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I think his second half of the season, where he played as a false 9, was pretty good. Extremely mature, the kind of quality player that has a real influence on the major knockout ties.
My yearly Ballon d'Or take: would have given it to Lamine Yamal, but Ousmane Dembele is not a crazy choice by any means.
And with this match, my project of watching all the available games from the 1957-58 season is over. @robfielder.bsky.social and I are in the middle of compiling a Team of the Season already.
Bobby Charlton is clearly the most complete and overall best player on the pitch. He lacks a bit of pace but apart from that does a superb Di Stefano impression: wearing the No.9 but spending most of his time between defensive and attacking midfield. That he will have a great career is obvious.
Strangely enough, the commentator not once mentions the fact that United have just been the subject oft the worst disaster for a football club since Superga. He even uses the language of tragedy, but only when it seems that United were losing their goalkeeper to injury for a second year in a row.
Bolton Wanderers - Manchester United 2-0, the FA Cup final shortly after the Munich air disaster, United start the match poorly and pay for it, Bolton with a strong defense, the second Bolton goal was scandalous

Best players: Charlton, Lofthouse, Hartle, Banks

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Bolton Wanderers vs. Manchester United
Watch the 1957-1958 Bolton Wanderers vs. Manchester United FA Cup Final full match held at Wembley (London) on Footballia
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Alles keine Spieler, die in der Historie ihre Spuren hinterlassen haben oder? Kann man bei Jordi Cruyff natürlich auch fragen, aber er war schon prominent in seiner Zeit.

Grundsätzlich stimme ich natürlich zu, alles reichlich random (und egal).
Verwechslungsgefahr mit Jordi Cruyff und Thomas Müller Trophy?
I guess Harry Kane carries the Alfredo Di Stefano 'box-to-box forward' act as far as anyone can in modern football. Hugely impressive.
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Ich weiß, aber Du wolltest erzählen, was Dir auf YouTube passiert ist!
Alright, so will I. If you keep on reading the blog, I hope you get some enjoyment out of it anyway.
where Germany wins the WC smack in the middle of the period. I honestly think you could spin the same story of bias for at least half a dozen other nations and in the case of Africa probably for a whole continent.
the first eleven in each season where he was established, fit and in-form (5x, never on the bench!). And as for the 85-95 Team, you focus on van Basten not winning Player of the Decade, when the team contains 4 Dutch players, more than any other nation, twice as many as German players, in a decade
As I see it, you read my selections in a highly selective way, focusing on any perceived slight while ignoring everything that speaks against your theory. To take the two examples you just mentioned: you focus on what you see as lukewarmness in my texts on van Dijk but ignore that I selected him for
I'm sorry but you are completely off the mark. I get things wrong all the time, no doubt, but I see no reason whatsoever why I should discriminate against Dutch (or Benelux) players. If anything, I have a particular sympathy for the Dutch tradition of football.
You do understand how the points system works, right? It does not articulate an overall judgment on these players but simply presents the aggregated selections for the Teams of the Season/Tournament. This comes with very limited comparability across positions.
Sorry, but this is a case of comparing apples and oranges. Lewis-Skelly competed against the left-backs of last season, Robben against the wingers of his day. Same with Lahm: he gets that many points because he was so often better than the other LBs and RBs. Robben had to compete against wingers.
So you really still believe I have a structural bias against Benelux players? Like, why? What motivation could I possibly have to do that?
Van Dijk's post injury seasons are far superior to Ronaldo's post injury seasons in my opinion, having recently watched the early 2000s. Ronaldo never became a fully functioning player again (let alone the freak of nature he was earlier), van Dijk did.