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Kimbeast:
I made a mistake in my earlier assertion of your post. If you are talking about the last decade then no debate from me but my forcus all along have been on the initial golden generation which consisted of more than 5/6 if not 7 world class players. It's a mystery how England didn't win even a spoon.

All right then. Ibime already did justice to the reason why they didnt win anything. Its not really about the coaches. Its the players. They never had an all rounder balanced team. When the had good CB's like Terry, Ferdinand, good midfielders like Gerrard and Lamps; they were lacking in the forward deparment and on the wings.

Even when they were almost getting it right, they had the rugged Italian team, a more balanced German team to contend with.

Kimbeast:
Go and read the entire interview of Rooney then come back. He was talking about England golden generation which was from 2003 to 2010 which consisted of scholes, Rooney, Lampard,terry,James, Ferdinand, Gerrard,Cole, Campbell, Neville,Owen,becks etc Compare that to Spain generation from 2008 to 2014 Man to man and Spain don't even come close. The summary of the point rooney was driving at was put that golden generation under a coach like Guardiola and they would have dominated.

why is this different from this ?

Kimbeast:
It's obvious you don't get the point Rooney was making. He said ten years ago England had arguably the best squad in the world and if compared man to man to that Spanish team England comes out on top and with a manager like Guardiola they would have dominated,why is that not valid and to claim the Spanish team was unstoppable is silly.The only competition they dominated was euros 2012, their world cup win was lucky at best.

You clearly stated they had arguably the best squad in the world 10 years ago. i told you that is a blatant lie and showed you ranking of players 11 years ago, 10 years ago and 9 years ago. It showed spanish players doing well both at club and country level.

Now u are going back to quote 2003-2010 when we had Italians, Frenchmen, Brazilians doing better than their English counterparts. Abeg forget jonzing wey Rooney dey jonze.

like I said, its mere wishful thinking on his part.

Kimbeast:
It's obvious you don't get the point Rooney was making. He said ten years ago England had arguably the best squad in the world and if compared man to man to that Spanish team England comes out on top and with a manager like Guardiola they would have dominated,why is that not valid and to claim the Spanish team was unstoppable is silly.The only competition they dominated was euros 2012, their world cup win was lucky at best.

England didn't have the best squad 10years ago when compared to the Spanish team. That is a mere fallacy you can never back up with data other than dem say dem say.

Below is the ranking of Balon D'or for 2008, 2009 and 2010 ( that is ; 11 years ago, 10 years ago and 9 years ago). Now tell me the number of the so called England best suad players that made top 10.

Dont even come back and start talking about their national team coach beacuse If the players are as good as u want to claim then the good games they play in their respective clubs should earn them higher ranks in the list

Kimbeast:
Don't be silly. A team with prime Rooney,becks, Ferdinand,Terry,lamps, Gerrard,scholes etc was on par with the any Spanish team in the past decade. Even Pep said the same thing in 2017. Here is an extract

""In 2017, Pep Guardiola said he could not understand why England did not achieve more with players such as Frank Lampard ,
Michael Carrick , Paul Scholes , Steven Gerrard ,
John Terry and Rio Ferdinand and claimed they were on the same level as Spain's golden generation of 2008–2014."

Oga this is not a Ronaldo lima, del piero debate you will form ancestor on top. We were all alive when these same set of players played. He referred to 10 years ago. We all watched them play. Those spanish players were there superior. They played for a Spain that won the Euros in 2008(11 years ago) and later won the world cup in 2010(9 years ago).

The spanish team was unstoppable. As regards whatever anybody says, anybody can claim anything. We watched a spanish team that was by far better than anybody around.

popizaino:
"I watch [England] with excitement and happiness when they are winning," he said on the Wayne Rooney Podcast.

"You look at our team 10 years ago and arguably we had the best group of players in world football.

"Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Ashley Cole, [Steven] Gerrard, [Paul] Scholes, [Frank] Lampard, [David] Beckham, myself, Michael Owen - our team then, if we had a Guardiola with that group of players, we'd have won everything, no doubt about it."

Wishful thinking. A spain team that had in form Torres, Xavi, Iniesta, Ramos, Puyol, David Silva would've dumped them out like its nothing; Except no be Europe they want to win the so called everything. Abi he thinks Guardiola can use every Tom, Di.ck and Harry to achieve his game play? most of those he mentioned won't even make the cut.

Even the German team 10 years ago wouldve bested them irrespective of who their coach is.

Congratulations Airmark.

Can't wait to see Hector in play

Rigger governor congratulating the president of rigger.

SkimpleD:
The number 19 in numerology denotes the beginning or closing of a season of time. The number 19, which is the combining of 10 and 9, usually denotes God's perfect order in regard to his judgment in the Bible. Also, the number 9 is about releasing the old to make way for the new. It is about endings and the natural culmination of a cycle. Literally, it depicts a new beginning in the cycle of the world.

