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08-22-2016, 07:51 PM
I neither applaud his skulduggery nor condone it.
Still, I can't deny that he's a rare combination of brains and balls.
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08-22-2016, 07:56 PM
With our "sports hero" culture i am surprised this hasnt happened more often. The "mob" needs to be satisfied.
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08-22-2016, 08:09 PM
Well, Tim Tebow basically did the same. He can't pass some football and he was just minutes away to go the Super Bowl. LOL!!!
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08-22-2016, 09:10 PM
It's insane to me that this was possible. That is some supreme social engineering, but it seems so absurd that this guy was able to get contracts (for 2 decades even) and favorable opinion without ever even playing or exemplifying any skill whatsoever.
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08-22-2016, 10:05 PM
What happened to little Timmy?
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08-22-2016, 10:14 PM
Quote: (08-22-2016 10:05 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:
What happened to little Timmy?
Little Tim will try now some MLB baseball. Yes, it's gonna be funny!
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08-22-2016, 10:28 PM
There was a Nigerian player that claimed to be the cousin of a famous soccer player and tricked an English club to sign him. There's more than one way to leave you're mark in history
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08-22-2016, 10:31 PM
With bullshitting-into-sinecure skills like that, he could move to San Francisco and become a tech evangelist.
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08-22-2016, 11:14 PM
I thought the thread was about Jack Wilshire.
Don't debate me.
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08-22-2016, 11:43 PM
Speaking of football cons, not too long a ago a man conned his way into owning Notts County FC until it fell apart. It was quite incredible what he was able to do.
- He claimed he was a representative of the King of Bahrain
- Set up a Swiss holding company and claimed $2 trillion in assets, claimed to hold rights to all gold, iron ore and coal in North Korea.
- Convinced First Bank of London to turn over 49% of its shares to him
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08-22-2016, 11:47 PM
Quote: (08-22-2016 09:10 PM)General Stalin Wrote:
It's insane to me that this was possible. That is some supreme social engineering, but it seems so absurd that this guy was able to get contracts (for 2 decades even) and favorable opinion without ever even playing or exemplifying any skill whatsoever.
meh. Kobe Bryant did it four years with the Lakers. He stole 100MM in salary, wrecked the teams chances for any type of playoff run for 7 - 8 years, was a total dick to his teammates, and still got a world class sendoff thanks to one of the most corrupt professional sports leagues ever. So it is not like it still does not happen.
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08-23-2016, 03:20 AM
RushJones, who was the Nigerian? John Fash? Seems Nigerians and Jamaicans are cut from the same game clothe!
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Man fakes his way through footballer career
08-23-2016, 04:18 AM
George Weah's "cousin"
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08-23-2016, 04:50 AM
Yeah I remember that!
It was Chelsea.
He was on for 5 minutes before the gig was up..
There's footage somewhere of the bench twitching like meerkats whilst they watch the teams shape unraveling ..
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08-23-2016, 05:56 AM
Yeah, this is impossible today. Coaches actually use advanced analytical software that can track individual performance in ways a human never could, even measuring factors such as weather, what the athlete ate that day, etc.
What I don't get is... this guy went through so much effort to trick everyone of his playing ability, couldn't he just have actually learned to play the game in that 20 year span? He had training, coaches, and funds. Couldn't he at least become an average or mediocre player?
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08-23-2016, 06:38 AM
Easy to do, since "soccer" isn't a real sport.
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08-23-2016, 08:20 AM
^How is 'soccer' not a real sport?
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08-23-2016, 10:37 AM
I believe it, Brazilians had mythologcial status until well into the 00s in football clubs. Everyone sort of believed that all brazilians were these football gods. No internet, no video, no detailed scouting, how would you know. A similar scam happens today where talented Africans are lied 5 years younger, so you have a full grown adult maybe 23 being called 17, thus looking as an amazing talent.
It also happened a lot in European basketball in the 90s, where after the Dream Team, Americans where also seen as basketball gods and every player who ever sniffed the NBA could bounce around injured or with a drinking/drug habit from one small time club to the next, mostly being signed as a marketing stunt. I believe even Magic Johnson did so.
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08-23-2016, 11:20 AM
This is interesting. It makes me think about the adage "fake it till you make it"
It seems in the era of social media, this is all the more possible, if you want to represent yourself a certain way, you can easily do just that if you know what you're doing. Obviously this level of deception of faking an entire career wouldn't be possible, but don't you find it strange how on social media "everybody is a rock star / model / rich and famous"?
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08-23-2016, 11:34 AM
Quote: (08-23-2016 06:38 AM)Suits Wrote:
Easy to do, since "soccer" isn't a real sport.
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