[Football] England vs Spain

Aye, I meant in the UK. Between the skilful sides of the 50s and 60s and the technically superb sides of the 90s and this decade you had the mediocrity of the 70s and 80s.

Brazil in the 1970 WC was probably the best side ever. I reckon.

if I was ashley cole I would of walked off the pitch

Cept when liverpool got us banned from Europe :dry:

Jonno :cool:

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

Without doing any research whatsoever, I think that the English sides may have dominated European club football during a substantial period of the 70's / 80's.

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Until we were banned :(

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

That would be the "fans" not the clubs.

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I thought the clubs were banned from European football too after the Heysel Stadium thing :unsure:

edit - I just realised you may have been talking to Joto and not me

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

Without doing any research whatsoever, I think that the English sides may have dominated European club football during a substantial period of the 70's / 80's.

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Indeed.

Liverpool were superfit and could run really fast for 90 minutes. Faster than anyone else at the time. K. Keegan was the ultimate exponent of the fast running, poorly talented players of the time.

imho :ph34r:

Kick and rush has never impressed me.

I'm not including Dalglish in that, btw, he was an excellent player.

That Liverpool side of the late 70s and 80s would be mediocre by todays standards. It was a particularly poor time for European football. Coincidently - or not - it got a lot better a few years after English teams were banned.

This is true, perhaps I'm being a git.

If their contemporaries were better maybe that Liverpool side would have been inspired to greater technical performance levels.

:lol:

You just wrote that, I'll agree again if ya like :D

Piss poor match....first half was at least entertaining (not in the right way) but the 2nd half, England were shit and the racial abuse was a total disgrace.

My 2 penneth worth on tonights not so beautiful game...

Oh...btw....why were England back passing so much, they didn't get the ball much, and when they did....back it went....to and fro....why didn't they ATTACK!!! ffs...poor, poor, poor....shitty passing, standing around like a bunch of lemons...