Today's Football 2015 / 16
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Haha, let's hope not!
Your argument is literally that because the quality is worse the upset is greater?
That's so stupid as to not need a response.
I'm of the opinion that beating managers like wenger, pellegrini and van gaal and players like ozil, toure and hazard is slightly harder than outfoxing delia and carlton cole.
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My argument is that Celtic have the dice weighted far more in their favour than Arsenal and Man City do
Leicester can rely on other sides to do them favours against Arsenal and City
Aberdeen do not have the same luxury
Thusly, them winning the League is the bigger upset
Aberdeen winning is David beating Goliath
Leicester winning is David beating Goliath; after Goliath has already some grueling fights with Andre The Giant and Rowdy Roddy Piper first
Still impressive to beat Goliath, but he's been softened up first. Beating a full strength Goliath is much more impressive
But Celtic also aren't as good. They don't have as good players, they don't have as good a manager and they spend less relatively to aberdeen than city do relative to leicester.
An upset at the top level is always more impressive than one at a lower level because there's less flaws to exploit.
Also again Aberdeen finished 2nd last year, they just need one team to slip up. Leicester came 14th, they needed 13 teams all of whom with bigger budgets and better pleyers to slip up.
Aberdeen winning the league, which they won't, would be a fine achievment. But better than wigan winning the fa cup, better than greece winning euro 2004, better than atletico beating messi's barca and ronaldo's real to a league title, better than porto winning the cl, better than montpelleir beating a psg team with a budget 30 times it to the french league? Obviously not.
It would be better than all of those
Greece won in knock out football over a mere 6 games
Aberdeen while have to do it over a full season
The others were all better teams than Aberdeen are right now
Atletico were better than aberdeen, yes. But likewise real and barca were a little better than celtic.
If you're arguing about dice being weighed, the big two in la liga is a hard one to beat.
Or PSG in france, who are so much richer than anyone else that they're unbeaten after 23 games this season and are 24 points clear fo 2nd place, and were beaten to a title over a full season by a montpellier side who'd never won anything before, who came 14th the previous year and who's annual budget (for transfers, wages, canteen pies, lawnmowers etc combined) was 8 million pound less than what psg spent on just one player.
Also, Porto had Jose Mourinho as manager, Madrid Athletic had a good squad, Wigan had a soft semi final draw with Millwall and the benefit of us falling to pieces at Goodison
Leicester have Vardy and Mahrez
Aberdeen have no one close to either of them in their squad
Meanwhile, Celtic have Leigh Griffiths slotting for fun, Craig Gordon between the sticks and a midfield consisting of great young talents such as GMS and Scott Allan, along with sturdy warhorse Scott Brown overseeing everything as captain
Aberdeen pulling this off would be an incredible upset, and my pick for biggest upset of all time
Leicester have Vardy and Mahrez
Aberdeen have no one close to either of them in their squad
Meanwhile, Celtic have Leigh Griffiths slotting for fun, Craig Gordon between the sticks and a midfield consisting of great young talents such as GMS and Scott Allan, along with sturdy warhorse Scott Brown overseeing everything as captain
Aberdeen pulling this off would be an incredible upset, and my pick for biggest upset of all time
I just... are you trolling me?
Is this a 4 year long con where you say this stuff and inside you're laughing at me for taking the bait?
Mate, you don't watch it
I do
Aberdeen winning this title would be astronomical
Leicester winning the Premier League is infinitely more possible
Bit far fetched to say 'of all time', unless of course you are fishing then well played.
PL winner might end on 75 points this year. That's less a case of Leicester winning it and more everyone else bottling it.
TheFinnFan
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Money on Mutants today
Leicester are in the mainstay just simply playing quick, direct football and it's undermined the concept of intrinsic, possessive being the only way.
As you mention, it's as much credit to them as it is to the fact that the 'top teams' haven't been able to manage the old style.
Matty_j1878
Yer ma's favorite ITK. Mmmmmm Juicy.
Watching AS Monaco v SC Bastia, and realised Moutinho and Vagner Love both play together hahaha
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