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Originally Posted by kingweed
Lol hh
Players use to get the utter **** kicked out of them as players couldn't get near them, even 15-20 years ago.
search Claudio Gentile Maradona 1982
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Originally Posted by Elrazor
Bannister was an Oxford medical student who thought different. Obviously the rest is history, but after Bannister ran a 4 minute mile, in the next 12 months something like 30 more runners broke the barrier.
I'm not sure that's right. Reference?
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Originally Posted by sixfour
His rating then, dunno, there's been rating inflation. Short's current rating is top 100 fwiw
mmkay. if you say so. always Spec, tho', for top UK chess talent
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Originally Posted by PNHH
Is the guy who had the WR in the 100m in 1963 or whenever ~= Bolt?
Bolt (independent of whether with or without drugs) is a one off freak. So no.
The atheletics records are a little weird since pre~1980 few people could sustain a career in athletics, even given working for the army in EE or USA.
But Bob Hayes, winner of the 100m at the 64 Olympics, was at least of the same/similar quality as the non-Bolt people now running. [Hayes made a living becoming a HOFer wide receiver in the NFL.]
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
manager news
brent might be about to replace the shergoat on the one hand its obv essential that brent is managing in the pl but on the other i fear this could be the goat's last pl job for some time if he loses it now. hopefully brent waits for a better spot
ancelotti wants to come back to the pl (odd how all these high profile managers have recently found out that they love the pl style of play and so forth)
I'm in favour of the Brent One replacing Comrade Pulis at WBA if possible. As advised by MF:
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Originally Posted by MindFckr
.. so basically Rodgers it is, IF he accepts.
I can see him just taking some time off and getting a team that is going to be lower risk high reward similar to Swansea. Maybe if WestBrom or Stoke can't get their **** together quick enough.
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
had no idea that jd had a german gimmick account
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Originally Posted by MindFckr
hey JD
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
especially to him, lol international managers making the slightest bit of difference. paying capello eighty billion per day really did the trick.
mf you are zeestein, but there's a fatal flaw in that argument, pool now have klopp so the milner hendo part of the mid is going to be gegentriangulating out of control
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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
bookies often take factors other than FIFA rankings into account when framing markets fwiw
eg, who LO has taken a punt on