Tom Brady
Peyton Manning’s 2013 season was far better than anything the check down artist produced this decade.
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Oh no you dont…
Bellickeck is the coach of the decade, no doubt about that.
Coach Caldwell a distant second
@Rocko, @Big_Dan_Campbell, throw up yer fan blogger man from The Athletic’s Celtic team of the decade please.
Mine is
Forster;
Lustig, Van Dijk, AN Other, Tierney;
Brown, Wanyama, McGregor;
Forrest, Dembélé, Edouard.
Send on the link, don’t see it on the main site
Eire team of the 10s
Randolph
Coleman-Dunne-Duffy-Ward
Walters-Whelan-Hendrick-Brady
McClean
Keane
Subs: Didsy, Browne, Lapira
Manager: Noel King
Wow, world class
U off ur rocker mate? No jack byrne?
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The 2010s: Daniel Taylor’s England team of the decade
By Daniel Taylor 7h ago
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In celebration of the sporting decade that is coming to a close, writers from The Athletic have been picking their teams of the 2010s — here, Daniel Taylor names his England XI…
Goalkeeper: Joe Hart
The saddest thing about Hart’s decline is that there will be so many people who need reminding that, in happier times, he was once a goalkeeper with realistic credentials to be considered among the best in the world.
Hart’s international career wound up with a 0-0 draw against Brazil in November 2017. That was his 43rd clean sheet for England in 75 caps, meaning he accumulated more shut-outs than David Seaman (40/75), Gordon Banks (35/73) and Ray Clemence (27/61), with only Peter Shilton (66/125) ahead of him on the list. Hart also had the eighth-longest international career of any England goalkeeper, lasting nine years and 166 days.
True, he did become accident-prone and unreliable, and who can forget Andrea Pirlo putting him in his place with a Panenka after the goalkeeper’s Grobbelaar-lite antics at Euro 2012, but there were plenty of highlights, too — not least a game in Slovenia in 2016 and one save in particular that might not be remembered with the same nostalgia as Banks v Pele 1970, but was very nearly as spectacular.
Right-back: Kyle Walker
It isn’t easy understanding Walker’s sudden exclusion from the England set-up and he could be forgiven for feeling aggrieved bearing in mind he has been such a key player for Manchester City and, previously, Tottenham Hotspur.
Perhaps it is just the consequence of Gareth Southgate, the England manager, having so many options for the team’s right-back spot and an unusually careless performance from Walker against Holland during the Nations League finals in the summer.
That was the last time Walker started a match for England and the future now for the national team surely involves Trent Alexander-Arnold in that position. Overall, though, Walker warrants a place in this XI on the basis of the 48 caps he has won since making his debut under Fabio Capello in 2011.
Centre-back: Gary Cahill
“When I hear about a defender who is good on the ball, I think: ‘Oh Christ,’” Jack Charlton, an England centre-half from another era, once remarked (in a discussion about Rio Ferdinand). It is a great quote. But it is a different time now and Cahill lost his place at Chelsea, and then England, largely because he was not considered to be cultured enough in possession.
All the same, he still managed a total of 61 caps and no one bar Wayne Rooney has made more appearances for England in this decade. Cahill must have done something right, bearing in mind he was selected by five different England managers. Yes, Ferdinand was the classier player but the former Manchester United man made only five of his 81 appearances from 2010 onwards and, for that reason, Cahill makes the cut.
Centre-back: John Terry
You didn’t necessarily have to like the man to recognise why he warranted a place in the team. And there were times, undoubtedly, when Terry made it difficult to embrace him. He lost the England captaincy 36 days into the decade because of all that business with Wayne Bridge’s ex-partner. There was a rogue and near-mutinous interview during the 2010 World Cup and, pre-Euro 2012, a court case for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand (Terry was acquitted only to be charged with misconduct by the Football Association and eventually banned for four games).
Six years on, it still feels unsatisfactory that the trial appeared to have greater ramifications for Rio Ferdinand’s international career, as Anton’s brother, rather than the man whose supporters celebrated the not-guilty verdict by opening a bottle of pink cava in the public gallery of Westminster magistrates’ court. Terry finished his England career on 78 caps, four major tournaments and more controversies than he would probably wish to remember. But there was no getting away from one fact: he was a brilliantly combative and inspirational centre-half.
Left-back: Ashley Cole
If nothing else, at least English football came to realise how nonsensical it was for the Wembley crowd — or at least a good proportion of it — to boo Cole after making a rick of a backpass, leading to a goal (albeit a largely irrelevant one), in a 5-1 victory against Kazakhstan in 2008.
