March 6, 2008

Best Team In Europe?

Filed under: Articles — Administrator @ 1:54 pm

Quarter Final stage of the Champions League and the English press are all bigging up the teams they normally love to knock down a peg or two and article after article speculating on who is the best in Europe…which is the best league in Europe, the best player in Europe…yada yada yada.

So when it comes down to the “Best Team” in Europe, how do you define that? How will we ever know? In my eyes, the Champions League does not provide proof of the best team in Europe. Best on the day perhaps…but not the best overall at all times with all-comers. Until such a time as we have a European league, with 30 or 40 games played over a full season, no knockout stages and a pucker full-on league programme, we’re never going to know.

Take Liverpool in 2005. They beat AC Milan (more…)