Ex-Rangers player Fernando Ricksen has died at the age of 43 after battling motor neurone disease for a number of years. He spent the last few years in a hospice near Glasgow so he’s been a fairly regular presence in the local media for fundraisers, tributes, visits from ex pros/teammates and the like. It’s been horrible seeing the effect the disease has had on a fit young man.
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I read his interview with Guardian few years ago. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warrior, RIP
4 days later
What has Tuchel done with this PSG team? Ander Herrera, Idrissa Gueye and Marquinhos in
a three man midfield. My God.
They'be been awful to watch tonight.
Jesus. Unai Emery in disguise.
PSG relying on another moment of Neymar's brilliance to win them the game.
They won away to the only other good team in the league. I'm sure they can take the midfield not looking pretty.
Edit: Fuck me, Neymar is so good.
Quincy Abeyie wrote:They won away to the only other good team in the league. I'm sure they can take the midfield not looking pretty.
Edit: Fuck me, Neymar is so good.
Majority of the pundits and critics were raving about Tuchel being tactical god or something when a similar structured PSG midfield (Gueye+Marquinhos+verratti) dominated Real Madrid last week.
I think Emery's Arsenal could dominate Real Madrid right now, to be fair.
I am wondering if Tuchel is trying to build a system that means they are a better functioning team when they play on big Champions League nights? As opposed to flattening every Ligue Un team with an open and expansive style and then having no idea how to play compact or on the back foot in knock-out ties against good teams.
We'll have to wait and see. Either way, they were truly dreadful last night. Although, Neymar was sensational as usual.
Somehow three Real Madrid players are voted into the FIFA team of the year. Marcelo ahead of Alba and Robertson, ridiculous.
FIFA awards have been a farce for a long while now.
It's always been a way for the big clubs to congratulate themselves. Every football award show is the same.
1/4 of the votes is by public to be fair.
The public vote is probably even worse.
Stopped acknowledging these things.
goon wrote:Bold Tone wrote:I'm still to be convinced by the Rice hype. Same goes for Foden who Guardiola keeps praising to high heaven. He managed peak Messi and he says this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/49133205Pep loves his hyperbole, all talk yet hardly any gametime.
That being said, Foden does look class to me.
Rice seems to have turned things around but Foden is still not getting game-time even though there's less competition with Sane out for the season.
https://www.hammers.news/transfer-news/gary-neville-suggests-west-ham-ace-declan-rice-is-not-worth-90-million/
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/49796793
Peter Bosz: "It appears to me that people who don't know much about football use the expression "mentality " to find an explanation why an underdog beat the favourites. This way you don't need in-depth analysis. Mentality - and it's done!"
Muswell Hill Gooner wrote:Peter Bosz: "It appears to me that people who don't know much about football use the expression "mentality " to find an explanation why an underdog beat the favourites. This way you don't need in-depth analysis. Mentality - and it's done!"
It's the laziest analysis known to man. The number of times I've seen us beat fair and square, and for people to question our teams mentality...
Neville, Carragher and especially Souness would be out of a job as they use it repeatedly for lower profile matches that they have less interest in and I'm convinced Souness doesn't even watch. TBF after the amount of time they spend analysing their old clubs and city, they must be worn out and find it boring to watch other games. BBC solve this by paying their presenters less and having more of them although this increases the risk of ending up with the odd idiot (Evra).
Patrice "I love this game" Evra.
Wan-Bissaka with an off the line clearance to stop Rochdale from taking a second half lead. A real let off.