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Platini v Maradona maybe?
I don't believe players are better now than they used to be. Look at Maradona, that fat bas**rd can't run about now like he used to.
Don't think Messi gets in the top 10 for best of all time for me. Overrated. Needs world class players round him. Always gets found out at world cups.
Why do people keep banging on about Nigeria's kit being amazing? It is absolutely horrendous!
Quote from: Boomstick on June 22, 2018, 02:58:49 pmDon't think Messi gets in the top 10 for best of all time for me. Overrated. Needs world class players round him. Always gets found out at world cups. I didn't agree with it and thought there were more worthy but Messi did get the Golden Ball for the best player at the 2014 World Cup, not sure if that's him being found out!
Switzerland had a referendum a few years ago where they voted to clamp down on immigration. I wonder what their national side would be like now if they’d stopped immigration 40 or 50 years back.....
Excellent research BRR. On top of those 9, I THINK, the following are second generation immigrants:AkanjiRodríguezXhakaZakariaGavranovicDrmicBürkiQuite an astonishing mix of players representing a country that has firmly put itself against immigration.
What current position? Surely it's a completely mute point. If immigration was clamped down on 50 years ago, the course of history would have been completely different, and it's as equally possible that the players would have been just as good, worse, or better.
Let me get this right Boomstick. You’re suggesting that if there hadn’t been immigration from Africa and the Balkans to Switzerland, the “indigenous” (stupid word but it’ll do for now) Swiss would have produced better players than they have done?