The unpopular opinion thread 2014 - amnesty applies.

[ZonkoVille77]

| think Lennon is ok. Talks sense as a pundit too.

[s(k)aturation]

I thought he was a better team man with McCartney.

[Grinch]

Lennons a bitter cunt and was a bog average footballer. He made a name for himself in a league that's not worth talking about. Just look at the level he's at when he returned to England.

[Gym Beglin]

I think I saw Gerarrd get stripped for pace by Eidur Gudjonnson, who is 36, who's son is 17.

 

Enough's enough I think.

[s(k)aturation]

He's going, get over it.

[VladimirIlyich]

I really really wanted to see Gerrard start in the Derby. But after his performance tonight, I want him nowhere near the starting 11.

Hes too old to play regularly,but needs to play regularly because of his age! Work that one out.

[ngogswilly]

There was one point last night he made a run to a breaking ball and I just thought "Fucking hell, even 2/3 years ago he would have got that"

 

But in saying that, I didn't think it was a poor performance last night. He got a few long range passes badly wrong but I thought he did a good job by enlarge in the role he was playing. 

[WhiskeyJar]

Gerrard shouldn't play in the Bolton game. We are starting to live without him and bringing him back in will cause a small disruption in the first team.

 

I stand by comment. 

 

I think he will be up for the derby game, seeing that it may be one of his last ones. 

[Stickman]

To be honest he will start on Saturday as I don't think Roger's can be arsed with the shit storm that would come his way from ex-pro's if he left him out....Having said that it's not bad is it playing a guy who is ok past his best but has been a constant thorn in their side since this moment against them in 1999....(from 4 minutes in...oh and what the fuck is David James doing??)

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5a8WulytAU

[Section_31]

Ronaldo is the best player in the world, and has been for some time. 

[Bjornebye]

Its 2015. Messi is miles better anyway.

[Major Tom]

Ronaldo is the best player in the world, and has been for some time. 

 

In the amnesty thread? Hardly controversial.

 

But I was thinking that he and Messi will go down as two of the all time greats. Top 10 stuff or better. And they have played at the same time. Pretty amazing.

[redheart]

I think that Sterling is massively overrated. He will never be in the class of Bale or Giggs etc

[Section_31]

In the amnesty thread? Hardly controversial.

 

But I was thinking that he and Messi will go down as two of the all time greats. Top 10 stuff or better. And they have played at the same time. Pretty amazing.

 

Seems an unpopular opinion generally because he's such a cunt and everyone except me and the Condor Legion seem to love Barcelona.

 

Even in Messi's pomp though, he needed other players to tick, Ronaldo doesn't, he's a one man whirlwind like Maradona was. 

 

Messi in the Stoke team would be half the player he is now, Ronaldo in the Stoke team would be Ronaldo with an entourage. 

[Major Tom]

Seems an unpopular opinion generally because he's such a cunt and everyone except me and the Condor Legion seem to love Barcelona.

 

Even in Messi's pomp though, he needed other players to tick, Ronaldo doesn't, he's a one man whirlwind like Maradona was. 

 

Messi in the Stoke team would be half the player he is now, Ronaldo in the Stoke team would be Ronaldo with an entourage. 

 

I'm definitely in the Barca camp (not that I give much of a fuck about La Liga) but I agree about Ronaldo being a one man whirlwind. Incredible athleticism and skill allied with incredible determination. An absolute beast of a player. Difficult to imagine he'd get this good looking at his early days at Utd. 

 

I honestly don't know about your Messi comparisons there but I can definitely appreciate them both and leave the sorting out to folk who watch them a lot more than I do. Which is probably everyone.

[Lario]

Seems an unpopular opinion generally because he's such a cunt and everyone except me and the Condor Legion seem to love Barcelona.

 

Even in Messi's pomp though, he needed other players to tick, Ronaldo doesn't, he's a one man whirlwind like Maradona was. 

 

Messi in the Stoke team would be half the player he is now, Ronaldo in the Stoke team would be Ronaldo with an entourage. 

 

Amnesty doesn't give you the license to talk complete bollox!

[Jairzinho]

Ronaldo would be Barcelona's third best forward.

[bouncebrigade]

Seems an unpopular opinion generally because he's such a cunt and everyone except me and the Condor Legion seem to love Barcelona.

 

Even in Messi's pomp though, he needed other players to tick, Ronaldo doesn't, he's a one man whirlwind like Maradona was. 

 

Messi in the Stoke team would be half the player he is now, Ronaldo in the Stoke team would be Ronaldo with an entourage. 

 

That argument falls flat on its face when you consider that Ronaldo hasn't got anywhere near a major final with Portugal.  Messi has with Argentina.  I wouldn't say there is much difference between the respective squads.  Argentina's might be slightly stronger, but they are nothing special either.

 

Given how little work and tracking back Ronaldo does, I'm not sure how you can say he doesn't need other players to tick.

[Major Tom]

hmmm...your point is starting to become clear, Section.

[Section_31]

hmmm...your point is starting to become clear, Section.

 

A Liverpool fan saying Ronaldo is better than Messi is broadly akin to an Everton fan saying Rush is better than Dixie Dean. 

[Baltar]

I think that Sterling is massively overrated. He will never be in the class of Bale or Giggs etc

Are you Welsh? Why compare him to those 2? I for one think he'll be good as both. If anyone is overrated it's Giggs. In 20 years Giggs had never once been the best player at his club, let alone the league or Europe. Yet he's feted as an all-time great. Absurd.

[Dr Nowt]

Sterling will be as good as Ryan Giggs.

 

I'm all for a bit of tribalism but that is a beauty.

[Russ Atmosphere]

I think that Sterling is massively overrated. He will never be in the class of Bale or Giggs etc

 

 

Been on here much lately?

[Bjornebye]

Fuck all to do with his Manc connection but Messi is better than Ronaldo. Ronaldo is one of the greatest ever but Maradona and Messi are a class apart.

[Tony Moanero]

I don't particularly enjoy watching Messi or Ronaldo.