The example in itself is funny. A middle aged American woman who is probably thrilled to bits to be able to see Messi live in action while also getting to watch her team. It isn't as tribal over there, maybe that's the simple answer.It’s not some zoomer phenomenon, some people just manage to keep those books seperate. Some people are less capable still and can’t even acknowledge that players on rival teams are quality and will splutter about how they’re shit. They’re all the poorer for it, I reckon.
Anyway, clearly a worldview difference. I don’t get why you guys are baffled about football fans appreciating world class players at some level despite who pays their wages.
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. He’s an ugly cnut and needs to feck off swiftly.Pah, we have fans these days declaring on redcafe to their fellow fans that they enjoy watching Erling Haaland smash it every week.
I queried/ridiculed this and was politely informed by multiple United posters that I’m a hater and not a true fan of football, something of a sad bastard if I can’t enjoy him.
Don’t worry, you’re not alone. He’s an ugly cnut and needs to feck off swiftly.
The example in itself is funny. A middle aged American woman who is probably thrilled to bits to be able to see Messi live in action while also getting to watch her team. It isn't as tribal over there, maybe that's the simple answer.
Agreed. Also doesn't help him that he comes across as a bit of a bellend too.Thank God for that.
When I watch him, or their highlights, enjoyment is the last thing on my mind as I watch the ugly Vigo the Carpathian impersonating feck, everything about him and his club repulse me, and the better he is, the more repulsed I am.
Can’t wait for the entire club to get relegated so I can enjoy seeing the ugly cnut doing his thing in Spain.
Me too.Thank God for that.
When I watch him, or their highlights, enjoyment is the last thing on my mind as I watch the ugly Vigo the Carpathian impersonating feck, everything about him and his club repulse me, and the better he is, the more repulsed I am.
Can’t wait for the entire club to get relegated so I can enjoy seeing the ugly cnut doing his thing in Spain.
Cracking goal.
Despite his bullying us in the '09 and '11 CL finals, I can't help but like the guy.
There's something far more humble and genuine about him than other top players.
The day he retires will be such a sad one. He is by far the player who has brought me the most joy and fear while watching.
Yamal seems like the only one with that level of stratospheric talent - how it will develop is another question, because a lot of what made Messi special was his freakish consistency. But yeah, there's not really anyone like him, which is fine as he was a once in a lifetime kind of player.Its kind of when you followed Messi througout his career even all world class young and senior players all seem a bit meh in comparison. No one has his mixture of magic and brutal effiency.
Dunno, maybe Lamine Yamal has that potential, he´s certainly a super star for his age.
Messi and Ronaldo set the bar so unrealistically high during their peak years. Seeing the Barcelona Old Boys doing side quests in the MLS is genuinely a lot of fun.
Its kind of when you followed Messi througout his career even all world class young and senior players all seem a bit meh in comparison. No one has his mixture of magic and brutal effiency.
Dunno, maybe Lamine Yamal has that potential, he´s certainly a super star for his age.
I was just throwing in Yamal to be diplomatic. Like former comparisons that had been made he's more like a young Rooney. Messi started to look like potential best ever when he was 19, but you had Ronaldinho in his ballon d'or speech saying that a 18 year old Messi was better than him.Yamal it's not Messi, even if he ends being considered the best player of all time.
Messi plays like Messi since he started to walk and since his teenagers years he operated at a different level of "speed"...from pace, to dribbling ability, to deciding in miliseconds in the tightest of spaces and that almost supernatural managing of time and space that I always felt watching Pele and Diego.
That's not Lamine's game, because he lacks some of those atributes Messi was born and makes him in a coloquial term, a full blown Genius.
On the other hand, Yamal stylewise and regarding his atributes it's some sort of a mixture between Messi and Iniesta.
He has a maturity in his game, a care for the ball while not needing to focus in the control of it, that goes way beyond his age.
He has a great size and he might end getting bigger and stronger. He has an excellent dribbling (no need to be Diego or Messi level to be excellent at it), great passing and a creative spark with an urge and dare to score. Yet it just takes two seconds to see he is just another specimen when comes to compare him with Messi.
Yet, people considered Zidane the best ever, or CR being more talented than Maradona, so if he has a great carreer and continues this trend, he might very much become The GOAT....yet he is not precisly the second coming regarding Messi in terms of similarities between the two.
In fact Messi wasn't either the second coming of Diego stylewise, he was more like Zico, Cryuff and Best combine with a Diego touch and that xtra let's call athletism and off the charts instinctive ability.
I was just throwing in Yamal to be diplomatic. Like former comparisons that had been made he's more like a young Rooney. Messi started to look like potential best ever when he was 19, but you had Ronaldinho in his ballon d'or speech saying that a 18 year old Messi was better than him.
Yeah fantastic. Will miss watching him the day he retires.Ridiculous finishing.
He posts on a Barcelona forumWhy is there no weirdo saying "843" etc everytime Messi scores?
Why is there no weirdo saying "843" etc everytime Messi scores?
Because everytime he scores it's not a new all time record...
