19, please
"Number 19 > Champions League"
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One would be wonderful. Both would be wonderland.
I can't choose.
I can't choose.
League league league, every single time the league.
I hated Chelsea being champions more than I hated losing in 2009. Maybe winning the CL has a more euphoric feeling at the time, but winning the league is a different emotion and one that gives greater satisfaction in my opinion.
I hated Chelsea being champions more than I hated losing in 2009. Maybe winning the CL has a more euphoric feeling at the time, but winning the league is a different emotion and one that gives greater satisfaction in my opinion.
I would be devastated if we lost to Barcelona. The league? We're always in the running and we will overtake Liverpool eventually.
CL for me
CL for me
Number 19 for me (this year)...but tbh I think we will win both competitions.
Maybe it's too optimistic but I believe we have the ability to do this.
Maybe it's too optimistic but I believe we have the ability to do this.
cl
19 as l'entrée and CL as the plat de resistance.
European Cup.
We should have made this a poll.
"19" absolute no brainer!
19+ the ECL final = a very good season
19+ WINNING the ECL = awesome season
WINNING ECL, and 2nd in the Prem = okay season
(I dont want to consider any other options!)
I can only assume than any United fan who thinks ECL > Prem is too young to remember how hard it was to win the Prem in the first place
19+ the ECL final = a very good season
19+ WINNING the ECL = awesome season
WINNING ECL, and 2nd in the Prem = okay season
(I dont want to consider any other options!)
I can only assume than any United fan who thinks ECL > Prem is too young to remember how hard it was to win the Prem in the first place
utter bollocks , barring a disaster we are in the Final and have just has good a chance as Barcelona to win it.
OK I can admit that Barcelona may have the better team but its a one off game and anything can happen.
To say we have no chance is either stupid or just sour grapes.
Honestly id happily lose the tie tonight if it meant we won 19.
Champions league isnt even close to the level of significance of number 19 this year.
Champions league isnt even close to the level of significance of number 19 this year.
this season it has to be the PL anything else is a bonus.
To be honest I would take the PL over the CL every season
To be honest I would take the PL over the CL every season
Winning the European Cup is hardly a walk in the fecking park either, I don't know how you can say it would be merely an 'okay season' to win the most prestigious trophy in club football.
Oh dear.
Champions League every time. In fact I'd take the Champions League this year over number 19 this year and 20 next year.
Talking like if winning the ECL is easy at all. To each his own preferences regarding to what trophy they like more, but to deny that the ECL is the most important club competition in world football, and overall pinnacle of the sport, is a bit naive. That's were the best clubs and players in the world are, period.
I can guarantee you as an outsider that people remember the ECL winners for far longer than the National League ones.
I do reckon it takes a bit of the shine of winning it if one can't win it's National League in the same year as well, as the later is a measure of consistency while the former is a measure of big-game capacity.
would be a disaster , no matter what we do in the CLYep, I'd even go one further. I'd take Champions League over number 19 this year and, if we have not won it by next year, I'd make the same choice again and choose for yet another CL title over it.
I think you do actually have a point. I mean the league's great to win obviously and especially for bragging rights but no other footballing moment can come close in terms of emotion and excitement for me compared to that night in Barcelona back in 99.
I'd rather we got revenge on Barca than overtook Liverpools league haul if only for the fact that they are to me closer rivals in a pure footballing sense at the minute. Obviously that rivalry will always be there purely for historical and geographic reasons but it is an insult to our team to consider them actual rivals on the pitch at the minute.
We are definitely more likely to win the league but if Fergie could mastermind a victory at Wembley against this current Barcelona side it would be one of his greatest achievements up there with 99, winning that first title after 26 years and putting Chelsea and Abramovich in their place after it looked likely they would dominate for years to come.
I'd rather win the Champions League, but I don't want to go into the Champions League final having fecked up the league...it would basically become an all or nothing game.
Both the league and the CL have basically come down to one game to decide each:
Assuming we get past Schalke (which we should) then it's a one-off game v Barca.
This weekend's game v Chelsea is effectively a one match decider - whoever wins it will win the league in my opinion. If it's a draw, United are favourites for the title.
For me it's the league but would be very nice to do Barcelona in the CL.
People would rather win the CL over the PL? You serious? You do realise that means either Chelsea or Arsenal would be champions?
Assuming we get past Schalke (which we should) then it's a one-off game v Barca.
This weekend's game v Chelsea is effectively a one match decider - whoever wins it will win the league in my opinion. If it's a draw, United are favourites for the title.
For me it's the league but would be very nice to do Barcelona in the CL.
People would rather win the CL over the PL? You serious? You do realise that means either Chelsea or Arsenal would be champions?
It means we'd have won our 4th european cup. The biggest competition in club football.
That thought can only look far-fetched if you think English football is the top of the world. A bit like the early mentality of English teams being to good to participate in international competitions. It's getting a bit old. CL > PL anywhere in the world, safe for the particularity of the historical significance of this "19" one.
No, not at all. You needed to win the league to get in. You don't these days, but it's even harder to win now.
Whenever I watch an European match I always think of the Babes, and Sir Matt Busby's vision, and how fate took our finest team and only allowed Sir Matt to realise his vision far, far too late. We should have been a team like Real Madrid were once upon a time - winning the league would have been just the first step to our assault on the European Cup.
Ol Big Ears beats the league for me, but they're not really that far apart.