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Miguel Sanchez

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  1. Had a dream last night the Chinese had created a rogue artificial intelligence and the only way to stop it from destroying the world was to coax Stephen Hendry into replicating a frame of snooker shot by shot from earlier in his career
  2. Bit ignorant about cars and moody. Annoying, but not necessarily a deal breaker. A racist drink driver. You know the answer to your question here m8
  3. Bolivia won the Copa America in 1963 (as host) and haven't done much else. Marcelo Martins Moreno - Wikipedia is their leading scorer, has played for footballing colossi such as Shakhtar Donetsk and Wigan Athletic, and seems likely to take his country's all-time cap record too. Marco Etcheverry - Wikipedia had a more distinguished MLS career. Erwin Sánchez - Wikipedia played in Portugal and was a key player in their run to the 1997 Copa America final. Their 1963 Copa squad doesn't have many of their all-time leaders. In fact most players from that time have single-figure cap totals. I'm genuinely stuck here, all three have a decent shot for top spot. All three seem better than Bolivia's other sporting exports. This link contains Paulo Víctor Aguilera, a 5 time world champion BMX racer. Or Chavo Salvatierra, a world champion 450cc cross country motorbike racing. The footballer wins, but I don't know which. Whoever replies first gets to pick. Bosnia and Herzegovina looks like a fight between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edin_Džeko and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miralem_Pjanić. I'd say it's close, but Dzeko wins it for the time being. Historically Hasan Salihamidžić - Wikipedia is a decent shout too. Outside of football, Mirza Teletović - Wikipedia played 6 seasons in the NBA. A few people from a while ago represented Yugoslavia and they fall in the same bracket as former Soviet sportsmen for me. They might run it close, but if Dzeko wins the footballer shout he's winning the overall contest too. Botswana don't have much to offer. Joel Mogorosi - Wikipedia has the most appearances for the national team. Dipsy Selolwane - Wikipedia played in MLS Brazil for a bit. I'm going for Mogorosi here for what looks like a longer established career, even if all of it was in African club football. Nijel Amos - Wikipedia won Botswana's only Olympic medal, a silver in 2012 in the 800m. He won gold in this in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and has won an assortment of gold medals in the African Championships too. Seems like an easy win for Amos here. Brazil's best player is Pele. You could probably list about 50 other Brazilians who'd win on the footballer side for several other countries. It's a shame, but it is what it is. It's barely worth looking up what other sportsmen Brazil have, so I'm going to say Ayrton Senna and leave it at that. British Virgin Islands have very little to show for themselves, but Wikipedia seems to say they have a few young kids who've made their international debut in the past 2/3 years, so there might be an easier win here in the future. Tyler Forbes (footballer, born 2002) - Wikipedia has 11 caps and is their 3rd highest goalscorer. Avondale Williams - Wikipedia has 15 caps and 5 goals. You could put these names on a dartboard and not be unhappy with whoever ended up winning, so let's stick with Williams and hope the non-footballer is an easy call. Dion Crabbe - Wikipedia won the 100 metres at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games which looks like an easy win on both counts.
  4. Passengers just made me very uncomfortable. I think I remember a suggestion I saw online that it would have been much better if it was a horror movie from her perspective, as she finds out what happened to her.
  5. Belgium are currently in the most successful period of their existence. I think Eden Hazard - Wikipedia is an easy shout for their best player. Historically people like Bernard Voorhoof - Wikipedia, Jan Ceulemans - Wikipedia and Michel Preud'homme - Wikipedia look decent shouts but similar to Austria, I think Hazard's modern-day top level career is more impressive. In spite of this, I think the non-footballer is going to win. Eddy Merckx - Wikipedia is the most successful cyclist of all time with 11 grand tour wins. Gaston Roelants - Wikipedia was Olympic champion in the 3000m steeplechase (and looked fucking spectacular) . Jacky Ickx - Wikipedia won the 24 Hours of Le Mans 6 times, and was runner-up in the F1 World Championship twice. Merckx and Ickx both have a shout for a win here if you ask me but it's hard to see past Merckx as the absolute best in his sport and better than the footballers as a result. Belize is very slim pickings for footballers. I'm voting Deon McCaulay - Wikipedia as their highest ever goal scorer and current captain. There's not a lot to go on outside of that. It's not much better outside of football. Milt Palacio - Wikipedia played some seasons in the NBA. Verno Phillips - Wikipedia won some junior middleweight boxing titles. Phillips seems like the winner on both counts to me, unless anyone has inside knowledge about Belize. Benin looks like an easy call for Stéphane Sessègnon - Wikipedia. He leads the national team in caps and goals, and has played at the highest level of any comparables. On the non-football side I'm genuinely at a loss. Yémi Apithy - Wikipedia is a fencer who was their flag-bearer at the last Olympics. Easy win for Sessegnon. Bermuda have someone I've heard of! Shaun Goater - Wikipedia! No contest. For non-footballers I think it's Clarence Hill (boxer) - Wikipedia who won bronze in the 1978 Olympics, Bermuda's only Olympic medal. I think it's an easy win for Goater here though. Bhutan is that country with a flag with a dragon on it. Their national stadium looks cool: Chencho Gyeltshen - Wikipedia is called the Ronaldo of Bhutan and looks like he's setting records for his country that aren't going to be beaten, so it seems like a win for him. Outside of football it seems like archery is the national sport of Bhutan. Bhutan was also shut off from the world for most of the 20th century. Most of the best Bhutanese sportspeople outside of football seem to be female, so unless someone can find a name I haven't the footballer is winning this one by default.
