Long Live The New George Best: Cristiano Ronaldo
By John Nicholson
For many football fans,
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As presently as anyone displays a bit of pace, skill and trickery, it’s inevitable that this hoary antique cliche is trotted out once again. And until immediately it has always proven to be course short of the brand. The player often possesses little of what made Bestie great and the comparison is a bit mortifying to all cared.
When Rooney emerged at Everton, it only took a season before the title was assigned to him by both fans and journalists. But Rooney, large player that he is,
gommini, is not George Best. He isn’t for quick, as quicksilver, as mercurial alternatively as outrageously skilful.
For the final 35 years I not thought anyone would ever fill Bestie’s boots; that no 1 was ever going to be the current George Best, primarily because the male was so amazing. If you ever saw him melodrama live, he was one awesome sight in his pomp. He was skillful to flee as hasty with the pellet consist in ...out it. He was forever 2 treads forward of a defender, knowing both what the defender would do and what he would do in reaction even before the thought had entered defenders head.
His near control of the ball was above all. It appeared knotted to his foot. He would hammer a defender then go back and beat him afresh just for the perdition of it. In the European cup in the mid 60s playing for Manchester United, he was an unstoppable coerce, gliding via what were behind then often savage defences whose intent was to hit the alive crap out of you.
And always of this was played out ashore pitches that were like a ploughed field and at all times when the extent of physiotherapy was having Vaseline rubbed into you by an ex-army Sergeant Major and pre-match exercising was a steak and a pint of Guinness.
So I’d given up on seeing a new Bestie. Until Tuesday night. Cristiano Ronaldo is the new George Best. He is literally the inheritor of the legendary 7 shirt,
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Because Ronaldo isn’t equitable a show pony – he was – but he isn’t anymore. He has learned apt deploy his incredible array of capabilities to tear crews apart and to score goals. It’s not equitable self indulgence, its no just ‘look at what I can do’ because its own sake and namely namely what has taken him to his current exalted class.
He is a mesmerising player; a blur of feet attached to an amazing body. He is freaky seeing. 6ft 2″ and built like a brick shithouse, but with a low center of gravity. He has the thick neck of a ox but the feet of a dancer. While Thierry Henry at Arsenal, in previous seasons has displayed awesome invention and pace, he pales in comparison to Ronaldo on his current form. Unlike Henry, Ronaldo is a absolute footballer who doesn’t decanter it on big causes. He’s scored 21 goals so by inches midfield, he can play left or right pinion or up front or in back a front two. He can tackle and he’s a consummate header of the ball. He’s like two players in one, the like of which I have never seen.
While he has been prone to throw a hissy appropriate,
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While it’s impossible for whichever modern player to have the broader cultural clash that Georgie Best did and Ronaldo will never be as rock n roll or as downright agreeable both, but in terms of pure football, he is the real handle. On Tuesday night, it was a privilege to spectator his genius and it was a rendition that, like so many of Bestie’s, are the material of legend.
Bestie is die, long live the new Bestie.
John Nicholson writes every week for Football 365 and EPL Talk. You can listen to John’s splendid stories on incident 30 and 45 of the EPL Talk Podcast, as well as buy his excellent Footy Rocks book and order one of his distinctive rock’n coil T-shirts.
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