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Sergio Ramos - A Footballing Guilty Pleasure

Everyone has a guilty pleasure. Tim Stannard has managed to forego many of life's typical vices, but he just can't enough of Sergio Ramos. He opens his heart on the defender...

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bigm 1982 (Liverpool) says...

Great feature, although a little disappointed you didn't mention Sergio's beautiful hair or perfectly groomed eyebrows

Posted 8:40am 23rd March 2013

chelseachelsea (Chelsea) says...

100 caps @ 26! He's fantastic: confident, well-spoken, tough, a great leader, and able to play in any position well and scores more than some strikers. Ramos is always picking up the slack for everyone else (I mean you Pique) and at times he seems to be 3 players in one. He's not one to dive, more like the kind of guy who risks limbs, breaks them, stuffs them back in and keeps playing (remember the CL game when he broke his nose). I like that he's passionate/mildly insane, a true Madridista, and he'll call anyone out on their BS. There's a rather mixed public persona of him ranging from dumb pretty boy/playboy to brutish tough guy but he seems to be a genuinely kind person and funny off the pitch and not afraid to stick up for others. And not that this is necessary for a footballer, but the guy looks like a supermodel. More Ramos love please!

Posted 5:01am 23rd March 2013

Alkaline_ (Manchester United) says...

I've always viewed him in the same light as Pepe and Busquets. Fantastic talent, infuriating penchant for the dark arts of play-acting.

Posted 12:36am 23rd March 2013

marzie says...

Paul McShane on steroids, in the words of Eamon Dunphy.

Posted 7:54pm 22nd March 2013

sailingmagpie says...

Ramos is an exceptionally good defender and, as you say a excellent athlete, but I just really don't like him. Every time I watch him play, he really winds me up. The niggly fouls, simulation etc just really put me off him. I understand that that is part of modern football but I would struggle to like him, let alone love him. Saying that, compared to Pepe and Sergio Biscuits, he's like Martin Luther King.

Posted 6:44pm 22nd March 2013

harry hotspur (Tottenham Hotspur) says...

I fully understand your love of Sergio Ramos, and I agree with more or less everything you have said. However, what really made me fall for the guy was signing him for my career mode team of Fifa 12, where his roaming nature invented the position of 'central attacking wing back'. Many's the goal I remember him scoring from the left wing when he was supposed to be at right back. Can't help but love that.

Posted 4:08pm 22nd March 2013

Hengry (Chelsea) says...

I have to disagree. He is very watchable - you know something will happen when he plays - but I think he is a terrible player (OK, I know that is an exaggeration). Every time I see him play he is either sent off or at fault for a goal. Against Man United he was at fault for both their goals in the tie. It really boggles my mind that he (and Pique!) were selected as defenders in the latest world XI. Just because Spain don't concede many goals, doesn't mean they have good defenders. It's the midfield that protects them so well at all times.

Posted 2:52pm 22nd March 2013

jelasfirsttouch (Everton) says...

I didn't expect Tim to ever write an article like this! He's an exceptional defender though. Best thing is when he plays centre half with Pepe it makes him look the sane one....

Posted 2:06pm 22nd March 2013

poilbrun says...

I always liked him, even when he played on the right, but I never realized he was that young! 100 caps at 26 is impressive, even more so when you think that he plays for Spain, who's been at the top of the international game for most of his career!

Posted 1:12pm 22nd March 2013

mike, mufc, uea (Manchester United) says...

I like Ramos, but he does seem to like a good bit of simulation - I suppose its overlooked because its standard for Clasico players now. I noticed it multiple times in the CL 2nd round though. Despite that, he is a fine defender.

Posted 12:57pm 22nd March 2013

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