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From: higgs on 5 Jan 2010 05:13 On Jan 2, 7:31 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 2, 7:17 pm, "Diabolik" <Diabo...(a)noemail.com> wrote: > > > > > "Alkamista" <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > >news:7beebd4f-41b9-4175-aae0-0eebe4d3fca4(a)22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com... > > On Jan 1, 10:50 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2 Jan, 15:10, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 12:17 am, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated > > > > > > 9 Jose Mourinho winning the title in three different leagues in five > > > > > years > > > > > > 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009 > > > > > > 7 Spain finally winning a major championship > > > > > > 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree > > > > > > 5 Henry's handball against Ireland > > > > > No. IMO, of course. Replace with EPL's rise to prominence > > > > and the fall of the Serie A. > > > > Which is why EPL teams have now managed to win exactly half the CL > > > titles as Serie A teams this decade and been represented in just two > > > extra final berths. > > > > If you are going to troll at least be good at it.- > > > Expressing an opinion, and especially the majority one, is not > > > trolling. > > > Numbers don't lie and aren't opinions. > > > > The UCL is not just the final, but a whole tournament, and > > > EPL teams have done exceptionally well in it last few years, and > > > certainly better than Serie A clubs. Also, head to head EPL have > > > dominanted, and on many occasions even humiliated, Serie A clubs this > > > decade. Seriously, you have got to be kidding. > > > Which humiliations are you referring to? > > > You mean like the Milan-ManU 3-0 humiliation? > > He is referring to Man Utd beating Roma at home. But that same Man Utd > were comprehensively outplayed in Rome in the first leg. > That would be the 1-1 draw. I suppose it was honours even, really?
From: higgs on 5 Jan 2010 05:16 On Jan 3, 12:39 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 Jan, 05:02, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 2:17 am, "Diabolik" <Diabo...(a)noemail.com> wrote: > > > > "Alkamista" <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > > >news:7beebd4f-41b9-4175-aae0-0eebe4d3fca4(a)22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com.... > > > On Jan 1, 10:50 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 2 Jan, 15:10, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 2, 12:17 am, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > 10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated > > > > > > > 9 Jose Mourinho winning the title in three different leagues in five > > > > > > years > > > > > > > 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009 > > > > > > > 7 Spain finally winning a major championship > > > > > > > 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree > > > > > > > 5 Henry's handball against Ireland > > > > > > No. IMO, of course. Replace with EPL's rise to prominence > > > > > and the fall of the Serie A. > > > > > Which is why EPL teams have now managed to win exactly half the CL > > > > titles as Serie A teams this decade and been represented in just two > > > > extra final berths. > > > > > If you are going to troll at least be good at it.- > > > > Expressing an opinion, and especially the majority one, is not > > > > trolling. > > > > Numbers don't lie and aren't opinions. > > > > > The UCL is not just the final, but a whole tournament, and > > > > EPL teams have done exceptionally well in it last few years, and > > > > certainly better than Serie A clubs. Also, head to head EPL have > > > > dominanted, and on many occasions even humiliated, Serie A clubs this > > > > decade. Seriously, you have got to be kidding. > > > > Which humiliations are you referring to? > > > > You mean like the Milan-ManU 3-0 humiliation > > > Juventus 0-3 Man Utd > > Inter 1-4 Arsenal > > Man Utd 7-1 Roma > > Newcastle 1-4 Inter > Arsenal (the "invincible" ones) 0-3 Inter Followed by the closely fought narrow 5-1 win to Arsenal in the return leg............
From: higgs on 5 Jan 2010 05:28 On Jan 2, 9:36 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 2, 9:09 pm, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 4:50 am, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 2 Jan, 15:10, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 12:17 am, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated > > > > > > 9 Jose Mourinho winning the title in three different leagues in five > > > > > years > > > > > > 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009 > > > > > > 7 Spain finally winning a major championship > > > > > > 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree > > > > > > 5 Henry's handball against Ireland > > > > > No. IMO, of course. Replace with EPL's rise to prominence > > > > and the fall of the Serie A. > > > > Which is why EPL teams have now managed to win exactly half the CL > > > titles as Serie A teams this decade and been represented in just two > > > extra final berths. > > > > If you are going to troll at least be good at it. > > > What part of rise to prominence of A and fall of B equates to A has > > won > > more than B ? > > All of it. > > Couldn't it be A has improved while B has gone in the > > > reverse > > direction ? > > Don't the UEFA numbers, tallied over the years, point to > > > that fact? > > Do they? Is that why EPL teams have won so many more UEFA trophies in > this decade than their Serie A counterparts? > This doesn't seem like rocket science, but then again you're no rocket scientist. If at the start of the decade, Serie A teams are regularly making the final 4 (and on one occasion providing both finalists), yet by the end of the decade they aren't even getting anyone past the QFs, and in that same period, EPL teams are, at the end of the decade, providing 3 of the 4 Semi Finalists, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the EPL has surpassed Serie A in terms of quality. I appreciate that Inter once beat Newcastle, and even managed to hold their own in a close 5-1 loss to a mediocre Arsenal outfit, but if your view is that Serie A is currently a better league than the EPL, I'd be interested in selling you a bridge in Sydney that I have at a reasonable price
From: Alkamista on 5 Jan 2010 07:38 On Jan 4, 3:25 am, Mark <Pammieshe...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Jan 3, 5:51 pm, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan 3, 4:40 am, Mark <Pammieshe...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > On Jan 3, 2:26 am, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 2, 7:45 pm, Graf Finklestein <udo_bins...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 3 Jan, 01:06, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > I did the research. Arsenal are the only team in the history of the > > > > > > English league to do this. > > > > > > Then you'd better learn how to research properly, because your > > > > > statement is incorrect. Preston North End also went an whole season > > > > > unbeaten. > > > > > Sorry professor, my oversight. I used this article as a reference: > > > > >http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2004/05/15/arsenal040515.html > > > > > I hope you will find it in your generous heart to forgive me. > > > > Palermo did too (1979 I thnk). In fact, over 100 teams have done it > > > worldwide in the history of football > > > Do you have any facts or sources to support the last claim?- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - > > Yes, but I'm not sure how to post links. > RSSF Archive; Miscellaneous section, look under trivia for trivia on > domestic championships, and click on unbeatability records. > You'll find Independiente in that list. (Just thought I'd mention that) Thanks, I did find it. Yes it's happened in many small leagues, where one or two clubs dominate or far less games are played. Even if we get out of the big 5 in Europe and see the next biggest leagues: Netherlands - Only twice Russia - Never (USSR only once) Portugal - Only twice Scotland - Only twice The two big South American leagues cant be compared here because they have a very different format. Far fewer league games are played.
From: Mark on 5 Jan 2010 07:40
On Jan 4, 4:08 pm, Binder Dundat <dun...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > 6. Porto winning the UEFa cup and Champions league. Maybe not a small > club, but not a huge spending club either winning two trophies back to > back, may not happen for a while. > Actually it already has. Liga de Quito won the Copa Libertadores in 2008 and the Copa Sudamericana in 2009. > > 1.The utter and total failure of the Canadian national team and soccer > in general in Canada. I don't think Canada won a single competitive > game in the past ten years? Trinidad and Tobago have a better team as > does Jamaica, El Salvador, Belize, Vatican City etc. Canada won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2000. |