“I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”
Scottish legend and former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley has come to USMNT star Christian Pulisic’s defense and hits out at pundits from FOX Sports. 😳
“I don't like it,” Burley said on ESPN FC about Pulisic’s critics.
“I get it, he's had a tough tournament because he started well, got injured, hasn't really found his flow again, ends the tournament the way he pretty much started and got injured.
“But the pile-on, the pile-on to an individual, is way over the top.
“It's like, if Christian Pulisic had a great tournament, the U.S. would have gone all the way. That's kind of how the talk is.
“And I get it, he has a responsibility, and he didn't come into this tournament to try and be under par or play badly.
“But to me, if I was Christian Pulisic, I would be big-time annoyed. In fact, if I was Christian Pulisic, I think I'd be digging some of these people out, personally.
“Because it seems to me it's almost a personal attack on an individual rather than an analysis of the football that's gone before.
“Because if it's an analysis of the football, you could go through pretty much the whole team and say, well, he had a bad game, he had a bad game, the goalkeeper made a mistake, you saw Sergiño Dest had a terrible game, letting balls bounce in the box, all that sort of stuff.
“But it seems that he has been painted up there as the poster boy, and now that some of them, who should know better by the way, some of them, because they've been in that position, want to kill him. They're absolutely killing him.
“It’s people from FOX. It's the same people that when Flo Balogun was told he could play, they were on that network, and they embarrassed the hell out of themselves for about half an hour.
“They all danced around the fact that it was wrong, and said, this is the greatest decision in the history of U.S. sports, Flo Balogun's going to play. That's how embarrassing these people are. They have no shame.
“You're criticizing a player for not carrying a team, no further than you yourself never carried a team.
“You know, it’s not like some of these past players got to the semifinal or whatever and they said, well, he had a disrupted tournament.
“Look, do I think he's perfect? No. But I'll tell you one thing about Christian Pulisic, and going back to [Landon] Donovan and one or two others, at least he's had the stomach to go to Europe over a long, long period of time and forge out a pretty good career for himself at Dortmund, at Chelsea, at Milan.
“He’s gone over there for a long period of time and he has produced some very good performances.
“Some of this lot sitting on their cozy sofas, they can't say that. Yeah, they can talk about what they did in MLS, they can talk about what they did now and again with the national team, but they didn't have the stomach, some of them, to go over there and train your butt off and play at elite level for years at a time.
“They dipped their toe in the water and they jumped back over the pond. But yeah, they want to sit here and kill him.
“And listen, they can analyze games all they want. I don't care. That's their job. But here, I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”
@russdiemon These artists will come and go, real lyricists will stand the test of time and always prevail.
Real raps fans find quotes like this disgusting.. XXL don’t need to change, we need more newcomers respecting and delving into the BARS.
Fuck their melodies. I wanna hear RAPS!
Chomp
Nintendo genuinely sponsors a MLB team and has now released 2 switch sports games without baseball and also did not give us a new Mario Super Sluggers lol genuinely what is the point.
🚨 Eden Hazard on why some people rated him above Neymar:
“People always loved comparing me with Neymar two players who enjoyed dribbling, taking risks, and making football fun. I always respected him because his talent was obvious.
But I remember one night at Stamford Bridge that changed how I saw myself.
We were playing a big match, and from the first minute, their defenders had one plan kick me every time I touched the ball. One tackle came late, then another. After about twenty minutes, one defender looked at me and smiled like he had already won the battle.
At halftime, I was angry. My socks were torn, my ankles were sore, and some teammates told me to release the ball quicker.
I looked at them and said, ‘No... now I want the ball even more.’
Second half, every attack came through me. I started driving at the same defender again and again. One dribble, then another, then I created the goal that changed the match.
After the final whistle, that same defender came to me and said, ‘I’ve never chased someone like that for ninety minutes.’
That night, when journalists asked me about Neymar comparisons, I smiled and said:
‘Neymar can make football look beautiful… I wanted to make it feel impossible for defenders.’” ⚽🔥
• What do you think about people criticizing ticket prices for the World Cup?
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Gianni Infantino: "You can't even watch a college game in USA for under $300... and this is the World Cup."
"We have to look at the market. The American market is the most developed entertainment industry, so we have to apply their rates."
"Tickets can be resold. So if prices were lower, people would buy them all and resell them anyway."
Public service announcement: the "death of slim shady" is a conceptual album, therefore, if you listen to songs out of order they might not make sense. Enjoy.
You keep preaching that Abramovich's methods of hire and fire weren't sustainable, you want to run a project with one coach that will last for a long time, sacked Tuchel cos you wanted a coach who has experience with young players and can work with a DOF, brought in Potter, sacked him, got Lampard to finish off, and now got Pochettino, making it three managers(four if Salter is added) that have coached these players.
He came in, amidst the injury crisis that were already existent, he had 59, but still made Europe, was winning the fans back and was loved by the players... But you ignore all that and send him away, now looking for another clueless bloke that will come in to this club and get sacked after another 6months!
Let the word out... WE ARE F*CKING SHIIIIT!
The owners never had a project in mind, they've been clueless from beginning and are running a circus at this point!
And to you all that got on the #POCHOUT wagon... F*CK you all too!
We'll see who lied!
#CFC
86*3 🧐🧐
Haven’t crafted packs since toty
Very light progress in my club, but a nice pull, been playing Chelsea P&P,
Going to try out a new squad soon to fit Grimaldo in👍🏻👍🏻
@MattFifaTrading So you’ll apply the filter(lut)
And then likely adjust it to your liking anyways.
Basic point is it’s mostly subjective and it seems you’re going at it properly imo
Hopefully this helps alittle
@MattFifaTrading You may be able to find a lut (basically a preset) that someone has made specifically for eafc
Your recording may look slightly different from others even tho it’s the same game, so eye balling it is tried and true.
I like rgb curves, a lot of tinkering and you’ll get quicker