This is correct. And where Facundo comes from, they are taught how to do this at a young age. It's absolutely conning the defender rather than the ref. It's one of the reasons why we've been so far behind in international football for so long, because English players aren't taught this at a...
Because it's the hardest position to play, and they are the hardest ones to find. How many football fans claim their team is 'just a 20-goal a season striker short of being a great side'? 99% of football clubs on the planet are! Decent strikers are such an incredibly rare breed.
Agreed. But strikers are different sometimes. He's been struggling with the lack of service with no Mitoma / Andingra. If he was playing up front for Arsenal that wouldn't be an issue. I would wager he would have scored more goals for them this year than he has for us.
I'm not convinced. Pressing the button means the end of Russia, and most people in it. He might think he is on the way out and would be prepared to go out with a bang, but the chain of command might not fancy taking themselves and all their friends and families with him.
Is Fati the new NSC scapegoat now?
I think he's done OK for us. Scored a few goals and looked a reasonable Premier League forward. Anyone expecting him to come here and tear up the Premier League would have surely asked themselves why Barcelona would be prepared to let him do that?
Let's see...
I don't think it's as simple as him 'deciding to press the button', is it?
I also think he has enough of Russia brainwashed that he could back down and sell it on the domestic stage that he had agreed his objectives.
Part of football is winning free-kicks. That's extremely different to diving.
The thing I don't understand, is that when somebody actually gets properly injured, the last thing they would do is roll around on the floor. If you get really hurt then you just lay still, because rolling around...
I don’t really understand the ‘rotating keepers doesn’t work’ argument. They play two games each and the games come so thick and fast that each keeper is playing regularly. I think the problem is the quality of the keepers, not the rotation.
If you compare the quality of our goalkeepers in...
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I said this at the time. If NATO had amassed troops all along the Ukraine border and said you put one boot across that border and you are at war with NATO, Putin would have only have had one option, and that was to not invade. But it would have been a hugely unpopular policy with the public...