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Who is your favourite football team? Mines Manchester United. And England.
I absolutely hate Arsenal though.

Spain:
1.Rayo Vallecano
2.Barca
3. anything, but not Real Madrid

England:
1.Chelsea
2.Man U

Italy:
Only Juventus

But favourite football team in the world is mine home town team, Lithuanian champions FBK Kaunas :)

My home team Arsenal.

We take all 'hate' onboard as sheer jealousy....

I would say that the greatest football in the world is probably Real Madrid. I don't think Manchester United are in the same league.
Cyberous is right to view dislike of Arsenal as jealousy; they play attractive football and are easily the best team in England at the moment. I say this as a Leeds fan and we got throughly ripped apart last time we played Arsenal. Mind you, we got ripped apart the last time we played quite a few teams!

Porto! We win this year everything we could!
:cool:

Legia Warszawa! :D

Southend United !!!!

I hate Arsenal too....

Crystal Palace!!!

as long as they have a dutch player in the team :D

My home team Arsenal.

We take all 'hate' onboard as sheer jealousy....

Agreed,

I wonder where that Man U fan is from?

A small village in Cornwall?

Surely there's a difference between greatest football team in the world and your favourite team? If you support say, Crytsal Palace , fair enough, but you don't think they're the best in the world do you? I mean, they got beat by Everton on Saturday!
Howvere, I am the proud owner of a mug that says "VS Rugby, Simply The Best!"

The thread title and the question posed by the OP seem to be in conflict. I answered his/her question rather than the title because it would be boring as hell if aeveryone posted the same 5 or 6 teams.

And I wanted an opportunity to mention Southend United...there, did it again. :D

American Football Rules!
(Go Panthers)
:D

Fair point. And to demonstrate there's no hard feelings can I just say.. Southend United!

sheffield wednesday my team, think the best at mo are real madrid but they are not as good as the ac milan team of a few years ago..hate to say that arsenal will be the best but it looks that way.. :rolleyes:

Fair point. And to demonstrate there's no hard feelings can I just say.. Southend United!

Thank you for saying Southend United again.

American Football Rules!
(Go Panthers)
:D

gah, forgot i was on a puppet..
:p

Nottingham Forest. Easly. Followed by Newcastle and anyone but Man U.

Death to soccer!

Sucky sport; they can't even score properly or at all in half the matches and they have 1,5 HOURS to do it. No respect for the refs. Bunch of whiners who fall on the floor the moment they think they're touched.

Overrated & Overpaid losers.

Death to soccer!

Sucky sport; they can't even score properly or at all in half the matches and they have 1,5 HOURS to do it. No respect for the refs. Bunch of whiners who fall on the floor the moment they think they're touched.

Overrated & Overpaid losers.

Typically American reply there. Though you're right about the diving and the money.

In any case, the best team in the world is clearly Portsmouth. Clearly.

Uh, or Arsenal, probably. By far the best team in Britain.

Tottenham..

Come on you Spurs!

Death to soccer!

Sucky sport; they can't even score properly or at all in half the matches and they have 1,5 HOURS to do it. No respect for the refs. Bunch of whiners who fall on the floor the moment they think they're touched.

Overrated & Overpaid losers.
Yeah, that's why it's the most popular sport in the world. Apart from in America where their Overrated & Overpaid losers are covered in padding in case they bump into each other.

Juventus
And both Milan (but there Im a biased considering I was raised by peoples from Milan)

Death to soccer!

Sucky sport; they can't even score properly or at all in half the matches and they have 1,5 HOURS to do it. No respect for the refs. Bunch of whiners who fall on the floor the moment they think they're touched.

Overrated & Overpaid losers.
1) Can't even score propalys- How else do you score (other than in Trys)

2) It's part of the game, have you ever watched a footy game?

3) Yes diving does happen but thats just life.

In America the overrated and overpaid losers are the ones who try to play Rugby except there scared the take a tackle and have to dress up in pads.

