I don't know what's more mental - blaming genetics or going on to suggest that it could be "looked at"
+ Visit Cardiff FC for Latest News, Transfer Gossip, Fixtures and Match Results |
I don't know what's more mental - blaming genetics or going on to suggest that it could be "looked at"
So Scotland and Spain are proof of this theory?
There is most definitely that although I was hoping we'd personally be able to serve up some long awaited qualifying Karma here (should we make the Play Offs) but football goes in cycles and we sure as hell will get our chance to right those Scotland wrongs some other time.
I hope Strachan keeps his job . Done a half decent job with limited resources.
Taking history out of it, I’d like to see the Scots do well
Yeah, just imagine what Maradona (five foot five) or Messi (five foot seven) would have been like if they were, say, six foot three?
It's sad that someone like five foot six inch tall Gordon Strachan (who would be an automatic selection in the Scotland team if he were playing today) believes that Scotland didn't qualify because they weren't tall enough.
The best club side I've seen (the Barcelona of six or seven years ago) were not so good because of their size and strength, they were great because, as the history of the game shows us, at the very top level, the better footballing team tends to win no matter what sort of physical advantage their opponents may enjoy.
Can anyone come up with a player of six foot three or above who could legitimately be described as the best player on the planet at any time during their career? Being very generous, I'd suggest Gullit and Ibrahimović as possibilities, but I don't really believe it to be true of either of them.
Zigic at Brum, what a player.
The six foot two John Charles is the reason I said six foot three !
All of the truly great players I've seen in my life time were all of a certain height except for Ronaldo (I saw John Charles play, but he was a long way past his best when I did so, therefore I wouldn't place him in that very high level - my old man was adamant that Charles was the best player he saw mind).
I had the same experience as you when I was in primary school in that I was generally considered to be a better footballer than the bigger lads who were picked in front of me by the rugby loving teacher in charge of the school team. As I grew up and got to know more about the two sports, I consoled myself with the thought that rugby was one of those size obsessed sports where brute force and ignorance can count for more than talent in a way that just doesn't happen in football - I think that still holds true, but I'm not quite as sure about it as I used to be.