Deadline day

[Relahni]

The gossip columns are implying that Robinho doesn't like the physical side of the game, having complained all the time to the Spanish refs after moving from the almost contact-free Brazilian league.

Well....we're about to find out if that's true.

He'll be alright in the Premiership then.

I've watched about 10 matches so far this season and haven't seen many tackles.

 

[JTG]

The gossip columns are implying that Robinho doesn't like the physical side of the game, having complained all the time to the Spanish refs after moving from the almost contact-free Brazilian league.

Well....we're about to find out if that's true.

Brazilian football has changed massively since I last watched it if it's 'almost contact free' these days.

Every time I've seen it it's been brutal

 

[tarannau]

Contact free Brazilian league? You're having a fucking laugh ain't you - the game may be less frenetic, emphasising movement and passing, but the tackling's brutal. See what happens to Kerlon, for example, when the defender gets a little frustrated with his seal header dribbling.

 

[aylee]

we've signed xisco!!!!!http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1382160,00.html

ssnews just confirmed it!

He probably raps better than Gazza, anyway ....

 

[DexterTCN]

Contact free Brazilian league? You're having a fucking laugh ain't you -

Gossip columns mate...don't shoot the messenger.

Nice vid though, ta.

 

[JTG]

Contact free Brazilian league? You're having a fucking laugh ain't you - the game may be less frenetic, emphasising movement and passing, but the tackling's brutal. See what happens to Kerlon, for example, when the defender gets a little frustrated with his seal header dribbling.

I think people subscribe to this daft idea that the Brazilian league must be full of pretty pretty performing seals playing for the love of outrageous skills with the opposition standing off to applaud them...

When you have to contend with the sort of challenges that happen in Brazil, the rest of the world must seem like a piece of piss.

 

[Augie March]

He probably raps better than Gazza, anyway ....

Hey! I did that joke on the first page.

 

[tarannau]

I think people subscribe to this daft idea that the Brazilian league must be full of pretty pretty performing seals playing for the love of outrageous skills with the opposition standing off to applaud them...

When you have to contend with the sort of challenges that happen in Brazil, the rest of the world must seem like a piece of piss.

The weird thing is that, despite the brutal hack-downs and cynicism, players are still far more inclined to show off their flashy ball skills. Something of a cultural thing perhaps, but some of the tackles make the Premiership look positively effete and overprotected. So perhaps, to encourage more skills, we should allow more Chopper 'Arris style action over here again

 

[Rollem]

i haven't stopped laughing yet

 

[Relahni]

i haven't stopped laughing yet

Well, perhaps Roman will quit the football playground now there is a bigger boy in town!

Chelsea to go bankrupt in the next few years anyone?

 

[g force]

We can but pray

 

[Diamond]

The gossip columns are implying that Robinho doesn't like the physical side of the game, having complained all the time to the Spanish refs after moving from the almost contact-free Brazilian league.

Well....we're about to find out if that's true.

It's not quite as simple as that. In the Brazilian league the game is a lot slower for various reasons so although you get some pretty awful tackles they tend not to come in at the frequency or intensity of those in the European league. It's also tactically a quite naive league when it comes to defending so you get less closing down, which is what the columnists really mean when they talk about the Brazilian league being less physical. You certainly don't get the sort of juggernaut defenders bearing down on you the second you get the ball in the Brazilian competitions, partly because the players there are just not as big.

Having said all that it can be a very dirty league and when it kicks off on that side of the pond, it really kicks off. This isn't in the Brazilian league but it's kind of representative of the nutty games that you can get in South America. Copa Libertadores final from 2003 between America de Cali (Colombia) and River Plate (Argentina) in Cali:



What you don't see in that video is that the riot stopped the game for about 10 minutes and that when it restarted D'allessandro was having to take corners with a wall of riot police all around him forming a phalanx of shields to protect him from the missiles coming down from the stands.

 

[ZAMB]

Well, perhaps Roman will quit the football playground now there is a bigger boy in town!

Chelsea to go bankrupt in the next few years anyone?

Surely now Kenyon should get the boot? I really hope so.

His arrogance pissed off RM, probably because they failed to tap up Ronaldo.

He was saying last week that Robinho was a done deal.

 

[DexterTCN]

Surely now Kenyon should get the boot? I really hope so.

His arrogance pissed off RM, probably because they failed to tap up Ronaldo.

He was saying last week that Robinho was a done deal.

Sour grapes from RM, surely. No Ronaldo, trouble in the ranks and all the serious money starting to gravitate towards the PL - they couldn't stop Robinho moving but wanted to make sure of a 'fuck you' to ManUre.

As has been said I'm not sure he'll stay at MC for long, wonder what his contract says.

 

[ZAMB]

Sour grapes from RM, surely. No Ronaldo, trouble in the ranks and all the serious money starting to gravitate towards the PL - they couldn't stop Robinho moving but wanted to make sure of a 'fuck you' to ManUre.

It was even more of a 'fuck you' to Chelsea though. They would have paid the same amount. Please, please let this be the end of the slimy, smirking Kenyon. That would almost make it worth the whole Robinho farce.