Skamp Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 The Brazilian football legend Pelé is receiving palliative care after chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer stopped having the expected results, it has been reported. Pelé, 82, who is widely considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday to re-evaluate his cancer treatment and later diagnosed with a respiratory infection, according to medical reports. Best of luck fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoylandOwl Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 All the best to the greatest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owling_Wolf Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 That's a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greno Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 All the best to him. For people of my age and above he'll always be a legend. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul from Wisewood Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 😢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyben Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Greno said: All the best to him. For people of my age and above he'll always be a legend. ...Well for as long as you can remember him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greno Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 16 hours ago, Andyben said: ...Well for as long as you can remember him Exactly, I can barely find my way home these days. 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkowlthesexynewversion Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 News this evening that he has lost the cancer battle. Too young to have seen him play, but from the TV footage what a player. RIP 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAL Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Lucky enough to have seen him live. Too young to fully appreciate his full talent at the time, but what a joy to watch as a kid. All these spoilt wasters in todays game, and everybody thinking they made up some special moves. Pele, hold my beer... https://www.sportbible.com/football/pele-video-incredible-skills-798882-20221204 R.I.P. The Best 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaconowl Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) Probably the greatest player to ever live. I will never forget that shot of him and the great Bobby Moore exchanging shirts at the end of the group stage game between England and Brazil in the 1970 World Cup. Pure class RIP Edited December 29, 2022 by Beaconowl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheat Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owling_Wolf Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 14 minutes ago, MAL said: Lucky enough to have seen him live. Too young to fully appreciate his full talent at the time, but what a joy to watch as a kid. All these spoilt wasters in todays game, and everybody thinking they made up some special moves. Pele, hold my beer... https://www.sportbible.com/football/pele-video-incredible-skills-798882-20221204 R.I.P. The Best A magnificent player and always seemed to be a decent human being. It was terrible watching him get kicked off the pitches here in 1966, wonderful seeing him back to his world best in 1970 and a privilge to see him play at S6. RIP, Edson. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skamp Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 Thrice a world cup winner. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Messi. RIP. I too was there for the 70's match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaconowl Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 55 minutes ago, Beaconowl said: Probably the greatest player to ever live. I will never forget that shot of him and the great Bobby Moore exchanging shirts at the end of the group stage game between England and Brazil in the 1970 World Cup. Pure class RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyben Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 RIP Peerless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyben Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 IMG_3791.MOV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkowlthesexynewversion Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Great stuff. I don't really engage on the debate of best ever player, just more that Pele was the best of his generation, Messi the current one, Cryuff etc Just enjoy football being played the right way 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellsview Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Probably the second greatest sportsman to walk the planet after Muhammad Ali, and greatest to ever play the game of football. RIP Pele - an irreplaceable talent and human being! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAL Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, mkowlthesexynewversion said: Great stuff. I don't really engage on the debate of best ever player, just more that Pele was the best of his generation, Messi the current one, Cryuff etc Just enjoy football being played the right way For me, that is it is why i would say he was the best player ever. Yes, the best of his generation, but if you watch the video it shows that he did everything absolutely years and years before the others copied him, don't get me wrong, he himself might have copied what some other else had tried to do first and put them all together, but he mastered the art of ball control in every aspect of the game and did it all, it was so easy to him to do anything, it showed in all the world cups for instance that he could carry a team on his own in any situation. And... He could do all that with what was, at times, like kicking a medicine ball, nothing like the balloons they use today. Sorry, rambling on a bit, drink + win = drink more 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaconowl Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 23 minutes ago, MAL said: For me, that is it is why i would say he was the best player ever. Yes, the best of his generation, but if you watch the video it shows that he did everything absolutely years and years before the others copied him, don't get me wrong, he himself might have copied what some other else had tried to do first and put them all together, but he mastered the art of ball control in every aspect of the game and did it all, it was so easy to him to do anything, it showed in all the world cups for instance that he could carry a team on his own in any situation. And... He could do all that with what was, at times, like kicking a medicine ball, nothing like the balloons they use today. Sorry, rambling on a bit, drink + win = drink more IMO, with the right discipline, Gaza could have been up there with him and the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 Arguably the greatest, especially as has been said in a generation that got away with playing the man rather than the ball and a gentleman an all. That photo of him in bobby Moore says it all. If I'm right he played twice at Hillsborough in exhibitions, early 60s when Vic Buckingham was there and then early 70s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owling_Wolf Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Andyben said: IMG_3791.MOV 23.27 MB · 3 downloads Superb! There's nowt new in football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobster Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I was at the Santos game in 72 . I was a student at Middleborough at the time , a load of us drove down just to see him . I think there was a doubt about Pele's fitness whether he would play or not . But he did but was heavily strapped at one point today he would not have been risked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul from Wisewood Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 RIP Surely never going to be a player who wins 3 world cups again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoylandOwl Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 RIP. Despite what some assholes on here will say.. No I'm not old enough to have seen him play at ours... Wish I had. My dad and my uncle told me about it, and reading countless reports of him from people on here. I'd have loved to have seen him play live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoylandOwl Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/rip-pele-when-o-rei-emptied-sheffield-classrooms-as-santos-faced-sheffield-wednesday-at-hillsborough-3969306 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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owl4ever1867 Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I never got to see Pele play as far too young but have watched many a clip of the man on YouTube, what a player, absolutely unplayable. Yesterday the footballing world not only lost a legend of the game but a true great, we just don't produce players like Pele & Maradona anymore (Messi an exception) how they played football on pitches back then I'll never know. RIP Pele - you will always be remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrolMong Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 I’d call him the godfather of all the geniuses that play today. As has been said, a lot of what we see today is from him. As a player, had the lot. Quick, strong, two footed, could beat you multiple ways, good in the air, great finisher and technically brilliant. He’s the greatest because he transcended the sport. You don’t need to be a football fan, but you knew who Pele was, in the same way as Ali, Jordan. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owling_Wolf Posted December 30, 2022 Share Posted December 30, 2022 1 hour ago, HoylandOwl said: Very well said, DM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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