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Listed below are comments made by Emekus between Monday, 25th August 2008 and Monday, 2nd November 2009.

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The two sides of Lionel Messi 7:42pm on 02 Nov 2009 @thehonorarytitle, I forgive you because this is an internet forum. You are probably 25 and think that all of football is what happens now and nothing before. Let me assure you that you can NOT know more about football than I do.
The two sides of Lionel Messi 6:56pm on 02 Nov 2009 @Post 19, you are a big Messi fan. I am not. I just think that if he is as great as he is being built as then why does the team need to be built around him? Like I have asked before I ask again: What is his best position? Can he play behind a central striker so that the TEAM can play better? Am afraid he can not. It is cos of these 'limitations' that TEAMs like Brazil can nullify players like him and Roman Riquelme all the time. As someone rightly pointed out here, teams should be the goal not individuals.
Football currently favours the forwards hence his great goal that is being compared to Kind Diego's. During King Diego's period he had to hurdle the kind of tackles that get people sent off and banned these days. Argentina have such talented footballers that is madness to alter the team to fit in Messi. Really is. I watched their defeat in Chile and I could not believe how poor Messi was alongside Aguero - they kept passing to each other ignoring Milito who offered the better physical presence. My shock when Milito was hurled off at h/t when it was still goalless. And with him any chance Argentina had of scoring as Kun and Messi were easily nullified.

King Diego should never have gotten that job as I think he is way too passionate to make rational decisions. However, he has a good squad of players and should make a good fist of the World Cup campaign. The conditions should remind them of Argentina '78 in SA which they won.
The two sides of Lionel Messi 3:03pm on 02 Nov 2009 Never been a big Messi fan. I do not buy the arguement that Argentina do not give him the platform to play. Id he is as great as we have been led to beleive. So Argentina will have to play barca style 4-3-3 to accomodate a 'great' player? Not sure I agree with that at all.

I have always wondered what exactly Messi is: a winger? a striker? a midfielder? He is compared to Maradona which is frankly insulting on the great Diego. I am old enough to remember King Diego playing for clubs and country and he was excellent for both. King Diego won matches on his own and his teams used to suffer without him. Barca will be the same without Messi while he does nothing for Argentina anyway. Yes he does dribble excellently with the ball but would he be good in the 'hole' behind a striker? In a Barca team that are always on top in most of their games he excels. For Barca, remove Iniesta and Xavi and the team suffers greatly.
Basile exit sparks change of direction for Argentina 11:54am on 20 Oct 2008 Great article as usual Tim. You are a bout of fesh air here to be honest.

I saw the Chile/Argentina game and I think Messi and Aguero should really be ashamed of themselves during the first half at least. They pointedly ignored Diego Milito all the time he was in a better position choosing instead to look for each other. I was appalled.

That WC '94 game against Romania was just a sumptous feast; frankly, I will be ordering it this week for my library. Basile has nothing to be ashamed of. It is the players that played badly and leaking stories to the press.
Brazil require style re-think 4:49pm on 25 Aug 2008 Tim, I think it was downright poor that Dunga got the job in the first place. I am a Nigerian and we were brought up on the beautiful game as played by the Brazil team of '82 and to a lesser extent the team of '86. It was the arrival of DUNGA to the team of '90 that the country went backwards. I truly disliked him as a player and it is a traversty that he and the likes of Mazinho have world cup winners' medals and Zico, Falcao, Socrates, Careca and so on do not have. In the match against Argentina he was just mad and out of his depth. Imagine asking Anderson to man mark Messi? Then there was Lucas and Hernanes in the same midfield!! In the previous game they struggled to overcome 9 man Cameroun cos there was no creativity. Then he dropped Pato. There are too many sins and really he should be sacked and Brazil return to basics. He has capped so many destroyers in his midfield that it should be judged a crime.

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