| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal 22:05 - Sep 1 with 3350 views | dominiciawful |
The all-time men's international goals record and only 15 away from equally the men's caps record.
Bit of a freak, really. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 08:53 - Sep 2 with 748 views | BloomBlue |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 22:33 - Sep 1 by BlueBadger |
Fair play to him, there's very few that can fall over in or near the penalty area like he does. |
At least Eric Gates did falling over with a bit of flair. He made it an art form, footballers these days don't have any respect for their profession |  | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:02 - Sep 2 with 747 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 08:53 - Sep 2 by BloomBlue |
At least Eric Gates did falling over with a bit of flair. He made it an art form, footballers these days don't have any respect for their profession |
I take it that Eric Gates liked a dive? |  | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:12 - Sep 2 with 739 views | The_Last_Baron |
Ronaldo is one of the greats, he will be remembered forever. I place him as the greatest from this century. All this arguing over who is the best, it is just an opinion. Messi is incredible, another who will always be remembered and a completely different type of player to Ronaldo. We have been lucky to have two of the greatest ten players to have ever played football starring in this era.
Maradona was the complete footballer and he had to put up with being kicked all the time. Same with Pele, Best and Cruyff. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:21 - Sep 2 with 727 views | BloomBlue |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:02 - Sep 2 by MattinLondon |
I take it that Eric Gates liked a dive? |
I think his size helped in being smaller he quickly understood that a challenge from a taller player often looked ungainly (unfair) and resulted in a freekick for him and then he developed that into an art form of diving. Many a freekick in a dangerous area was won by Gates with a slight dive. But he did it with so much more flair, too many footballers these days make it look so obvious | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:12 - Sep 2 with 690 views | brazil1982 |
Ronaldo and Messi have a remarkable injury (free) record too. |  | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:19 - Sep 2 with 678 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:21 - Sep 2 by BloomBlue |
I think his size helped in being smaller he quickly understood that a challenge from a taller player often looked ungainly (unfair) and resulted in a freekick for him and then he developed that into an art form of diving. Many a freekick in a dangerous area was won by Gates with a slight dive. But he did it with so much more flair, too many footballers these days make it look so obvious |
But is that due to the fact that there are now tens of different angles all in glorious HD ultra slow motion that makes any dive look obvious? Whereas back then, you might well have had a couple from yards away which made a dive look less obvious? | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:20 - Sep 2 with 671 views | Herbivore |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:19 - Sep 2 by MattinLondon |
But is that due to the fact that there are now tens of different angles all in glorious HD ultra slow motion that makes any dive look obvious? Whereas back then, you might well have had a couple from yards away which made a dive look less obvious? |
I dunno, it's easy to see that Neymar is a massive fanny without the aid of a replay. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:25 - Sep 2 with 661 views | brazil1982 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:20 - Sep 2 by Herbivore |
I dunno, it's easy to see that Neymar is a massive fanny without the aid of a replay. |
I went to a Barcelona match a few years back. Messi was glorious. Neymar - what a fraud. When he got the ball he done one of these:
1. fell over
2. fell over
3. screamed if it wasn't delivered exactly to his feet.
4. ran a little and fell over.
It was a disgraceful performance. | | | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:29 - Sep 2 with 656 views | Herbivore |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:25 - Sep 2 by brazil1982 |
I went to a Barcelona match a few years back. Messi was glorious. Neymar - what a fraud. When he got the ball he done one of these:
1. fell over
2. fell over
3. screamed if it wasn't delivered exactly to his feet.
4. ran a little and fell over.
It was a disgraceful performance. |
He's a proper little scrote. Embarrassing. | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:53 - Sep 2 with 634 views | Garv |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:12 - Sep 2 by The_Last_Baron |
Ronaldo is one of the greats, he will be remembered forever. I place him as the greatest from this century. All this arguing over who is the best, it is just an opinion. Messi is incredible, another who will always be remembered and a completely different type of player to Ronaldo. We have been lucky to have two of the greatest ten players to have ever played football starring in this era.
Maradona was the complete footballer and he had to put up with being kicked all the time. Same with Pele, Best and Cruyff. |
Beauty of the whole thing is that you can't really compare Messi and Ronaldo because they're so different. it's nature vs nurture essentially. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 10:55 - Sep 2 with 638 views | itfcjoe |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 08:07 - Sep 2 by Swailsey |
Hard to make an argument against him being the greatest player of all time really. He’s simply incredible. |
It really isn't - it's hard to make an argument that he isn't "one of the greatest players of all time", but it's incredibly easy to argue that he isn't "THE greatest player of all time" |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:05 - Sep 2 with 626 views | JDB23 |
I always think of Messi v Ronaldo a bit like Federer v Nadal. Silky skills with unreal natural technical ability v someone with a high technical ability but incredible strength, power and determination to win.
