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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT9|
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gutter_trash
Banned
Glorious day!
PS4 launch,
Portugal wins,
France lost
PS4 launch,
Portugal wins,
France lost
Neither are on the pitch you mango. Please blame the right sided Liverpool and Chelsea players tho
Seriously what the fuck is Cahill doing
He had Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz in his back pocket.
FootballFan
Member
This season? Ok, whatever, last season? Nope.
The_Hitcher89
Member
I know bro, but still. They started, its their fault. And Lampard's. And Hodgson's. Mainly Milner's though. But not Glen's.
KidA Seven
Member
Ronaldo was invisible the whole match (Ibra too) and then comes up with the goal. :lol
FootballFan
Member
He has stepped it up massively this season for Barca and Chile. I was praying to sell him last season lol.
I think he has like 11 goals in his last 9 games for Barca/Chile.
Aside from a header that Ramsey messed up Rvp was also silent against him.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
tuesday will be fun for england lol.
Cool. This secures Messi's win, which should make the whole event even more laughably embarrassing for Fifa.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
i just realized that alexis and sanchez is the same person.
Aye, but Van Persie is quiet in most games.
Mino today Great works of art are not sold at auction, as they are already in the hands of collectors and theyll keep hold of them unless there is the desire to sell."
there's very little difference between messi and ronaldo at this point--they're both very prolific goal scorers. messi used to have his magnificent dribbles, but in the past year or so, he's become more of a direct player like ronaldo. i suppose ronaldo's stats are more impressive due the the fact that a] he's playing on the wing rather than in the middle, and b] the team he's playing in is less consistent.
LFMartins86
Member
Fuck Portugal winning, fuck Ukraine winning.
This is the true story of the day.
This is the true story of the day.
Actually its a very strong team. And the Dechams tactic for this games has actually impressed me a lot, he put a lot of effort to shut down our magnificient wingers, and it worked. But in turn we got a bit more space in the middle, which our CMs desperatly needed. This all resulted in a more or less stalemate where everyone was looking for errors to get some chances. normally ukraine loses such battles against big teams due to lower class of attacking players, but today God was with us.
... what? "Good, even great, not the best in the world"
He's the second best in the world against a roided phenomenon
what else does he have to do :lol. I'll tell you what's fucking disrespectful, the head of FIFA coming out and saying the things he did.
Fuck Portugal winning, fuck Ukraine winning.
This is the true story of the day.
that's adorable. what's the story behind it?
Sviatoslav
Member
One of the many reasons why he's not the best in the world.
FootballFan
Member
lol cr fans so angry and always pretend they don't care about these awards, all these conspiracies make it just that much funnier.
You should all be happy Ronaldo does well enough to even get mentioned in Messi's era. Instead all you do is complain he doesn't win ballon d'ors.
Ribery will win this one because Messi was injured in the most important stages last season and because again this season he got injured. Before his injury this season he had more goals/assists than ronaldo or ribery, and he wasn't 3rd in a 2 team league, he was 1st.
Injuries are the only thing that can stop GOAT from doing his thing. Injuries and Chelsea.
pulga
Banned
All I'm gonna say is if Messi won it over Sneijder back in 2010, no reason why Cristiano shouldn't win it this year.
He's been the best player in 2013, it's not even up for discussion. Ribery is good, but not consistently good like Ronaldo.
He's been the best player in 2013, it's not even up for discussion. Ribery is good, but not consistently good like Ronaldo.
Muller should've been Bayern's contender.
Joking on the roids, baby. But Messi is a phenomenon. The best I think I'll ever see. And Ronaldo has pretty much matched him step for step over the last few years. What else does he need to do to be deemed worthy of winning it? 'Good, great, not the best'? He's second behind a legit freak of nature. That's fucking great for him. He's been better than Ribery for sure, in a weaker team.
He probably should show up, yeah. But I can't blame him when the head of the organisation in charge of the award is already dissing him.
Kid that beat leukemia getting a Make-A-Wish by turning San Fran into Gotham. It's a fucking gorgeous story. It's in Off-Topic. Really made me smile.
LFMartins86
Member
FootballFan
Member
A five year old beats leukemia and gives one wish to the make a wish foundation: to be batman for the day.
San Francisco then turns into Gotham City for the day, with the kid stopping The Riddler at a bank etc. Even the San Francisco chronicle change it's name to the Gotham City Chronicle on it's front page :lol.
The San Fran DA has even filed charges against the Riddler.
They're pulling all the stops on this one.
pulga
Banned
Not how it works. Best player individually, team success shouldn't factor in.
Or at least that's what I've learned the last couple of years.
See for me, this is the same argument as "Messi isn't the best because he hasn't done it at the World Cup". It's a year long award, not who turned up in some big games. Can that qualify as a sign of greatness? Sure. But that's not the award, that's why you have Best Player of the CL and best player of the WC awards.
I'm not especially arguing Ronaldo should win the Ballon d'Or. But Messi missed a pen against Chelsea in the semis in 2012. Didn't even win the league that year. Ronaldo was better in the Clasicos.
Was he the best player for the year 2012? Yes.
It's ridiculous extrapolating his impact on one or two games in order to sum up his performances across the entire calendar year, when the Ballon d'Or is - theoretically anyway - an award based on a player's performances from January to December.
Sure, Messi is roided up, but so is Cristina.
Quintuple is coming
Ribery
I like this one more
pulga
Banned
You actually believe Ribery is a better player than Ronaldo?
Please take your blinders off.
Ronaldo got himself sent off in the cup final against Atletico as well.
Sviatoslav
Member
Don't worry, I'm sure Spurs will still manage to score their 0-1 goals a game somehow.
this is a bad argument. those one or two games just happen to be the one or two most important games of the season. of course they should be weighed more heavily. the ballon d'or should've gone to either Pirlo or Drogba in 2012. you know it's true.
also Sneijder was robbed
Nah, he isn't, obviously.
But he had a better year, winning everything and playing a keyrole in their big games.
Sure, Ronaldo scored more, he can take the Golden Boot.
Hear hear
Which he did do in 2012 when it mattered most to them; the winner at the Nou Camp was a fucking huge goal for him and the team. Basically won them the league.
Fernando Torres scored the deciding goal in the semi finals against Barcelona whereas Ronaldo did nothing against Bayern.
Did Torres have a better year?
Come on man. No. Your argument is basically ridding 49 games a player manages in a calendar year for one, and then arguing that's enough to decide a year long award on.
Might as well say Ben Watson scored the winner in the FA Cup final, he turned up, Ronaldo didn't, Watson > Ronaldo. I might be being disingenuous, fuck it. You can't argue a year long award should be judged on one or two games. Every game is important. Every game. If you don't classify every game as important, then you don't win shit.
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