Recent content by Cassanata99

It's not that uncommon for people from the same race/ethnicity to hurl racially based insults at each other - not because of any perceived self-racism, but because they know such slurs will be particularly hurtful to the individual. You see it in black American community where they'll call each...

I don't know if you guys are being intentionally obtuse, but he's referring to himself here and how he was at the top of the footballing mountain (or at least believed himself to be, justifiably, considering what he has achieved). He struggled to 'see what was below' in the sense that he...

The ball for the West Ham goal was most likely still in play. Do you guys not remember the world cup match between Japan and Spain? Similar thing happened. The entirety of the ball has to be over the line when viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. VAR probably had this angle to work with when...

I mean, you're completely discounting the fact that football is a physical game too. The fact that he was given the hormones to aid his development in the first place, is pretty indicative of the importance it held for the future of his career in order for Barcelona to agree to pay for the...

Not everyone. It's not an objective title, despite what everyone in here wants to believe. Being labelled the GOAT is a matter of opinion. That's why the debate rages on and will continue to rage on.

Why not? It's practically guaranteed in sports that someone will come later who will either match or exceed those who have come before. It always happens.

The game has changed but it's also become a lot easier for attacking players to flourish now and get more goals and assists. Players are protected more these days. It's no coincidence that in the last 15 years we've started to see players regularly get close to 40+ goals a season for large...

We will definitely see another player who matches the quality of Messi, just as Messi matched Maradona, and Maradona matched Pele. That's the great thing about sport - it goes on and continues to evolve. There's plenty of talent out there.

No he didn't. He won a final and lost a final.

No I don't think he will. Maradona was a much bigger personality. The Argentinians revere him because he represented the working class. I don't think they will ever have that same connection with Messi. They'll love him, but not to same degree.

The reason isn't so much that the immigrants who came to France were inherently better at football or from great footballing countries, it's that France has historically not been that enamoured with football. They were always more of a rugby nation. It isn't until the 80's, when 1st and 2nd...

The incessant need to bring him up in a thread that has nothing to do with him. He's no longer a United problem yet everyone here can't get over their massive hate-boner for him. It's just weird. It's like this forums obsession with Lukaku when he left.

You guys really need to get over it. Obsessed to say the least

Yeah he has a right to go for the ball, BUT he has to win the ball or at least get some contact on it. Keeper did neither and, instead, clattered Alvarez. It's a foul and a penalty.

I'm response to the last tweet by Zack Lowy: Portugal won Euro 2016 without Ronaldo on the pitch but they hardly blew France away. They defended for their lives and eventually scored a very lucky goal with a speculative shot miles outside the area. Not really indicative of how great they could...