Rival watch
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All this "Is Fraudiola going to do it without Messi?" think pieces ignoring one minor fact: Messi did it without Guardiola
You’ve got to say well done
Incredible achievement
Not quite as dramatic as 1999
Incredible achievement
Not quite as dramatic as 1999
because Citeh were not pushed that hard in
the domestic competitions, nor required luck
in the CL campaign.
very sporting of you Luke.
But it’s not that much of an incredible achievement. Infact, it was just a matter of time.
Team with the most money, who spends the most money and breaks all sorts of rules to achieve this outcome.
Congratulations to the team Abu Dhabi and their owner who turned up to watch them live for the 1st time in 13 yrs , a heart warming moment after all the hard work and billions of pounds poured into his boyhood club
It enables the media to show the shallowness of its interest in football. Fawning rich ex players fawning over Pep and describing him as the greatest manager of all time. The richest, perhaps but the greatest?
He took years to work out that you needed defenders as well as Aguero.
This is an issue with sports journalists as much as pundits: they habitually equate a team's spending power with their support base and skew their coverage in their favour, which can lead to a disconnect between their coverage and fan attitudes, both of that club and (especially) rival clubsIt enables the media to show the shallowness of its interest in football. Fawning rich ex players fawning over Pep and describing him as the greatest manager of all time. The richest, perhaps but the greatest?
It's been obvious ever since journalists and pundits alike were gushing over Mo Fayed buying Fulham out of Division 3 and into the Premier League while fans in the bottom two divisions did not share that view, and even Fulham fans grew sick of "Kevin Keegan's Fulham" being media darlings of people who clearly only paid attention to their league placing every year and nothing else
TBH I have no idea if the press in other countries fawn over newly-minted teams as a default response, as you'd think the French press would not be giving PSG the fawning coverage our press gives The Sheikh Mansour Team (while, IIRC, the Austrian press were not welcoming to G Fuel Vienna and everything they represented), but then again those countries aren't genetically predisposed to tug their forelock when somebody with wealth and entitlement insist they own everything...
Man City end the season having only been eliminated from a competition by one team: Southampton.
Well done, Nathan Jones. Not a frequently used sentence, that.
Well done, Nathan Jones. Not a frequently used sentence, that.
Bayern Munich have signed Raphael Guerreiro and Konrad Laimer from Dortmund and Leipzig.
Both were out of contract and have been picked up on Bosmans.
I wonder why they keep winning the Bundesliga?
Both were out of contract and have been picked up on Bosmans.
I wonder why they keep winning the Bundesliga?
Attention all English football journalists: the following teams have won a treble since 1999
Barcelona: 2008, 2015
Inter: 2010
Bayern: 2013, 2020
Barcelona: 2008, 2015
Inter: 2010
Bayern: 2013, 2020
The European Championship is next summer, you daft Tory ****
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1. Spurs were the first team in the 20th century to do
win the domestic double. After a gap of 60 odd years.
Before that point, no doubt the consensus was that
no club in the "modern game" could ever do it.
After that, twas done about once a decade.
And after the PL + CL financially boosted the "Sky 4" ,
and the rise of the Sugga Daddy FCs, how many
times has it been done since 1994, and at what frequency ??
So often it barely raises a meh with supporters nowadays.
2. Once the double became more regular, speculation
then turns to whether the domestic treble is possible.
Even the Poool empire, in their domestic hegemony +
mastery of the UEFA competitions, could not achieve it.
Then Man Utd did it. And 24 years later another club has done it.
I contend that I will see it done again, and it will happen
a lot quicker than 24 years.
This prediction is merely following the trend set in #1.
As the financial gap between a few clubs and the rest grows
ever larger, so the conditions for achievement grow ever better.
