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Interesting to have someone with a military intelligence background essentially say the quiet part out loud about cold war military-industrial complex bullshit and incompetence. Old news of course, but bleakly depressing that we're getting a second go around with China while the climate dies...

I watched it briefly when Leonid Slutsky managed Hull, hoping for an entertaining trainwreck there. mostly extended highlight stuff, but also a handful of games. At that time (2017) most of what i saw, outside of the top few in-form teams looked roughly bottom half of the table RPL standard...

Yeah, Guardiola seems to get put down often as a player in recent years. He was excellent talent in his younger years, i watched the Barca vs United 4-0 game quite recently and he dominated Ince and Keane. Probably the injuries and later Serie A doping didn't help his reputation, just when he...

Blokhin isn't ideally suited to be a main goalscorer imo. During his prime he was prolific in the generic 1 in 2 sense, which was great considering how much he offered outside of the box (not easy in low scoring defensive soviet league), but that rate was because of his great movement, workrate...

I was reading an old thread on another football forum earlier about bundesliga average kicker ratings for 60s-80s and noticed Jusufi was high in the fullbacks section (i'd forgotten he even played in Germany). Seems like most of the Yugoslav players that moved to W.Germany in 60s/70s did well...

He's only played a few games, so his effort in training must be really bad for the manager to talk like this. My guess is he's going to find out the hard way he's not the sort of talent that can just go down to a lower level pro-league and barely make any effort. Too many leagues are at a high...

I'm not one that thinks there is huge difference in quality between the top four leagues, some yeah, but i think Italian football is still at a high enough level to become a great player there, but as for Napoli being the best place...I'm not sure, maybe wait and see how things are at the end of...

That's a great list Dunk, can't argue with most of those names. Trying to think of a few additions and slight changes i would make. Nedved and Beckham i wouldn't rate as highly purely for natural talent, though i'd not argue against them being in a top five overall positional list. I don't...

Djalminha is who i always most associated Ronaldinho with, he was a upgraded, more winger-ish, less organisational version. Very similar skills and vision, with the main difference being Ronaldinho was also fast and explosive, while Djalminha had a more typical slightly above average speed and...

I've not watched as many full napoli games this season, but from what i've seen i'd agree with Lay. Overall, i'd say in terms of it being a difficult follow-up season to a breakout one, it could be a lot worse. Being from a small country that loves football and has a solid history, but that...

Not a particularly good performance, but i don't think anonymous is a good description as to me that implies a barely involved effort where the player hides from their responsibilities. He worked hard, didn't hide from duels and covered a lot of ground in the Greek half. They had to put a lot of...

I see Chilavert weighed in a few days ago with his famed intellect. "Bread and Circus, the first one to insult and attack rivals is him. Don't be a faggot, football is for men."

Has there been any recent update on the status of the tunnel network? Considering how big a deal was made of it by the Israeli government as being the key to defeating Hamas and one of the big reasons there would likely be "unavoidable collateral damage," I would have thought that the IDF would...

Bosnia just aren't a good team recently, they've been making recent playoffs because of the expanded new rules. The last time they were a dangerous team was probably about 8 to 10 years ago now when Dzeko, Misimovic, Ibisevic, Pjanic were all in their prime. Why would anyone compare them to...

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