Messi vs Ronaldo, Gerrard vs De Bruyne: Fans name unpopular football opinions

Football is ultimately a matter of opinions.

Is Cristiano Ronaldo better than Lionel Messi? Is Manchester United or Liverpool the biggest club in English football? Is Pele overrated? Is the Champions League or the World Cup the superior trophy?

If the answer to all of those questions were clearcut and beyond reproach, then discussions amongst fans in the terraces and around the pub table would be just about as bland as they come.

The simple fact of the matter is that the wider conversations, narratives and debates that surround the beautiful game are a massive part of the fuel that keeps the whole machine chugging over.

Millions of fans from hundreds of territories will always tune in to see the biggest games, biggest players and biggest competitions to see who turns out to be the very best and who doesn’t quite make it.

However, that’s all well and good, but within that wider spectrum of debate that makes football such an interesting topic of conversation is what has come to be branded as the ‘unpopular opinion’.

Yes, that’s right, every supporter has at least one hot take on the sport that we love where they know for certain that it will run against what has become the prevailing opinion on the matter.

You think that Lother Matthaus is the GOAT? You think that Diego Maradona was average? You think that Turf Moor is the Premier League‘s best stadium? Yup, those would all be unpopular opinions.

So, it’s an interesting scenario for football fans to all come together and take the brave step of revealing their unpopular opinions all in one go, right?

The answer, in case you’re wondering, is a massive ‘yes’ because when Twitter user @StokeyyG2 asked fans to quote the footballing opinion that would get them in trouble, the