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Yeah that is a point too. That ESPN list had Phelps as number 1 athlete of 21st century and Messi in 3. Messi should be 1 because he's the greatest of the century so far (and maybe all time, Maradona and Pele debate, but definitely the century so far) in a sport which has insane levels of...

He'd have won by more if he was like Steve Martin in the film Roxanne

Their fans are complicit too. The top reds who constantly defend the underperforming players and act like they're as good as the City players, it's just the state of the club that fails them. They need to get real.

He's desperate to be on the level of Bolt. He's excellent but he's not Bolt. No one is.

Good idea. I think I will follow your lead. Fortunately for me my phone is rarely at my ear, and I don't use it that much really. That might help a bit. But it definitely sits in my living room and bedroom when I am in them. I only started using a mobile hone in about 2021 though. I was late...

Yeah all that is true. And funnily enough I just seen a post from you about Ter-Stegen's complacency. This is an example of complacency too - we all know that about mobile phones etc, yet we continue to use them anyway. Apathy and indifference is these corporations' best friend.

It's a pretty disgusting business model isn't it. I hope your nephew isn't too addicted, or that he has strict controls on how much he can spend from his parents (assuming he's a kid).

What amazes me about FIFA is that Ultimate Team is allowed to be a thing, given the sheer amount of microtransactions and how it feeds into kids' vulnerability and adults' gambling addictions. EA make (made as they don't make the games anymore do they?) an absolute fucking fortune by exploiting...

I think, unlike Ronaldo, she is the actual GOAT in her sport, so maybe her smugness is more able to be backed up, even though Don and I have acknowledged it isn't nice to see. I seen an interview with her when BBC went to her during an event at this Olympics and she seemed a fairly nice girl...

Physical and mental mate. Lol.

Especially when you are as old as us mate. The older you get the faster time goes. When you're a kid a year is a much bigger percentage of your life than when you are 75, so it passes infinitely slower. It is like a double whammy - getting older AND that time passing too fast.

I think they got lucky that season too, Underlying metrics said they should have finished about 6th, not 3rd, they got outplayed a lot. The whole thing about Man United is they get outplayed a lot and cannot play cohesive, possession football, but they tend to manage to score goals from nothing...

Have you noticed how they sneakily try to claim an affinity with Real Madrid, trying to bask in the glory of their 15 CLs as they only have three? Lol. I noticed this a year or two ago and @Givenchy has noticed this phenomenon too and mentioned it.

I hate Man United but it does get boring seeing City or any team win the title every season, yeah. It is what put me off watching Serie A and Bundesliga for a long time. It's kinda in opposition to the post I made in the Olympics thread, about second still being a big achievement. It is, but...

Don's probably referring to her GOAT necklace. To be fair I haven't followed the gymnastics but I got the feeling she was wearing it for a laugh and to take the piss rather than being serious about it. But could be totally wrong.

Yeah for sure mate, I really enjoyed it. It actually makes me question why I didn't follow them that closely in the past? I think the last one I watched this religiously was probably Atlanta 1996. It is weird because I do like plenty of the sports, but I have always seen myself as a 'football...

Yeah I hate the idea that you need to be arrogant to be good or the best, and that arrogance makes you perform better. I see that as bollocks. Arrogance is actually a very double-edged sword, and leads to hubris. It's CONFIDENCE that people need, and there's often a fine line between it and...

Yeah, in an ideal world they'd link up really well too. In fact we already saw that for Spain this summer. Those two and Yamal complement each other's games very well, in an ideal world where finances and other stuff weren't a consideration it would be good to see the three link up for Barca and...

That's a good thing you have brought up - I first noticed that a few years ago when Man United players got their losers medal in a cup competition (I believe it was when they lost that long shootout to Villarreal) and immediately took them off. Other teams have started doing it now. That's a...

Fati trolls but he is a good lad, some of the stuff he says is annoying but it doesn't come with malice unlike some other pro-Ronaldo posters in the past. I get him being thread banned though, because he does go OTT with it sometimes, but in general he is a good guy and in other threads he's...