Slim wrote:FA cup winners 2006 wrote:Slim wrote:You are aware the current European champions play in the same domestic league as us?
come on, that cl win was one of the luckiest i have ever seen and fair play to chelsea for winning it but you cant honestly say they are one of the best teams in europe.
as i said it could be a stupid reason for us not doing well in europe but the types of teams you meet in each competition are so polar opposites you can see how it might be difficult for players. i know the quality is obviously completely different but when barca or dortmund or bayern play in their domestic league they are usually playing againist a team who are technically very good where as we are usually not
Winning is winning, do you think we were unworthy champions of england because we were lucky?
Liverpool and the filth have both won the champions league in the last 10 years as well, Arsenal have made two(?) finals and Chelsea have been in the knockout stages fairly consistently.
We didn't do well because we were in the group of death and a bit niave, no other reason.
no i dont think we were lucky but if utd had won the league i think they would have been lucky. i know the PL teams have done well in europe in the past decade but i am talking about now, todays chelsea, arsenal, united and liverpool team are not be a patch on their respective teams 5-8 years ago, so i can see why them teams were challenging on all fronts with the players they had but them same teams will do very well to be challenging now