Anticlimax is Dutch like me (actually, he is me ;) ). I know what I'm talking about. I've done it tons of times.

In America the overrated and overpaid losers are the ones who try to play Rugby except there scared the take a tackle and have to dress up in pads.

If a couple 350+ lbs linemen were tackling me, I'd probably want the pads on. What do the Rugby players weigh? 170? 180? Bah! :cool:

{Go Cowboys!}

I'm definitely a Manchester United fan and DC United fan (for those in the States). However, I love England's national team, along with Holland's... and for the women I'm a huge fan of USA only because I've seen most of them play in college and such.

Argentina
Arsenal
Ajax
Bayern Munich
Juventus

Club team? Arsenal, of course!!!

I don't see why people say Real Madrid is the best, they keep trying to be like Arsenal. Hell, they have been trying to take Wenger and his boys Vieira, Henry, Pires, Ljunberg, etc., for years... oh, and Reyes is about to sit Raul on the bench on the Spanish team.

Milan AC, Chelsea, Juventus, and River Plate are the next.

National team? I think the strongest are Brazil (Kaka is the nexte Pele), the Czech Republic (I think Nedved is right now better than Zidane), and Greece (let's face it, they won the Euro Cup fair and square!)

Death to soccer!

Sucky sport; they can't even score properly or at all in half the matches and they have 1,5 HOURS to do it. No respect for the refs. Bunch of whiners who fall on the floor the moment they think they're touched.

Overrated & Overpaid losers.

Overrated and Overpaid are the bunch of losers playing the USA "Dream Team" in basketball... al that dunking and jumping is nothing compared to team playing, proper zone defense and short passes of the "lesser" teams.

Hah, everyone knows the Vikings will win it all this year, so long as no one exploits their secondary.

Yeah yeah, I know this is a soccer thread. So...um.....damn, the only team I even know is Manchester United.

Nottingham Forest. Easly. Followed by Newcastle and anyone but Man U.

Any feelings that Arsenal is about to break the unbeaten games record? I'll second that anything but Manchester United...

Im a gooner myself. ;)

Blackpool FC

Hah, everyone knows the Vikings will win it all this year, so long as no one exploits their secondary.

Heh. Everyone and their dog is going to exploit the Vikings' secondary, but that's a minor problem compared to their inability to play an organized offense.

On the diving in soccer... just life? It's a freaking indignity, and as a soccer fan, I absolutely hate it.

Oh, and FC Panathinaikos rocks.

Liverpool FC

I'm a chelsea supporter myself, though feel a bit miffed about the lack of english players, not that I have anything against foreign players, but the way they've been buying players since Abramovich took over is stupid. Best team in UK atm is probably, and I hate to say this, Arsenal, best in the world? Madrid (also unfortunately).

a bit miffed about the lack of english players

That's how it's shaping up in Liverpool right now, also. Benitez keeps bringing in Spanish players while getting rid of the English. Nothing against the Spanish but breaking up the "Scouser clique"? We'll see how it goes.

Argentina
Arsenal
Ajax
Bayern Munich
JuventusWOW...that is very close to my own top 5

Any feelings that Arsenal is about to break the unbeaten games record? I'll second that anything but Manchester United...
There a good team, but of course as the great Brian said "The game was harder in those games." Besides there still a long way away from our REAL record, 56 (I think) Games unbeaten including Europian cup games. And of Course Forest had nearly all English Plaers.

Argentina
Arsenal
Ajax
Bayern Munich
Juventus
*kicks Quillaz*

*kicks Quillaz*LOL...you dont like his list...

IMO he is Quite acurate...

LOL...you dont like his list...

IMO he is Quite acurate...
he knows what i think about Argentina

Newcastle, ahh to be back in the days when we were so close to winning the league with Kevin Keegan :)

Oh well, I can only hope Norwich go down tonight :mp5:

he knows what i think about ArgentinaYou think they are not a Very Good team?