Cole spent a long time as the player the crowd disliked the most. He was a scapegoat for the team’s erratic performances and it wasn’t a quick process before the fans at Wembley wised up and started to recognise him for what, in truth, he always was: a wonderfully talented left-back with genuine credentials to be considered among the best players England have ever produced for that position.
Central midfield: Jordan Henderson
No doubt there will be plenty who disagree with the inclusion of the Liverpool captain, particularly when it comes at the expense of a 106-cap player in the mould of Frank Lampard. But, then again, Henderson has probably grown accustomed to having his credentials questioned and, if this England XI needs a defensive midfielder, the first point to consider here is that he has started more games in that position for the national team than anyone else over the last decade. His first cap was in November 2010, he is still a fixture in the squad nine years later and he also, lest it be forgotten, helped the team reach a World Cup semi-final last year.
Central midfield: Steven Gerrard
At the risk of being slightly unfair, perhaps it was a reflection of Gerrard’s international career that it ended so harrowingly for him at the 2014 World Cup. His mistakes had led to the team’s elimination and it is difficult to forget the scene on the morning before the team flew back.
They had been in Brazil barely a week and Gerrard was slumped in his chair, wearing several days’ worth of stubble, staring at the walls of a windowless room at the team’s training centre. He was “hurting bad, broken”. That was his last involvement and, knowing how tremendously hard he always was on himself, it is safe to assume it still pains him now that he did not always play as magnificently for England as he did for Liverpool.
Equally, a bit too much can be made of that sometimes and it would be wrong to think Gerrard should be consumed with regret. He was still an automatic pick for England. He wore the shirt with distinction for the most part and, with 114 caps, there is only Peter Shilton, Wayne Rooney and David Beckham above him on the all-time list of appearance-makers.
Right forward: Raheem Sterling
The days have passed when Sterling found it difficult to replicate his performances for Manchester City on to the international stage. Yet his inclusion in this England XI was not entirely straightforward bearing in mind he once endured a 27-match streak without scoring.
That run lasted three years and, though it can feel like a trick of the mind now, there was a lot of debate during the last World Cup about whether he should be removed from the team. Sterling has now scored ten times in 11 appearances since that tournament and, after the game against Kosovo in September, Gareth Southgate was asked whether the player could eventually take over from Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as the outstanding footballer of his generation.
A little much, perhaps, but maybe we can forgive the risk of hyperbole when Sterling has flourished so brilliantly for club and country, particularly when he has also emerged as one of the England team’s leading voices against racism.
No 10 role: Wayne Rooney
Of course, there will always be regrets. Rooney found it difficult to light up the major tournaments, particularly the 2010 World Cup, and his more exhilarating performances tended to be much earlier in his career. Remember Rooney as an 18-year-old at Euro 2004? The baby-faced assassin (or assassin-faced baby) described by Sven-Goran Eriksson as the English Pele?
From 2010, it was never quite so exciting and, to be picky, a sizeable proportion of his 53 goals came against the kind of obliging opponents that can make international football feel so lopsided sometimes. That, however, was partly the case with Sir Bobby Charlton when he set the record at the 49-goal mark.
Rooney’s achievements for England might never have involved going beyond a quarter-final but the fact the FA asked him to step out of international retirement for a farewell appearance at Wembley in November 2018 — an invitation that has never been afforded to anybody else — sums up his contribution.
Left forward: Danny Welbeck
File alongside Jordan Henderson as another controversial choice. Yet please also consider that Welbeck’s 16 goals from 42 appearances for England compares favourably to, say, Raheem Sterling, who has scored a dozen times in 55 caps.
Welbeck is duly in the list of England’s top 30 all-time scorers, with the same number as Tommy Taylor and Tony Woodcock, and a few places higher than, among others, Teddy Sheringham and Trevor Francis.
He didn’t just score in the irrelevant matches either: only four of his goals were in friendlies. Not bad for a player whose career has been besieged by injuries and whose inclusion in the England team, winning 30 of his caps under Roy Hodgson, was often held up as a sign that it was not a golden age for the national team.
Striker: Harry Kane
Has anybody mentioned Iceland yet? The image of Kane trying a shot from 40 yards in the dying minutes of that ordeal — followed by mutinous chants of “you’re not fit to wear the shirt” from many England supporters — still lingers in the memory from Euro 2016. Though, to give him his due, he was not the only one to have a bad time that night and two years later he certainly made up for it by winning the Golden Boot at the World Cup.
