Recent content by TambourineMan

The Championship title race has been a thrill this season. Leicester's triumph would lack excitement, while Ipswich would be the darling of the underdog enthusiasts. Granted, in this Man Utd fan enclave, Leeds might not be the top pick, but neutrally speaking, they bring a lot to the Premier...

In the curious cacophony of football fandom, Liverpool supporters have been swift to castigate Arsenal's approach to game against City and their subsequent acceptance of the outcome, portraying it as a reflection of a lackluster mentality and questionable credentials befitting a club of stature...

I have lived and worked in Malaysia and Singapore. Like you said, it's a culture where people are more open to making fun of each others race and it's often times done in a playful way. However it also has horrible knock on effects. For instance, we once had a candidate come in who was Malay...

Getting into a convoluted argument about who had the better team behind them is a complete waste of time so I am going to refrain. My opinion and that of most fans is that Messi had the better and more settled team behind him during the Pep era where we he did his best work and Ronaldo had the...

That is not incorrect and for much of his career it has worked in Ronaldo's favour. If his teammates had not stepped up, Madrid would have lost to Liverpool and A.Madrid. In both those games he looked nothing close to the best player of all time. For someone who his backers constantly tout as...

Barcelona do out team Madrid there but Madrid also out-teamed every opponent they have faced in the CL across their three wins. Should we discount his performances in all of these games as well? The fact is when Messi has faced Ronaldo he has gotten the better of him almost every time and very...

Yeah, the same one where Messi dominated a Classico on enemy territory the way Ronaldo never has. That one.

Henry vs Liverpool where he bagged a hat-trick and turned Carragher inside out leading Arsenal to a 4-2 win. This is a strange one but Diaby vs Liverpool at Anfield where he absolutely dominated the midfield and Arsenal came away with a 2-0 win. Messi vs Madrid 2010 in the La Liga 2007, 2010...

The fact is when both careers are over and people look back, Messi has a legitimate claim to be being the best playmaker ever and the best goal scorer ever. Ronaldo on the other hand can only lay claim to being the best goal scorer of all time. The greats are often broken down into their...

This here is the problem, there is an expectation about the way certain people should behave and that expectation links very closely to skin tone. Black players are expected to be quiet and grateful that they've been allowed to succeed whilst white players are not similarly restricted. If you're...

This serves against Liverpool's interest if anything. If Firmino kicks up a fuss for example, Liverpool have one less potential suitor as he is not a £100m player. If it's Salah and Real offer £120m and Barca offer £25m plus the "premium" they'd still accept Barca's offer. Then there is this...

O Of course it matters. For example, if person A spends £100,000 on 5 Rolex's in a year and person B buys the same 5 Rolex's for £100,000 but has had to sell before being able to buy again and so sells 4 in the year for £80,000, they now have vastly different outcomes at the end of the year...

If I could live his life at 57 and die at 60 I'd take. Screw being old.

You praise them yes, not patronise them. He would not have done the same for a male pundit. If you think he would then fair enough but I'd argue that you're being disingenuous.

She's not just a woman. She is a footballer who has played over 100 games for her country. It's things like this that allow people to say that men and women aren't treated the same in the workplace. In what you said, you only acknowledge her as a woman instead of a multi-capped international...