Now if I was really that bothered about doping in football, it wouldn't be Barca

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Who's the longest in the shower?

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No need to ask nowadays, imo. Practically all of them would appear to be somewhat light on their feet.

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Small margins though, as you are fond of saying. That team would've still won the league at a canter *despite* losing Eduardo.

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Which team? The one that crumbled in '99?

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No need to ask nowadays, imo. Practically all of them would appear to be somewhat light on their feet.

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doesn't Giroud have respectable entry?

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Of course they weren't perfect. However, I still suspect they were still the best we're ever likely to see.

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I suspect that until football evolves again, you won't see any team that looks as good as they did. It was the mixture of pace, power and technique that made them exciting; the game is currently so mired in tactics, there's little room for exciting expansiveness.

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Of course they weren't perfect. However, I still suspect they were still the best we're ever likely to see.

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BruceForsyth+ probably thought that of the team including James, Drake, Bastin and Hulme though

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I suspect that until football evolves again, you won't see any team that looks as good as they did. It was the mixture of pace, power and technique that made them exciting; the game is currently so mired in tactics, there's little room for exciting expansiveness.

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Yes, the game was a rather more open thing back then, of course.

I'm just feeling rather melancholy about it. We have heard the chimes at midnight, sort of thing. :-(

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Which team? The one that crumbled in '99?

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Yes, either of them. The point I'm failing miserably (as ever) to make is that if you lose the way *they* lost, you've always got a chance, whereas if you crumble the way the current lot crumbles, you've got absolutely no chance.

I don't have a particular problem with it either way, except to say that the current lot's issues are not the ones I would choose to have, as Wenger has evidently done.

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Yes, the game was a rather more open thing back then, of course.

I'm just feeling rather melancholy about it. We have heard the chimes at midnight, sort of thing. :-(

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In fairness, however it shall end, Wenger has had a brilliant run and everyone (including His rivals!) is extremely proud of Him really.

Just imagine if He'd left us in 2008 :-(