Paid Members gmoney Posted April 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) I got 85. Football's shit anyway. EDIT: How the hell do I hide stuff? Edited April 18, 2020 by gmoney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted April 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 18, 2020 36 minutes ago, gmoney said: EDIT: How the hell do I hide stuff? [spoiler] [/spoiler]  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted April 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 18, 2020 Cheers! I was going to say I know these awards are all bollocks really, but it's criminal that Zola and Makelele never made a PFA team of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted April 18, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 18, 2020 Completely agree @gmoney. Sure Zola was footballer of the year as well once and yet didn't make this. @PunkStep I thought I'd got it when I remembered Rufus Brevett an all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted April 18, 2020 Author Moderators Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) Wales vs Italy 2002 is on BBC 1 Wales now. One of the greatest games in history. Often discussed by experts to be almost as good as Wales vs Belgium from Euro 2016 which is generally agreed upon by everyone to be the greatest football match of all time Edited April 18, 2020 by PowerButchi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 21 hours ago, scratchdj said: Here is a quiz. Can you name all players in a PFA team of the year? 163 to guess and 30 minutes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52253706 141. To be honest, it was the more recent ones I couldn't remember. The formatting on that quiz was horrendous as well, scrolling up and down... The sass on some of those descriptions Chelsea 2004-05. Had defences retreating faster than his own hairline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I've been listening to some Totally Football and Zonal Marking podcadt episodes recently. Totally Football are covering seasons of the Champions League since its rebranding and Zonal Marking had an episode on Milan in 98/99. It's made me want to learn more about Serie A through the 90s as I only have the vaguest memories of Football Italia at the time. I'm interested in the decline of Serie A too. I know calciopoli will have played a part but it seemed like the decline was setting in before that - as a kid, the Galacticos at Real and Ronaldinho at Barca made me pay more attention to La Liga and it felt like there was a bit of a shift. I know there was financial trouble with teams spending too much - like Parma and Fiorentina - and having to start up again. Are there any books or documentaries on Serie A through this time? And if anyone knows where I can find Football Italia episodes, that'd be grand too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Calcio by John Foot is an excellent read. Well worth getting if you're interested in the history of it. YouTube has quite a few episodes of Gazzetta and I'm sure I saw Jimbo tease that there are loads waiting to be digitally transferred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Lovely, looks like that will cover it pretty extensively. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted April 20, 2020 Author Moderators Share Posted April 20, 2020 https://thesefootballtimes.co/category/the-football-italia-years/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted April 20, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 20, 2020 If you like Zonal Marking, his latest book (entitled err... Zonal Marking) covers 90s Serie A along with other periods for other leagues/nations. Well worth a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 15 minutes ago, PunkStep said: If you like Zonal Marking, his latest book (entitled err... Zonal Marking) covers 90s Serie A along with other periods for other leagues/nations. Well worth a read. I like Michael Cox, and think he's a fine writer, but he comfortably sits in the Miguel Delaney school of "thin skinned journalists who never admit they could possibly be wrong about some things". Genuinely infuriating sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted April 21, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted April 21, 2020 Miguel Delaney is the David of football journalists. He recently spent 2 weeks labouring his point that Arsenal's invincibles season wasn't a success because they lost to Chelsea in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 4 hours ago, PunkStep said: Miguel Delaney is the David of football journalists. He recently spent 2 weeks labouring his point that Arsenal's invincibles season wasn't a success because they lost to Chelsea in Europe. Idiot. If he wanted to be taken seriously at devaluing that achievement, he should've taken a look at those draws. So many, many draws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Ordered Calcio so will read that after I finish American Gods. Cheers for the recommendation. I forgot that they mention Golazzo on the Totally Football Show so I'll give that podcast a listen too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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