Postecoglou & Lange (& Paratici) Watch

I would not like to. be the person who tells Romero he is not a real man

 

However good the double team were, they are very unlikely to be as good relatively as the top club sides of today as they were taken entirely from the British Isles. So a very large proportion of the world's best players were excluded. The only ones with a sniff of getting in the current Man City squad would be Blanchflower, Mackay, Jones and White.

 

Thanks, Barney the spaniel sadly passed away on Xmas Eve a few years back. My previous username was “barney’sowner”!

I would have loved to have experienced spurs in the 50s/60s. No subs, play on with injuries and all that mud! They are a soft and spoilt bunch these days.

 

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him feigning an injury or two. Funny how he’s not ready for spurs yet but is available for Argentine!

 

While it is right to be suspicious given GLC’s more obvious attitude towards club vs country, it’s also fair to say that Conte told us that if he’d asked Romero to play through the pain then the player would have done. But it wasn’t worth potentially aggravating the injury and risking surgery and/or a longer-term layoff.

 

Flip it the other way round...very few of any modern players could perform on those pitches with the way the game was played then and with what referees allowed players to get away with.

 

I totally agree, imagine transporting Ruben Dias or John Stones back to 61 asking them to deal with the physicality of a Bobby Smith, with heavy wet leather ball on a mud bath at Maine Road he would pummel them, then move them on a year and get them to deal with Greaves as well and they would run to the De Lorean and get back to 2022 as quickly as possible.

 

As with horse racing, I suspect that the pitches then would
mean that the likes of Azza and Bale could never go
full pelt (and therefore certain types of fatigue/strain injuries
would have occurred less often in their careers than did) .

Prime Greavsie on current level pitches would similarly be
a terrifying prospect for modern defenders though.

 

That person would be Dave Mackay.

 

Or Ron Harris aka chopper.

 

Harris was a pipsqueak. Like a lot of defenders at the time, could be nasty in the tackle, but face to face with Mackay (or Romero) he'd have backed down.

 

Just me that doesn’t see Romero as a hard man type?

 

Compared to Harris, yes.

 

Hard but fair.

 

Just in general, he likes to get stuck in but I don’t see him as an hard man type even in today’s standards

 

Cliff Jones always went full pelt!

 

Well, he did nail my head to a coffee table.

 

You were lucky....