I’ve always preferred Nadal to Federer. I also think Ronaldo’s achievements outweigh Messi’s but I think it’s fair to say Messi is the most naturally gifted footballer of all time. |  | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:11 - Sep 2 with 621 views | Herbivore |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:05 - Sep 2 by JDB23 |
I always think of Messi v Ronaldo a bit like Federer v Nadal. Silky skills with unreal natural technical ability v someone with a high technical ability but incredible strength, power and determination to win.
I’ve always preferred Nadal to Federer. I also think Ronaldo’s achievements outweigh Messi’s but I think it’s fair to say Messi is the most naturally gifted footballer of all time. |
Not sure that quite works. Tennis is an individual sport whereas football is a team game. If you look at their individual stats, Messi scores more goals and has way more assists, but he also offers more to a team as well imo, not just through the assists but through the chances he creates and his ability to dictate a game. For me he is a much more complete player than Ronaldo. | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:13 - Sep 2 with 619 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Always good when TWTD turns into the comments section on Facebook |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:14 - Sep 2 with 618 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:11 - Sep 2 by Herbivore |
Not sure that quite works. Tennis is an individual sport whereas football is a team game. If you look at their individual stats, Messi scores more goals and has way more assists, but he also offers more to a team as well imo, not just through the assists but through the chances he creates and his ability to dictate a game. For me he is a much more complete player than Ronaldo. |
A little out-of-date but the statistics for both players are absolutely phenomenal.
https://messivsronaldo.net/all-time-stats/ | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:21 - Sep 2 with 605 views | Herbivore |
They are, amazing stats for both players. For me it's what Messi offers other than just goals that makes him the more complete and better player. That he scores at the rate he does whilst doing everything else he does is phenomenal. | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:43 - Sep 2 with 579 views | JDB23 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:11 - Sep 2 by Herbivore |
Not sure that quite works. Tennis is an individual sport whereas football is a team game. If you look at their individual stats, Messi scores more goals and has way more assists, but he also offers more to a team as well imo, not just through the assists but through the chances he creates and his ability to dictate a game. For me he is a much more complete player than Ronaldo. |
Obviously I’m not comparing directly like for like, I just see similarities between the two. I agree Messi is the better all round player, I’m still not sure who I’d want in my team in an absolute must win game though. | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:54 - Sep 2 with 572 views | chicoazul |
He’ll make Man U worse this season just like he did for the last 3 at Juve where he failed catastrophically. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:59 - Sep 2 with 555 views | Dyland |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 09:02 - Sep 2 by MattinLondon |
I take it that Eric Gates liked a dive? |
"Penalty ref" was one of my most abiding memories of early days at PR. I loved Gates. Brazil too.
The cultured know-everything Town fans always say Beat, Wark or Mariner, but for me it's a tie between Gates and Brazil, so meh. Taking into account general service, obvs Wark. For the record, loike. |  |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:06 - Sep 2 with 542 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:54 - Sep 2 by chicoazul |
He’ll make Man U worse this season just like he did for the last 3 at Juve where he failed catastrophically. |
Exactly this.
Apart from wining the title over there, scoring over 80 goals in 100 or so games, winning the Italian cup and being their leagues highest scorer - What did he do? | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:08 - Sep 2 with 533 views | Herbivore |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:06 - Sep 2 by MattinLondon |
Exactly this.
Apart from wining the title over there, scoring over 80 goals in 100 or so games, winning the Italian cup and being their leagues highest scorer - What did he do? |
Left them after they failed to win the title for the first time in about a million years. | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:09 - Sep 2 with 531 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 11:21 - Sep 2 by Herbivore |
They are, amazing stats for both players. For me it's what Messi offers other than just goals that makes him the more complete and better player. That he scores at the rate he does whilst doing everything else he does is phenomenal. |
It all depends on what you mean by a complete player - if you include defensive abilities then Ronaldo, for his aerial ability is better than Messi. But, you can easily make a case for both. | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:10 - Sep 2 with 525 views | MattinLondon |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:08 - Sep 2 by Herbivore |
Left them after they failed to win the title for the first time in about a million years. |
And Messi left Barcelona because? | | | |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:16 - Sep 2 with 512 views | chicoazul |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:06 - Sep 2 by MattinLondon |
Exactly this.
Apart from wining the title over there, scoring over 80 goals in 100 or so games, winning the Italian cup and being their leagues highest scorer - What did he do? |
He was brought in for one thing and he failed to do it. He made them worse and saw them lose the league for the first time in years. As an aside he has left them nearly bankrupt too. | |
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| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:20 - Sep 2 with 504 views | itfcjoe |
| Cristiano Ronaldo, 111 goals in 180 games for Portugal on 12:16 - Sep 2 by chicoazul |
He was brought in for one thing and he failed to do it. He made them worse and saw them lose the league for the first time in years. As an aside he has left them nearly bankrupt too. |
An interesting phenomenon now, where the super players earn so much money, that they leave the overall squad hamstrung as can't afford to put enough around him.
Can see the same happening with Haaland next summer | |
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