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KainWind posted...

Why open a thesaurus when you can explain how much better he is than everyone else? There's not really an order of magnitude when you start using those adjectives.

I can only speak for British culture and using the "European" category is too broad, but we certainly don't want a drilldown of every single detail in a play in order to understand why it was amazing. Mostly we're just in it for the big statement. Brits think of these sports moments in romantic terms, not objective terms.

So what I'm saying is, Brits don't want a million different stats to explain why Messi is better than everyone else. They just want to see him play. If you had British commentary breaking down a play, they'd say things like "and he nutmegs him here, there's probably only 2 other players in the league that could do that and neither could do it running full speed". They wouldn't say "and that's his 243rd nutmeg in his career, which puts him in the upper 0.5% percentile of successful nutmegs among all players in the last 40 years who played for Barcelona".
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