According to research and discoveries, energy is usually generated on a month like this and will peak on the ninth day of the ninth month of the year 2019.

Aside the number 10 before 9 which makes it 19, the real number should read 999 and this represents a significant number in the dark world.

Every spiritual person understands this and wouldn’t joke with the day.

What did I just read

Is marriage now an achievement? Instead of promising those corpers that have business idea and want to stay behind after their service year to harness their entrepreneurial skill in the sate 200k as start up capital.....smh

If a corper decides to stay behind and gets 200k as start up capital, of the business grows he may be able to employ one or two youths in the bears st future.

But if u give them 200k to marry and after marriage no job, they spend the whole 200k on feeding after which they give birth and poverty keeps multiplying.

Where is the sense in this?

starbuck:
You dey east ... I have been looking for SOMEONE'S to eat as I am tired of my own

You want to eat his work?.....Go ahead my dear

I had quite a mouthful of whisky yesternight and needed to really really early today; so I had to eat out.

Crispy yam, fish sauce and gizzard to the rescue

sod09:
Pepe needs to start performing he dribble way too much.
I think the midfield is very obvious xhaka shouldn't start for us again, torreira and Jerry curls/ ceballos then ozil in number 10 to give killer passes

Baba, whether we like it or not we bought pepe beacuse of shakushaku. The same thing we accused all our wingers not doing

I was here last season seeing people lament about how we don't have a natural winger. That was why we wanted Zaha, Carrasco and later Everton. We wanted someone to do the take on and pass the ball to the front man and score us goals. Pepe has been doing the takeons, he only needs to improve in his passing game and score goals like modern wingers in the mold of sterling, mane etc do. Shikena!

kokaneprodigy:
and are we doing any better now? We even played with more purpose than what we have under Emery.

If we suffered then, na over suffer we dey now be that.

I hope he will do well with quality players at his disposal now. With a goal poacher like Auba, a deadly winger like Pepe, a rugged forward like Lacazette and a technical baller in the middle like Torreira ; he has no excuse whatsoever

sod09:
you still want me to pray for wengay abi

U and Wenger fight na Akure.

Na when una two meet for heaven una go sort una issue

iPopAlomo:
And we still made top 4...


Unai Emery is a disaster...


Tell him to sort out his midfield...

If we made top 4 then, it was beacuse there was no wolves, Leicester, Bournemouth, Everton and Tottenham with quality players like we have now ó.

We for no make 8th that year. Chu park young as top 9

I agree the midfield needs to be sorted real quick tho

We suffered that year o

unitysheart:
I am particular about that Shyllon that you mentioned.

And you think that all the bad spots can be done in 100 days?

Please wake up sir.

I deliberately mentioned key parts in the state. I mentioned The shyllon corridor cos it is a very very important road in Lagos

Even the ikeja under bridge is very much close to the general hospital. Imagine rushing a known person to the hospital from Agege and one gets stuck there. Just imagine it.

If they can't prioritize within 100 days and think of such key places and have issues partaining to them sorted out in order of importance, then I don't really know what they are doing

unitysheart:
I know that pot hole and I enjoin the governor to give attention to it. But ask yourself, is federal road now the responsibility of state Governors to repair?

What exactly do u mean? If ìkoròdu road is federal road, is ikeja under bridge that links ọba àkran road also federal road?

I also pointed out key places in Lagos where refuse are still being dumped on a daily basis which should be the responsibility of the government.

By the way, what will it cost a governor to patch a major road be it federal or state road?

Stories

There's a mad pothole on ìkoròdu road between shyllon and onipanu bus stop. NURTW touts collect toll on behalf of the government few meters away from that place. NB: Ìkoròdu is like the second busiest corridor in Lagos after third mainland bridge. And this one says he's celebrating 100 days in office

Ambode was purportedly shown the way out because they claim Lagos was dirty under him cos he displaced PSP/LAWMA arrangement. Today Lagos still remains dirty, u could see dirt at Egbeda, go to idumota early in the morning u would see filth, broad street on the island isn't spared either.....yet he's celebrating 100 days in office.

There's a pothole between airport bus stop and national bus stop when heading to iyana ipaja from oshodi. Filling that pothole won't even take half a day by the Public works department, yet the pothole causes serious traffic on a daily basis.

Even ikeja under bridge close to the Ecobank where there's a roundabout, there's a pothole that causes serious traffic during rush hours that has been left unattended to.

If a governor refuses to fix little stuff like this within 100 days in office and only comes out to reel out plans and plans and more plans, I am really afraid we are in for a long long 4 years o