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thats mostly because their team is better than ours
Are they really better though? No doubt we're s**t but I don't think NZ are any better than we are. A 5-0 win over the Solomons is like when we beat Nepal by the same margin. We're probably level-pegging with them tbh. It'd be interesting to see where NZ would finish up if they were in the AFC like us. I think they'd do enough to make the final round but probably sit at an Oman/Iraq level and just fall short of the play-offs.
 
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Are they really better though? No doubt we're s**t but I don't think NZ are any better than we are. A 5-0 win over the Solomons is like when we beat Nepal by the same margin. We're probably level-pegging with them tbh. It'd be interesting to see where NZ would finish up if they were in the AFC like us. I think they'd do enough to make the final round but probably sit at an Oman/Iraq level and just fall short of the play-offs.
chris wood is better than everyone we've got
 
Mar 11, 2012
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Not sure whether this is unpopular or not, but I think once City win the league title this season there can be no dispute that Guardiola's Manchester City is the greatest English league side of the PL era (perhaps of all time).

4 out of 5 titles and won a bunch of domestic cups along the way. 100, 98, 95 point seasons - which are 1st, 3rd, =5th best in PL history. Individual players with the quality to rival any other team from any other era. Will add yet more titles in the years to come.
 
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Ole is actually a solid manager

He has one of the worst midfields in the league with a bunch of blokes who are either past it, or not up to it.

Reminds me of Arsenal in Arsenes final years, all the money mainly spent in the final 3rd, not enough in the middle of the park. Boy they need a Carrick, Keane and Scholes in there ASAP
Yep

Ole a genius tbf, got the best out of that rabble
 
Aug 16, 2011
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Not sure whether this is unpopular or not, but I think once City win the league title this season there can be no dispute that Guardiola's Manchester City is the greatest English league side of the PL era (perhaps of all time).

4 out of 5 titles and won a bunch of domestic cups along the way. 100, 98, 95 point seasons - which are 1st, 3rd, =5th best in PL history. Individual players with the quality to rival any other team from any other era. Will add yet more titles in the years to come.
Not a bad call, but like you said, probably not unpopular.
 
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It's not about finishing 2nd or 3rd or 4th being a success. It's about moving the club forward, and on that score United haven't had a good manager since about t years before Ferguson quit.
Would suggest finishing position is part of the equation when evaluating whether a club has moved forward. Big teams who are financially adventorous strive to finish high in the league, qualify for the champions league and win trophies.
 
Would suggest finishing position is part of the equation when evaluating whether a club has moved forward. Big teams who are financially adventorous strive to finish high in the league, qualify for the champions league and win trophies.
Part of the equation, but only a part. In the long run Mourinho took over a team that had finished 5th, and finished 6th, 2nd (19 poi ts behind the champions) and 6th (when sacked). He spent £300m on new players, 3 of which are still at the club (Lindelof, Dalot and Fred).

So getting United into the champions league, something they've done 4 times in 8 years since Ferguson left isn't that great of an achievement in my book. By far the more significant achievement for me was adding a few cups to the trophy cabinet.
 

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Sep 26, 2011
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Not sure whether this is unpopular or not, but I think once City win the league title this season there can be no dispute that Guardiola's Manchester City is the greatest English league side of the PL era (perhaps of all time).

4 out of 5 titles and won a bunch of domestic cups along the way. 100, 98, 95 point seasons - which are 1st, 3rd, =5th best in PL history. Individual players with the quality to rival any other team from any other era. Will add yet more titles in the years to come.

Its hard as on one hand all that is all true but on the other when you can spend an unlimited amount of money to create squads that contain such quality you'll get a disinterested shrug from most when comparing Pep's achievements to everyone else.
 
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