BoyBrumby
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Maybe they got an offer they couldn't refuse? ()Craig said:Why did Inter sell him?
Maybe they got an offer they couldn't refuse? ()Craig said:Why did Inter sell him?
Unbelievable that Terry got nominated ahead of him for the All Star team.GeraintIsMyHero said:Prmph where's Hargreaves?
Errr ZIdane
Erm why, they're different positions.roseboy64 said:Unbelievable that Terry got nominated ahead of him for the All Star team.
Players who play well over 7 games are much better than those who do it over 3 games and 99% of another.dontcloseyoureyes said:Any team of the WC without Neill in the center of defense is a joke.
Oh I didn't know that, thanks big guy.marc71178 said:Players who play well over 7 games are much better than those who do it over 3 games and 99% of another.
Well to begin with, it was named after 6 games. But do you really believe that players who have a minor part in a successful side that makes the semis are more worthy of an "all-star" team than those that have a huge part in a team that does well for, say, 4 or 5 games?marc71178 said:Players who play well over 7 games are much better than those who do it over 3 games and 99% of another.
Bigger impact != Better performance.FaaipDeOiad said:Neill and Essien (for instance) had bigger impacts on the relative success of their sides than Terry or Figo or whoever.
Difference in terminology. The point is the same - the all-star team should be the best players in the tournament in terms of their performance and the effect they had on the games they played in, relative to all the other players. Totti played in a better and more successful team than many other people in the World Cup, but he didn't have a particularly good tournament by any means, and as such shouldn't have been in the all-star team.steds said:Bigger impact != Better performance.
Indeed...Neil Pickup said:Not Zidane. Not now. No way.
One can raise the same point with Cannavaro.FaaipDeOiad said:Zidane was the correct choice, in my view. He was the best player, and without him it's exceedingly unlikely that France would have made the final.
Maybe it's a cultural thing related to Australian sport, but I don't see how you could possibly fail to give the "best player" award to someone just because they headbutted someone in the last 5 minutes of the tournament. Doesn't have any impact on how he played for the rest of the tournament at all.
Mind you, the award was given out at half time it seems, so the headbutt wouldn't even have happened yet.