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If Les Ferdinand were born in 1991, he'd currently be a super-sub for Blackpool

 

Thanks

 

This DIY video's the bees knees

 

At my desk reading and taking notes and then the spectre of June 1st pops into my head, constantly.

 

Is your boss a Spurs fan?

 

I am my own boss now

 

Think I might legit self-harm if Liverpool lose to Spurs.

 

Just sang 'Oliver's Army' in the pub kareoke - Ah fucking rocked.

 

I didn't say it was better. I said it was more competitive, with a far lesser concentration of talent among a handful of clubs.

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Good scouse hero.

 

Yeah I know...........when United won their first title in years, Arsenal had been champs, Liverpool before that, and Villa finished 2nd that year. I think Norwich were threatening. Then came Blackburn and Newcastle in the mid 1990's and then by the late 1990's it very much had settled into a normative top 4, so to speak.

 

Nope.

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Sheffield Wednesday, Forest, Coventry City........these were TEAMS back in the day. In fact Liverpool signed Collywobbles from Forest and his debut goal was scored vs Wednesday. Those sides are barely around anymore.

Here's a wee factoid:

"Collymore had a relationship with Ulrika Jonsson which ended after he punched her in The Auld Alliance bar in Paris on 9 June 1998 on the eve of the Scotland v Brazil opening football match at the 1998 FIFA World Cup"

 

In fairness, Liverpool today are no Trelleborgs, I will grant you that.

 

A for effort.

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Houghton-Beardsley-Barnes-Rush-Aldridge were as good as Mane-Firmino-Salah-Origi-Wijnaldum

 

In fact..........Liverpools 1 touch passing in the late 1980's was better than todays.......todays guys can run and move faster, but the touch-and-go was better in the old days.

 

We've done the same dance to death on this one and there isn't much more to add. In the same way that McDogg and the venerable Hut will never accept that the evidence of their own eyes show them that modern boxing sorts hold a candle to the legends of yesteryear (rightly, I'd add on the whole), no-one can convince me that the evidence of my own eyes tells me that Deli Ali is a better footballer than Teddy Sheringham, or that Alan Shearer or Robbie Fowler were no Harry Kane, or that Kyle Walker is a better fullback than Stuart Pearce, or that Vincent Kompany is better than Paulo Maldini.

They just aren't.

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Modern players are fitter, and much better conditioned. That's an indisputable fact. But you can train fitness. That means fuck all.

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'Better than Brazillians'.

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I agree with you. It's entirely possible that the tiny minnow teams back in the day were a lot better than todays versions because the talent just gets wicked away today so much faster.

There was a time when teams like Galatasary, Gotenburg, Malmo {remember them!} were much much better and a real threat.

In 1990, Steau were a good team. Won it in 1986.

Napoli too.

I mean Liverpool played teams like St Etienne, Hamburg, Munchen Gladbach in Europe.

 

Banned by Youtube, who don't want the World to know.

 

That Liverpool side would have destroyed the Brazil of 1986, who laboured with Northern Ireland and Algeria at the World Cup before finally crashing out to France on Penalties.

 

You need a browser with a VPN mate. Fuck IP tracking.

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I will speak to Petre.

 

The best example I can give is the Monaco that knocked NUFC out of the UEFA Cup in 1997. Monaco were a nothing team, no-one had heard shit about them and that NUFC team had Ferdinand, Beardsley, Shearer, Asprilla, Ginola etc. They absolutely howked us 4-0 on aggregate. That side had Henry, Benarbia, Scifo, Petit, Sonny Anderson...and that was a UEFA Cup tie.

The talent disperal was so much wider back then. Even shit teams like Southampton had a Matt Le Tisser in their ranks.

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