Watch Maldini vs. Russia at Euro 1996 --- Maldini gets repeatedly destroyed by Russia's star player at the time; Andrei Kanchelskis. In fact,...
I will invariably sound like I have an agenda against Virgil van Dijk, but the reality is that... the most you can say about me... is that I have...
I would go with young Fabio Cannavaro in his Parma days. Carles Puyol at any point before he was 30 years old, was very dominant in 1-on-1...
That's an exceptionally difficult proposition, especially because almost everyone will mention forward players. From what I can remember... 1....
I will try to respond to the above with a more thorough response when I find the time, if I find the time --- I mean, not to sound passive...
Indeed, World Cup 1998 and World Cup 2006 are almost freakishly similar; both include stupid red card actions by Zidane, and both include a...
The Zidane vs. Spain performance at WC 2006 is deceptive to say the least; not an easy game for the uneducated and inexperienced eye, and...
No offense my friend, but that is a very bad argument and also a remarkably lazy argument to add. First of all, 2 out of the 10 teams are South...
I have mixed feelings about this World Cup, because, on one hand, I enjoyed some games a lot; for example, I enjoyed the France vs. England game a...
I think it comes down to the fact that Messi vs. Croatia was expected to be super competitive, and Messi offered one of the best individual...
Johan Cruyff was a visionary and obviously a highly intelligent man, but at the end of the day, he still was a product of his time, he still was a...
How much did Ronaldo grew, in terms of height, between 1994 and 1996? I have always suspected that Ronaldo's injuries, and even Ronaldo's...
Which kit do you mean there?
----------------------------------------------- Netherlands vs. England, 1977 Friendly. I always like the orange-and-white uniforms of...
@PuckVanHeel I am ignorant or perhaps very ignorant to the demographic structure of modern society, but ever since Putin's invasion of Ukraine,...
Revisiting this thread and my opening post, it almost blows my mind just how significantly my opinion has changed between November 17 and April...
With all due respect, honestly, how do you find the audacity to even begin to entertain the idea that Cristiano Ronaldo somehow was a bigger...
@PuckVanHeel @PDG1978 What I find is most impressive about Bergkamp, is how modern, practical, and yet poetic he was in terms of ball...
Football intelligence is such an impossibly difficult thing to even define in the most basic of terms, let alone measure in terms of an actual...
I would argue that the "little to no sympathy for the underdog" social construct or mentality is not exclusive to football, but rather established...
As you like to say old friend, it is better that people of that ilk spend a lot of their time cheating at sports, rather than creating wars and...
In my opinion, there will surely never be anything like a so-called "Standard or Universal Talent Predictor" simply because, at the end of the...
@poetgooner @PDG1978 @PuckVanHeel I just wanted to add a short commentary to the rather long-winded rant/argument quoted above. If...
For the sake of the argument, I will criticize myself here, just to correct what my actual point was. That must be one of the stupidest...
@poetgooner @PDG1978 @PuckVanHeel Valderrama vs. USA 1989. [MEDIA] That is a video that I never made available for public viewing, and for...