Kane has now scored 32 times for England in 45 appearances, including 14 in one ten-game burst, and that puts him joint-12th in the all-time list of scorers. In the last international break, he moved ahead of Frank Lampard, Alan Shearer, Nat Lofthouse and Sir Tom Finney in England’s all-time scorers list. Wayne Rooney, to put it in context, had managed only 14 goals at the 43-cap mark. No wonder, therefore, that Gareth Southgate felt emboldened enough recently to say that if Kane, aged 26, can stay fit, there must be a reasonable chance of him taking Rooney’s record.
What’s depressing is that is probably close enough.
Ward is a terrible left back, but bar putting Stevens who’s played fuck all, or a fudge with Brady or Hunt he’s the only choice.
You can make a case for Hendrick but only on 2’16 form. Andrews maybe a tad unlucky. Duffer played a few years at the start of the decade but was probably past his pomp for this team.
Peak McGeady would start but he was very inconsistent.
I think peak Long would probably get the nod ahead of McClean but you’d have to have Jimmy in.
I’d go with a slight fudge in midfield and have
Randoplh
Coleman-Dunne-Duffy-Ward
Walters-Whelan-Brady-McClean
Long Keane
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Best films of the decade
- Grand Budapest Hotel
- Baby Driver
- Once upon a time in Hollywood
- A Star is Born
- Dunkirk
- The Joker
- Inside Out
- Rocketman
- Argo
- Les Miserables
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And here’s their Celtic team of the decade
The 2010s: Celtic’s team of the decade
By Kieran Devlin Nov 25, 2019 5
The big dilemma when putting together this team of the decade was this: longevity and consistency, or pure ability and impact? Much of the team, arguably most of it, completed itself, but there were three or four positions that demanded long and agonising hours awake at night, swinging back and forth between decisions, before waking up and changing my mind once again.
In the end, I decided on longevity, imposing a minimum of two complete (and great) seasons at Celtic to qualify for contention. Sadly, this means no places for such brilliant but fleeting loan players as Filip Benkovic and Jason Denayer. I’ve also disqualified current players who just miss the two-year cut-off, despite them almost certainly qualifying on ability alone, such as, it pains me to say, Odsonne Edouard and Kris Ajer.
I’d like to give the most honourable of mentions to Tom Rogic, who has given so much to Celtic fans over the years — including his incredible, season-redeeming last-minute strike away to Kilmarnock in 2015-16, and of course consolidating the invincible treble season with that late winner against Aberdeen in the following season’s Scottish Cup final. He only misses out because it’d be a crime befitting a life sentence to drop the three midfielders who get in ahead of him.
Goalkeeper: Fraser Forster
At Celtic, Forster developed from a raw but gifted 22-year-old into a contender for England’s No. 1 jersey, delivering man-of-the-match performances in some of the biggest games of the club’s 2010s, and building a genuine rapport with the fans over nearly half a decade with the club over two spells, describing himself as returning “home” with his current loan from Southampton.
For all that Forster is an all-rounder of a goalkeeper, it’s his shot-stopping that stands out and has contributed so significantly to the club’s recent achievements.
As former Norwich City manager and goalkeeper Bryan Gunn told The Athletic : “He always comes up with big saves when you need him to, always.”
While Celtic fans rightfully hold fond memories of his two colossal performances against Barcelona in the 2012-13 Champions League group stage, where he was first described as La Gran Muralla — The Great Wall — by the Spanish press, Gunn’s comment that he “always comes up with big saves” has never been more apparent than in the two recent Europa League wins over Lazio. In both Glasgow and Rome, he came up with phenomenal reaction stops with the clock ticking towards the final whistle, plausibly earning Celtic five group-phase points in the process.
Since returning after five years at Southampton in August, he has returned close to the peak form of the final years of his first spell at Celtic and his early seasons after the £2.5 million move south, with critical penalty saves, a compelling command of his box, and much improved distribution; the form of an England international.
Though Forster has publicly declared his hope to return to Celtic when this loan ends, his contract at Southampton runs until 2022 and there are issues over the mooted size of the transfer fee, as well as the sizeable drop-off in wages the 6ft 7in Geordie would have to agree to.
The dream lingers however that Celtic’s best goalkeeper of the 2010s might also be a great one during the 2020s.
