Spain v France Euro 2000

comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 36 seconds ago
comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 21 minutes ago
Henry, national hero
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Are you still pretending to be French??
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The poster or the nationality?
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No silly, you’re French, he’s pretending to be French

Hope that clears it up
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Pretending?
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Continent he pops up and claims to be French just as their national side are good again

I’m Just jesting pun, who am I to say your not French?

At least you’re not like that Rosso bloke who lives in cheadle and has never visited Portugal...

I know mate. I was about to surrender anyway

Just thinking about who was playing in the PL around 1999/2000.

Scholes, Giggs, Beckham, Vieira, Gerrard, Zola, Keane, Pires, Ljunberg, Bergkamp, Henry, Kanu, Carrick, Lampard, Di Canio, Fowler, Owen.

No doubt a fair few glaring omissions, but these boys could all do bits.

Hardly anyone in the current Man City side can pass like De Bruyne or Trent, so I don't think using them as a barometer to say the standard of passing nowadays is any fairer than saying the standard of passing nowadays is toilet when you think about what Beckham was doing in the 90s before football clubs had groundsmen.

comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 2 minutes ago
I know mate. I was about to surrender anyway
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very good

comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 5 minutes ago
I’m Just jesting pun, who am I to say your not French?

At least you’re not like that Rosso bloke who lives in cheadle and has never visited Portugal...
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Does rosso really live in Cheadle?

comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 16 minutes ago
comment by The Lambeau Leap (U21050)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by gratedbean (U4885)
posted 45 seconds ago
I’m not going to debate that with you. I think the general level of passing ability across the board is far higher than it was 20 years ago myself.
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I think generally that's probably true, but in my opinions only insofar as the quality of the average player in our league has improved dramatically in that period of time.

Teams outside the top 4 sides in England are no longer having to settle for the Muzzy Izzet's or Kinkladze's of the world.

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Come on. Compare that Spain team in 2000 to their national team a decade later. The standard of technical ability is on another level, and that Spain team in 2000 had some great players of the era.
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spain didnt base their approach on all out short passing uber technical stuff with 5ft 1 players back then

it was thought in spain that style wouldnt win anything

aragones showed it could win (before Pep had even started as farza manager btw)

spain didnt base their approach on all out short passing uber technical stuff with 5ft 1 players back then

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But had they, I have no doubt Guardiola and Luis Enrique would've wreaked havoc on teams.

Hierro was injured i think for that quarter final against france

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2000_squads#Spain

useful squad i think