[kurtsimonw]

He repeatedly made nasty tackles in that game. And that was over the line of tough marking... there's no way all of that just happened. I've seen only a few matches of Del Horno and as mediocre as he was he never looked like a goon...


No he's not. He's done nothing I've never seen before. What makes him a great coach is his unique ability to lead his players and make them give everything, every game. They play or him and try harder for him and it shows. Hell he could tell them to take an opponent out of the game and they'd do it... oh wait that's what happened with Del Horno.

Inter at the Nou Camp was an incredible tactical display. No dirty tactics, no particular star performances, he had each player sit in a zone and not chase and it worked to perfection.

[dst]

Inter at the Nou Camp was an incredible tactical display. No dirty tactics, no particular star performances, he had each player sit in a zone and not chase and it worked to perfection.

I agree. I'm just saying I've seen that before. He's not doing anything new or different. That kind of defending has been the norm in Serie A ever since man-marking faded away. What makes him better than other coaches is that he brings the best out of his players game after game. Not tactically as a team, but individually. If that game was repeated multiple times, a team coached by Mourinho would be able to pull it off more often than a team coached by any other coach.

[kurtsimonw]

Has there been anything 'new' in football though? Everything has been done or tried before.

[Jack Sparrow]

I hate myself for saying this, but this new Barcelona style. You can point out it's 'influences' sure, but this was the final ideal.

[dst]

Barcelona.

I'm not saying Mourinho had to come up with something new. Just that he's not a tactical genius or anything.

[Jack Sparrow]

Go f@ck yourself, you might be the reason my girlfriend leaves me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) You still copy my lines after that??!!!

[kurtsimonw]

Barcelona.

This isn't even the first Barcelona team to play this style.

[Fillipo Simone]

This isn't even the first Barcelona team to play this style.

You can't compare Cruyff's Barcelona with this one. They didn't play tika-taka and never had such a tactical line-up.

[Milan Are Brilli...]

How can you only despise him if he's not on your team? How can anyone not despise him? The pr*** actually assigned one of his players the task to hurt and possibly take out of the game one of the opposition's players!! I think anyone who WANTS TO see things clearly, can easily tell what Del Horno was deployed to do that night...

What can one do that is worse than that in sports terms?

Please tell me you're not talking about the Barca game where Messi rolled around about 15 times, whilst looking out the corner of his eye to the referee after getting very little contact?

But he's a saint and does no wrong right?

[kurtsimonw]

He's a dirty little player, racist to boot.

[dst]

Please tell me you're not talking about the Barca game where Messi rolled around about 15 times, whilst looking out the corner of his eye to the referee after getting very little contact?

But he's a saint and does no wrong right?

What does Messi's theatrics have to do with what Del Horno was doing in that game?

[kurtsimonw]

I never get this arguement. How is being dirty worse than cheating? If you're dirty and foul - you get punished by a red card, etc. If you cheat, you don't get punished and actually benefit.

The theatrics Barca have pulled against Mourinho teams in recent years are lightyears worse than what Jose has done in those games.

[dst]

I'm not talking cheating vs being dirty. I made no comparison at all. And this is not just being dirty. Trying to kick a player out of a game does not compare to anything and has no place in the football world.

[Danny]

I want to marry Falcao. The best striker in the modern game, by a country mile. The guy is a £35M of striking magic. Clinical, powerful, incredible movement.

If Chelsea had had any sense Abramovich would have flung £50M at AM and signed him sharp before the deadline.

[X-Offender]

Diarra has signed for Anzhi. They paid €5 million to Madrid for his services, and the player signed a four-year contract for a wage of €5 million per season.

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We were after this guy for the whole summer. He was Allegri's favorite, but like all mercenaries, he was only after the money. Clown. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)