Ted Hughes wrote:Says, Neville, Scholes, Carragher etc ad nauseam.
Wheras of course, the Manchester Utd, Liverpool etc teams they played in, would have just dicked the likes of these Barca, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid sides, no trouble at all.
Messi ?? Ha. Utd laugh in the face of Messi.
DoomMerchant wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Says, Neville, Scholes, Carragher etc ad nauseam.
Wheras of course, the Manchester Utd, Liverpool etc teams they played in, would have just dicked the likes of these Barca, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid sides, no trouble at all.
Messi ?? Ha. Utd laugh in the face of Messi.
As they lose two CL finals to him....
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.....
Cheers
What is undeniable is that there is a paradox at the heart of the Premier League’s money-spinning success. Just a month after unveiling a record-breaking £5.1bn domestic TV deal, the league is left without a representative in Europe’s premier club competition. The very things that have driven relentless growth in television income and the Premier League’s popularity around the world – intense competition, every game a real contest, the emphasis on speed over thought – have had arguably a negative impact when it comes to Europe. While the number of games may be comparable in leagues across Europe, their intensity is not.
There is also an economic factor. The relatively equitable distribution of television revenues between the 20 clubs has over time resulted in a competition where, on their day, one team can beat any other. And there is a tactical one too. Taken together, it is hard to avoid the conclusion English clubs, for whatever reasons, are finding it hard to adapt from the helter-skelter league programme, where every Sunday is Super, to the sometimes more cerebral demands of Europe.
In the season that Chelsea played Manchester United in an all-Premier League final, the top four finished 11 points clear of fifth-placed Everton. The gap from top to bottom was 76 points (albeit skewed by a woeful showing from Derby County). During that period of English dominance, the debate was about whether the top four or five were pulling away from the rest to an extent that was becoming embarrassing.
No longer. Premier League clubs barely have time to pause for breath, let alone prepare properly for the switch to the competing demands of European matches. André Schürrle, the former Chelsea winger now with Wolfsburg, was just the latest to this week suggest players in England are able to do little but recover between matches for much of the season.
Some say the prospect of a period of unceasing Premier League dominance was a factor in Uefa’s Michel Platini deciding to usher in the financial fair play era to rein them in. Since then, it might also be argued the financial dominance enjoyed by Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain and Bayern Munich in Germany has enabled them to hoover up the very best talent.
Scatman wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Says, Neville, Scholes, Carragher etc ad nauseam.
Wheras of course, the Manchester Utd, Liverpool etc teams they played in, would have just dicked the likes of these Barca, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid sides, no trouble at all.
Messi ?? Ha. Utd laugh in the face of Messi.
As they lose two CL finals to him....
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.....
Cheers
They got to the two CL finals that they lost to him.
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