The Football Thread 2011/12

SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

Of course they do. Player grows up thinking of being a hero in their country, you've been surrounded in a CL bubble for too long.

How is the CL more prestigious than the World Cup :lol:

FA Cup > World Cup > Euros

I missed the last Euro's. Managed to catch Italy crashing out to Spain whilst walking past a bar in the pouring rain. Heard it was a rather good tournament too :roll:

Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

You can make an argument that the CL is bigger than the Euros but you really think it's bigger than the World Cup?

Where did I say that?

Champions League bigger then the World Cup?! Are you on crack?

SandyCoin wrote:I missed the last Euro's. Managed to catch Italy crashing out to Spain whilst walking past a bar in the pouring rain. Heard it was a rather good tournament too

You just said the CL is bigger than the World Cup. Please revise this statement sandy

@spinny :lol:

You love the summer tournaments as much as me :wub:

Spindash wrote:FA Cup > World Cup > Euros

SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

Yup, I'll say one more...I didn't say the CL was bigger than the WC. Surely in the context of what we were talking about people here should have understood what I said. Apparently not. Strange.

SandyCoin wrote:
Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

You can make an argument that the CL is bigger than the Euros but you really think it's bigger than the World Cup?

Where did I say that?

Well, you implied it, there.

SandyCoin wrote:Yup, I'll say one more...I didn't say the CL was bigger than the WC. Surely in the context of what we were talking about people here should have understood what I said. Apparently not. Strange.

Okay, so you're saying players would rather win the CL than the World Cup? You really believe that?

I think he was referring to the "2nd best competition" thing.... "Surely it's the CL".

Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:
Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

You can make an argument that the CL is bigger than the Euros but you really think it's bigger than the World Cup?

Where did I say that?

Well, you implied it, there.

Wasn't implied at all. We were talking about the Euro's and the CL. You really should have realised it meant players dream of winning the world cup AND...AND....the CL.

Thanks Foxhound. Glad someone can read stuff in context.

SandyCoin wrote:
Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:
Zellery wrote:
SandyCoin wrote:I seriously doubt many players think "my dream is to win the world cup and the euros".

Surely it's the CL. Far more prestigious although obviously in more recent years it's not as glamourous, what with letting teams in 4th and weirdly 5th enter.

You can make an argument that the CL is bigger than the Euros but you really think it's bigger than the World Cup?

Where did I say that?

Well, you implied it, there.

Wasn't implied at all. We were talking about the Euro's and the CL. You really should have realised it meant players dream of winning the world cup AND...AND....the CL.

It looks like it was implied the way you worded it. Myself and Glowy picked up on it.

Not my fault if you worded it badly.

Id still rather win country tournaments. It brings the biggest and widest acclaim. The whole country will love you.

Thats why I don't see messi as truly truly brilliant until he does something masive with argentina :mrgreen:

glowy69 wrote:Id still rather win country tournaments. It brings the biggest and widest acclaim. The whole country will love you.

Thats why I don't see messi as truly truly brilliant until he does something masive with argentina

You wouldn't take Villa winning the Champions League over England winning the Euros?

Foxhound wrote:
glowy69 wrote:Id still rather win country tournaments. It brings the biggest and widest acclaim. The whole country will love you.

Thats why I don't see messi as truly truly brilliant until he does something masive with argentina

You wouldn't take Villa winning the Champions League over England winning the Euros?

Nope.

Ive said this many times. I 'd love love love it to happen to villa. But put things in context, england winning the euros is much much more likely :lol:

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Foxhound wrote:
glowy69 wrote:Id still rather win country tournaments. It brings the biggest and widest acclaim. The whole country will love you.

Thats why I don't see messi as truly truly brilliant until he does something masive with argentina

You wouldn't take Villa winning the Champions League over England winning the Euros?

Yeah when it's put in that context I think I'd take Villa. :shifty:

But England winning the World Cup is still the biggest thing in football that I want to happen.

glowy69 wrote:But put things in context, england winning the euros is much much more likely

Although this is also a compelling argument. :lol:

Zellery wrote:
Foxhound wrote:
glowy69 wrote:Id still rather win country tournaments. It brings the biggest and widest acclaim. The whole country will love you.

Thats why I don't see messi as truly truly brilliant until he does something masive with argentina

You wouldn't take Villa winning the Champions League over England winning the Euros?

Yeah when it's put in that context I think I'd take Villa.

But England winning the World Cup is still the biggest thing in football that I want to happen.

Its hard to explain, when england do well, the whole country is on a high, its so brilliant I love it. When villa are doing well :shifty:

everyone in my town hates me :lol:

My country means more to me than Villa. Who are pretty much ireland now :lol:

And anyone who has been in the last two major tourney threads (2006 & 2010) will confirm this

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