Celtic vs Liverpool Legends (C5)

[paulcooper4]

Excellent post!

Obviously the great players of the past would have adapted, but its fundamentally a whole different ball game so to speak.

bob your huge intellectual analystic brain is going to explode. Just lower yerself to our level and pick one, gerrard or souness

[Bob]

bob your huge intellectual analystic brain is going to explode. Just lower yerself to our level and pick one, gerrard or souness

Gerrard.

Bobbies

[paulcooper4]

Gerrard.

Bobbies

[paulcooper4]

souness

[zimbo]

I would have liked to have seen teams of 60's, 70's and 80's for myself, because as the game evolves, it's a style of football that will never be seen again, and I'm sure most people would argue that it was a better game to watch all those years ago.

I'm 83 you know.
What are all you people doing in my house?

[Tom]

Souness. If you could put Souness in his prime up against Gerrard - Souness would own him - one way or another

Also, I wonder what Gerrard's shot's would be like with the heavier ball?

[Mumsafan]

Souness. If you could put Souness in his prime up against Gerrard - Souness would own him - one way or another

Also, I wonder what Gerrard's shot's would be like with the heavier ball?

I bet he'd hurt himself

[Tom]

Things were much better in the old days. We used to live in a cardboard box and eat gravel

[paulcooper4]

Things were much better in the old days. We used to live in a cardboard box and eat gravel

you lived in the posh part then mate

[Neil Young]

couldn't agree more. I think football is less enjoyable now than at any other point in history. The ball should in theory be in play longer without the back pass rule, but due to a combination of lighter balls/poor control it spends half the match in the stand.

The players we used to have were clever players when it came to the game of football. Knowing where & how to run seems basic but these milionnaires we have struggle with even that.

Good point about the balls. I don't think players these days have worse control, they have less time though.

But these balls that dip and swerve all over the place, it makes goalkeeping a lottery and rewards talentless no-marks like Lampard shooting from all angles because the ball will do the work and bamboozle the goalie.

Anyway I don't really like goals scored from long shots. Kuyt's goal against Newcastle was a better goal for me than Alonso's (though Xabi's was exciting). It was classic Liverpool, a few passes, a defence-splitting pass from Alonso, first-time cross, finish, 1-0. Like the good old days in some ways (though more an Aldridge goal than Rush).

[Los Rojos]

Like the good old days in some ways (though more an Aldridge goal than Rush).

Yeah - Rushie would have put it through Robinson's legs

[Neil Young]

My dominant memory of Rushie's goals is him running on to Dalglish through balls while Aldridge fed off low crosses (sweeping them in like Kuyt did) and I associate Keegan's goals with Toshack knock-downs. In my mind each has a distinct style of goalscoring though of course they all got plenty of goals in other ways.

[paulcooper4]

My dominant memory of Rushie's goals is him running on to Dalglish through balls while Aldridge fed off low crosses (sweeping them in like Kuyt did) and I associate Keegan's goals with Toshack knock-downs. In my mind each has a distinct style of goalscoring though of course they all got plenty of goals in other ways.

This is very true. I always think of rushies goals in that way too, even though I can vividly remember him hitting them in from short range/long range, headers/volleys, either foot, tap-ins and spectacular.

[Los Rojos]

This is very true. I always think of rushies goals in that way too, even though I can vividly remember him hitting them in from short range/long range, headers/volleys, either foot, tap-ins and spectacular.

Anyone remember that Rushie hat-trick on a cold Friday night against Villa. Goals with his right and left foot (including a Van Basten like volley) and a header. World class.

What we need is another Welsh goal machine up front for us

[Tom]

My dominant memory of Rushie's goals is him running on to Dalglish through balls while Aldridge fed off low crosses (sweeping them in like Kuyt did) and I associate Keegan's goals with Toshack knock-downs. In my mind each has a distinct style of goalscoring though of course they all got plenty of goals in other ways.

That would have been when we played away from home. We used to play on the break, with Dalglish the lynchpin in midfield who would thread a ball through to rush on or around the halfway line. His pace did the rest.

At home we just used to camp outside the oppositions penalty area, keeping prossesion and looking for the probing pass.