  6. If Petrosian is out for being Soviet then has Aronian not ruled himself out for P&B glory by being American? Not sure how I missed this (or how people are casually throwing out Armenian chess player names like it's common knowledge) but he's a decent shout, and I think his recent switch to the US is... well, I don't know what I think it is. I'd still count him as Armenian, but I'm not completely sure why. I'm also not sure he beats Artur Aleksanyan - Wikipedia anyway, and now that I'm looking at him again I'm not sure Mkhitaryan beats him.
  7. Stunned that someone who made a living sniffing her own shite is a raving lunatic.
  8. I've actually just looked Rod Laver up, I can't believe I forgot him too. Might list him instead of Bradman since cricket is shite. Both miles better than their footballers, though.
  9. There are times when it's important to remember @doulikefish's user title.
  10. Bahrain seem to be half-decent by the usual standards of a Middle Eastern country. Top spot seems to be a battle between most capped Salman Isa - Wikipedia and highest scorer Ismail Abdullatif - Wikipedia. I'm giving it to Abdullatif because he's not far behind in caps. Both have spent their entire careers at an assortment of Arab clubs. For non-footballers it gets a bit difficult here because of Bahrain's recent push to have a lot of Kenyan-born athletes running middle and long distances for them. Their three Olympic medals were all won by Kenyan women. Yusuf Saad Kamel - Wikipedia won the 1500m at the 2009 World Championships. Information for other sports seems pretty spotty, so it's hard to judge: Sport in Bahrain - Wikipedia If we're happy with Kamel winning this despite being born in Kenya, it's an easy win for the non-footballer. Bangladesh have remarkably slim pickings for a country with as many people as they do. I'm tempted to go with current national team captain Jamal Bhuyan - Wikipedia because he's Danish-born and spent some time in Copenhagen's youth system, which is better than anything anyone else in their squad has managed. Cricket is much more popular and even if I can't decide on a name it's an easy job here to give the win to the non-footballer. I like the numbers next to Mashrafe Mortaza - Wikipedia's name, why not. Barbados look even worse than the rest of the Caribbean. Llewellyn Riley - Wikipedia played in the League of Ireland and that's what counts as pedigree here. Obadele Thompson - Wikipedia won bronze in the 100 metres in the 2000 Olympics. They have an assortment of cricketers who've played for the West Indies and Garfield Sobers - Wikipedia looks like the best of those, so he wins this round. Belarus looks like an easy win for Alexander Hleb - Wikipedia Wikipedia tells me that hockey is the most popular sport in Belarus and... er, it's not great. It's probably a toss-up between one of the Kostitsyns, Grabovski and Salei and... I'm just thinking aloud here, don't mind me. I'm picking Ruslan Salei - Wikipedia as best hockey player since he had the longest NHL career, and would have surely had a decent KHL career too if this hadn't happened: Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash - Wikipedia There's also Max Mirnyi - Wikipedia who has some Grand Slam wins in doubles in tennis as well as Olympic gold in 2012 with Victoria Azarenka (who'd win this by miles if we were including women). I'm picking him here but I'm not sure if he beats Hleb or not. Any thoughts?
  11. After deliberation, I'm going for Sailer over Alaba. As much as Alaba is good in his own right, there's no escaping the fact that a lot of his success is down to being on a good team. Sailer's dominance in an individual sport, especially one as prominent as skiing is in Austria, nudges him ahead for me. That gives us a running total which suggests the diddy countries are going to win this thing for the non-footballers: Best footballer Best non-footballer Football better? Afghanistan Zohib Islam Amiri Rohullah Nikpai (taekwondo) No Albania Lorik Cana Izmir Smajlaj (long jump) Yes Algeria Rabah Madjer Noureddine Morceli (running) No American Samoa Nicky Salapu Sean Manaea (baseball) No Andorra Ildefons Lima Hocine Haciane (swimming) Yes Angola Manucho Carlos Morais (basketball) Yes Anguilla Ryan Liddie Omari Banks (cricket) No Antigua and Barbuda Peter Byers Viv Richards (cricket) No Argentina Lionel Messi Juan Manuel Fangio (motor racing) Yes Armenia Henrikh Mkhitaryan Artur Aleksanyan (wrestling) Yes Aruba Theric Ruiz Xander Bogaerts (baseball) No Australia Harry Kewell Don Bradman (cricket) No Austria David Alaba Toni Sailer (skiing) No Azerbaijan Rashad Sadygov Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (chess) No The Bahamas Lesly St. Fleur Chris Brown (sprinting) No
  12. I've started watching it again and today I watched the episode where Mark literally sits watching gay porn.
  13. If you're a masochist you could go through this thread and find the injury problems and the manager change at Sporting as he was beginning to get time in the first team. You can't explain away an entire career with 'wrong place wrong time' but it can certainly be applied in places to Gauld.
  14. If masks are so essential, surely people wearing them should feel adequately protected by their own that people not wearing them doesn't matter?
  15. Did you get waylaid while googling "Czech webcam lube"?
  16. They're going to use me for a sex game then burn my body in the bath.
  17. Gauld would have scored 2000 goals by now if he spent his time playing against Brazilian farmers and postmen.
  18. I'm pretty sure you've posted similar on here before and were told he does it on purpose to try and get you to do it
  19. Was there a gif going about of Delph's head on a snake's body when he signed for Man City or have I imagined that?
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