Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Ronaldo. What can you say? Prolific.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te I wouldn't miss Mississippi. I'll throw in Favre if FIFA agrees to ban John Harkes.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te valencia were down to 10 men. lots of cards in that match. 8 yellows and 1 red.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te 53 goals and 13 assists in 56 matches in Madrid. I'd take Ronaldo over Messi any day of the week.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Top analysis. To which you can add a clean brand environment, which Nike and co will love.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Nevermind the fact that in this global environment, who can rule out a "Halliburton-esque" amount of infrastructure and stadium building and security details that will have to be acquired. None of that is coming out of FIFA or the EXCO's pockets. The snake is eating it's tail.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te +1. That was good, even by your standards Terp.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Messi's numbers are just as good. Though, I do think Ronaldo and Messi are a lot closer than most people seen to think. Ronaldo is dominant in the air, one of the fastest players in the world, while being big and strong, and skilled in basically every way. In terms of improvement from what he was at the start of his senior career, he has refined and perfected virtually every aspect of his game. Messi is incredibly lucky to play with Xavi. Messi without Xavi for Argentina often looks like a much less dominant player.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Something has ALWAYS bugged me about Messi, as I'm sure you've seen me spout off about. He's class for sure, but if you're going to criticize Ronaldo for his theatrics you have to hang Messi for them. When Ronaldo found directness, sometime around October of 2006, he became unplayable. Their styles are completely different, but I think in mentality you can compare him to Drogba. If they're up for it you can't stop them, but they're both prone to completely losing the plot mentally. Also, don't forget Ronaldo's set piece prowess. It's pretty incredible that he was able to just kinda "develop" that.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Because of his overall personality, he doesn't really get any credit for what must have been really hard work to improve so much of his game. I don't really feel sympathy for him, though. He 1) is highly compensated for his hard work, and 2) constantly gives you new reasons to dislike him. And yes, Messi is also a diver, but he is more tolerable to me because he doesn't seem like an absolute jerk 100% of the time. Most of the time, he just goes about his game in a pretty subdued way. He dives when he gets the chance and will try to get someone sent off too, but honestly, that is a pretty common thing among South American players. I am not from there, obviously, but it seems that they don't really consider it a moral wrong so much as clever gamesmanship.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te people are equating hosting the world cup to solving the cure for cancer. who really gives a ********?
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te fair enough, and a damn good analysis also, Messi has passed Cronaldo... not worth comparing the two anymore... waste of time and all that
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Who would you rather have on Arsenal?
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Messi because he is the best player in the world remember last year when Arshavin was failing at CF, Messi is now Barca's CF and is amazing... we have the passers and creators, so he can just go in and finish or play that final ball
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te have you ever seen Ronaldo with Portugal? Underwhelming defined.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te in fairness, so is Messi with Argentina
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te that was the point of my post. he said that Messi wouldn't be as good without Xavi and then mentioned his Argentina form. Ronaldo falls into the same category.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te oh yeah, thats very true
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Interesting article from the Guardian on the horse trading going on behind the scenes in Zurich. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/04/world-cup-2018-how-england-bid-failed
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te 20 assists
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te That works a little bit better in Russia than it does in Qatar - al-Jazeera's based there, and most of the governments in the government hate al-Jazeera for a reason. That said, given that FIFA just gave the World Cup to an Arab country, I think al-Jazeera keeps the gloves on.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te al-jazeera are mostly ex- bbc arabic television people.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te Tough one. Fake Ronaldo (because he isn't Brazilian) irks me, but maybe that is because it is because of seeing him play in the Prem so much. Messi irks me, but given that he plays for Barca, that is a reason enough. I would give the nod to Messi based on what I observed in the 2008 Champions League final. It seemed like Messi was a better team player where Christino seemed like he was trying to win it all on his own. Several times he would have team mates open who had a better chance than him, but yet he kept the ball and wasted chances. Could just be how fluid Barca was, but that is why Messi gets the nod. As for comparing them on national team level, it could be that egos aren't put to the side. I would dare to say that is why England doesn't do so well in tournaments.
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te ronaldo is more suitable for the premiership messi is more injury prone and not as strong i have no doubt he would do well but ronaldo would be a better prem player i rate messi slightly higher overall, but both are incredible
Re: No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless FIFA may become, Spurs will still be s*** -Other Te It is a bit different, because when Ronaldo plays with Portugal, he has much less talent around him. As well, Ronaldo's national team slump coincided with a period where Portugal became very defensive and essentially left him alone to attack. Messi, by comparison, plays alongside a bunch of other top quality players for Argentina in an expansive, attacking style, yet he doesn't look himself.