You're not wrong on the first part - this is indeed true. As for the second, I'm fairly sure Lionel Messi has never saved a penalty, yet is considered a good player. Özil isn't in the side to win tackles, he's there to create chances - he is phenomenally good at this (even in his "dreadful" world cup he created more than anyone in the group stages). Perphaps in the "fair few of you who don't understand the game, of course" did't think that such a player is a luxury rather than a vitally important asset, it would be worth taking you seriously
*I may have been a bit annoyed by Bayern fans this morning
Last edited by Luis Anaconda; 07-23-2018 at 11:36 AM.
Can yopu think of a reason why, on an international level, English football has been shít since 1970, while Germany consistently win trophies and countries as small as Belgium and Holland regularly do far better than England?
Here's a tiny clue. Ever since the early 70s people have been saying that English football needs to get over its obsession with running around a lot at the expense of technique, and try to coach some skill into young players, yet nothing at all has changed.
Are you starting to understand?
It's lumpen, it's vulgar and it's ugly.
Football is The Greatest Game In The World because it is a mixture of strength, delicacy, power, skill, speed, athleticism, guile, intelligence and courage. All of these qualities go into making a player and making a spectacle.
You might enjoy a diet of Wimbledon against Stoke, but you shouldn't condemn the rest of us to it.
You said the 1970 World Cup was played at a snails pace
10 characters? Pile of cund.
And yet the English game is the most watched and most highly valued of all the domestic leagues in the world.
That doesn't make your assessment wrong, of course, but it is another reason why it hasn't become more refined. It's in nobody's financial interest that it should.
It's definitely the running about bit I enjoy most here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6UPlEzT1bU