Recent content by Dansk

I can't consider anyone the greatest manager of all time if they've never had to face any sort of adversity. As long as Pep hasn't managed (and succeeded with) a smaller club that has to overcome the odds, it's factually impossible to call him the greatest when other managers have done that and...

The pandemic was met with wildly different reactions from clubs, which is why that season very much deserves an asterisk. Some clubs took huge precautions because the severity of COVID was relatively unknown. Others didn't and were able to capitalize on the fact that many clubs were holding...

It's a lot like O.J. Simpson. He was acquitted, but it was so abundantly obvious that he was guilty that nobody in their right mind thought otherwise. Same goes for City. We've all seen the absurd spending and how their reported revenues don't remotely add up to the level of support the club has...

Given how poorly Barcelona have done, even taking the red card into account, I'm not convinced they would have advanced regardless. They aren't playing like a team that would have made it if they had been 11. They've been playing like they were down to 9.

Well done Dortmund. They came back impressively.

Hard to find much joy in it when the beneficiary is PSG.

Conceding twice in fifteen minutes after going down a man. Barcelona aren't exactly presenting a defensive masterclass. Scoring with 10 men is very hard, but defending isn't so bad because you can put every player in defense while the 11-man team can't just attack with everyone or they risk an...

PSG really need to score two goals regardless, otherwise it goes to penalties in the event of a 1-2. They won't be happy with a coinflip after being a man up for 60 minutes + extra time.

Hate that this is part of the sport. It tarnishes football so much. It's technically a foul, and since he's the last man, that technically makes it a red card; but he barely touches him and the PSG player just flings himself to the ground. The fact that this can very likely determine the tie and...

The context does matter when we're talking about how much these achievements say about a manager's abilities, though; and then it has to be pointed out that they won the CL with a final against Tottenham of all clubs, and even got an absolute freak lottery penalty in the first seconds of the...

The win is even sweeter in light of the fact that we were up against the full force of Liverpool's unrealistic luck and usual 12th man.

It's getting to the point of genuine disgust how lucky Liverpool are, and have been for an absurdly long time.

I remember when he went to Real Madrid at like 15, got loaned out repeatedly and never really played for them, and everyone supposed he had squandered his potential by not going to Ajax or Dortmund or someplace like that. The general consensus was that he could clearly have become something if...

Never heard of him before.

Well, he was absolutely horrendous for the first half of the season and almost single-handedly got us knocked out of the CL, but it's great that he's finding his form and doing better. I think he can do fine here, so long as his utterly disastrous start is well behind him and not something we...