lets have a DC game on the live stream during wpt, put me down

An Omaha game might happen

Id be in for this

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[Winter 2011]

Winter 2011

The Making of lil Dave

 but I will defo think of some fun stories from those games and share if anyone wants to hear

(very interesting side story to OFC!)

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Let's put it this way, if you had been playing football since you were 5 for example, and you have strived for over 15+ years to get to the top of the game, playing every week on top money, then all of a sudden you move to a massive club, and barely play?

I'd be like, WTF am I doing and what a waste of talent and 15 years worth of effort.

I don't think I could do it, I 'd rather play football on good money (lets say £30,000 a week) and earn all the plaudits of years of hard graft than earn say 90k and fall of the radar and bench warm for 80% of the season.

What a waste.

Unless the master plan for many is to literally take the extra cash for a year or 2 then move on and play games again....I get that bit.

Surely this works both ways as well. You've worked hard all your life, why don't you deserve a shot at winning something, at playing in the CL? If a big club comes calling they obv think you are good enough, even for a squad role. You only get 25 men in a team. Being one of them in a team winning things consistently in a big achievement in itself. No one is going to stay at a mid table team and achieve nothing all their career when they can go and potentially win things, testing themselves vs the best in the world.

Scored inside the 6 yard box?

Scored in a 2nd spell for a team?

Players take a step down in clubs for a bit more money? Examples?

Won't see many people like Giggs, Terry etc.

For most it's all about the benjamins...

Giggs and Terry played for the 2 most successful teams of their generation, on big wages. Of course they're going to have club loyalty.

I think it definitely varies from case to case. Age and awareness of their own ability/ceiling prob plays a huge part as well. I'd assume every footballers main ambition is to play in Champions League/World cup finals and obv moving to bigger clubs gives them a better chance of this. Remy is never going to play in the CL with QPR, Newcastle, Liverpool etc and even if he knows he's only going to have a bit part player I'd assume just being part of that team, playing with exceptional players, being managed by exceptional people gives him enough incentive to make a move like he did. If Costa gets injured or has a massive drop in form then he's got a few games to show his worth to the team and like all (prob) professional footballers he's prob very confident in his own ability to make an impression.

I'd compare this to Falcao who made the bizarre move from Athletico to Monaco, being the best striker in the world, shows a huge lack of ambition.

And also to someone like Shearer. He could have moved to win more trophies but he was star man at his boyhood club, living his dream. Winning things with Newcastle was prob infinitely more meaningful than winning them with anyone else.

It's been fucked for a few days now.

I think United v Liverpool is way bigger/more important to both sets of fans than either United v City or Liverpool v Everton.

Has Ancelotti ever managed a mid table team before?

[certainty to make the subs bench of a World X1 team]

I'd say that for a player to be considered World Class they have to be at least a certainty to make the subs bench of a World X1 team, so obv quite a few named itt don't fit that criteria.

It's a shame that Sir Alex doesn't see fit to give credit to players he's falling out with that obv do fall into this category, never knew him and Schmeichel had  fallen out ? He would surely be a lock for the whole football world, definite Goat contender for GKs so that's nonsense.

Of the four he did name is Ryan Giggs World Class ? By my above definition that is. He's obv a great player, and what he's achieved is insane, but I'm not sure he would ever have made the team, if you think yes then when would he have got on the bench of a World X1, no way he's ever starting that's for sure. The other three are for me as well as him with the silly name above and Roy Keane also.

So we're only having 2 world class keepers per generation?

Is calling and then folding if the original caller jams not an option? Given that we'd play AA/KK/QQ the same way and are not going to get shipped on by anything less than something that has us crushed?