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orly said:
Suing people now the biff
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The complaint also says that the Samsung advertisement will damage the value of his endorsement rights and mislead consumers into thinking he backs Samsung products.
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Yeah, because I am going to buy a TV based on Pele's recommendation, such is the well-established, world renowned electronics expert that he is......
 
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Pilks said:
I'm firmly of the opinion, and have been for many years, that the biggest mystery in world football is why everyone hangs on Pele's every word before each major tournament when the man is yet to utter a single word which isn't complete and utter twaddle

Case in point - remember when he announced confidently, and was endlessly requoted as if it was gospel, that 'an African team will definitely win the World Cup before the milennium'? That made sure football lovers throughout the Dark Continent were cast into the wasteland for the next three decades or so...

Then there was that memorable pronouncement at Italia 90 that 'Columbia will win this tournament'. Sure enough, they were back selling cocaine and framing English footballers for jewel thefts before the first two weeks were out...

When he started banging on as spokesman for erectile dysfunction, sufferers everywhere must surely have given up en masse, accepting that surely nothing could be done for them...

Has there ever been anyone to get so many things so hilariously arse-about-tit, yet still be treated as an 'authority on the subject'? And while I'm at it, he was bang overrated as a player too. Best or Cruyff would have eaten him for breakfast one-on-one. :bye:
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He said Nicky Butt wax the best player in the 2002 World Cup :Blink:
 

Guys an absolute embarrassment, remember in the world cup when he claimed Nicky Butt was the player of the tournament, unbelievable.

from the Guardian...

"At the 2002 World Cup, Pele added to his enigmatic reputation as a pundit by celebrating Nicky Butt as his player of the tournament. He looks briefly embarrassed. "I think people get confused." But at least Pele does laugh when I ask if he ever got to meet his hero. "No, I never meet Nicky Butt but, for example now, England have a midfielder . . ." His voice trails away as he searches for a name. "Lampard?" Pele shakes his head. "Gerrard?" I say next.

"Yes! Gerrard! Two years ago I saw Gerrard play and then I saw him in Tokyo in a game against Sao Paulo. I said then that Gerrard is a great player. To me he is one of the best midfielders in the world. He is an excellent player. No one talked about him two or three years ago - but I did. I liked him very much."

There's something endearing about Pele's ramshackle attempt to claim being among the first to spot the immense value of Gerrard. And there is something even more likeable about him as, handed a ball for the photo session, he pulls a face when asked to kiss it for the camera. "Everybody do that," he protests quietly, before he nuzzles up against the ball and pretends to fall into a blissful sleep."

Supported Sep Blatter when he ran in all his campaigns for the FIFA presidency, think Pele loves the old money/gravy train as much as greedy ole Sep does himself.
 
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