I'd always go for the longevity move, reaching the peak towards the end. It would have to be something like Dino Zoff style
Just as a side note as this thread is called broken hearts, said Edinburgh team of the same name is going into admin which is a shame. I think Spurs legend Dave Mackay was bought from them.
I was shocked tbh, forget what you're seeing, my first thought was Chimp feet!...why would he do that?? You've not done your homework Billy, there's nothing wrong with what Bales done, its no different to CR7.
One of Scotland's great rivalries is Hibs v Hearts or the Jam Tarts as they say will cease unless somebody saves them.
Jay-Z tried to trademark a hand gesture once - which led to him having to pay a large settlement to former wrestler Diamond Dallas Page for trademark infringement.
A hand gesture that's not a million miles away from Bale's, funnily enough: please log in to view this image Also, Paulinho: please log in to view this image Are we just trying to sign anyone who makes that hand gesture now? Bonus if they're also Brazilian?
Great post TMT and fully agree. Sport in general has become completely sanitised, none moreso than football. For me, football stopped being a sport in 1992 when the Premier League was created, it's a business now. Players banned for swearing (Rooney), players banned for kicking balls/ballboys (Hazard), then you have fines like the ones issued out to Bendtner. Football now is a soap opera and scripted and such mantra is repeated often (via Sky) enough so that future generations also believe it. Man U play the protagonist that always overcomes all obstacles (Batman), Chelsea/City are the evil antagonists (Joker/Harvey Two-Face), Arsenal are the sidekick (Robin) and Liverpool are the auld superhero of the 80s, and it's just been decided everyone else outside this Oligopoly of clubs is just an extra in this soap opera and there is an expectation they must sell their best players and so forth.
I don't even bother watching most boxing nowadays, it's a joke. Any of the real heavyweights such as Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Tyson, would take on today's lot one after the other in the same evening - and beat them all.
The heavyweight division is ****e. Froch v Kessler II was an excellent recent fight with a decent undercard, though.
Just heard on CNN that Ribery,Benzema and others were charged with paying for sex with an underaged Tom. The trial has been put back until next year. I didn't know this. Weren't we in for Benzema at one time? International footballers paying for sex. I'm not against it but with underaged Toms it's pathetic as this thread is all about.
please log in to view this image Their defence seems to be that she claimed that she was 18. I think Reading had a better defence than that last season, frankly. They had sex with her when she was 17 and the age of consent in France is a slightly worrying 15, but it's illegal to solicit a prostitute that's under the age of 18. Any suggestion that Ribery was too busy being a Bond villain at the time is unfounded. Allegedly. please log in to view this image