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One of my favourite players of the 21st century. The best player in that Dutch team despite having other top players like Sneijder and Van Persie. How would you rate him amongst the best wingers of all time? Not as good as Best, Garrincha, Cristiano Ronaldo etc, but he's gotta be pretty high.

Arsenal, Barca, Bayern. He's been talking to more people than James McAvoy in Split.

It should be competitive. Inversely proportional in competitiveness to the game directly preceding it, ha.

Yeah, it's like Joseph Merrick hoping he can score Margot Robbie. It's a fantasy.

Cole and Sheringham hated each other at Man United too, yet co-existed and won the treble (admittedly the latter was more of a sub). There's plenty examples of team mates not getting on but playing well together on the park. I haven't made my mind up on Williams. Not convinced, but his...

thanks for the informative post there.

It's United. they will fuck it up. We hear it every season about them. I also don't think having fewer games will be the benefit you think it will because even when they had time off this season they struggled. They are simply coached awfully and a few extra days on the training pitch won't help...

Kvara has the best all-round game outside of stats out of all them, imo. Rashford the worst.

Read that they were offering tickets for tonight's game to students in Miami, something like $3.50 per ticket and you can get 5 tickets. They're paying so much to the teams when not selling tickets at all or extremely cheaply. Like you said, 'other' money sources.

Like I said to soul earlier, CONMEBOL plays a 90 game programme (18 games per team) to eliminate 3 of 10 teams. Seems overkill from the sporting POV. He made good counter points, but still.

They normally wait several editions before expanding their tournaments (World Cup previous expansion was 1998). They wanna expand this after one go of the current expansion. I understand why financially, but still. They're out of control. Where will it end? FIFA and UEFA tournaments are like...

Thankfully I can watch it (legally) for free as Dazn is showing it for free. If I had to pay like £30 for the month or something I would just watch it on IPTV.

No idea how much the players are making. Says a lot if the clubs are making a fortune but the players not much (relatively speaking). As a football fan I will watch it as there's no other football on for me as I am not watching under 21 Euro. I am also very intrigued to see if it turns out...

European teams want the money but likely can't be arsed with the games. Obviously the UCL is far more prestigious than Copa Libertadores and other continental Champions Leagues so this matters less to European teams. Winning the CWC would be more prestigious than continental trophies for the...

True, Brazil and Argentina are really the only other contenders but they are massive contenders (or Brazil were before they declined, but they can still realistically win it). I still think the four Brazilian teams and River and Boca can do ok. We might see some surprise packages from Africa...

True, but int. level is really just Europe plus Brazil and Argentina who are real contenders for the World Cup. But I definitely agree there's fewer poor teams in World Cups than there are likely to be in this. Or were before it became 48 teams.

Yeah I made that point in the poll thread. It doesn't seem to carry much prestige now and is more about the prize money. But retroactively in the coming decades it could be seen as a real coup to be the first team ever to win it in its expanded format. Kinda like Uruguay are always in history...

@soul24rage Think I will try to stay up tonight man. Been a long time since I watched Messi live. I can always go to bed at 3 or 4 am and be up for noon, so not like it will drastically affect my sleep.

Thanks for the info. I guessed he was being a bit biased but still expected it to be a very good place to live compared to plenty places in USA.

I take it you're in or around New Jersey then. I have an American friend from there, and he says it's the best state in the country for some reasons. Not sure if he's biased or it's actually true. Thoughts? Apparently it is one of the safest states, which I think is a big part of his...