Fair point, but I more meant the fans and the media than the players themselves.
Even if those 3 went to Liverpool?
Which CL winner won because of luck ?
Indeed. The FIFA World Club Championship is even more prestigious. Do you remember Real Madrid v Kashima Antlers? What a match.
It’s not even that, it’s the fact that it’s so much harder to win the Champions League in my opinion. Some great teams in the past like Arsenal in the early 00’s have never won it, and United having only won it twice during their period of utter domination in the PL speaks volumes. I can’t see City winning it this year, for example, even though they’re fecking class. Will they be able to beat several top teams like PSG, Barcelona, Madrid? What with the added pressure too?
It used to be though. From 60s to mid 1990s the Intercontinental Cup was massively prestigious, probably the most prestigious club trophy around the world during that time. That Sao Paulo side of the mid 1990s that beat Cruyff's Barcelona and Capello's Milan was probably the last SA side that was legitimately on par with the best in Europe though.
You may well be correct, although I am afraid I cannot remember a single winner of that trophy during the period you describe. I am happy to concede that being English, that may be as much to do with my country's insularity when it comes to affairs outside our shores as it to do with the prestige of the trophy. My point was the lack of logic of the person I replied to. As far as I am concerned the winner of the PL deserves the utmost respect. A CL win is obviously glamorous but give me the PL every time. A few competitive games in Europe does not compare with a league campaign.
O'Shea's winner in front of the Kop in 2007, probably.
Remember both, going nuts in both cases, but nowhere near as emotioned as today. For me the only one who surpassed this was Viva John Terry, and probably the same effect the final whistle against Barca. I am still in some weird panic but amazind mode, and the game has finished 2 hours ago.
yeah I know the feeling. Machedaaaaaaaaaaa was close but yeah nothing beats last minute knockout drama.
I really need to watch it again. I just don't know what happened bar the ball ending in the goal. Just got fatigued from VAR and then was screaming and jumping in the other room like an idiot. My flatmate thought that I had gone insane.
I still get nervous when I think back to Rashford's penalty. As if in my memory he could somehow miss it and therefore we'd be knocked out retroactively.
