Tournament of all-time greatest club teams continued and concluded
I posted the first two pieces and you can find them in the LOB archives.
Part three is HERE
and Part four is HERE
posted by gooner71 @ 2:10 PM
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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10 Comments:
Hmmmm...that was a really intriguing idea but in the end it ended up with the age old mythology of "total football," the footie intellectual's favorite romantic notion.
Ajax v. Barcelona - world football's best ever clubs? Not buying it.
I am surprised that Ajax beat the might Barcelona!
It always seems to be the present day team is the best!
I agree Davy. What this exercise tends to discount is how much fitter and stronger even the technical players are today, to say nothing of the monsters like Pique, and Busquets who pack more brawn than the defenders and midfielders of Ajax 70.
I think Barca 11 would grind out a tika-taka win against Ajax 70 in much the same way that Spain ground out a dull tika-taka win in S.Africa.
But it's nice to imagine that the cranky genius Cruyff still could put paid to Xavi and co.
I'd probably still have the Alfredo di Stefano version of Real up against the full-out catenaccio Inter in the final. Not pretty but awfully difficult to beat those two.
I think you're right to choose match-ups of the same era, but I think it's a big ask for team that's dependent on that the fat Galloping Major and the chain-smoking Blond Arrow to reach a final unless their pit against other smoking fatsos.
My pick is probably Ajax 70 vs Munich 74. Spicy Dutch-German rivalry too.
Melchester Rovers!
Despite my hatred for Liverpool due to the rivalry, I would pick Ajax vs Liverpool.I believe the fat Galloping Major is Di Stefano. Is the Blond Arrow Cruyff?
No mate, the Galloping Major is Puskas because that's the rank he held in the military while playing for Honved. And Di Stefano is the Blond Arrow though I've seldom seen a pic of him with hair.
Blond Arrow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Di_St%C3%A9fano
Galloping Major
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pusk%C3%A1s
I guess Di Stefano had hair early in his playing, much like Bobby Charlton. Supposedly, the two were unstoppable and it was difficult to find a team that could stop the pair.It was a different era. The description is correct as Di Stefano was chain smoking when he was the manager of Real Madrid.The blond- I guess so.Thank you for the clarification, Gooner.
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