Recent content by MalcolmTucker

  1. Manchester United vs Leeds United

    Bruno on the right, Rashford on the left and swap Garnacho for Sancho. Get Bruno to put some crosses in for Weghorst
  2. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    No, the baseless assertion that Pele would walk into any elite team of the modern era - you've provided no evidence beyond endless argumentum ad populum. My assertion is that it's more difficult to be dominant in this era than in the 60s and I have stated my reasons for my position many times...
  3. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    You've basically said nothing once again - you keep just making baseless assertions. Football has improved decade by decade at different rates. Just look at the difference in the speed and the quality of football between the 1966 WC final and the 1974 WC final - are you denying football has...
  4. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    That's because footballers are far better athletes in this day and age and need to take care of themselves or they cannot compete at the elite level. They also have the benefit of modern nutrition and sports science which has really developed since the turn of the century. Stanley Matthews was...
  5. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    I'd say it's stranger to conflate appearances with age. By your logic, if Ronaldo decided to only play 15 games a season then he would be able to perform at the top level until he was 80 years old
  6. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    Exactly, that's why it's more remarkable that Messi has dominated for 15 years in this era rather than in previous ones. To add to Garrincha's alcoholism, spine and leg deformities, and losing his virginity to a goat, he also only started playing professionally at 19-years-old - even someone...
  7. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    You have no argument, you've just repeated yourself. I am not a yank so I don't care about those other sports, however you're just asserting that these people can compete in the modern day without any evidence nor a methodology. Why would I take your word for it when my eyes tell me that...
  8. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    This is all just irrelevant nerdling fantasy football. How can you proclaim that the players of the 60s could easily play at the elite level in the modern game when a deformed alcoholic like Garrincha dominated a world cup at 29-years-old? It's pure conjecture. Here's is Garrincha's best ever...
  9. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    He was playing for Rangers at the same age Garrincha was winning the Golden Ball at the World Cup. For all his talents, it's obvious his alcoholism ruined his potential. Plus, as I keep having to state, he wasn't literally disabled (other than being Geordie). Gazza only managed 339 games during...
  10. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    Despite Rooney's or Hazard's lack of professionalism, neither were literally deformed. Rooney and Eden Hazard were pretty much finished in their late twenties, Garrincha won the World Cup golden ball, golden boot and the trophy at 29 years old despite being an alcoholic for the entirety of his...
  11. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    For me it's the other way around. Look at Garrincha - he was an alcoholic who had a deformed spine, one leg 6cm shorter than the other and was bow-legged. He didn't start playing professionally until he was 19 years old, yet he was one of the best players of his (and Pele's) generation. Do you...
  12. Lionel Messi | PSG Watch

    Just a theory but I think having the tournament in the middle of the season helped Messi a lot. He usually looks more laboured at international tournaments in the past but perhaps it's just that Argentina look like a proper team for the first time since he's played for them.
  13. Lionel Messi is OFFICIALLY the Greatest Player of all Time (CONFIRMED OFFICIAL)

    To perform as he has at nearly 36 years old at a world cup is unprecedented. No one has performed at his level for as long as he has and he's won it all now. You can watch Maradona game highlights on YouTube for Napoli, as great as he was, Messi has hundreds of analogous games. He's the...
  14. Gary Neville was dead to me | Reborn as a Dragon

    This is absolutely laughable :lol:
  15. Amad Diallo | 2022/23 Performances

    Average height for an Ivorian man is like 5ft7