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From: Lawrence Jenkins on 2 Jul 2010 12:18
Tough titty


From: RickyBobby on 3 Jul 2010 13:12


"Lawrence Jenkins" <lawrence13(a)sky.com> wrote in message
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> Tough titty
>

They have already won enough to serve them for decades to come. The rest of
the world has simply caught up to them. And it is pretty much the same way
in every sport. You can watch any sport of your liking and I bet you see
all sides doing pretty close to exactly the same thing. Of course they are
exceptions in individual sports such as boxing. But it team sports they all
seem to use pretty much the same strategy. So when a player gets traded or
sold or loaned out he plays the very next match. It is not like he has to
learn anything new.

And that is a good thing. I would not wish to see any team in any sport
just doing the wrong thing. Then they look like North Korea.

From: NealR2000 on 5 Jul 2010 08:48
Good point.

Football has very much merged into a defence-orientated, highly
strategized form of play today, very unlike the style of the 70s and
80s. Today's players are so much fitter and faster. As amazing as
that 1970 Brazil team were, I suspect that they would be easily beaten
by most top national teams today.
From: RickyBobby on 5 Jul 2010 13:50


"NealR2000" <nealr2000(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Good point.
>
> Football has very much merged into a defence-orientated, highly
> strategized form of play today, very unlike the style of the 70s and
> 80s. Today's players are so much fitter and faster. As amazing as
> that 1970 Brazil team were, I suspect that they would be easily beaten
> by most top national teams today.

The training and coaching that athletes in almost all sports receive is
vastly superior to that of the 1970's. In about the same era that Brazil
was winning all of those World Cups there was a swimmer by the name of Mark
Spitz who won something like seven Gold Medals in the Olympics and I believe
his time was a record in every match. Since then all of his records have
been broken by lady swimmers.

There is both good and bad in this. The good is that you see the very best
sport possible at this time. The bad is that almost everyone is doing the
exact same thing.

But in football I still do not understand why the team that is losing does
not put in three fresh players late in the game? A guy who has not been
running at all would have to be faster than a guy who has just been running
for an hour. It just stands to reason.

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