Right-back: Mikael Lustig
Though his pace began leaving him towards the end of his seven-and-a-half years at Celtic, there were few more consistent presences across Celtic’s spine throughout the 2010s than Lustig, proving himself a dependable figurehead for managers Neil Lennon (twice), Ronny Deila and Brendan Rodgers.
Cast your mind over Celtic’s biggest moments this decade and the Swede is omnipresent. He was an implacable defensive force in the 2-1 win over Barcelona, and a mainstay in the back five that broke the Scottish league record for minutes without conceding a goal in 2013-14. He was the purveyor of a rabona pass during Moussa Dembele’s absurd, 25-pass goal against St Johnstone in the invincibles season, and assisted Edouard’s treble-treble winning goal against Hearts in May’s Scottish Cup final.
He was positionally sound, an underrated crosser, a scorer of significant goals — including last season’s title-clincher against Aberdeen — and perhaps the most beloved cult hero of the decade, a player who truly bought into Celtic, possessed an unquantifiable amount of quirky character and soul, and was a critical driver of Celtic’s champions’ mentality.
That’s why possibly the most indelible image of Lustig at Celtic isn’t one of the multitudes of goals or assists he contributed, nor a last-ditch challenge in a vital European game, but him inexplicably wearing a policeman’s hat as he celebrated with Dembele following the Frenchman’s opener in the 5-1 win over Rangers in 2016-17.
A good player who genuinely loved football, but loved Celtic and entertaining its fans that little bit more.
Centre-back: Virgil van Dijk
What do you say about the best centre-back in the world?
It often looked like Van Dijk was playing football on easy mode during his time in Scotland, whether it was winning every 50-50 as if they were really all 100-0, nonchalantly swatting a desperately tackling Nicky Law to the ground during the 2015 Scottish League Cup semi-final like he was a buzzing midge, or strolling through the entire St Johnstone team before toe-poking the ball into the net from the edge of the box as if popping out for milk.
The only real criticism you can level at Van Dijk was his evident boredom translated into complacency and slackness. He was brilliant, and destined for further brilliance.
Given his stature in the game today, it’d be easy, but lazy, to claim with hindsight that Celtic was just another stepping stone, a loophole to navigate on his way to inevitable greatness, but, as he’s mentioned retrospectively, his two years in Glasgow were more formative to his development than might be credited for. Deila helped him lose weight and self-impose a stricter diet and training regime befitting an elite professional athlete, while the interminable pressure to win each and every game instilled in him the winner’s obsession that radiates so strongly through the current Liverpool side.
Van Dijk’s an obvious pick for this team because he’s one of the best defenders of his generation, but Celtic is as crucial to his story this decade as he is to Celtic’s.
Centre-back: Dedryck Boyata
Boyata is perhaps the most contentious choice on this list — particularly at the expense of Ajer, Denayer and Benkovic — and given his susceptibility to the occasional high-profile error, as well as the acrimony with which he tried to engineer a move away in the summer of 2018 during Celtic’s ill-fated Champions League qualification campaign. Yet it’s partially forgotten that he was the best centre-back of the Rodgers era, who committed four largely great years to the club, and was more reliable than his lasting reputation among fans seemingly suggests.
The Belgian was a complete defender, as affirmed by his former defensive partner Erik Sviatchenko: “We began playing together under Ronny Deila, and already then I could see he was a top defender. Obviously at Man City he had some injury difficulties, but at Celtic he managed to build up a run of games.
“Brendan Rodgers came in, and there was that season where for about nine months he was just out of this world. Before the Christmas (in 2016), I played with him at Kilmarnock, where we won 1-0, and we played together more and more, and he played my spot sometimes.
“Even though he’s not there any more, he’s done so many good things for Celtic. He was good, quick. Even though some people thought he was sometimes not good on the ball, I thought he was a great passer, very ambitious in his play. He was a good communicator, and my partnership was good with him, a real high level.”
Though lacking the ability ceiling of some of his competitors for this spot, Boyata’s relative consistency consolidated his position in the XI.
Left-back: Kieran Tierney
This boyhood fan lived his dream, and Celtic fans lived it with him.
Ever since he jogged on as an 81st-minute substitute against Dundee in April 2015, his braces glinting in the sun, Tierney’s relationship with his fellow Celtic fans was inextricable, the sincere personification of the fan-first mentality on the pitch. There have been massive goals against RB Leipzig and Manchester City, outstanding tackles, and iconic mazy runs, but his authentic dynamic with the supporters, leading them in chants with his megaphone after big games, is what lingers.
