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He used to be captain. Then Wilmots made Hazard captain during one of Kompany's injuries for hazy reasons and it just kind of stayed that way. Hazard himself has said though that the likes of Kompany and Vertonghen are more of the real leaders in the team.

They do keep track of how much players run, so it's possible to objectively verify whether it's actually the case that Pep's Barca ran more than other teams. The UEFA produces technical reports about the CL, with tons of statistics. Here's the one for the 2010/11 season, where Barca won the cup...

Dave.

There was another wild two-footed lunge right before the first goal in the Brighton-West Ham game. Perhaps if the ref hadn't given advantage, from which a goal resulted, it would have been red but I doubt it. It's bizarre how English refereeing has been regressing lately when it comes to...

How are they more suited to cup than league campaigns?

Just finished watching the first half of the City-Spurs game. Dele Alli already should have been booked twice then, for challenges on Gundogan and Fernandinho. The guy just screams entitlement-complex to me and the ref's permissiveness isn't going to help. Dembele is an interesting case. I've...

With a bit of bad luck, all Spanish teams could be out for the next round. That'd be quite the turnaround.

England Panama Tunisia Belgium

That's not true. Belgians are human beings like everybody else.

I'm surprised that even those who mention German teams don't think of Schalke 04. Only 5 other European teams have bigger attendances than they do. You wouldn't think of Gelsenkirchen as a major city, but it's part of the Rhur area, which is one of Europe's largest conurbations.

Meunier didn't have a good game against Greece though, even when considering the whole team was poor. A lot of misplaced passes that should have been straightforward. That sublime cross did make up for a lot of it.

Alright, here's a link: http://www.expatica.com/nl/insider-views/Expat-Voices-Same-language-different-people_100310.html I suggest you read it. As for the sarcasm, I suppose I'm not all too patient with people who make an ignorant statement and go on to pretend it's a fact.

Are these ideas of yours based on anything other than "oh they speak the same language and they're next to eachother, they must have the same culture"? Not considering ofcourse that there's a good number of French-speakers in Belgium to begin with. Believe me, the sarcasm is warranted.

I think international footbal is somewhat for football what the Eurovision Contest is for music. You don't watch it for the quality of the performance but to entertain yourself with harmless flag-waving.

As been pointed out, the generation between those of Cruyjff and Van Basten wasn't so great either. No Bosman to put the blame on. Belgium's national side is far stronger than that of 10 or 20 years ago. Yet they've had Bosman just as much as The Netherlands. And I agree Portugal are...