80's thugs.. The don
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvK2z6eUbAE&ab_channel=norbellini
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celtic are pish. fs
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No ice cream and jelly tonight
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The boots in the glass case suggests you might be onto something
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it really is that simple. and Klopp was bleating again after the match at the weekend. Tv companies buy rights to televise games and give players and managers unbelievable wealth. What Klopp could have detailed was how much of his wages he was willing to give back in order to get better treatment.
I quite like the fact that BT have stitched him up with an early Saturday kick off after a Wednesday CL game. -
Perfect. Fuck Colin.
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I don't want to bang on but this:
The Maradona of 1986 wasn’t an accident or a product of
anthropological forces. In Italy Maradona had worked relentlessly at
finding the right tempo to play, the best way to weaponise his skills
in a brutal defensive game. Italy taught him to play in high-speed
bursts, to spot the moment of weakness, to ration out his strength and
his capacity to take the blows. Mexico 86 was the reward.Is good and essentially summarises the Diego doc where he goes off and trains with his own coach to do this.
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I know this! (One benefit of living on the Wirral and occasionally going to see Tranmere play at Prenton Park).
They traditionally play on a Friday night to attract Liverpool and Everton fans to their games. This used to clash with the Rockford Files in the late 70s and the chairman at the time made some comment about the people of the Wirral preferring to stay at home and watch it rather than coming to support their local team. The PA announcer played it at the next home game and it stuck.
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You're suggesting the national mood affects the ability of players to kick a ball? Or the power structures around the game are affected by the nationalism? I'd go with the latter, but I'm not sure how that would allow the focus to remain on "beating our rivals" rather than "winning shit".