Conan

And even the beginning of this match, the table has been set and people were all buzzing for it.

And the first six, seven minutes, a bit of a feeling out pattern.

You're like, OK, what we might expect from a Champions League semifinal.

And then a few minutes later, it's Hagler-Harens who's just swinging for the fences and...

The first penalty that was given opened the floodgates.

this PSG on this trajectory couldn't play Mbappé like that sounds mad but it's true because of what everybody else is doing and all those things you're mentioning like you need 11 of them doing it and they are I accept your point and at the same time to the furthest degree people would make comparisons with George Best and Maradona and how it did fair in today's game but I think you have to take that

on the assumption that they would be afforded the same upbringing that these current players are now afforded.

And you're almost transposing any sports science that, think of an athletically gifted player from that period like Wayne Rooney.

Like now, if Wayne Rooney came through on the same trajectory at the age he did in the current generation, he would be competing with these players.

I think that's the way we have to look at it.

Yeah, but I think Dez might have been having the conversation with Henry as in if 2009 Thierry Henry walked out on the pitch now with what he was afforded back then, then it's a different conversation.

But I think that kind of has to be a prerequisite.

But I think that when Wayne Rooney and Walcott were having that conversation... It's implied.

It's implied.

I just will say on the whole dribbling thing, that would be a stick used to beat the modern game that dribblers have been beaten out of it.

Like in some ways, the tactics you talked about have discouraged people from pursuing those avenues, whereas

And we hear some other counterclockwise takes on the game last night.

But that was sort of the vista of the match.

It's like two teams dribbling at each other.

And you just don't see that very often.