If I am to believe what is constantly proclaimed in the media, Christiano Ronaldo is the best player of the world. However, the same media told me great players raise their game when necessary to win big matches.
Ronaldo has been outplayed by Ballack in two big games recently. Does that mean Ballack is now the best player of the world?

No. It means I am. I am the best player in the world.

Thats like when we were at school and Liverpool were the best team in the land, and they get beat by say Everton, so the Everton fans run around claiming to now be the best team in the land, only for say Everton to lose 2-1 to 'Uddersfeild Town in the cup, so then the 'Udders fans run round claiming they are the best team in the land, only for 'Udders to get a twatting at Elland Road making Leeds United AFC the best team in the land. Ever in fact...

Ah, so that's how come you sing 'Champions of Europe'.

No, that comes from being robbed in Salonika 1973 and Paris 1975 - its a tonuge in cheek reaction to some small event's in our history that we don't feel bitter about, honest like...

No, really...

Honest guv'...

Nope, not at all...
http://www.thebeatengeneration.co.uk/home/home.htm

(Great website by Krumpli)

Nope, not one bit...

But let's not detract from the thread subject matter...

Now, how do you justify proclaiming you are the best player in the world - did you play against and beat Ronaldo haha!

I've seen me play. I've seen him play. QED.

OK, I hold my hands up (in mock outrage,m trying to win a freekick). I may not be very good at football, both generally and in relation to Cristiano Ronaldo. But at least I'm not a pinch-faced, fat-necked, slapped-arse cunt.

Can't get fairer than that!

Robinho's agent was using a similar flawed playground logic the other day.

"Robinho is as good if not better than Cristiano Ronaldo. The difference is that Ronaldo reached the Champions League Final and Robinho did not, but if he had and won the trophy too, then he would be considered on the same level."

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No, that comes from being robbed in Salonika 1973 and Paris 1975

Salonika you can have, it was subsequently proven the ref had been bribed.

Not so sure about Paris in '75. Terry Yorath should have been sent off after four minutes, and that set the tone for a first half in which Leeds played some of the dirtiest football ever to go unpunished by a referee at a major international game. When Clarke was upended by Beckenbauer for "the penalty", Leeds could hardly complain that the ref had been siding with Munich. And the "offside" goal was offside, Bremner (in an offside position) could have touched it on its way into the net. With a modern interpretation of the rules it would have been given, but this was 1975.

And yet conversely, the 1971 game on that Leeds United sore losers website, takes a more modern approach to the offside rule. Yes, Colin Suggett was offside when Tony Brown intercepts the ball but he doesn't pass to him and isn't involved in the move that leads to the goal that loses Leeds the title.

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Robinho's agent was using a similar flawed playground logic the other day.

"Robinho is as good if not better than Cristiano Ronaldo. The difference is that Ronaldo reached the Champions League Final and Robinho did not, but if he had and won the trophy too, then he would be considered on the same level."

And when Lazio signed Mauro Zárate on Friday, their president told the world's media that the club's new striker was going to be better than Lionel Messi.

Given that Zárate's the same age as Messi, not two or three years younger, I'd say he's almost certainly wrong (I do rate Zárate, but not that much).

What the hell is a promising 21-year-old Argentinian doing in Qatar?

There's some fucked up shit in football right now and no mistake...

CTT, his brother, who it goes without saying is nowhere near as good as him, went there, and Mauro being a good family boy with, quite manifestly, an absolutely fucking terrible agent, thought it'd be easier to settle abroad if he stayed somewhere close to another family member (they weren't playing for the same club but were in the same city).

He realised six months into his time at Al-Sadd that he'd made a huge mistake and should have gone with one of the offers that had originally come in for him from Italy, Spain, France or Russia, hence the loan move to Birmingham and increased visibility leading to the Lazio deal (which is also a loan from Al-Sadd).