A reminder that individual awards in team games are pointless and unnecessary.
This new obsession with the BoD in recent years is yet another aspect of modern football that needs eradicating from the game.
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Good that he’s got the confidence in his abilities. Even if it’s overconfidence.
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ESPN has a story from last week in response to this about how Owen allegedly didnt even know what it was when Houllier broke the news to him that he’d won it. There are a lot of ways football is better than it was 20 years ago, but this is one of those ways that it is FAR worse.
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Interesting. Care to name three?
Although I suspect this is a conversation for the general football thread, rather than this one.
Just overall quality (although that isnt referring to entertainment value) and the training and tactical advancement that has gone into producing that.
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That doesn’t surprise me.
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See, I would have thought that all the time he spent taking the risks of throwing his apple core into the bin he’d have been imaging getting the Ballon D’Or for it.
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Not caring what that award is surely is a better thing than coveating what a couple of has beens think?
Not caring, or being absolutely thick?
If he didn’t care it would be kudos for Owen for once.
As for thick footballers 
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I think this is swings and roundabouts.
Cricket and probably rugby are maybe parallels and the common thing is the facilities. Uneven pitches taught different skills - the modern day cricketer, footballer or rugby player just have different base programming.
Moving the chains, nutrition and access to a more mailable pool is a bit of a game changer also but again the skill sets are different.
The theatre is the same.
Tell that to Harry Kane 
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Refereeing, assistant referees, VAR 
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This fella needs to forget about fucking Ballon Dors and get back to being the best right-back at the football club because right now he’s not even that.
Looks to me like all the publicity and nonsense spoken/written about him has gone to his head. He’s lost sight of the basics and is paying too much attention to those massaging his ego and it’s not doing him any favours.
He might have had a hand in the 2 goals today but his all-round performance was fucking abysmal.
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It feels like this has been said ad nauseam since his debut season.
Let’s face it, it’s only given added salience now that there are rumours around him, even though he’s said he wants to extend his contract.
Cannavaro says hi.
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The criticism TAA’s getting in here because he dare say that he’d like to win an award, when asked, is getting out of hand.
His passing wasn’t good, which is a running theme lately but otherwise he was doing his best. Martinelli gave him big problems, which is no surprise, but at least he wasn’t getting by him unchallenged like on previous occasions.
There is a lot of people all too ready to tear him down because they are convinced he’s leaving.
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I feel it’s a matter of inconsistency rather than just being bad in general. Some absolutely bad ones yes, but they tend to stand out in the memory more so than the rest.
He has defended really well all season. That was his first poor game and Robbo was worse on the other side. I just think people don’t like one of their own ‘getting above their station’
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I’m not complaining about trent’s performance this match.
The whole Liverpool team was dire AF in the first half.
And yeah , it’s high time we get a replacement for Andy. He’s done. He’s been magnificent for us but father time and all.
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