just from that era reminded me of another poor player in terms of output that had a couple of decent games
Douzi reached a high level for his age to be fair. It's just often the case that development stalls out. See Draxler
I think often for young people being great for your age is a handicapping experience. Life requires so a curious mixture of confidence and humility it's a wonder any becomes great at all
It doesn’t affect great talents only ones that can’t handle it, and his head was not right. Bad attitude and arrogance
In a recent podcast I heard Rory Smith say he had just gotten back from Sweden. Apparently it was to do this article. Which describes a partially idyllic Swedish first division (e.g. they voted out VAR), but one which is perhaps flirting with the kind of destructive ultras behavior we see in other countries (e.g. Ligue1). Anyway, I found it an interesting read… https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/19/world/europe/sweden-soccer.html
I'm going to be cynical and swing this back to money and conspiracy. He's wearing a shirt sponsored by an airline that doesn't exist.
Sheff Utd surely not happy with Ollie McBurnie who went into aerial challenges like he forgot that it's 2023 not 1983.
Patino wins the ball, overlaps a teammate and scores a late goal to earn a point for Swansea. CHARLIE PATINO IN STOPPAGE TIME FOR SWANSEA TO WIN A POINT. WHAT A FINISH. pic.twitter.com/EUx3fqmoAK— Will Balsam (@willbalsam) December 2, 2023 In addition, despite only coming on in the 71st minute, he led Swansea in Key Passes with 4.
Jesus United are dreadful. Rashford is surely jesting with his performances. He offers nothing off the ball and presently on it too. Fabians Schar is remarkable. How has he gone under the radar all these years?
Watching USWNT-China and noticing tat the referee(s) are wearing soccer bra with gps tracking gizmo in the back. I don't think I've noticed that before on a ref... is that a common thing now??
So if the goalkeeper goes down injured while the attacking team is in possession in the attacking 3rd, the ref can just stop the game for the injury?? Nick Pope just went down after a save, waving his hand and the game was stopped while the ManU winger was eyeing up a cross.
Not watching that game but that sounds wrong to me. But it would be consistent with how goalies are treated very differently than outfield players.
Pope's injury was a result of him diving - no contact with any other players. 99% of the time keepers act hurt to relieve pressure, but it looked like he may have something serious.
My question wasn't whether he was injured or not. He looked like he was. My question is whether it's the norm to stop the game when a keeper is injured and the attacking team has the ball trying to score. I never played soccer beyond 13 years old, and I haven't really seen that happen before at any level. It looked to me like nobody argued about it, which was very surprising to me.
My wife and I were talking about this earlier, and I was like "yeah, if Tottenham win tomorrow that'd be fine" and she gasped, asked me to explain why. "Well, they're not actually good, so I don't care if they win." City's gonna win by 5 against that suicidal high line anyway, so it's a moot point.