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coys200

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Get overrated imo. Thought this before,but when someone mentioned Toby was only so highly rated because of his hair it brought it all back today.Firstly to say that this is only a reflection on society as a whole. The good looking person will always sadly have the edge in the equally matched job interview. To some degree I think this is why it took kane so long to be recognised as world class. Not saying he’s ugly infact he’s getting better looking by the year and quite the beast now. But 3 or 4 years ago he just didn’t look a natural athlete and probably about as far from cool and brand “Pogba” as you could get. Honestly believe if he say he looked like toby at 20 he would have be lorded and accepted much earlier. So who’s your overrated good looking cool player or underrated ugly uncool player ?

I’ll start with scholes took years for him to be classed with Lampard and Gerrard.
 

Dougal

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Iain Dowie was better than Pele but people couldn’t see past that hideous noggin.
 

TheChosenOne

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The 1978 F.A. Cup winning team Ipswich Town was the ugliest bunch of footballers ever assembled.
 

Ionman34

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@Bobby__Lucky

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Peter Beardsley stunning baller, took time to get noticed, not so easy on the eye.

This day and age all footballers look like models, same as all Hollywood actors these days. In the 70's and 80's you would get average looking people in rock bands, big Hollywood movies and if. Purse footballers.

Think society as a whole is better looking visually as an 'evolution' though it may just be the effort and accessibility of cosmetics and clothes. I remember my school year as having 1 or 2 stunning girls, 3-4 really good looking, and the rest kind of okish / average looking. that's in the Year, not class. Seems almost every young girl is now a stunner. Not to be pervy, far from it. But my neices friends all around 20-22 are mostly all 'wow' looking. These days no average looking anything in media. Sad really, society is so hung up on looks. I noticed a couple of friends wives / gf's have had boob jobs on the sly and not said anything... cosmetic surgery is so popular these days it seems, ads on tv, even on here! I had a mya boob ad earlier.
 

Gassin's finest

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Is this thread for real?

Everyone rated Scholes from '95... Was playing for England and scoring in World Cups long before starfish and fatso turned up and ruined it.
 

coys200

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Beckham was a weird one he was kind of overrated and underrated at same time. In general he was probably given a higher status than he would have done if he wasn’t such a poster boy. But he was actually a lot better footballer than some give him credit for.
 

coys200

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Actually think Juan foyth is suffering a little bit from this right now. Because he looks a little bit geeky and not the obvious supreme physical specimen some are slightly underrating him imo. Even Poch said today people will be surprised. If he had the physique of say a John stones who’s actually only 1 cm taller people would be much more excited about him.
 

'O Zio

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I don't really agree to be honest. There are plenty of examples of ugly players who are overrated and good-looking ones who are underrated.

I suppose good-looking players get more exposure off the field because they theoretically get more endorsements etc. so they become a bigger name/celebrity than players of equal ability who don't have all those endorsements, but I don't think that necessarily reflects on how "rated" they are on the field.
 

MattPhilpott

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Pretty sure the main reason we signed Paulo Gazzaniga was to have him model the Spurs Shop and appear in YouTube Challenge Videos...

The man is a fucking sex god.
 
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