You DON'T think he was a quality player? Or do you think he was a dime a dozen those days?
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Things that have "No Place in Football"
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You DON'T think he was a quality player? Or do you think he was a dime a dozen those days?
The Spanish
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I think you mean ten a penny.
The Large One
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It doesn't matter what example you're using - ANY example of it is shite.
What suffix should we use then? As it's painful in conversation to have to explain the whole situation to people who probably already know about it. And simply stupid, and a waste of time.
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no he was a "qualla" player,not dime a dozen, but there were lots of flair players then , not the 5 or 6 in every team that some people would have you believe, but one of the things you dont see nearly as much these days is players taking on and beating the opposition .
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I scored an absolute belter from about 30 yards out, against some foreign students, into a five a side goal, in Saltdean park, some time in the eighties. I have never forgotten it. That was ME, from MILES out, against EUROPEAN OPPOSITION. That does not make me as good as George Best.
OOoooo....good spot Spanish.
That has to be a wind-up though, I can't believe anyone would seriously, seriously even begin to compare Glen Johnston with George Best.
Xenophon's right, Best would be off the scale in today's game.
To look it at in reverse, can you imagine the likes of Ronaldo playing against Norman Hunter or Tommy Smith on a 70s mudbath? He'd be crying five minutes after kick-off/
Perhaps defenders are better now? Perhaps tactics and positional awareness are far more developed? Old school full backs were absolutely hilarious compared to the top full backs nowadays.
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Oh yes!
How many players today could score a goal like Frank's for Bolton? Five off the ground touches, the last a volley from over his own head on the turn. He WAS a rarity then, he would be a rarity today too - only a stronger, fitter one.
Ronaldo in the same position would have went down clutching his face as the cross came in from the left
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perhaps , who knows? we'll agree to disagree , i'll carry on arriving from 1-5 minutes late after kick off through squeezing in that one last pint, to have to get up for a piss 30 seconds after sitting down and you can carry on marvelling at the technical expertise on display at the likes of roots hall.
The Large One
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And therein lies the problem, and the mere fact you're not understanding it is the central point.
It doesn't need a suffix. The suffix '-gate' has no value and no meaning, aside from short-cutting people into believing that 'something scandalous' has happened.
People who don't know about it would need an explanation anyway, and those that do know about it don't need to be insulted by the use (or over-use) of a misused and meaningless phrase. The sooner you can describe something without resorting to this irrelevance, the sooner you will appreciate that any pain you may suffer by learning to describe something coherently and concisely will all soon diminish and was unnecessary in the first place.
If you really want a label, how about 'TLO's flounce' or 'TLO's comments on REMF'. How's that for being coherent and concise? 'BollockstoREMFgate' has absolutely no meaning whatsoever.
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just leave it for fucks sake.
That's the reason I always sit on the end of a row at Withdean. Three pints in the Station before kick-off, everything's ok at the turnstiles, but as soon as my arse hits the seat in Block G the seal is broken, and once it breaks, it stays broken.
The use of the phrase 'there was contact' when debating a penalty claim.
The use of the phrase "he got the ball" when discussing a foul.
Pundits/"experts" who have no clue on the rules (sorry "laws").
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Publius Ovidius
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Atilla's choice of music
The Spanish
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Naming your new stadium after famous foreign ones with evocative names, that just sound f***ing TOTALLY SHIT AND CNTISH when they are in the North East of England and it gets dark at 2pm during most of the football season.
