Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

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“and after alllllll, we’re both Larry Holmes!!!!!” :flabbynsick:
 

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Bournemouth been playing some good footballer. Semenyo is up there with Mbuemo, Eze, Mitoma as my favorite non City players in the prem. Sucks he had to do it against us but we move.

On to Sporting :francis:
 

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as sports mature participants become more robotic


alex higgins, steve wozniack, jimmy white ----- the recent lot

steve davis was the boring exception -- now he is the norm.

john macenroe, sampras, goran, conners, borg, mecir --- current robots

lendl was the boring exception - now he is the norm.

piquet, mansell, james hunt, senna --- the current robots

see the pattern . later methods are more professional + strict and more people enter for the money + profession rather than for fun.

this can be seen in the genealogy of best to giggs to ronaldo .

skill went down, effectiveness went up, strength went up, robotic-ness went up.

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p.s. mecir



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The academies play a crucial part in this. They make you learn the "new basics", through re-education.

 
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