Football myths

toon h wrote:there is a myth usually perpetuated by the younger members of the board, that Zidane was better than Platini. I have no doubt that the people stating that have not seen Platini play when he did.

toon h wrote:there is a myth usually perpetuated by the younger members of the board, that Zidane was better than Platini. I have no doubt that the people stating that have not seen Platini play when he did.

Messiah wrote:

toon h wrote:there is a myth usually perpetuated by the younger members of the board, that Zidane was better than Platini. I have no doubt that the people stating that have not seen Platini play when he did.

couldn't agree more, i rate zidane very highly but i think he is worship to much on this broad.

Parks Lives wrote:

Messiah wrote:

toon h wrote:there is a myth usually perpetuated by the younger members of the board, that Zidane was better than Platini. I have no doubt that the people stating that have not seen Platini play when he did.

couldn't agree more, i rate zidane very highly but i think he is worship to much on this broad.

You watched Platini in his prime, Messiah?

Parks Lives wrote:

Messiah wrote:

toon h wrote:there is a myth usually perpetuated by the younger members of the board, that Zidane was better than Platini. I have no doubt that the people stating that have not seen Platini play when he did.

couldn't agree more, i rate zidane very highly but i think he is worship to much on this broad.

You watched Platini in his prime, Messiah?

bluenine wrote:I am sick of the myth that Italians are always defensive and "boring". People forget that interesting/boring are a matter of personal taste, and Italian teams are as attacking as most european counterparts. People keep associating "tactically astute" with "Cattenaccio" with "totally defensive" - when in reality, these 3 things are very different from each other, and don't always co-exist.

waft the hapless youth wrote:Ranaldinho is better than Kaka'

Parks Lives wrote:That Scholes was crap in the 3 years he wasn't scoring for England.

Messiah wrote:

waft the hapless youth wrote:Ranaldinho is better than Kaka'

You can't say certain things on here that be 1 on them.

borocooper wrote:

Messiah wrote:

waft the hapless youth wrote:Ranaldinho is better than Kaka'

You can't say certain things on here that be 1 on them.

all that sentence was missing was an "ARRRGH!!!" and you would have been in full on pirate mode.

borocooper wrote:The myth Ashely Cole is poor at the back and better going forward annoys me.

Parks Lives wrote:That Scholes was crap in the 3 years he wasn't scoring for England.

Obispo wrote:
Luis Garcia is inconsistent.

bluenine wrote:I am sick of the myth that Italians are always defensive and "boring". People forget that interesting/boring are a matter of personal taste, and Italian teams are as attacking as most european counterparts. People keep associating "tactically astute" with "Cattenaccio" with "totally defensive" - when in reality, these 3 things are very different from each other, and don't always co-exist.

waft the hapless youth wrote:What are everyones most disliked football myths, things that alot of people agree to but just aren't true.

I don't like this myth that arsenal play attractive football, they just pass the ball in triangles goin nowhere for as long as possible.

In order to play beautiful football you need artists, only a handful are left in the game. Okay arsenal had bergkamp until this season but he didn't play much over the last couple of years, but now, while they have technically good players like rosicky, hleb, van persie they don't have an artist. Some of the most tedious matches I've had to endure have been involving arsenal. In the Juve-arsenal game (which incidentally, are two of the worst Juve performances I've seen) last season they had 10 men behind the ball for pretty much all of the tie. Any team that doesn't know how to get a result when playing arsenal, must be useless, or have a terrible manager. Arsenal Wenger buys loads of these big, powerful, fast clones, atheletes not footballers.

Another myth I hate, is the one that henry is one of the best players in the world. Effective yes (in home games at least), but best? Never. I concede this is probably just a matter of personal taste.

In my experience, and the majority of my mates are gunners, it is impossible to have a serious talk with an arsenal fan about football. To a man, they are rose tinted spectacle wearing idiots.

110% wrote:Gary Neville is good.


Just because he is the best that England have got, doesn't make him good. It just means you have got very bad players at right back.

waft the hapless youth wrote:What are everyones most disliked football myths, things that alot of people agree to but just aren't true.

I don't like this myth that arsenal play attractive football, they just pass the ball in triangles goin nowhere for as long as possible.

In order to play beautiful football you need artists, only a handful are left in the game. Okay arsenal had bergkamp until this season but he didn't play much over the last couple of years, but now, while they have technically good players like rosicky, hleb, van persie they don't have an artist. Some of the most tedious matches I've had to endure have been involving arsenal. In the Juve-arsenal game (which incidentally, are two of the worst Juve performances I've seen) last season they had 10 men behind the ball for pretty much all of the tie. Any team that doesn't know how to get a result when playing arsenal, must be useless, or have a terrible manager. Arsenal Wenger buys loads of these big, powerful, fast clones, atheletes not footballers.

Another myth I hate, is the one that henry is one of the best players in the world. Effective yes (in home games at least), but best? Never. I concede this is probably just a matter of personal taste.

In my experience, and the majority of my mates are gunners, it is impossible to have a serious talk with an arsenal fan about football. To a man, they are rose tinted spectacle wearing idiots.