40s Retro Football Fantasy Draft | Finished

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Aldo 1. Best 2. Hector Chumpitaz 3. Jose Pirri
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão
Gio 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva
sallycinnamin 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto

@Chesterlestreet
 
Chesterlestreet said:
Good question.

You know what - I have 8hrs myself, technically, starting now. And I have to get up early, so I won't sleep for more than a couple of hours, really - meaning that I can just check back when I wake up, and if he STILL hasn't shown up, I'll just post the pick and we'll go from there.

@Aldo
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Your "technically started" 8 hours would be over now, just saying. I hope you didn't oversleep and miss your early morning appointment ;).
 
Question is why he didn't leave his pick with someone. C'mon guys, you're too nice. When the 8 hrs are up:

 
The Stain said:
Question is why he didn't leave his pick with someone. C'mon guys, you're too nice. When the 8 hrs are up:
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I think he left his pick with @Skizzo , but don't expect too much from him, he's not reliable at all.
 
Aldo 1. Best 2. Hector Chumpitaz 3. Jose Pirri
Chesterlestreet 1. Pelé 2. Greaves 3. Bremner
RedTiger 1. Beckenbauer 2. Oblak
Skizzo/Pat_Mustard 1. Cruyff 2. Keizer
Gol123 1. Van Hanegem 2. Overath
Invictus 1. Eusébio 2. Mazzola
Balu 1. G. Müller 2. Vogts
ctp 1. Rivelino 2. Marzolini
crappycraperson 1. Moore 2. Tostão
Gio 1. Figueroa 2. Cubillas
NM/EAP 1. Facchetti 2. Riva
sallycinnamin 1. Jairzinho 2. Zoff
harms 1. Krol 2. Florian Albert
Tuppet 1. Rivera 2. Džajić
Joga Bonito 1. Law 2. Netzer
Marty1968 1. Gerson 2. Carlos Alberto

@RedTiger
 
I hate you all, every single one of you. I already know that I hate gol123, because I have his pick, and I doubt Skizzo will be nice to me, which leaves RedTiger and Invictus to make or ruin my day. I'm fecked, aren't I? I'm sure crappy is as well though :D.
 
Did Invictus leave his picks with someone? He mentioned something about possibly not being available today.
 
Aldo said:
Haha, yeah I've been a admirer of Pirri since a while now, so good to have him. I hope I can do service to both him and Chumpitaz, two immense players.
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Grand picks, indeed. Beyond the central defenders already gone, you could easily argue Chumpitaz' case as the pick of the litter. I didn't even consider him in this round, though, as I've pretty much decided to assemble a gang of bums at the back - who needs so-called defenders, eh? I'll play Aloysius style - stick some midfielders back there and instruct 'em to pass it around.
 
Skizzo said:
@Skizzo your pick mate
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I'm starting to worry about you. Seriously worry. You needed a new slave after I ran away. I can write a letter of recommendation if you want, telling what a fantastic slave-owner you were.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
Nearly everyone was after Pirri! Deluded to even think he'd last back down.
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Popular man, indeed.

I was actually considering picking him ahead of Greavesy, 'cause I was fairly sure Aldo would at least consider him - pretty much what I hinted at to Annah above.
 
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Morten Olsen is widely regarded as one of the best liberos to have graced football since the Beckenbauer era.

Similarly to Beckenbauer, Olsen was in many years moved around the pitch and was used in various positions due to his versatility and all-round decent ability. As such, he managed to fill out roles as defensive midfielder, stopper and full back before finally being transferred to a position as libero/sweeper after having reached 30 years of age while playing for Anderlecht. Indeed, this miraculous decision only happened by chance as Morten Olsen initially only was used as cover for an injured team mate. But here, Olsen quickly showed a genuine skill for leading the game from his back four, often utilizing a superhuman ability to go on commando raids up through the length of the pitch and not before long, the spot was his to command. Indeed, it was one of Olsen's mesmerizing bursts of speed which managed to win a penalty against West Germany at Mexico 1986. The penalty was safely converted by MJJ.

As if decided by fate beforehand, Olsen played one of his finest performances in the libero position in this particular game with the master himself, Franz Beckenbauer, standing as idle spectator from his position as West German coach.

In the most astonishing of manners, Olsen continued to dominate football pitches around Europe after the World Cup in Mexico as he moved to FC Köln and became an instant favourite after having "rejuvenated" the side with his style and leadership. His last heroics with the national team came at EURO '88 in Germany at 38 years of age though he was not able to prevent a young and inexperienced Danish side from crashing out in the group stages.

The defence was marshalled by Morten Olsen, who almost accidentally discovered the libero role in his thirties and took to it so well that arguably only Franz Beckenbauer has performed better in that position. Olsen, who played international football into his forties, read a game as if he had written it.
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....Four days later they thrashed Yugoslavia 5-0, although the official Uefa site says "there has never been a more misleading scoreline". World Soccer partly agreed, suggesting the match could have ended 10-6 or 12-7 to Denmark; either way, it meant Piontek's team required only a draw against Belgium, who themselves needed a win, to reach the semi-finals.

It was a bona fide classic, end-to-end and staggeringly ill-tempered in view of the fact that many of the Denmark side played in Belgium. There were nine Anderlecht players on the pitch at one stage and, when BALU banjoed his club-mate Arnesen, another club-mate Morten Olsen shoved him over. "If I had a gun," said the usually calm Olsen, "I'd have shot him." It was all so heated that, at one stage, the referee pushed Annahnomoss over.
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