Tony Montana wrote:
jones wrote:
I'm pretty sure that's a plus in Tony's book.
No.
His football and will to win/score is a plus.
Meanwhile in your words we've gotta love Materazzi despite some of the cynical and dangerous and sneaky challenges he had made throughout his career.
In Jonesy's defence, I was the one who said "gotta love Materazzi" Tone. Jones as I recall it said he was human garbage.
I agree with you on Ronaldo for what it's worth. The only type of player I won't tolerate is the Joey Barton kind who should've been in jail and/or counseling for psychotic behaviour both on and off the pitch. The rest are just doing amateur theatre in front of the cameras. Zlatan is playing a character every time he's on the screen. I imagine the same is true for Ronaldo to a large extent.
On the subject of diving and cheating, it's not nice of course, but people have to factor in the other perspective too. Ronaldo is one of the most fouled players in the world. For every dive there are three hard tackles that go unpunished. Two wrongs don't make one right, but until football starts to deal with these issues properly there's always going to be another side to the story. People never forgave Maradona for scoring with his hands, but they rarely mention him being in Guinness Book of World Records as the most fouled football player of all time.
