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Deuterz said:
Conference league finalists
Europa league finalists
CL finalists

Co-efficient points through the roof from excellent results against European sides.

Of the top 10 in the league stages of the CL, 5 were English.

Are we sure it’s not just football in general on a bit of a low point?
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I think the gap between lower prem teams and top 6 are as closest as they have ever been. Its just that in terms of the peak of football in the PL, for Woolwich to win it shows all they needed to do is be efficient. They were nothing spectacular.

Clubs like Freiburg and Rayo Vallecano can't afford Brennan for £35M as an example.

I do agree with you on CL though

Clubs like Atleti and Madrid have been poor this season so its been made easier for them.
 
They’ve had a pretty easy run to the final. Leverkusen, sporting and atletico. Even we would have had a chance against those teams. Think they’ll win it tbh. Just seems like it’s going to happen. Hope I’m wrong but just got a feeling psg won’t turn up.
 
All I can say is … thank you to Aston Villa for winning the Europa League and taking some of the news coverage off the scum. Prince William celebrating is much easier to cope with than anything related to what happened yesterday. If I just refuse to accept it, it didn’t happen.
 
Seven Sisters said:
All I can say is … thank you to Aston Villa for winning the Europa League and taking some of the news coverage off the scum. Prince William celebrating is much easier to cope with than anything related to what happened yesterday. If I just refuse to accept it, it didn’t happen.
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So with both of those scrappy little minnows breaking their ducks, it's now, what, TEN teams in England that have won trophies in the last four years?

That's quite remarkable.
 

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And it's not just our fans; clips are all over socials from fans of other clubs not having any of this.

Scum are the only ones who think this is valid.

No one else is having it.

Calling it The PGMOL Title.

Perfect.


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Fuck 'em. Least popular title winners in recent memory and fast becoming the least popular club in the league.

Glad I moved to Oz - barely a sniff of it over here other than a pub quiz question last night (which I naturally booed).
 
I feel sorry for anyone living in north London. For me, it is easy to ignore so I’m not as bothered. I do take joy in every neutral hating Woolwich and everyone knowing the league gave it to them.

This will be remembered like 2015/16 when Leicester won. A year everyone was down and it was not a good league season.
 
VirginiaSpur said:
There might as well be an asterisk on this trophy.

I don't think they'll kick on and create a dynasty; they've lavished spending on this team, only to stumble over the line due to the weakest league and most favorable officiating in memory. I used to think that Liverpool had everything called in their favor, with the ref's thumb on the scale for Woolwich, but I've never seen anything like this season before. The refs have gone from a thumb on the scale to a clenched first that should demand serious questions from PGMOL over their lack of consistency in decisions and all matters except consistently favoring certain teams over others, but we all know that nothing will happen because the League has desperately wanted someone to lift the trophy instead of City.
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It will be Man Utd with all the decisions next season in a desperate bid for them to get over their hump. Wait and see.
This is a league dominated by the Sky Sports narrative. I can't decide if it's full on corruption based on betting rings or softer corruption based on sub conscious bias towards certain big clubs. We've seen it with Leicester, Liverpool and now the goons. In the case of Leicester once the narrative began to grow that a minnow could win they got every decision and the sporting integrity of the league was brought into question as side after side rolled over. The fact is, It's very hard to win a PL without help from the officials and we certainly got none in our two title challenges. Barring the battle of the Bridge where Clattenburg later admitted he didn't want to be the man responsible for Spurs losing a title so he just let 3-4 blatant red cards go.
 
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I've noticed that the media are giving Villa more inches than Woolwich. They are the probably the most hated PL winners since Fergies Utd monopolised the league. They've benefited hugely from other top teams being inconsistent. I listened to a good theory on why Woolwich received such favourable refereeing this season. The PL is a business and a different winner is good for business. You can sell unpredictability. Even better, focus will move to the world cup and their win will be forgotten for ever. If PSG can do them in the CL final then this summer will be just fine.
 
CroSpurs said:
I just hope PSG smash them like Inter last year and then everyone will mock them regardless.
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If they scrape a smelly win it vindicates this Woolwich team as somehow being world class. Which I refuse to accept. And will gloss over the asterix on their PL title. PSG must piss all over them to prove it was a sham. And leave them still with less European pedigree than West Ham.

Let's be real they haven't played anyone at all in the knockout rounds.
 
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