I think all arsenal fans should be shot in the head at birth.

reasons

they only wear their shirts when they are winning
they moan about their team constantly, despite enjoying relative success
they can never understand why they will never be a fashionable club
all their fans are fat and balding (even the women)
they are chav scum, with no class or sense of style
they smell

these are facts and any disagreements are lies.....

BRAZIL hands down is the greatest soccer team in the world. One word : Pele

You think they are not a Very Good team?
no, i just don't like them

BRAZIL hands down is the greatest soccer team in the world. One word : PeleParaguay clearly overplayed and overpowerd Brazil at the Olympics Qualifs...I just dont see Paraguay doing that to Argentina.

If you ignore the tedious obsession with "winning", then quite clearly the greatest football team in the universe is the Jags, the Harry Wragges, the one and only Partick Thistle FC.

International: ENGLAND

National: West Bromwich Albion

YEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I don't know which football team is the greatest, but it should be obvious to everybody that the Finnish national team is the worst.

*kicks Quillaz*

Hmph!

Hmph!
sorry :( *hugs Quillaz*

sorry :( *hugs Quillaz*

*Cries*
WHY CAN'T YOU JUST ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM??!!




...:D

Argentina

3 words why I hate them.

Hand. Of. God.

I rest my case.

Best team in England: Chelsea. Hands down.
The Arse will fade this season once they finally lose a game. And as for Man U, Man who? :p

Who is your favourite football team? Mines Manchester United. And England.
I absolutely hate Arsenal though.

You have not backed up this statement with any evidence at all!

Manchester United were already beaten 3-1 by Arsenal in a pre-season friendly who happen to have just beaten the record for most consecutive undefeated games ever in the English top division!

Manchester United have already been beaten this season by Chelsea!
When a team cannot even win games when the manager practicaly bribes all the officials I would say they are pretty pathetic really!

In fact I just looked at the table, and Manchester United are in a sorry 9th position in the table!

Please do not reply to this post with figures from 2 years ago! The title of the post is 'Greatest football team' not 'Greatest football team of the past"!

... when the manager practicaly bribes all the officials....OhMyGod :eek:

3 words why I hate them.
Hand. Of. God.
I rest my case.

Haha. Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" was freaking awesome. So was his goal afterwards when he went through half of the entire English team by himself.

Haha. Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" was freaking awesome. So was his goal afterwards when he went through half of the entire English team by himself.
It was the worst reffing decision of all time (Other than the one in the 1991 FA Cup final, Damm Gazza.) YEs MAradonnas dribble was great but we would have won if it wasn't for that. Thus my hatered of the Argentinian football team.

It was the worst reffing decision of all time (Other than the one in the 1991 FA Cup final, Damm Gazza.) YEs MAradonnas dribble was great but we would have won if it wasn't for that. Thus my hatered of the Argentinian football team.
The English "might" have won, but if Maradona was called, the score would've been tied.

And it was so long ago! I don't think you should hold a grudge against the whole Argentina team just because of a reffing error, but instead hold a grudge against the ref himself. :)

The English "might" have won, but if Maradona was called, the score would've been tied.

And it was so long ago! I don't think you should hold a grudge against the whole Argentina team just because of a reffing error, but instead hold a grudge against the ref himself. :)
Oh, ad the fact I went to a Argentian game (River Plate vs someone,) one of the chances was "Anyone whos not bouncing is a englishman. Or that was the jist as far as I could translate.

Oh, ad the fact I went to a Argentian game (River Plate vs someone,) one of the chances was "Anyone whos not bouncing is a englishman. Or that was the jist as far as I could translate.

I don't get that? What's bouncing have to do with anything???

I don't get that? What's bouncing have to do with anything???
Dunno, but I think it's like a insult or something, like some English do those stand up if you hate *Insert name* chants.

Lol. Crazy Argentines. :D

Oh, by the way, I'm planning to get a new jersey. Help me out.

Sould I get:
Barcelona (Home)
Ajax (Home)
Bayern Munich (Home)
Chelsea (Home)
or Argentina (Away)

Lol. Crazy Argentines. :D

Oh, by the way, I'm planning to get a new jersey. Help me out.