More than all the emotional touchstones he represented, he was simply an elite-level footballer that Celtic were fortunate to have come through their academy. His final ball was superb, his timing of runs in-behind immaculate, his interplay with wingers and midfielders intelligent. He was strong in the air and precise in the tackle, although more often than not he read the game so well he pre-empted having to do the dirty defensive work.
Tierney was the complete modern full-back, but, as his lifting the 2016-17 Scottish Cup with a broken jaw signalled, there was an endearingly old-school sensibility supporting it all, a graft and incorrigible determination that enabled his natural ability.
Some fans might never forgive his leaving for Arsenal this summer, particularly the abruptness with which he did it, but he remains both the most relatable fan proxy and Celtic’s best academy product since Paul McStay in the early 1980s.
Central midfield: Victor Wanyama
Given a bad run of injuries has tragically curtailed his once-blossoming career, it’s easy to forget just how much of a force of nature, and how deceptively elegant, Wanyama was in his first two seasons as a Tottenham Hotspur player, previously at Southampton, and of course before both during his time with Celtic.
Though he initially struggled to break into the team after his move from Belgian side Germinal Beerschot in 2011, often being fielded as a reserve centre-back, his career really ignited with his stunning, physics-defying 25-yard toe-poke against Hearts in December of that season. He subsequently became an immovable mainstay in midfield, peerless in how well he retained and recycled possession, and a battering ram of a tackler.
Over his two years he scored more than a handful of wonder-goals, whether curling it in from 30 yards against St Mirren, or thudding it first-time without a whiff of curve from a similar distance against Dundee. He popped up with more than a few headers too.
Wanyama was far from a destroyer. The reason he got to the echelons of the game he did, before that frustrating sequence of injuries, was down to his astounding close control and ability to shield the ball from pressure in almost every situation, regardless of the pedigree of opposition. He was immensely physical, but also technical, very intelligent, and one of the best midfielders Celtic have enjoyed this decade.
Central midfield: Scott Brown
To paraphrase Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III; just when you thought Scott Brown was out, he’d prove his doubters wrong, and pull you right back in.
There have been a handful of occasions during the 2010s when fans might have thought Brown was beginning his decline, that he was coming to the end of his imperious powers, but within months he’d again silence his critics (including myself), and re-emerge almost brand new.
Brown has a reputation as the quintessential shithouser, as the snarling destroyer who sits in front of the back four and fouls before playing innocent for the referee, but that’s a reductive interpretation of an accomplished, nuanced midfielder. He habitually makes the correct passing decision, rather than force the Hollywood pass. He reads the game sharply, and regularly intercepts and firmly tackles while standing his ground rather than diving in (he only has two straight red cards in over 400 league appearances combined for Hibernian and Celtic). He rarely shoots unless the chance presented is unequivocally the best option, knowing there are better players available to do that.
Doing the simple things well, almost all of the time, is a tremendous skill set that doesn’t get the credit it deserves.
As captain, Brown exudes an infectious composure and maturity as the game is unfolding that his team-mates have fallen for, and an affable self-awareness when it isn’t that the fans have fallen in love with.
As he harried, stomped and calmed the pace during the recent game against Lazio in Rome, as he broke play down and rebuilt it again in his own image, the 34-year-old looked as if he could play on until he’s 50.
In the post-match conference that night, Lennon called Brown “one of the best players, and finest captains, this club has ever seen.” In considering his nearly 13 years of superlative service, it’s hard to disagree.
Central midfield: Callum McGregor
Before he’d even played a minute of competitive football for Celtic, McGregor had his coaches convinced he would reach the heights he’s currently breaching now.
Shaun Derry, his former manager at Notts County during his loan spell there in 2013-14, told The Athletic that “Callum was a young player you knew would work incredibly hard to become a really decent footballer, he had the right mentality and so much talent.”
Since his goalscoring debut over five years ago, McGregor, with incremental steps, season by season, developed from dependable bench option into one of Celtic’s best, and most vital, players of this decade.
Having donned the armband for both his boyhood club and his country, and recently signed a contract until 2024 (which if fulfilled would mean he’ll have been at Celtic for 23 years), he is, and has been for some years now, the lynchpin of Celtic’s midfield; a versatile, humble, hard-working player — who Rodgers once compared to German great Philipp Lahm — capable of playing across midfield and even out wide, but arguably never as sublime as when dictating tempo from the midfield’s base.
