bozza
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://cache.images.globalsportsmedia.com/news/soccer/2007/10/20/newswide11915732200.jpg
More of a psycho than a badboy really.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
BGITW has always been an Englishman, ever since I first became aware of football. It's just one of those truths that is self-evident and always has been. Banks begat Shilton, who begat Clemence, who begat Shilton again, who begat Seaman, who eventually begat Joe Hart. The David James era was helluva awkward, because for the first time in forever there was a prolonged spell where you couldn't pretend England's no.1 was the top top man.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I was around in the Banks era you understand, I'm just going by the received wisdom in my childhood footy encyclopaedias. Sometimes the BGITW can be non-English, but only if he's an honorary Englishman like Jennings or Schmeichel.
Lev Yashin is the only exception.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Being a kid in the 90s I was naturally more in love with strikers and wingers to know the answer of this so-
Was it a legit case of Schmeichel and Seaman as world's #1 and #2? You don't really hear about other guys, maybe Oliver Kahn?
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
Chilavert!
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Not really
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardien_europ%C3%A9en_de_l%27ann%C3%A9e
― Au Wazza Balcazar (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ravelli, Pagliuca, Barthez, van der Sar, Walter Zenga ... I dunno tbh, goalkeepers then rarely moved countries or even clubs, so it's down to World Cups really. I don't know if it was a vintage era or not.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
it shows how badly represented goalkeepers get in history that i only know 2 of those, because they played for utd (well i knew vds before) and zenga sounds vaguely familiar.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
You don't know Pagliuca? James Richardson died in vain
― Number None, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
A guy in my class went to the hairdresser circa 1990 and asked for a Walter Zenga cut, and got all incredulous when the barber hadn't heard of him.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Haha. Gianluca Pagliuca, Sampdoria legend.
― pandemic, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
the zenga cut still holds up today, imo.
― Perfect Chicken Forever (Merdeyeux), Friday, 12 October 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
paddy kenny had part of his ear bit off in a 'nightclub incident' iirc but he seems just generally hapless in all respects
he fucking wishes it was (a) merely an ear and (b) a mere 'nightclub incident'
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
pagliuca was amazing!
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
underrated 90s goalies,vitor baia,goycochea,goram
― tell it to my arse (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
two of these things are not like the others
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, 14 October 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
Seaman was way too prone to stupidly high-profile fuckups to ever have been a serious BGITW contender.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 14 October 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:23 AM (14 hours ago)
not sure what u refer to here
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/71478/Stars-pal-bites-off-eyebrow.html
― r|t|c, Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
twice cuckolded and partially eaten but on the other he will of looked at the positives
― Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
marchegiani
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
illgner, kopke, taffarel (<-- last one actually a bit naff)
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
barhez / llama always shakey
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Sunday, 14 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
Paddy Kenny was fucking immense in QPR's promotion season two years ago. Just saying.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link
And I don't mean fat.
that's four hours now the guardian has had "Colliccini is fab and Dzeko is no sub" on the front page
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
What else is new?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 October 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, there you go: 'Chelsea's John Terry to wear anti-racism armband'. I like that they specified the type.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 22 October 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
"fucking black armband"
― give me back my 200 dollars (NotEnough), Monday, 22 October 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/23/roy-keane-book-extract
found this pretty poor.
As a player, he was of his time by not being of his time: he captured the pre-millennium angst of the outsider who cannot understand the world of which he is part. In doing so he brought to mind a number of pop-culture characters of a similar disposition. Two in particular: Tyler Durden in Fight Club and Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. Like Keane, both raged, raged against the dying of society's light. There are other similarities. The intense adoration Keane receives evokes that of Tyler Durden, while his obtuse charisma, anti-heroism and scattergun frustration is shared by Tony Soprano. Keane, like Soprano, was raging for a better world and a better him. He has always been an incredibly complex man, a compelling fusion of instinctive intelligence and pathological desire.
back in your box.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Amused that they highlight the fact that Rafa gives them a quote for the front cover, and that the quote is "These are the writers as you don't normally see them: when they are fans with pens."
Not too sure that this is the ringing endorsement they think it is.
― pandemic, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah exactly... fans with pens is as worrying a concept as monkeys with knives.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
rob smyth can be pretty bad
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
definitely.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if it's based on his stuff, but i've always felt there's a tendency on the guardian's football site to try and mention the wire at any given opportunity.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
Like Colonel Kurtz, Ronnie Johnsen embodied the defeated machismo at the heart of the Western imperial project.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"pre-millenium angst", like what the fuck does this even mean? usually used to describe radiohead's music.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
people felt a unique blend of unhappiness in erstwhile-present-day-year, 1999. the former current year has long been held up as a time of great and distinct feelings of things being rather rubbish.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Klebseron's arrival emboldened Trafford-watchers who had long been used to arrivals from Scandinavia and Holland but never from that far afield. It was said that as he exited the taxi to be greeted by Paul Scholes, he had never seen a person so pale before. Like Doug Liman's thrilling 1999 cult film 'Go', mutltiple narratives were coinciding here, different ideas about what it meant to be a Manchester United player.
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
aw, i was hoping that was real
― Number None, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Are you aware of the Sachin Nakrani affair, btw?
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
no, sadly
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
what's that?
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
a link to a summary:http://therepublikofmancunia.com/guardian-journo-will-regret-starting-battle-with-united-fans/
― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
ugh at that website.
― pandemic, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
That's even more numbing than the Duncan thingy story
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
Put this here 'cos these guys are too old to be child prodigies as such.
In Bed With Maradona did their list of the 100 best young players in the world this time last year and now they're assessing their progress one year on. Not an obscure list, the vast majority most people will have seen play or would have heard about. The new list comes out Dec 19.
Last year's 100 - http://inbedwithmaradona.com/journal/2011/12/21/the-ibwm-100-the-class-of-2012.html
Progress report on first 20 of last year's 100 - http://inbedwithmaradona.com/the-100-2012-intro/ Click on the names on right hand side.
Some excellent photos as well.
― pandemic, Thursday, 15 November 2012 07:27 (eleven years ago) link
Looked to see if Victor Wanyama made the list, now even more depressed about my impending forties by realising he can still make the next one :(
― ailsa, Friday, 16 November 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link