Miroslav Klose: "I stopped playing football because I no longer recognised it. Today, young players think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each training session, I put myself in a bathtub full of ice to avoid injuries. But the young players on the team systematically refused.
When they saw me picking up the bags of balls to put them away at the end of training, they said to me 'But who tells you to do that?'
At that moment, I said to myself: 'You're 20 years old and you can't help a 60-year-old worker?'
They care more about whether their boots go with their socks. That's why I said stop. The football I knew no longer exists.
Today's young players think first of cars, contracts with their sponsors, and their new boots. It is only after all these things that football comes. For them, their image is the most important thing. Whereas for me, all that mattered was football in its purest form."
@SteveHermon@WbaSteve Remember one of my late fathers mates telling a tale about this in the pub, he thought Italy, be a lot warmer than the UK, shorts and shirt - fair to say massively undercooked the clothing for weather
For me the past 4 games have shown that it wasn’t the players, it was the iPads the corporate theoretical speak and lack of footballing common sense. Play players in their right position and a system that suits and it’s amazing what happens! A game over complicated #wba
What a beautiful day for football ! James Morrison take a bow, back to back wins and clean sheets unreal and it could have been more than 1! Together and Mozza has turned what looked a damning position into something more positive ! Up the baggies #wba
Hull break with the ball and four Albion players hunted the player down together.
Every analytics dashboard says don’t over-commit like that. But football isn’t played on a spreadsheet — it’s played on instinct, emotion and desire.
Credit to James Morrison 👏🏼
#WBA#WBAFC#EFL
That’s more like it ! What a performance and timing couldn’t have been anymore critical !
Amazing what a simple game it is, as Mike Basset once said 4-4 fucking 2!
Up the baggies #wba
Effort immense , the two strikers and two centre mids and back 4 were superb in terms of effort.
The Molumby sub worried me, and I think Dike or Heggebo could have gone on for 90
mins was my immediate thoughts.
To get up to speed in a game like that as a sub is tough #wba
We can confirm winger Mikey Johnston suffered a stress fracture to his ankle during Saturday’s match against Oxford United.
Everyone at the club wishes Mikey a speedy recovery. 💙🤍