Poll: Footballers: Fit athlete's or big girls blouses?

[Kronos]

Watching a report on the Newcastle - Liverpool match which I assume was played yesterday evening where Liverpool won 2-0 I was rather taken aback when the Liverpool manager commented on what he thought was poore ball control in the sec half. And the excuse he gave that there might had been some tiredness from a previous mid week game.

Is this possible? I thought footballers were very fit yet it serms they can only fit enough for one 90+ minutes performance once a week. This cannot be right surely as the World cup finals would need to be spread over a year.

Or is it just another excuse from a manager to explain away a poor work ethic from his team? I am not a football fan so I may well have missed such a comment. But I do not think I have ever heard a manager call his team a bunch of lazy so and so's after a poor performance even when it is blatantly obvious that this was the case.

 

[Kronos]

They're elite tier athletes playing professional sport in one of the most demanding league competitions in the world.

To call footballers big girls blouses is a meaningless and lazy stereotype.

The Liverpool manager was simply managing the news. Just because he said it, doesnt necessarily follow that he meant it.

It is not the first time I have heard the excuse of a midweek game causing tiredness and affecting a weekend game. So are footballers fit or not or is one 90 minutes game all they can manage?

 

[Kronos]

Fitter than big girls and more than you will ever be.

Hmm you are right as I am now 61 but when I ws in the Royal Marines some 30 odd years ago I suspect I was fitter than any footballer and know that I could run with full kit etc for longer than 90 minutes.