Rob Fielder
@ademir2z
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Author of The Complete History of the World Cup and The Complete History of the European Championship.
Joined May 2011
For those following the 30 for 30 threads, I thought it would be helpful to have them all together in the same place. Starting with the background/rationale.
I’m shortly going to kick off my 30 for 30 review of the best players by position of the last 30 years and before I do, I’ll set out some background to the process and how I’ve chosen them.
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This feels quite reductive. Do RM have more “football IQ” than City? Or did City make individual errors?
5. Madrid didn’t win because they were fitter. Or because of tactics. They won because their players saw things faster, reacted quicker, and made the right decisions at the right moments. It wasn’t luck. It was FOOTBALL IQ.
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As someone who doesn’t go the ground that often I’ll never quite understand the criticism of Daniel Levy. I grew up watching Spurs in the 90s and it was generally awful. He’s made plenty of mistakes but he’s turned Spurs into a club where this season feels an aberration.
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Some of the early stuff from IFFHS was absolutely exceptional for the depth and detail of their research.
Libero no.7, 1991. Club line-ups: European Cup 1956-57 African Nations Cup 1990 Includes early international line-ups: Argentina, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. Cc: @sp1873
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It’s the tactics that have driven the players, not the other way around.
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Quite an astonishing admission this from someone employed as a pundit by various channels. Isn’t analysing football his job?
"My head would be fried!" 😫 Paul Scholes expressed concerns over elements of Ruben Amorim's coaching approach since his arrival at Old Trafford on the latest Fan Debate.
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I have every book that France Football have produced on this and none of them have the voting details.
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I sometimes join in training with the kids I coach (U9s and under) and this is what it feels like. You are toying with them. But he’s doing this against one of the best teams in the world.
Ronaldo's elastico in the first ten seconds of this comp from the Inter v Lazio UEFA Cup Final in 1998 might be the smoothest skill in association football history.
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I try not to comment too much on transfers but there’s been a weird trend in recent years where PL clubs have signed young centre-backs from France with potential ahead of ones who actually have performed really well already. The season before last Danso was exceptional.
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Tried using DeepSeek on some quite basic historical football questions. Strange how wrong it is. Basic facts all completely wrong.
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@GyurkaSarosi Well yes you would because, with respect, you are the person who has spread the idea around.
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