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Jamie Vardy is older than Edinson Cavani
Wow, good oneDavid Seaman's ponytailed look is his most iconic and you'd presume it spanned a large section of his career, but he only wore it for about three years, these years being his final ones in professional football.
Just shows goals is not the only metric of quality, specially when comparing players of different times.In 9 seasons at Chelsea, Didier Drogba only scored more than 20 goals in just two seasons. In comparison, Diego Costa did it twice in 3 seasons, Harry Kane has done it continuously in past 5 seasons and Aguero in 8 out of 9 seasons.
Does anyone remember the urban legend that Seaman only started wearing his hair in a ponytail because Arsenal had a deal with a hair tie company and had to find someone to replace Petit as the representative?David Seaman's ponytailed look is his most iconic and you'd presume it spanned a large section of his career, but he only wore it for about three years, these years being his final ones in professional football.
That shows Drogba wasn't reliable goal scorer and people forgot how inconsistent he was too. Also that Anelka season was in 2008-09, before that season Ronaldo scored 31 league goals and Henry, RVN regularly scored more than 20 league goals.Just shows goals is not the only metric of quality, specially when comparing players of different times.
In the 00s, I believe goals were split more among other players than they are today, not to mention you didn't see 6-7 goal trashing every other week.
I remember Anelka being top PL scorer with less than 20 goals. Unthinkable today.
Defo a yellow for crapping on the grass at least in modern timesGary Lineker played around 500 professional games and never had a yellow or red card.
While had Lescott, Kolo Toure, Demichelis, Savic, Nastasic, Boyata as CBs in front of him. Their FBs were impressive either.Joe Hart has four Premier League Golden Glove awards.
David De Gea has none.
But didn't look anywhere out of place as Brandon Williams does playing Right Back for us. Sorry Brandon...Patrice Evra came on (and scored) playing right back during United 7-1 Roma.
Sidenote, the bench included the likes of Dong and Eagles.
He didn't finish the season, so it's not really trueMoyes finished in a higher league position with WHU (6th) than where her finished with Manchester United who were the defending champions (7th).
Was thinking about this the entire season.
If we had given him time he would've got us up to 6thMoyes finished in a higher league position with WHU (6th) than where her finished with Manchester United who were the defending champions (7th).
Was thinking about this the entire season.
Doesn't that reflect worse on Welbeck that someone has accomplished what he has by the age of 22?Kylian Mbappe and Danny Welbeck have the exact same record at international level. 42 games, 16 goals.
Honestly, I'm actually quite impressed Welbeck scored as many as 16 goals for England. That's a very respectable record given the way his career has gone.Kylian Mbappe and Danny Welbeck have the exact same record at international level. 42 games, 16 goals.
I've said many times on here that Welbeck played his best football for England. He was a very good player for us for a period.Honestly, I'm actually quite impressed Welbeck scored as many as 16 goals for England. That's a very respectable record given the way his career has gone.
The highest paid goalkeeper in the world has missed more penalties than he has saved in the last five years.
That's mindblowingThe highest paid goalkeeper in the world has missed more penalties than he has saved in the last five years.
I'm going to suggest that it has never happened before. The odds of the first 21 penalties being scored in a shootout, then the 22nd being missed by the second keeper to take one seems remarkably low.
It's quite a feat as a goalkeeper to come out of a penalty shootout with the worst impression. Often, when your team wins, you are the hero, because you saved at least one penalty. And when your team loses, those that missed their penalty are to blame. But to concede every single penalty and to be the only one who misses must be unique (or at least extremely rare).
Possibly a case for Peter Shilton too at Italia '90. He was never saving any of the German penalties with his 'dive once they've kicked it' method and they knew that even a tame shot somewhere near the corner was job done, no need for power shots carrying that off-target risk. Pearce and Waddle just ensured the shootout ended sooner rather than later.
It's quite a feat as a goalkeeper to come out of a penalty shootout with the worst impression. Often, when your team wins, you are the hero, because you saved at least one penalty. And when your team loses, those that missed their penalty are to blame.
CL win confirmed with a super goal from Fred against PSG in the final.Ronaldo and Fred are in the same team
Drogba wasn't really tasked with being an outright goal scorer though. His goal scoring stats aren't great but he always did a lot of work that went underappriciated (like being able to occupy two CB's.) Additionally, he was a real big game player in that he played in something like 9 or 10 finals for Chelsea and scored in 8 of them. He was almost like the reverse of a flat track bully.That shows Drogba wasn't reliable goal scorer and people forgot how inconsistent he was too. Also that Anelka season was in 2008-09, before that season Ronaldo scored 31 league goals and Henry, RVN regularly scored more than 20 league goals.
2008-09 was exception, we struggled to score a lot and Ronaldo was injured was first few months of the season.
Defo a yellow for crapping on the grass at least in modern times