@adir_13 By walking!
This is one of those typical bullshit tweets where every answer is wrong other than the one in the writers head.
This is engagement bait.
Piers, this is why nobody takes your Ronaldo propaganda seriously. You cherry-pick one statistic Ronaldo leads and announce that it “settles” a debate involving an entire football career.
Yes, Ronaldo’s 146 international goals is a phenomenal world record. Messi finishes with 125. Congratulations Ronaldo wins the international-goals category.
But Messi retires having captained Argentina to the World Cup, won two Copa Américas, won a record eight Ballon d’Ors, and then, at 39, took Argentina to another World Cup final.
Ronaldo played six World Cups and never reached a World Cup final. Until 2026, he had never even scored in a World Cup knockout match. Ronaldo never once was the POTT in his illustrious international career. He was not even the best in his team for that matter during any of the tournaments how can he be the best in the world.
So explain the logic: 21 more international goals erase a World Cup?
If raw international goals “settle” the GOAT debate, then why bother playing World Cups, Champions Leagues or awarding Ballon d’Ors? Just sort one spreadsheet column and go home.
Messi didn’t need to score the most international goals in history. He won the trophy Ronaldo spent his entire international career chasing.
You aren’t settling the GOAT debate, Piers. You’re reducing the entire sport of football to the one statistic your favorite player happens to lead.
🐐 debates require the whole résumé not cherry-picking the column that saves your argument.
The ‘street fighter’ fighting for his Captain!
Former Pakistan Cricket Captain, Javed Miandad raises his voice for the legend of the cricketing world, Imran Khan!
The former PM and World Cup winning captain remains arbitrarily detained for 1119 days; incommunicado; vision loss in right eye, deteriorating health concerns, life at risk.
#StopRiskingImranKhansLife
#FreeImranKhan
Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves
@KP24 Another irritating trend growing rapidly on Twitter is famous people complaining about someone's public etiquette or how they been letdown by a business.
Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?
For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir, which according to the UN, amounts to torture and which is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health.
He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.
The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.
He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.
Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.
Yet those orders are being defied.
This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.
He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.
His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls.
I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father.
@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court; restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government to please now do the right thing.