Nice to be recognised... http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/07/12...0-seconds-football-ever-played-hard-disagree/
It's just a **** passage of play from 1993 us v City, culminating with us (Bailey I think) missing a completely open goal, but preceded by miskicks, fumbles, and general dross from both teams. Nothing you don't see every week at LR.
OK, thanks to Google, here's the translation - it appears that the forward was Sir Les...although it didn't look like him to me!! The @ Crap90sFootball account has a fair collection of surreal videos of pre-technical, tactical and professional pre-revolutionary football (here's the Facebook page if Twitter is too hateful for your kind hearts). A collection of headwatches between muddy-field opponents, unsuccessful heels, tragicomic self-help, which represents the dark side of all those beautiful and successful technical gestures that we celebrate here on the Last Man every day. Many times a day. This action, taken by a Queens Park Rangers vs Manchester City in 1993 - a FA Cup game played on January 23 of that year and ended 1-2 for the City - suggested to him @ ianblair99 and push me to make you Following question: are we in the face of the worst twenty seconds we've ever seen of a soccer match? Or better: The worst twenty seconds and at the same time glorious? Should we consider this video as one of the most incredible that we can see about football? Here are a number of reasons that will help you answer: 1. If you do not pay attention to who beats the corner kick at the start, you must look at it at least a second time to figure out which of the two teams are attacking. 2. If you can ignore the player's shirt jumping the corner, you may also look at it more than twice without knowing which team is attacking. That's the purest way you can enjoy this video. 3. Focusing on Queens Park Rangers' number 10 dribbling on the Manchester City goalkeeper you will understand who is attacking and you will begin to make sense of the behavior of other players. 4. At that point, the first thing you'll realize is that the last player to hit the ball, QPR number 9, is not trying to clear the goal area. But the time to accomplish it and you'll be watching the video another time, from head to toe, and your attention will be kidnapped by other details. 5. The second major jumper is to understand that number 4 with the purple jersey and number 10 with the white / blue horizontal striped jersey do not play in the same team. And that purple number 4 was dribbling and running to its door. If you only focus on its defensive dribbling, separating it from what happens first and what happens next, you have to admit it is a good dribbling. 6. Subsequently, however, number 4 seems to pass the ball directly to the number 10 opponent, placing it in front of his goalkeeper. That really was a retrospective: you are surprised not to have understood it immediately, you will feel like those mornings when you wake up for a moment you do not remember what room, what house, what city you are in, and then suddenly recognize you around To you your everyday objects. 7. How did number 4 hit the ball so badly? Why does it go with the outside of the foot? The passage is not only short, but also directed ... not towards the goalkeeper. And if he wanted to pass it to another companion, not the goalie? One moment, I have to deal with it. No, there was no one in the area. Unless he has confused the referee with a companion ... 8. That player, Manchester City number 4, is Steve McMahon, former Liverpool midfielder. A talented but also rough player, a true man of the Premier League of those years. Vinnie Jones, the hardest man in the English hard man, regarded him as his worthy rival. Apparently once McMahon said, "I would kick my brother if it was necessary ... that means being a professional footballer." McMahon is also the player who, in a celebrated photo, consoles "Gazza" Gascoigne after eliminating in the semi-finals in Italy '90. 9. Now you can enjoy McMahon's defensive recovery in all its violent splendor, which, after having realized that it combines a mess with its empty door and anticipates QPR number 7 - Clive Wilson, who actually had their parents Called "Euclid" in honor of the Greek scientist, but who preferred to be called Clive - with an intervention that could have broken a leg and that in his way ends with being even clean. 10. In the Closest Look at McMahon, you can get lost in the amplitude of that white-striped purple jersey, asking you as always in the face of calendering of the 1990s whether it was the jersey cut or if the bodies of the players were so strange. 11. Niall Quinn, McMahon's teammate, wrote in his biography that "it was too intense for us, the carefree atmosphere of our locker room did not do for him." Quinn is also playing in this video, with Manchester City's shirt number 9. Although it is very difficult to identify it, it's good to know that part of the video is also the man in flesh and bones more like Cristiano Ronaldo's bust at Madeira Airport. 12. Okay, now look at everything: the slow and long corner kick, the head shot, the two scuffs in the area and the ball that comes between McMahon's feet: defensive crossover, choked outside halfway between the Own goalkeeper and opponent. Here comes the QPR number 19, which graciously throws the goalkeeper. 