Sould I get:
Barcelona (Home)
Ajax (Home)
Bayern Munich (Home)
Chelsea (Home)
or Argentina (Away)
bacalonas kit looks great this year.

Agreed,

I wonder where that Man U fan is from?

A small village in Cornwall?
actually a small town in somerset

Lol. Crazy Argentines. :D

Oh, by the way, I'm planning to get a new jersey. Help me out.

Sould I get:
Barcelona (Home)
Ajax (Home)
Bayern Munich (Home)
Chelsea (Home)
or Argentina (Away)


Definately go for Ajax's, its sex on legs.

We seem to develop more reasons for disliking Argentina, such as the 98 World Cup. Think the Falkland islands are a sticking point too.


Think the Arse are going to win it again this year, if the Chelsea manager seems to have a problem with Duff he is clearly crazy and will lead them to ruin.

Being objective, the best team in the club scene right now is Arsenal.

Then again, I'm not objective, so go Ajax! ;)
And Fortuna Sittard :)

I think that chelsea will win this year, the gooners in second, and my favourite team, man u, coming in a lousy 3rd. were losing our spark.
But on a better note, I think yeovil, my hometown, win the coca cola league two

i like every team that hates bayern münchen

Sparta Prague, Ajax Amsterdam, Sampdoria Genoa
I dont like Real Madrid,Manchester United,AC Milan,Slavia Prague,Racing Genk.

Definately go for Ajax's, its sex on legs.

We seem to develop more reasons for disliking Argentina, such as the 98 World Cup. Think the Falkland islands are a sticking point too.


Think the Arse are going to win it again this year, if the Chelsea manager seems to have a problem with Duff he is clearly crazy and will lead them to ruin.

I think ur the one who is crazy... Mourinho is the best coach in the world at the moment. Tell be about a coach who can:
1: win champions league
2: win UEFA cup
3: Transform the portuguese national team
4: win 2 seasons
5: win 2 national cups
6: earn his former team 80 million euros
7: and so that u arent such a wise guy, chealsea has never in its history started the season with 4 strait victories

All this in 2 years...

are the best football team in the world,
not to brag, ;) but they do hold the
Superbowl cup for 2 years.

are the best football team in the world,
not to brag, ;) but they do hold the
Superbowl cup for 2 years.
super bowl cup?

Im only exaggerating a point mate, i dont under-estimate Mourinho's abillitys. I am just perplexed as to why he leaves out Damien Duff who is without a doubt one of the best left wingers in the Premiership.

I also have to admit that he was fortunate to win the champions League, he took his chance very well but had to rely on the other teams under performing.

Liverpool FC

I'll agree with that one!

Im only exaggerating a point mate, i dont under-estimate Mourinho's abillitys. I am just perplexed as to why he leaves out Damien Duff who is without a doubt one of the best left wingers in the Premiership.

I also have to admit that he was fortunate to win the champions League, he took his chance very well but had to rely on the other teams under performing.

If he leaves out Duff then he has a clear reason to do it

And I seriously doubt a team can win the CL relying on only the luck factor, and to win 3-0 in the final is no easy task.

Im only exaggerating a point mate, i dont under-estimate Mourinho's abillitys. I am just perplexed as to why he leaves out Damien Duff who is without a doubt one of the best left wingers in the Premiership.

I also have to admit that he was fortunate to win the champions League, he took his chance very well but had to rely on the other teams under performing.


nah, i disagree. Claudio Ranieri was good, but I think chelsea have a better chance of winning the prem with the new manager
any way, remember the portugese manager in euro 2004? he took of figo in one of the matches, which gave him incentive to play harder. maybe hes got the same tactic

I think ur the one who is crazy... Mourinho is the best coach in the world at the moment. Tell be about a coach who can:
1: win champions league
2: win UEFA cup
3: Transform the portuguese national team
4: win 2 seasons
5: win 2 national cups
6: earn his former team 80 million euros
7: and so that u arent such a wise guy, chealsea has never in its history started the season with 4 strait victories

All this in 2 years...

