New blogpost: Team of the Season 1953-1954

With Rob Fielder and DMarmeling as guest authors!

The peak of the Mighty Magyars - and the year that would change Real Madrid's fortunes forever.

footballarguments.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/tea…

As Football Arguments and I continue to look at seasons from history we’ve now reached the peak of Hungary’s Golden Team. Who would be the best XI in the world 70 years ago? footballarguments.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/tea…

Marvellous line in here about Odegaard “like being hounded to death by a poet”

How to explain Arsenal’s capacity to batter teams and yet they’ve drawn a blank against City, Villa and Bayern in three pivotal games that threatened to derail their season?

What is it with baseball? Why do they-all have names like Nolan Gorman and Lars Nootbaar?

Fascinating stuff. I always find it incredible (from personal experience) how few books you need to sell to be high in the bestsellers chart.

If anyone personifies this meme now it’s Danny Baker.

People love to fulminate against things like this but it’s just a bit of pantomime villainy. It’s what fans would do if they were on the pitch.

Crazy how this guy has managed to write a book and gain 500k followers on a topic he doesn’t understand.

I knew the cost of living crisis was hurting us all but we’ve now reached the era of the £5 newspaper.

Based on a highlight reel?

All of these sort of discussion within a sort are futile but enjoyable. Comparing across sports is a waste of time.

But the single biggest problem is the level of influence you can exert in a 5v5 sport as against an 11v11 sport.

This sort of thing is so obvious is shouldn’t need saying. If Dortmund end up winning the CL, would anyone think they’re the best side in Europe?

Rare for a national team now to have a genuinely elite level coach. Wonder if he can have the sort of impact Conte did in 2016.

One thing I thought about City last night. All their control, why didn’t they just smash a few towards the bodies of defenders? You’ve got a great chance to get a penalty every time.