the warmth of lj's maternal embrace is a beautiful way to welcome new football posters into the fold imo.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome post darragh
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I laughed
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm ready for the bigtime
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
noticed&amused by casual choice of terms:enjoying the increased thrills in lower-expectation lower-league football is catholic (thumbs down on you guys)messi's lack of lols/generosity in exchange for focus and consistency is comparatively protestant (high five for him)
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the 'catholic' was in reference to the poverty, substance abuse and wifebeating aspects iirc.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
nobody will want to be my special friend when i praise the chutzpah of chillwave nomenclature as being almost as cool as the murder of abortion doctors
ah right, well i hate all xtians rly but being boring is worse than instituionalizing pederasty i suppose
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the sort of perverted thinking you espouse when you hate on messi
messi >>>>>>> our maddie
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
candela in the windass
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it always ends with slash
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
good wholesome muscly lower-league slash
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I like LJ's large church w/ windass and messi sharing a hymn book
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
good wholesome muscly lower-league-humping-genius-into-submission ecclesiastical slash
― LiveJournal (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
we're getting dangerously close to catholic baiting again with the 'humping in church' thread
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:34 (fourteen years ago) link
72 goals in 89 starts under guardiola
halfway to being barca's record goalscorer.
everyone stfu. leo 'KING' messi.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay. That middle stat is (if true) impressive for him, but really unimpressive for Barca - that makes the all-time record holder ever about the equivalent of Fowler at Liverpool, or a couple of years' Dixie Dean
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
well if my half hearing it while not concentrating on the telly from yerman from revista de la liga isn't good enough for you then i have no care to provide further proof.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Fowler = 183 in 369 appearances for LiverpoolCesar Rodriguez = 235 in 351 for Barca
Messi is Barca's 10th top scorer with 114 in 199Gerrard is Liverpool's with 129 in 517
Dunnon what that means other than Gerrard chips in a shitload considering how deep he plays. Messi not much better than Fowler's goals-per-game but he's 22 years old and getting better every year.
Dixie Dean = pre-war scoring for fun before Hitler spoiled it all.
― what else could go wrong for (onimo), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Controversy on google answers:
1. Cesar Rodriguez 2352. Ladislao Kubala 1963. Samuel Eto'o 1303. Rivaldo 1305. Mariano Martin 124 6. Charles Rexach 1226. Patrick Kluivert 1228. Josep Escola 1189. Hristo Stoitchkov 11710. Estanislao Basora 112 Strawbail7The highest was not Cesar Rodriguez. It was Paulino Alcántara with 357 goals in 357 appearances. He was of Filipino descent and still remains as the highest goal scorer in FC Barcelona History.Guest
The highest was not Cesar Rodriguez. It was Paulino Alcántara with 357 goals in 357 appearances. He was of Filipino descent and still remains as the highest goal scorer in FC Barcelona History.Guest
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Missed out Ian Rush = 346 in 660
I imagine if Messi stays fit and stays with Barca for >600 games he'll surpass that.
― what else could go wrong for (onimo), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
It was Paulino Alcántara with 357 goals in 357 appearances.
215 goals in friendlies.
― what else could go wrong for (onimo), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
114/199 goal .57 goals per game.
129/517 .24 goals per game.
gerrard don't play that deep- a good lot of those goals have been while the team is set up around stevie me as second striker, in fact.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
so Messi may well be third by end of the season aged 22 (fourth after Paulino Alcántara) - that is pretty bloody impressive
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
you'd certainly fancy him to be in 5th anyway.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
600 x .57 goals per game is 342 goals for barcelona.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
No, because if you include Alcántara and therefore friendlies a few other guys move up the table.
xpost
― what else could go wrong for (onimo), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i've scored hundreds of goals in friendlies ffs
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ok you're on the list Darragh 'King' Mac
― what else could go wrong for (onimo), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
they were for barca 'b' tho :(
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Messi not much better than Fowler's goals-per-game but he's 22 years old... and a winger.
― cozen, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
How come this guy played so many friendlies anyway?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
the war? at a guess.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
1911-1927
most games played in the catalunya league- not officially recognised maybe?
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 March 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol english managers- read his wiki page.
Not sure Robbie Fowler ever took more than a couple of touches before scoring, either.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah but that was his MO- took goalie by surprise with early strike. fowler was superawesome from 94-97 iirc.
― DarraghmacKwacz (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/27/lionel-messi-argentina
― caek, Sunday, 28 March 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
diego 'wanker' maradona
― Jermaine Jenason (darraghmac), Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Who do they think he is, Owen Hargreaves?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair to the Argentinians i don't think i've seen Messi do anything for the national team.
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah he never scores beautiful important goals for argentina oh wait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcOd8gdImg
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
obviously he still scores occasionally but i've seen him be totally anonymous a good few times.
― 404s & Heartbreak (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah kids do that, I think Maradona had one good game at the 1982 WC, aged 22. He wasn't anonymous though...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vefHf4Z2lnY
― passing through the whirlyturn (onimo), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
showing the speed of thought to go Souness two seconds after a high-foot incident
― You are feisty, sexy, impatient, and impossible to bed, like Christ (acoleuthic), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
to go Souness
brilliantly phrased
― passing through the whirlyturn (onimo), Sunday, 28 March 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
According to Brazil's physical preparation specialists, at the time of that great Dutch side, players were running 5,000 metres per game. By the mid 90s this had doubled, and now some players are covering 13,000.
For all the talk of whether Messi can be considered one of the true greats, why is there never talk of whether pre-Cryuff players can? It must have been piss easy for Pele to play against defenders who never did anything. I mean louisAlan Hanson can talk about how 'easy' it is to play defences but would the current shiiiiite Burnley side whip the Brazil of the sixties because of phyiscal training alone?
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 April 2010 09:35 (fourteen years ago) link
(I'm not saying they would, or that the 60s Brazil weren't talented... it is just such a distance jump that for a player like Messi or Zidane to have such physical and technical ability as well as stamina and increased tactical ability to work so well when being tracked harder that they are technically doing double the work every match to say Garrincha or Eusebio...)
― he might have even have gone in. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 5 April 2010 09:40 (fourteen years ago) link
If those talented players of yesteryear had today's diet and training regimes wouldn't they still stand out?
― nasri like the wolf (onimo), Monday, 5 April 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
60s Brazil were the first to take a scientific approach to diet & training & all that, so they might've been able to compete, but I reckon they'd've been ripped apart on tactical sophistication. As would Burnley to be fair. The Ajax and Holland Cruyff sides were the first properly modern sides I think.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 5 April 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link