As his performances in the Europa League this season underline, as well as the seemingly perpetual interest from former manager Rodgers in acquiring him for his high-achieving Leicester City team, McGregor is quite simply a European-standard midfielder. Technically gifted, tactically intelligent, and ludicrously consistent.
Last season, over 69 appearances for Celtic and Scotland, McGregor played 5,894 minutes — more than any other professional footballer in the world, according to Celtic’s official site. He has been as essential to the team this season, and will be, hopefully, for many seasons to come.
Right-wing: James Forrest
Forrest has been the only other player, aside from Scott Brown, to be in Celtic’s first-team for the duration of the decade, albeit beginning it as a precocious youth product yet to make a senior appearance — but his place on this list is down to his ability and impact in a Celtic jersey, not just for time served.
With his net-bursting equaliser against Lazio in Rome, Forrest is now on 47 goals for Celtic since the start of 2017-18. He is 15 goals short of reaching a century for Celtic. It is extraordinary.
Always talented if never fully consistent in Lennon’s first spell and under Deila, ever since the few months between Paddy Roberts’ arrival in February 2016 and Rodgers’ in May of that year, something seemingly clicked for Forrest, and his finishing, crossing, combination play, and even defensive output, all improved significantly.
He scored four goals in one game away to St Johnstone last season, habitually comes up with match-winning goals often sculpted without a clear opportunity, and his performance against Bayern Munich in the 2017 Champions League group stage, though it cruelly didn’t end in a positive result for Celtic, will go down in folklore as a phenomenal individual showcase.
Forrest has also excelled for his country, single-handedly dragging Scotland to the Euro 2020 play-offs in March with five goals in the space of four days to beat Israel and Albania.
Not just Celtic’s best right-winger, and one of the club’s most clinical finishers, from this decade, Forrest has consolidated his status as one of their best academy products this century.
Striker: Moussa Dembele
A hat-trick on his Glasgow derby debut. Two goals, including a bicycle kick, against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. A vast spread of goals encompassing towering headers, outrageous backheels, Panenka penalties, angled rockets into the top corner and the bundles-over-the-line by any means necessary too.
Dembele was the definition of a big-game player, scoring recurrently in cup finals, in Europe, and seven times over two seasons in Old Firm games. He delivered, and always made it look ludicrously easy doing so.
He was the complete target-man, not just a natural goalscorer. His hold-up play and close combinations were exceptional, while his timing and vision in knowing when to retain, and release, the ball was superb. He was as critical to building attacks as to finishing them.
During his second season, arguments were being floated among fans that Dembele could be Celtic’s best striker since Henrik Larsson. The only regret is that they couldn’t hold onto him for longer.
Left-wing: Scott Sinclair
In 2016-17, Sinclair had one of the best — arguably the best — individual season of any Celtic player in the decade we’re covering here. He scored 25 goals and provided 13 assists across all competitions over 50 games for the club. But it was just as much the intangibles that thrilled; the dizzying close dribbling, the casual no-look passes, the intimidating air of pace and power. Like Van Dijk two seasons before him, he seemed to be playing the game on a different difficulty setting.
Sinclair has tailed away since then, though not as dramatically as is often made out. He was never the same irrepressible dribbling menace, and his iconic shift onto his right foot to curl the ball never seemed as predestined to nestle into the top far corner. But he still contributed plenty of goals, assists, and direct running during the two subsequent seasons under both Rodgers, and when called upon, Lennon.
Reflecting on the number of turgid games that ended 1-0 or 2-1, it was frequently Sinclair who arrived with the scrappy winner.
Though he remains on the margins of Lennon’s plans this season, his legacy lives on. Sinclair was the top scorer of the collective three seasons of the treble treble, but his leadership, both vocally and through action — through carrying the ball and driving at players, through trying to salvage and scrape something from nothing — was just as imperative.
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He sets out his selection criteria as players having had to be at Celtic for at least two full seasons and says he’s discounting Ajer and Edouard because they fail to meet this criteria. I’m fairly sure they’re both at Celtic for longer than two seasons.
Yeah that doesn’t make any sense. And it’s a silly arbitrary rule anyway.
is that your list?
Dunkirk is RNLI porn
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That’s my list.
Eclectic
Apart from Bohemian Rhapsody which didn’t make my list they are basically the 10 films released this decade that I have seen.
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If you loved grand Budapest you should try watch death of stalin. A laugh out loud movie
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