Riquelme's free kicks

[SydneyChelsea]

Nakamura has no place on a football forum! He is probably the player who has made a football team mirror American football more than any other. I the same way that in American football you have the geezer who is brough on purely to take field goals Nakamura is kept on the park purely to take free kicks - against half decent opposition he does nothing whatsoever and is only kept on in case Celtic win a feee kick in a dangerous area.

Yeah?

Tell that to Marek Jankulovski and Milan.

 

[loz]

He had a cracking five minutes against Milan didn't he Sydney.

Nakamura and big games go together like Australians and reserved behaviour. Even the Celtic fans (well other than the most blinkered) are finally beginning to realise it after spending ages claiming he was a footballing god - I even had some claiming he was one of the outstanding performers in the last World Cup!

 

[SydneyChelsea]

He had a cracking five minutes against Milan didn't he Sydney. Nakamura and big games go together like Australians and reserved behaviour.

I'm not sure what you mean by that last phrase- but who dribbled Jankulovski and assisted the shot for Scott McDonald's winner?

He's an intelligent player. I know what you mean by Celtic fans going over the top (Aidan McGeady next Ryan Giggs, or some sh*t like that- there are too many Celtic/Liverpool fans here, a rant for another time) but you make him sound like he is Bolo Zenden.

 

[loz]

If it wasn't for the fact he can take a free kick then you have actually hit upon a pretty good comparison in Bolo Zenden! A player who you can rely on to do one good thing about every 6 games (and I mean one good thing - i.e. a dribble against Milan, not one good match) and other than that he may as well be shoping for hair products.

I have seen Nakamura influence a game or two for Celtic - generally it is against the likes of Inverness Cale Thistle, Dundee United or Gretna! In the Champions League and in the games against Rangers and Hibs he has been almost anonymous.

 

[SydneyChelsea]

If it wasn't for the fact he can take a free kick then you have actually hit upon a pretty good comparison in Bolo Zenden! A player who you can rely on to do one good thing about every 6 games (and I mean one good thing - i.e. a dribble against Milan, not one good match) and other than that he may as well be shoping for hair products. I have seen Nakamura influence a game or two for Celtic - generally it is against the likes of Inverness Cale Thistle, Dundee United or Gretna! In the Champions League and in the games against Rangers and Hibs he has been almost anonymous.

Or Manchester United- he was electric in the game last season, but maybe his form has dropped.

And to be fair, Celtic as a whole were anonymous against Rangers...

So now you can explain- what's with Australians and reserved behaviour? You must realise I am Australian in the same way Gullit4 is English.

 

[loz]

Just a joke - if I have to explain it it will kill what minimal humour there was in it in the first place.