From: Abubakr on
On 2 Jan, 16:15, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 1, 10:50 pm, Abubakr <deltara...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 2 Jan, 15:10, Enzo <s_debgu...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Jan 2, 12:17 am, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > 10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated
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> > > > 9 Jose Mourinho winning the title in three different leagues in five
> > > > years
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> > > > 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009
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> > > > 7 Spain finally winning a major championship
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> > > > 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree
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> > > > 5 Henry's handball against Ireland
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> > > No. IMO, of course. Replace with EPL's rise to prominence
> > > and the fall of the Serie A.
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> > 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.
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> > If you are going to troll at least be good at it.-
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> Expressing an opinion, and especially the majority one, is not
> trolling. 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.

There's nothing exceptional about not winning. Much ballyhooed EPL
teams have been humiliated at the hands of Serie A teams as well.
From: Insane Ranter on
On Jan 1, 7:17 pm, Alkamista <alkami...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> 10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated

Guess we can over look the loss to Man U. in the FA Cup....
From: Abubakr on
On 2 Jan, 11:17, 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
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> 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009
>
> 7 Spain finally winning a major championship
>
> 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree
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> 5 Henry's handball against Ireland
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> 4 Liverpool winning UCL final after being down 3-0 at halftime
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> 3 Calciopoli
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> 2 Underdog Greece winning the EC in 2004
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> 1 Zidane headbutting his way off the pitch in a WC final

For me one of the defining moments of the decade happened in its
earliest hours, the 2000 Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo between Boca
Juniors and Real Madrid. That would be the last time in the event's
final or the subsequent Club World Cup where the South American club
would beat the European club with superior football. There have been
further victories but they have resulted more from tactics and luck
rather than better technique.

This decade has seen the relentless economic hegemony of the European
leagues strip the rest of the world of its talent. A terrible side
affect of this paradigm is the loss of regional styles of play.
Nowadays everyone plays like Italians on roids.
From: Google Beta User on
4-2-3-1 becomes the formation of choice for top teams.

From: Diabolik on

"Alkamista" <alkamista(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:
>
>
>
>
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> > 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?