Former all-time World Cup top goalscorer Miroslav Klose:
“I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved.
At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'.
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form.”
Donald Trump announcing the eviction of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, before Starmer could do it, is poetic justice.
Keir Starmer was incredibly hostile and rude towards Donald Trump prior to his recapturing the White House in Nov 2024.
Trump remembered ...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that all of the military age men from the 3rd world are coming to Britain because of climate change.
No ... they are coming for the free stuff you give them.
Sober view on Dublin: SFm was lucky. So was TOB. Both could be carded. James Ryan was stupid and deserved red. Scrum dominance deserved cards but when does it go to far?
Ireland played negatively & could have been carded more. Boks couldnt land KO blow. Worrying
Ire fight was A+
Ongoing generational head loss from the Irish. After all the sneering at SA fans for being so bad about refs this all feels quite karmic.
Every single card Ireland fully deserved. They should have been shown more.
Relentlessly constant.
That’s the Springboks approach to scrum detail. Scrum after scrum after scrum after scrum, nobody errs outside of scrum protocol. Nobody.
Lessons.
#IREvsRSA
"HENRY PILLOCK IS THE GREATEST IMPACT PLAYER IN THE WORLD!"
Own up. Which of you pundits said that in comms earlier today? And why is the first game of rugby you've ever watched?