Pele

[Bremen Tree]

Be interesting to see how he would cope in an era were tackling has been outlawed considering the brutality he was subjected to.

Exactly. Players today are protected compared to footage of how players in that era were physically tackeld or should I say attacked.

It should also be noted that players back then were doing all the tricks (step overs, flic-flac etc) while running the risk of being hacked down time and time again.

 

[mao tse tung]

Exactly. Players today are protected compared to footage of how players in that era were physically tackeld or should I say attacked.

It should also be noted that players back then were doing all the tricks (step overs, flic-flac etc) while running the risk of being hacked down time and time again.

Exactly, not to mention the vast differences in equipment and playing surfaces that modern players benefit from.

The truly great players of yesteryear would probably struggle with the pace of the game these days, but with all of the modern advances in fitness training and conditioning they would soon get used to it.

Could you imagine a team attempting to employ gegenpressing against a team with Cruyff in it?

It would be total fucking carnage; he would be dragging players all over the pitch.

 

[Calvin Plummer]

And Napoli...

 

[Geedo61]

I'm surprised that none of you have mentioned Maradona and "the hand of god" in the 1986 game v England.

Put me clean off him for ever.

Didn't say I liked him and yes he did cheat.
If Lineker had done that at the other end - I would have taken it though!

 

[Bremen Tree]

Did you not see the other goal he scored in that game.

Or the one, I think against Belgium, in the next game

 

[jbacsta]

Yes he would.

If i voted labour he wouldnt.

 

[Bremen Tree]

Imagine how good Maradona could have been if he trained or wasn't high.

The training a partial myth. I watched the Mardaonna documentary and in it he trained really hard. At the time he was a regular user.

It was only after Napoli refused to let him go after promising they'd so if he won another Scudeto, that he really went of the rails. He felt like a prisoner, rebelled and got badly addicted.

 

[mao tse tung]

I'm surprised that none of you have mentioned Maradona and "the hand of god" in the 1986 game v England.

Put me clean off him for ever.

Ah bless, my screensaver picture.

And what a pass from Steve Hodge to set him up

 

[Basha73]

Ah bless, my screensaver picture.

And what a pass from Steve Hodge to set him up

Nearly as memorable as Thierry Henry’s goal...

 

[Pearced]

Agree with that comment - Maradona won the world cup for Argentina - almost single handed.

I see what you did there. Well done!

 

[mao tse tung]

Nearly as memorable as Thierry Henry’s goal...

Totally uncalled for, Basha

 

[mao tse tung]

Or the one, I think against Belgium, in the next game

It was the next game.

It was 4 on 4 at that point of the attack and the other three Argentinian forwards were just bystanders.

 

[Geedo61]

I see what you did there. Well done!

The old ones are the best
Surprised no one else picked up on it