lex talionis
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You mean the "baseless assertion" that Pele, Cruyff and Maradona are universally considered among the greatest footballers of all time?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 improved? You say Ronaldo Nazario would destroy everything in his path today and I agree, however do you think he'd dominate more or less if he was transported to the sixties? Any sensible person would say the sixties, which is why I put more credence on Messi dominating the sport in his era than Pele dominating in his
I hate to break the news to you, but they really are and until "MalcolmTucker" appeared on this thread no one has ever denied that those three are among the greatest footballers of all time. It's a fact, not an opinion that those three are universally regarded today as being among the greatest footballers of all time.
But if you're going to argue that it's all just opinions that's fine, but you can't then argue as "fact" that football has "improved by the decades" -- which a lot of people would dispute (it's widely held that the Brazil 1970 is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest NT of all time). Yours is an opinion, perhaps a valid one, but it's just an opinion. Opinions are welcome here, but what's not welcome is that an opinion -- even a universally held opinion -- must somehow be completely disregarded by virtue of being as a "baseless assertion" but that when you have an opinion, which is all it is, it's somehow not a baseless assertion because it's one that you -- and only you -- hold.