13. QPR number 10 is called Bradley James Allen: he is the slimmest in the field and also the only one in this video to get out of it. On the intervention of the long-legged goalkeeper, he pulls his leg at the last moment, sparing a visit to the hospital; Then make an elegant twist to put the ball back into the center. He did not have a great career, Allen, but here's a pretty goal against Chelsea. 14. Another question to which it is difficult to answer: why is City goalkeeper not taking the ball with his hands? The rule forbidding it to be retrograde is in '92, but in this case it comes after a contrast. Tony Coton, who had been elected three times as the best player of the season by the Watford audience, started out with Birmingham City at nineteen years and touched for the first time by ballpicking a penalty awarded after not even a minute The beginning of the game. 15. When the ball comes to Tony Coton it seems all over. It would be a strange video this way, but it would probably not be one of the most amazing soccer videos that we might see in the YouTube age of football. For some reason, Tony Coton decides to kick hard, toe, to an opponent, creating the chaos of the last part of the video. 16. Before going on: Notice how all the players are real in their place, moving only in response to a new event. It looks like a recital. If I were to figure out how football was in the 90s, only in these 20 seconds I would say that you could play in two ways: stop, or run as fast as possible. 17. The negative side of the last part is also the player who is most likely already familiar. I did not make his name, in case you did not acknowledge it, in a mail to make you a surprise. Queens Park Rangers number 9, which seems to debase on a spot of oil in the center of the area, is Les Ferdinand. 18. Les Ferdinand is the ancestor of that kind of physically strong, but also agile and technical striker that today's best clubs would rupture for ridiculous and offensive figures. At the same time there is no better Premier League league in the '90s to emphasize his progression to the foot, balance and composure that was able to keep in the hell of unpredictable contrasts and rebounds. He was so strong in his head - for timing, detachment, technique and precision in the blow - it would have been a pity if he was born twenty years later and had played in a more modern football. All in all, it is better to play the worst role in the video as a player who many remembers for much better action than this. It makes it less unfair. Okay, let's look at what's going on in the last five seconds. 19. I think Les Ferdinand's first mistake is actually the fault of the field. Of the sandy area at the center of the door that attenuates the rebound and betrays its coordination. Ferdinand was split to hit the left, perhaps a sole, but only managed to dampen the ball with his thigh. It has to be said that it is really difficult to reduce such a grass lawn and there is a limit beyond which football becomes something else; And even though that limit, in this video, was probably outdated a second before the ball goes into that sandy area, at this point it's obvious that we are talking about something else. That piece of land in front of Manchester City's door is the Bermuda Triangle where he swallowed up any rational idea of football. 20. How many meters will be wrong with Les Ferdinand? Wait, I have to look into it. I think it's half a meter. 21. The second mistake of Les Ferdinand is even more ridiculous than the first one. He tries to coordinate in a hurry to hit the ball before someone arrives to take it off, and who knows, maybe he wanted to strike him with the outside of the foot instead of the tip. Remember when we did not understand which team was attacking? He took it so bad that with a little effort I could look at him thinking that in reality his purpose was actually to free the door area by taking shelter in the corner. 22. It seems that all human failures have concentrated on the unnecessary effort of Les Ferdinand to hit a ball and push it behind a line a half-meter away. It looks like an insect pulled by a collector's quilt. It looks like an invisible force wants to hold it to the ground, crush it. 23. Take a second and think about the German term Schadenfreude. If you are alone, pronounce it aloud. It means, in the extreme, to feel pleasure for the misfortune, failures, and defeats of others. For the German philosopher Schopenhauer was the worst feeling among those available to man, in sports it is expressed in what we call typhoid, and is the basis more or less of all that makes us laugh on the internet. 24. Now look at the video once again focusing only on the insults of the audience standing up, gesturing toward Les Ferdinand, who almost does not overtake the iron railing that separates him from the field and Les Ferdinand. 25. Before switching to other activities of your day, watch the video again, one last time, focusing on the desperation of Les Ferdinand. He immediately realizes he is wrong, kneels down, but follows the slow trajectory of the ball: only when he crossed the bottom line, Les Ferdinand leans his forehead as if he is praying, letting him express all his desperation Both curved back. We arrived at the end. Now you can answer the initial question: what you have just watched are the worst and worst twenty-two footballs you've ever seen?
