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<blockquote data-quote="Dkayak" data-source="post: 1951196" data-attributes="member: 749263"><p>Excellent points on the unpredictable factors, which apply to each individual player. </p><p></p><p>This mirrors both my personal experience with cycling and what I’ve repeatedly heard of the elite pros on the World Tour. Every day is a different and you can never be sure how you’ll perform until you’re well into the ride. A world class pro, in say the Tour de France, may get decisively dropped by competitors when he finds he “doesn’t have legs today”. Often you just don’t know what you’ve got until you’re pressed hard. </p><p></p><p>Much of it certainly feels physiological but there’s certainly a big mental component too, your ability to push/suffer. Some days you’ve got it and some days you just don’t, a mystery. I’m sure the mental part applies to football on both the team and individual level . . . among three dozen guys! That’s how upsets occur and it’s why we play the games. Wild cards abound.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dkayak, post: 1951196, member: 749263"] Excellent points on the unpredictable factors, which apply to each individual player. This mirrors both my personal experience with cycling and what I’ve repeatedly heard of the elite pros on the World Tour. Every day is a different and you can never be sure how you’ll perform until you’re well into the ride. A world class pro, in say the Tour de France, may get decisively dropped by competitors when he finds he “doesn’t have legs today”. Often you just don’t know what you’ve got until you’re pressed hard. Much of it certainly feels physiological but there’s certainly a big mental component too, your ability to push/suffer. Some days you’ve got it and some days you just don’t, a mystery. I’m sure the mental part applies to football on both the team and individual level . . . among three dozen guys! That’s how upsets occur and it’s why we play the games. Wild cards abound. [/QUOTE]
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