Come on people its only portugal they have Benfica, Porto, Boavista and Academica de Coimbra, can anybody name any others? and 3. what? :confused:

SIR Alex Ferguson is the best manager. Porto would have been knocked out of the champions league if it werent for a terrible offside call to rule out a Manchester Utd goal in the home leg of their 2nd round match last season.

nah, i disagree. Claudio Ranieri was good, but I think chelsea have a better chance of winning the prem with the new manager
any way, remember the portugese manager in euro 2004? he took of figo in one of the matches, which gave him incentive to play harder. maybe hes got the same tactic

Maybe... In porto mourinho didnt care if you were the best player in the squad... if u misbehaved or showed up late for practices he would send them to the B team. Happened with Mcarthy, and Carlos Alberto...

Come on people its only portugal they have Benfica, Porto, Boavista and Academica de Coimbra, can anybody name any others? and 3. what? :confused:

SIR Alex Ferguson is the best manager. Porto would have been knocked out of the champions league if it werent for a terrible offside call to rule out a Manchester Utd goal in the home leg of their 2nd round match last season.

Sporting, porto and benfica are the best teams in portugal, and about sir alex fergunson he is going down... man utd hasnt been itself the last few years... BY THE WAY IF IT WASNT FOR SPORTING U WOULDNT HAVE PLAYERS LIKE RONALDO, AND VIANA IN ENGLAND, HOW COULD U HAVE LEFT IT OUT????
by the way thats my team

Porto achieved succes because they were consistent but also because a number of other teams under performed, look at United, had one perfectly good goal disallowed and then the keeper makes a terrible mistake late in the game.

Monaco beat Chelsea because of some terrible tactical descisions by Ranieri. I imagine that Chelsea would have provided a greather challenge to Porto in the final. Plus you have the fact that the Portugese league is less demanding than most of the other leagues in Europe and thus Porto were more able to concentrate on the larger games.

In response to the idea of players, Ronaldo has not set the premiership alight, he has had some very good games but has not shown a consistency so far which would make him stand out as something special. And the less said about Viana the better.

What you fail to see, is the tactical genius behind Porto's success. And you only talk about the Man Utd-Porto game... what about when man utd was here?? My god they were shown how to play real football, incredibly they managed to put one in the back of the net...
Then there's the fact that the portuguese league is as demanding as the english one... why? because the player calibre here is so much different that competition exists only in a lower level. Here the real secret to victory in the coach not the players. Porto had the same team for years, it was mourinho who showed them how to play together...

As i have already said, he is a great manager with a sound knowledge of tactics, just not sure if he will cut it in the prem. Did you see Chelsea vs Birmingham? Chelsea were very lucky to escape with the win, were lucky to get anything.

mourinho is not the perfect manager, no one is. he may win some games easily, he may wins some games with the luck factor. But if any1 is capable of giving chealsea the premiership, he is the one. he was critisized here for being too rough and arrogant, but he is the best and we soon realized it.

On the Premiership:
Arsnal will win, sorry but there just to good for the rest, Chelsea; takes time to blend a team, next year maybe, Man U; Your fighting for third this season, Liverpool will catch you, you've reached your peak now you'll fade like NFFC, Liverpool; Next year you may have third this year you'll fight for it, 4th deffenutly.

On Devision 1 (I'm refusing to call it the Championship.):
I reacon it's going to be Wigan and Wolves for the top spot, Ipswitch looked Awful against Forest, as for Forest, I reacon midtables.

Any league below Division 1: Sorry, I don't pay attention to semi-proffecinals.

Wolves aint going to make it, neither are Liverpool.

Wolves aint going to make it, neither are Liverpool.
I think Wolves have a chance, and Liverpool will come 4th or 3rd this year, trust me.

(I'm refusing to call it the Championship.):

Amen.

Manchester City...best team in the land and all the world ;)

Manchester City...best team in the land and all the world ;)
ROFL