Liverpool in their prime would overpower them in midfield.
Souness would kick them a mile high and their defence would not be able for Rush and Dalglish.
Oh sorry, forgot to mention we are talking different sport now.
Soccer now is a non contact sport.
Then played by men who gave their all for the shirt....now overpaid pre-madonnas more interested in their hairstyle than the club.
I really feel sorry for Messi.
Pity he was not around in the days of real soccer.
Please don't tell me Real Madrid are anything other than Bon Jovi with a football!!!
Pele, Maradonna, Best all flourished in these times.
My point is simply this, real men did hone their talents to deal with such talent. The strong tackle is a skill also which is now sadly no longer seen as even if legally carried out it is reoutinely followed by a dive etc etc....
Soccer is now a pantomine and cheater's paradise.
My point is Messi would be fit to lace the boots of maradonna etc but that the game now is such a joke that he would have been better off playing at a time when soccer was not the joke it is now.
Isn't it funny how we laud a great tackle in rugby whereas in soccer a strong tackle is a bad word.
Pele, Maradonna, Best all flourished in these times.
My point is simply this, real men did hone their talents to deal with such talent. The strong tackle is a skill also which is now sadly no longer seen as even if legally carried out it is reoutinely followed by a dive etc etc....
Soccer is now a pantomine and cheater's paradise.
My point is Messi would be fit to lace the boots of maradonna etc but that the game now is such a joke that he would have been better off playing at a time when soccer was not the joke it is now.
Isn't it funny how we laud a great tackle in rugby whereas in soccer a strong tackle is a bad word.
I hold my contention that football is now a cheaters and divers paradise.
In the past if there was diving and cheating there was a unwritten law that you could expect a kick....
as Giles once said ....if someone kicked me I would just take his number and get him in the second half....
Now handbags at five paces means yellow and red cards...total baloney and the divers and cheaters know that if they get their marker booked they are on the pigs back.
The beautiful game is gone, gone gone....
REPLACED BY CHEATER'S PARADISE.
Dont often agree with Dunphy but he is right.
Messi is the best player I have seen since Maradonna.
My point is that I would have liked to have seen Messi gracing soccer when physical contact was still allowed.
Then he could be compared with the other greats.
It is just me but I would prefer the tough tackler than the diver etc....
Ronaldo
Drogba
Nani
etc etc...SPARE ME PLEASE!
Souness
Robson
Bremner
Giles
Butcher
Mc Grath
etc etc.....Much missed.....tough operators who knew how to take care of themselves but at least had the honesty to give and take and had the bravery to play close to the edge for the betterment of their team.
I certainly would have the latter group in my team....