You didn't appreciate my joke about Spurs being a meme thenPlenty of threads for your high-IQ memes, mate.
You didn't appreciate my joke about Spurs being a meme thenPlenty of threads for your high-IQ memes, mate.
Episode 2Glaston In India
A Netflix Production
Episode 1
TOUR GUIDE: "These are the remains of a great monastery, built in the time of the Gupta Empire."
GLASTON: "Very impressive...but it doesn't have a retractable football pitch, does it?"
TOUR GUIDE: *snores*
GLASTON: "One-nil to Spurs."
That was the worst Bayern in a decade with Rafinha, Ribery and Robben on their last legs and Muller and Kimich suspended, Tolisso injured. Even then he teams canceled each other out at Anfield.The last time Bayern faced a title challenging English team it didn’t end well, if I recall. Slapped 3-1 in your own backyard.
City are far better than you as well, and would totally control the game. Don’t let our horrendous capitulation or inability to defend fool you in to thinking this Bayern team is on Liverpool or City’s level .. it isn’t, and if you meet again in the CL knockouts that’ll be quickly obvious.
City is overrated. This is the team that has never EVER made it past the CL semifinals and somehow we’re ready to crown them the best team in Europe? Because Sky said so. Nah.I think they’d both probably lose to city both home and away in the league, lose to Liverpool at anfield and wouldn’t dominate the rest of the top six like city/Liverpool do.
They might get 85-90 points but at no point do I really think they’d be in the thick of it with Liverpool or City.
I made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
I can't see any bullying. Curry on chaps.Why are you guys bullying Glaston, he's harmless leave him be.
Yeah pretty much the same for me.
I used to always hope Spurs do well, liked them for some reason. This guy singlehandedly made me hate them.
I made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
oh good it translated. I was relying on a blunt text translation tool.
For all those who don't know Hindi - the two words below the Spurs cockerel mean "Cock Cheese."
They parked the bus at Anfield.That was the worst Bayern in a decade with Rafinha, Ribery and Robben on their last legs and Muller and Kimich suspended, Tolisso injured. Even then he teams canceled each other out at Anfield.
There is a perfectly valid reason that Glaston has escaped a permanent ban all these years, that being: he is not a real boy. He is, in fact, a parody account created by the mods out of sheer boredom to mess with us fine upstanding caftards.Why are you guys bullying Glaston, he's harmless leave him be.
Ah yes, in reference to the new stadium's famous cock cheese room.
For all those who don't know Hindi - the two words below the Spurs cockerel mean "Cock Cheese."
This is what happens when your metric for quality is a cup competition set to classical musicCity is overrated. This is the team that has never EVER made it past the CL semifinals and somehow we’re ready to crown them the best team in Europe? Because Sky said so. Nah.
The best sides in Europe routinely make it to the latter stages though. There are few upsets in Cl football which makes Peps lack of control in those games v inferior opposition all the more bafflingThis is what happens when your metric for quality is a cup competition set to classical music
I made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
IMO if they beat us they comfortably defeat Ajax and it’s 60/40 in their favour for the final.The best sides in Europe routinely make it to the latter stages though. There are few upsets in Cl football which makes Peps lack of control in those games v inferior opposition all the more baffling
The best teams in Europe routinely win their league competitions. And other trophies. What happened to that metric?The best sides in Europe routinely make it to the latter stages though. There are few upsets in Cl football which makes Peps lack of control in those games v inferior opposition all the more baffling
Absolute geniusI made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
Oh manI made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
Hope the text in Hindi was intentionalI made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
And they all build for Europe and see it as the ultimate goalThe best teams in Europe routinely win their league competitions. And other trophies. What happened to that metric?
Uber squads. It's not a valid metric and hasn't been for some time now. Battering teams with less money and resources than you and then coming up short when up against equally wealthy giants in Europe is actually and even worse reflection on an all-conquering league side and sets them out as flat-track bullies.The best teams in Europe routinely win their league competitions. And other trophies. What happened to that metric?
Uhm, we laughing at comments made by our one and only Glaston, not other teams! Big difference. At least in this thread.To be honest I find it pretty hard laughing at other teams when United are that bad at the moment.
An ultimate goal only 2 teams have accomplished in the past 4 years. In only one of those years did the CL champion win their league. You see why I don't put as much stock in it as you've have?And they all build for Europe and see it as the ultimate goal
2 problems here:Uber squads. It's not a valid metric and hasn't been for some time now. Battering teams with less money and resources than you and then coming up short when up against equally wealthy giants in Europe is actually and even worse reflection on an all-conquering league side and sets them out as flat-track bullies.
