>It's overrated because Spanish & Italian football dominates Champions League wins.
In the last 7 years, an English club has won the Champions league 3 times. A Spanish club 3 times. A German club once.
An Italian team last won the Champions league in 2009. Do you pay any attention whatsoever to recent records?
>The greatest players have always played in Italy and Spain, not England. Van Bastan, Zidane, Maradona, Messi - none played in England.
Marco Van Bastan retired in 1995. Maradona retired in 1997. Zidane retired in 2006 (I'll also add that Zinedine Zidane is of Moroccan heritage). How hopelessly out of touch are you?
Lets go more modern, shall we? Mohamed Salah, Erling Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne, Harry Kane, Virgil Van Dijk, Sadio Mane, David Silva. Where did or do they play?
Going back a bit: Robin van Persie, Luis Suarez, Eden Hazard, N'Golo Kanté. Where did they play?
>No, Belgium were predicted to win and dominate international football and did nothing. They were abject failures thanks to being hyped beyond their capabilities.
I'll await evidence for this baseless garbage claim just like the majority of the baseless garbage claims that you make.
>Belgium 86 are widely regarded by Belgians themselves as their greatest ever side. Remember, this is the era of Maradona, a much tougher standard of football in that time.
I'll await evidence for this baseless garbage claim just like the majority of the baseless garbage claims that you make.
You are special pleading. Again. The Belgian team of 18 was just as successful as the Belgian team of 86.
>Portugal reached a quarter final. As did Turkey. Both homogeneous teams. Slovakia would've been in the quarter finals but were cheated by officials giving England 6 mins of unwarranted injury time. The winner was a homogeneous team.
Portugal limped to a quarter-final on the back of half-hearted performances. England got to the final but you don't seem to give them credit focusing entirely on their defeat to Spain. France got to the semi-final, but you again think that's crap. You are again special pleading.
>Slovakia would've been in the quarter finals but were cheated by officials giving England 6 mins of unwarranted injury time. The winner was a homogeneous team.
I'll await evidence that the officials cheated.
>Right, so Spain had *just* the 7 Spaniards then haha. Do you know that means every position on the team from defense to attack is dominated by Spaniards? That's the entire backbone of the team. 7 players is a clear majority. The point still stands.
So it would've made all the difference, would it if just 2 players in the Spanish team there were not from Spain?
I'll be honest, and I'll say it clearly - you're just a hateful racist piece of shit.
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Tam87 (1189)
4 months ago
No, I meant since the inception of the Champions League in the 1950s. Real Madrid have won as many Champions Leagues as every English club combined. It is total domination.
I mentioned those players because they are regarded as the greatest players of each era. None played in England. It doesn't matter how long ago they retired you idiot.
It's not baseless. Belgium won nothing. It's a fact. Their "greatest generation" couldn't outdo their 1986 team, who played in a much tougher era against better opposition.
Portugal and Turkey still reached the quarters with few or no immigrants in their team. Spin it all you want. Spain won it with world class Spaniards like Carvajal and Rodri and only 2 third world immigrants as opposed to god knows how many in the france and holland teams.
I see you have now resorted to insults. Number one rule of internet discussion - first person to lose their cool and react angrily, loses the argument.
I have enjoyed your responses though, it was fun talking to a clinical retard. I'm done with you now you boring fuckhead.
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Skavau (15993)
4 months ago
>No, I meant since the inception of the Champions League in the 1950s. Real Madrid have won as many Champions Leagues as every English club combined. It is total domination.
Right. And the Premier League has only rose to european dominance in the last 10-15 years. It has only existed since the 1992-93 season. How poor it was in the 1970s has nothing to do with how good it is now, and how competitive Premier League teams are in the Champions League now.
>I mentioned those players because they are regarded as the greatest players of each era. None played in England. It doesn't matter how long ago they retired you idiot.
Yes it does. Because we're talking about the MODERN ERA. The contemporary era. Maradona has nothing whatsoever to do with the Premier Leagues relevance in European competitions now.
>It's not baseless. Belgium won nothing. It's a fact. Their "greatest generation" couldn't outdo their 1986 team, who played in a much tougher era against better opposition.
And their 1986 team also "won nothing".
The 1986 team also couldn't outdo the 2018 team.
>Portugal and Turkey still reached the quarters with few or no immigrants in their team.
And France reached the semis. And Netherlands reached the semis. And England reached the final. What the fuck is your point, shithead?
>Spin it all you want. Spain won with it world class Spaniards like Carvajal and Rodri and only 2 third world immigrants as opposed to god knows how many in the france and holland teams.
They aren't immigrants, fuckface.
>I see you have now resorted to insults. Number one rule of internet discussion - first person to lose their cool and react angrily, loses the argument.
I will call a racist piece of shit a racist piece of shit.
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