Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Controversial but entirely correct opinion, no way should Lewandoski have won the FIFA bigbaw award. Symptomatic of the fanboy effect. He scored blah blah goals in blah games and won every trophy. But realistically the German league is utter horse where your average incel would hit double figures every season. All he really achieved is one of Ally McCoist's best seasons at Rangers plus his team won the CL. The CL is a team competition, a player can't help what team he plays for. Lewandoski could easily have played for one of the other top teams and not won that this year, and Bayern could have won it with another top striker instead of him. Case in point Griezmann finishing above Messi in WPOTY in 2018, despite them playing in the same position in the same league and Messi scoring DOUBLE the amount of goals Griezmann did. Fanboy talk 'aye but Griezmann won the WC' as if they wouldn't have won it had you swapped Griezmann for Messi. Therefore his individual contribution to a team achievement is irrelevant in deciding individual awards, except to fanboys. Its a team prize in a team game, so shouldn't have a big bearing on individual awards unless your performance is so outstanding unusually important to your team's cause a la Maradona 86. He plays for a team who women's team would clean up in Germany as the opposition is a bunch of yodeling fermers in lederhosen and averaged a goal a game. Shat it from testing himself at the top his entire career in favour of scoring hat-tricks against FC Shitkicker of Berlin. However the fanboy effect is so strong and the noise they make so loud its blasphemous to question their wisdom. Modric too, laughable WPOTY winner, same thing. -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Crawford Bridge Posted December 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 18, 2020 Give it a rest you whopper. 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Pretty certain that the managers and captains of national teams vote on it, and you can never question their opinions unless you’ve played at that level, remember? 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moonster Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) FIFA/UEFA awards are utterly pointless and not worth paying attention to. I'd argue the only folk who care about these type of things are absolute fanboys. What makes football great is the varied opinions you can have on it. I don't get why folk are always looking to determine who the best was, I don't see that as important. Ronaldinho brought a joy to the game that Messi doesn't, and Messi brings an unpredictability that Cristiano doesn't, and Cristiano brings power that most other players aren't capable of, and so on and so on. It's fine to appreciate all of these things without having to say "he's better than him". As the Young Guv points out, it's a team game and we award the best teams with league titles/cups. That should be all there is and the individual awards are simply there to serve online VL's in their twitter arguments. Edited December 18, 2020 by The Moonster 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Aldo Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Fully deserved from Lewandowski. They should have given him 2 trophies he's been that good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I've caddied for Lewandowski a few times at Gleneagles. Top bloke 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 15 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: Pretty certain that the managers and captains of national teams vote on it, and you can never question their opinions unless you’ve played at that level, remember? No that's bollocks, this is voted for by fans. You just have to register at Fifa.com https://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/fan-voting/ So that's my point completely validated, a fanboy award voted for by fanboys. If it was actually players and managers no way he wins it, cause they know what they're talking about. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 Its just a bunch of fanboys going well he scored the most goals so he must be best. Despite the fact most of them were against the cast of Auf Wiedersehn Pet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Setsniffer Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) Stopped reading at ''Ally McCoist'' although, how can Neuer be the FIFA best keeper and not get in their best XI ? Edited December 18, 2020 by Gus Setsniffer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneteaminglasgow Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: No that's bollocks, this is voted for by fans. You just have to register at Fifa.com https://www.fifa.com/the-best-fifa-football-awards/fan-voting/ So that's my point completely validated, a fanboy award voted for by fanboys. If it was actually players and managers no way he wins it, cause they know what they're talking about. You are simply incorrect. Fans get to determine a quarter of the vote. The rest is captains, managers and specialist journalists. https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/the-best-awards-2020-rules-of-allocation.pdf?cloudid=umrrbgqxefee8co0aw0j Andy Robertson and Steve Clarke both voted for Lewandowski, for what it’s worth. “They know what they’re talking about” Edited December 18, 2020 by oneteaminglasgow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, oneteaminglasgow said: You are simply incorrect. Fans get to determine a quarter of the vote. The rest is captains, managers and specialist journalists. https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/the-best-awards-2020-rules-of-allocation.pdf?cloudid=umrrbgqxefee8co0aw0j Andy Robertson and Steve Clarke both voted for Lewandowski, for what it’s worth. “They know what they’re talking about” Fanboys obviously swung it by going 100% for Lewandoski, tactical voting by those two. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Setsniffer Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said: You are simply incorrect. Fans get to determine a quarter of the vote. The rest of captains, managers and specialist journalists. https://resources.fifa.com/image/upload/the-best-awards-2020-rules-of-allocation.pdf?cloudid=umrrbgqxefee8co0aw0j Andy Robertson and Steve Clarke both voted for Lewandowski, for what it’s worth. “They know what they’re talking about” so its like strictly ? Fans vote for their favourite, and fat munters sitting on their couch eating pringles and maltesers, vote against the slim and pretty one regardless how good her dancing is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I like how he doesn't offer an alternative to Lewandowski. He must be developing early dementia from all those years heading the ball when he was a professional. Sad really. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Bayern won all 6 of their Champions League group games last season with a goal difference of +19, twice scoring six or more in away games, then beat Chelsea 3-0 and 4-1, Barcelona 8-2, Lyon 3-0 and PSG 1-0. They won their league by 13 points (and 16 ahead of a team that made the Champions League semi finals), and they won the cup. This season they've already won the UEFA Super Cup and the German Super Cup. They won 5 of their 6 Champions League group games, drawing at Atletico. But apparently, that's not enough for their best player and talisman - who scored 55 goals in 47 games last season (averaging 1.5 a game in the Champions League) and has 18 goals in 17 games this season - to deserve to win FIFA men's player of the year. Ok then... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Setsniffer Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 12 minutes ago, Crawford Bridge said: I like how he doesn't offer an alternative to Lewandowski. He must be developing early dementia from all those years heading the ball when he was a professional. Sad really. must be a messi or ronaldo fan boy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, GordonS said: Bayern won all 6 of their Champions League group games last season with a goal difference of +19, twice scoring six or more in away games, then beat Chelsea 3-0 and 4-1, Barcelona 8-2, Lyon 3-0 and PSG 1-0. They won their league by 13 points (and 16 ahead of a team that made the Champions League semi finals), and they won the cup. This season they've already won the UEFA Super Cup and the German Super Cup. They won 5 of their 6 Champions League group games, drawing at Atletico. But apparently, that's not enough for their best player and talisman - who scored 55 goals in 47 games last season (averaging 1.5 a game in the Champions League) and has 18 goals in 17 games this season - to deserve to win FIFA men's player of the year. Ok then... Exactly you'd have to be a fanboy to be impressed by rattling them in against fermers. He's basically Kris Boyd with better teammates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Setsniffer Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Carnoustie Young Guvnor said: Exactly you'd have to be a fanboy to be impressed by rattling them in against fermers. He's basically Kris Boyd with better teammates. so enlighten us, who should have won the award ? And Why ? Edited December 18, 2020 by Gus Setsniffer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crawford Bridge Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 33 minutes ago, Gus Setsniffer said: must be a messi or ronaldo fan boy. More likely Neymar. The areshole's areshole. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 Harry Souttar would have him in his back pocket 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnoustie Young Guvnor Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 Lewanfraudski 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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