1. has always been nonsense and it's a discussion that is never resolved on here because those talking about 'cup competition' always fade out and avoid the bare bones (crux) of the conversation, only to then repeat the same thing ad infinitum a few months/years later. In the end, everyone just leaves it be and has others believe in what they believe without contesting it as it'll never be settled one way or the other. I will add here that for the fact these are mere cup competitions, the amount of winners who were favoured to do so before a ball is even kicked is uncanny and we can that back to the 1930's, if not earlier with it being more solidified in the 50's and 60's when the European Cup was officially formed.An ultimate goal only 2 teams have accomplished in the past 4 years. In only one of those years did the CL champion win their league. You see why I don't put as much stock in it as you've have?
2 problems here:
1. In a cup competition it's more about the luck of the day than the overall quality of the side. If the CL was a proper league competition then I'd concede this point
2. How do you account for Barcelona beating Real Madrid, a CL champion for 3 years straight, in El Classico after El Classico, senselessly at times? How do you account for City beating Liverpool and Tottenham, teams that knocked them out in CL competition, in the league in head to head competition?
Always derail threads trying to bully poor Glaston.I like how we've derailed this thread
Murga paneerI made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
I made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
I can't see any bullying. Curry on chaps.
This has got me laughing out loud in the office - thanks for the translation.
For all those who don't know Hindi - the two words below the Spurs cockerel mean "Cock Cheese."
He must be blood related to Levy somehow.
I used to always hope Spurs do well, liked them for some reason. This guy singlehandedly made me hate them.
!. If you do an objective sweep of World Cups, Euros, Copa Americas comparing those who were expected to win or contest the final before a ball had even been kicked compared to shocks and underdogs, the results are overwhelmingly in favour of the former, same goes for the Champions League and European Cup before it - you can name the glitches because they are infrequent and thus stick out like a sore thumb, just as with Greece winning the Euros. Anomalies that actually prove there is a natural order rather than show cup competitions as a farcical.@Fortitude more derailment, yay!!!
1. It's never been nonsense. Liverpool in 2005, Chelsea in 2012. Schalke in 2011. Shoot... City, the year they made the semis, were worse than any iteration of Pep's City after his first year with them. Conversely, look at how United have been fecked over in years where our quality could not be argued against. 2010 against Bayern. SAF's last year against Real. There is too much volatility for me personally to take it as a sole indicator of quality unless it is augmented with accompanying evidence. Others see it differently and that's cool, I just classify such viewpoints as myopic
2. Eh, sometimes. Look at Atletico's title run in 2014, Leicester's title run in, last year's PL title race. Pressure can exist in both cup and league competitions.
The ultimate crown of quality for me is a clean double sweep, sure. Anything short of that is up to interpretation. A CL final appearance alone or a trophy isn't cutting it.
I made you a placement card @GlastonSpur, to stop us worrying about you. Feel free to use it next time you travel.
I kind of agree with you, I think (I don't actually, I think you overestimate the impact of squad packing on team's results in different leagues), but I think we are arguing different points, so let me restate mine.!. If you do an objective sweep of World Cups, Euros, Copa Americas comparing those who were expected to win or contest the final before a ball had even been kicked compared to shocks and underdogs, the results are overwhelmingly in favour of the former, same goes for the Champions League and European Cup before it - you can name the glitches because they are infrequent and thus stick out like a sore thumb, just as with Greece winning the Euros. Anomalies that actually prove there is a natural order rather than show cup competitions as a farcical.
2. And in reverse, you're putting out blips, plucky gunners who the stars aligned for in the midst of bought leagues left, right and centre. And to be sure, leagues always had stacked 1st xi's, but when uber squads were introduced, with benches that in the old way would be a contesting side in their own right, the league became about who could stack the greater supplemental set of players rather than about xi's that took hits when star men were out and gave other, equally skilled xi's, their chance to steal ahead in title races. All leagues can attest to this: from the phenomenal competition of Serie A across 10 teams in the 80's and 90's to Juventus just juggernauting, via resources, to how things became in La Liga, The PL and Ligue Un over time. It's a proven, formulaic and rather underwhelming devolution of what the leagues once stood for. These insane point totals aren't being accrued by xi men + chancers anymore; it's a wholly different ball game, one that bails out these sides in the league and exposes them in Europe, which is why we see, 'suddenly', all that glitters isn't gold as these Uber sides fall short time and time and time again.