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Because the league isn't just 4 teams. It's 20.
If the middle and bottom teams have improved and Pool and City are getting 100+ points (which Fergie never hit, most he got was 92) then obviously the elite have improved too ffs
Back in the day only man utd had money. Every time they had a bad season or transition etc Woolwich stepped in. & Woolwich didn't win the league again after chavs were bought by Roman.
Champions league is also a good indication. Last year Spurs, City and Pool in the quarter finals. Back in the day this didn't happen as prem teams were mostly shit in Europe (united treble aside).
Basically you're talking shite again
No. I'm a pragmatist and a realist
Our time will come. But not for a few years. It's like starting over. It's good to be in on a new era. I think by the time I retire, maybe 2022, we'll be a young vital team really challenging for the top.
Teams are spending more money; thus driving player prices up but are WestHam, Bournemouth and the like genuinely and significantly any better than they were?
We always had freak results so I'm not sure the fact that such teams beat a big boy once or twice a season is a strong indication of anything.
Granted the TV money and doping (City/Chavs) has created a top 6; but again, beyond that, is the mid to lower table any stronger?
Leicester: Surely that's more a comment upon everyone else rather than an endorsement of them being particularly good?
100 points seasons: Why were there not any in the earlier days of the EPL if the mid to lower echelons of the table were weaker?
We always had freak results so I'm not sure the fact that such teams beat a big boy once or twice a season is a strong indication of anything.
Granted the TV money and doping (City/Chavs) has created a top 6; but again, beyond that, is the mid to lower table any stronger?
Leicester: Surely that's more a comment upon everyone else rather than an endorsement of them being particularly good?
100 points seasons: Why were there not any in the earlier days of the EPL if the mid to lower echelons of the table were weaker?
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And thats the point.
The elite teams are par with Sheffield Utd and Wolves now.
That doesn’t make the PL stronger, it means its more competitive within itself but far more average overall.
2016 Leicester would not have beaten scums 2003 team to the title, or Utd between 2006-2009.
In fact both those teams would walk most of the PL today, and despite a valiant effort from today’s Liverpool they would be brushed aside.
The clue is also in the level of managers....lost Wenger, SAF for Arteta and Ole at two of the countries biggest clubs.
Got the likes of Maguire and VVD instead of Rio and Terry (spit)
What RB now is fit to lace G.Nevilles boots?
Don’t give me Arnold, the blokes a forward.
Im starting to think you’re new to the game
Errrrrrr you absolute nob
SAF, the best manager in the history of football, never reached those points.......Because the PL was tougher.
CL? More British teams won the CL during SAFs era of the 2000s than they have since.
12 years compared to the last 8 and one have won it who just got knocked out and the most expensive team ever in history haven’t got further than the quarters.
Where they were done by a “shit team that was never invested in”.
Spurs 2010 would smash this Spurs team to bits
Fergie had all the money. He would weaken rivals by buying their best players. It was a 1 horse race and Wenger still beat him a few times!
His dominance dropped more once Chavs and City got money.
Best manager in football history lol behave.
Yes but its 6 championship clubs suing - and atm there are at least a dozen championship clubs who could get to PL, but in order to sort that out they need to find a way to complete the 9 or so matches which the 24 clubs in championship have left to determine who gets promoted. That's why a legal challenge is bound to fail as the contract between PL and EFL would say something like top 3 clubs at end of season (subject to various criteria such as meeting fit and proper owners, appropriate stadium etc)
Those clubs not selected for promotion aren't going to be that happy if 3 of their number get promoted without some form of compensation (so that means an internal efl legal bloodbath ?).
And chances of playing the remaining championship games is even less than resolving the 90 odd games in PL.
And the deadline of player contracts expiring on 30 June pretty much rules out any extension to the season.
Hence pretty much the only option is to void the season of all the leagues.
And as I say it would soften the blow a little if PL invested the relegation parachute payments it wont need to make by making a payment to championship to redistribute.
With the remainder of this seasons games to make sure the dippers get the title
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"Realism" = "We would sell Kane and not replace him"???
Sure! :roll:
You're the guy that said "I don't know much about modern football, so go easy on me" yet forecasts all kinds of doom and gloom based upon our commercial and financial operations despite the "modern" game being more and more a commercially/financially driven entity. Meanwhile, also adopting all the tropes of the serial nay-sayers such as posting "lol' ratings on any player links posted (eg Eze?)... Poch was shit, Jose's shit, 90% of the players are shit...
It's blatant that you eat up the horseshit that some other posters preach such as "Levy steals money" etc.
Maybe you should "go easy" on how the club is run, if you "don't know much" about it... Especially being a man of science (i.e. proof & evidence)?
As for all the "by 2022" spiel? .....Why are you naysaying the notion that we'll replenish the squad then?
You're a drama queen, Doc.
So what your showing is a passage of play that shows that players were men. Today half of those challenges would have them lying down staring at the ref.
Shall I post some of some actual good play from that era?
Or maybe I can show you some modern Spurs clips
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Pretty sure he busted a guy to avoid being shot at...
I know you're after an argument. I'm too tired from work to get involved. I'm sure you know exactly what I mean.
Then he's A-OK with me..
Perhaps you could answer the reply Airfixx sent me.
No more than anyone else discussing that matter.....
The comment you made was vague and non-specific.
Perhaps you should now butt out if you don't want the discourse?
See BC's. extremely well thought out post.
Excellent post.