The Year Of The Fox

Being right on here (again) is enough salvation Just waiting on the One Foot Phil penny to drop Roll on 2027

Just googling how many goals One Foot Phil has scored against Barcelona Right foot (apparently he’s got one) 0 Headers 0 Left Foot 0

Sure it didn’t bounce off his head, as he was falling over?

It’s fact If One Foot Phil was a duck he’d be absolutely fcuked

Lol

FWIW I do think Rashford is also overrated At least he has a direction though (forwards) rather than going round in circles like One Foot Phil. I’ve seen one armed rowers do less circles

Can kick with both feet for a start

And I think Rashfords pretty dangerous to be honest

Mad how good a game of football can be still without the goal keeper passing it 5 yards to his right back

Didn’t need to, due to age

Why?

What about the original Ricardo? I don’t specifically remember his debut, but he had a crap time here, so can’t imagine his debut was any good Nope- we won 2-0 away at Derby 😳 He was still crap though

Can’t see it

Verona look decent

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Wouldn’t be in this pickle with Mike Ashley in charge

World class shot there from one foot Phil

Tough one isn’t it. We won the PL with far less talented players whose parts totalled a greater sum. Playing the best footballers you have at your disposal doesn’t always work- we proved that in with that ‘golden generation’ around 1998-2008. Its my belief that in 2016 for example we’d have been far more dangerous with a Kane, Vardy Sturridge front 3, rather than leading the line with Rooney 2012- Rooney was suspended for the first two group games due to him kicking out in the qualifier v Montenegro (I think it was) We played pretty well without him from memory. Got the results, looked dangerous. He came back in for the third game. We looked diabolical. We looked even worse than that v Italy. Every ball ‘had’ to go through one man.

I am talking very few players. That’s my point really Ronaldo and Messi were a class apart. I hear you on the Ronaldo/Portugal thing but what he did in England, Italy and Spain meant he was. I’ve no axe to grind with Kane at all. He just shouldn’t be playing just because he’s captain

But goes missing in tournaments, or certainly the big games in tournaments. Less missing than Rooney used to though

I think it’s far from the ‘English way’ That’s why you can stick an extra few £m on any English players asking price. Bellingham has done it in Germany and now doing it at Real. I think he can be called world class. A few years ago you could put Kane in that bracket too, but now he’s doing exactly what Rooney did for England- playing because he’s been made captain and therefore undroppable if fit

What’ll make you laugh even harder is that I also think Rooney did become overrated. That era from 2004 to 2006 he was undoubtedly world class. (Talking from an international POV) He was unplayable. He then was forced to become, or voluntarily became this all rounder, trying to play everywhere, wanting the ball everywhere, to the point where he was no longer the threat he was. Then he was played because the media made him undroppable, much to the detriment of the rest of the team (2012 onwards) But no, Foden is nowhere near ‘World class’ Not having it

He’s been bang average (at best) for as long as he was playing well Watch the game, watch him. Players like him are the reason England fail to meet expectations every two years- because the players are hugely overhyped

That’s a fair comment. Foden may be the best we have as an attacking midfielder, but it doesn’t make him world class

I think so yes. One of the players Sky seem to brain wash viewers into believing he’s the current Paul Gascoigne. He’s gone missing for 18 months, has one foot, and has just scored a header against Man Utd. He’s hardly ‘back’ and he’s most definitely not ‘world class’