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Footy: The Doggies won the 2016 Premiership!! Soccer: From Ronaldo to Ronaldinho to Messi and seemingly back to another Ronaldo. Full circle!
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Lionel Messi’s transfer to Paris Saint-Germain, forming a forward line with other double AA-listers Kylian Mbappe and Neymar, is a dream team scenario. I will take a walk back through other dream three-man forward lines over the years.
Some grand finals match-ups, like Essendon versus Carlton or West Coast versus Collingwood, have a certain gravitas about them.
We have finally reached the present moment, with Euro 2020 starting today.
Bayern Munich’s crushing defeat to Chelsea didn’t bode well for Germany at Euro 2012. These players had now lost a final and two semi-finals with Germany and two Champions League finals with Bayern.
Before this year’s European Championships kick off, let’s remember the 2004 tournament in Portugal.
As a lead-up to Euro 2021, I will recap the five Euros that I’ve seen since I started caring about football.
I’m going to be taken to the cleaners for this, but I don’t care. Have a read here if you think I only have a johnny-come-lately perspective on football.
The 2020 grand final was an excellent match, full of symbolism.
I love Josh Dunkley. I should be too old for these favourite player types, but I haven’t been this into a player this much since Chris Grant.
Bruce McAvaney cops a lot of flak these days, but he and Dennis Cometti are the last remnants of the older, superior commentators who actually trained as such and know how to give a situation its poetic grace.
It was mid-2017 – that strange jumbled year when no one really wanted to win the premiership – when Chris Scott decided to play a hobbled Patrick Dangerfield up front against Alastair ‘System’ Clarkson’s Hawthorn.
I have a rule with sports books: if the print is big and double-spaced, it means there’s not much content and the author doesn’t have so much to say.
I’m 38 and my vanity has convinced me I can recognise patterns over the years of watching footy.
Sometimes being the best is more of a feeling. A ‘vibe’, as they say. Usually it relates to being top of the ladder for a while. Maybe in our heads it can be like boxing: once you beat the man, you are the man.
Sometimes being the best is more of a feeling, a ‘vibe’ as they say. Usually it relates to being top of the ladder for a while. Maybe in our heads it can be like boxing: once you beat the man, you are the man.
I play indoor football, and I don’t have the greatest sports psychology in the world.
Collingwood lost the preliminary final to Greater Western Sydney by just four points, after a furious comeback – coming 51 weeks after losing the 2018 grand final to West Coast by five points.
Let’s face it, GWS were on a hiding to nothing.
This year, we have had a completely featureless Super Bowl and now a completely featureless Champions League final. The stark scorelines were New England 13 LA Rams 3, and Liverpool 2 Tottenham nil.
Sounds like Di Stefano and Puskas both rotated between midfield and attack as they felt like. It does sound like Messi.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
You’re right, ‘history’ is stretching it. I hesitated on a lot of the early ones for quite a few BS reasons… ignorance, laziness, whatever, but my main concern is that forward lines were more than 3 players in those days. Wasn’t Gento an attacking winger? Was he really one of only three attackers? Technicality, I know.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
I think Ronaldo (Nazario de Lima) went to Haiti once and they called peace for that too 🙂
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
I am talking combination attacks, not just the best 3 forwards of all time.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
I appreciate the comment and understand what you’re saying, but just having the players in your squad doesn’t mean they were functional combinations necessarily.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
I think Brazil winning the World Cup does reflect well on their league at the time. That such calibre players were playing in Brazil must mean their clubs had similarly good standard players. Santos did dominate the continent, if only for two years.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Agree, for me South American clubs only began to be inferior maybe in the mid-90s when going to Europe became the norm for those players.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Pepe was not a starter in any Brazil World Cup winning team. Probably too far before my time to further comment.
Technically Tostao was the forward of 1970 Brazil, albeit a false 9.
Man U of the 60s, I think you’re right, they sound good.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Were the Hungarians a trio? You are probably right, but in those days it was considered a 5-man forward line.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
To jump in on this argument, in my opinion Brazil was a very competitive setting in the 60s, on the same level as Europe for quality although there were no organised national league in Brazil back then I think. For me Santos was about as good as the best Euro teams. Hardly any Brazilians went to Europe in those days (Altafini excepted). Pele didn’t!
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Thanks very much! Much appreciated.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Brazil 1958 was considered a front 4. Zagallo, Vava, Pele, Garrincha. Not a trio.
What was the actual trio of Real Madrid in the 50s-60s (if they were a trio)? I’m all ears. Back in the 50s and 60s there were generally more than 3 players considered forwards in each team. After that era there were generally only 1-2 forwards per team. That is my thinking.
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
Yeah good point. I probably am not familiar enough with Law as a player to really know how they operated. Not really sure what Charlton’s position was either. Thanks for comment!
What was the most star-studded forward trio in history?
You can set your watch to any team in reasonable nick winning the flag at 5:00pm (if daytime grand final) and a bunch of goldfish-mentality journos talking about dynasties at 5:01.
‘This is just the start’: Can the Demons be the next dynasty team?
They weren’t that good, just normal, which is being celebrated now because the bar has fallen so low. Blight and Walls were very negative. Quartermaine was boring. Saved by Hudson.
Ten years on: Why Ten's AFL commentary still reigns supreme
The long droughts are all dropping like flies. Sydney in 05, Geelong 07, us in 16, Richmond 17. Melbourne has a 50% chance of it happening this year, potentially leaving only St Kilda left (hopefully Melbourne will still be left).
I had a strange theory… it took the Red Sox 18 years to fix their stuff up, and the Bulldogs 19 to fix theirs. So St Kilda will perhaps take 20. Put money on them either 2029 or 2030, it’s a lock.
The most unconventional grand final match-ups ever
I don’t know much about it, but surely Riccardi wasn’t getting into the top 22 of that 07 team anyway?
‘They were deers in the headlights’: Is Ken Hinkley the man to lead the Power to their next flag?
What’s interesting is they played each other twice, that hardly happens anymore. Luckily for hype they split a win each. They’ve more or less been exactly even at the top all year, Melbourne a tad better.
The most unconventional grand final match-ups ever
Hard to do this off the top of my head, but I always liked David Wirrpanda. Probably a lot of the Aboriginal boys would get into my (non-Bulldogs) favourites 22.
McLeod’s 98 Grand Final, Jesus, I reckon that’s the best midfield performance ever, bloke was limping between each play. What a beautiful mover, one book said he had 7 assists that day. (!)
The most unconventional grand final match-ups ever
To clarify: I did not call 1997 St Kilda hopeless, this is an edit from the website. Original line: the ‘hopeless’ St Kilda versus Western Bulldogs, meaning both of them had come from absolutely nowhere that year.
The most unconventional grand final match-ups ever
I hate player ratings in matches (they are spinal Tap “goes to 11” kind of metrics) and not so keen on these ones either. All the clubs gave it a shot to some degree. Essendon played a better first half than many of their other recent finals. Brisbane copped the two grand finalists and lost by a point. Port did play one killer final. Sydney is the overrated one, they lost to a team with 11 wins, I’m just repeating other comments at this point.
2021 AFL finals report card: How each team fared
New name, new look!
Port Adelaide Power season 2021 review: Blackout in Adelaide