Are we really "the best team in the world" right now?

[Cobwebcat]

Agree on the main fact, but being able to close it out on the biggest stage is one of the key tools, and people are waiting to see that to have no more arguments left, but it IS a hole.

Yes is just a case of winning it once so we have the experience and belief to repeat but some of the teams that have won it are clearly not the best and there is a lot of luck in football as it’s a low scoring game. 538 in particular does a good job at stripping out as much luck as possible. There’s no trophy to prove it though and the CL IS the closest.

 

[Chris in London]

If there was a league consisting of the best dozen teams in the world, I think we would win it.

There isn’t though, there is our domestic league and a series of domestic and international knock out competitions.

Long May it stay that way.

 

[aguero93:20]

We're better than the rags anyway.

 

[hateutd]

Not we r not... not any trophy yet.

 

[Blue Til Death]

Best team in the land and all the world..... That’s a fact

 

[Millo]

We need to win the Champions League to be that!

 

[oakiecokie]

We're better than the rags anyway.

Yes but I picked this gem up from the Cafe :
"I DO NOT believe this team is that much inferior than City"
Fuck me talk about being deluded.

 

[Blue Til Death]

We need to win the Champions League to be that!

No we don’t..

 

[shemnel]

i think when you get to the very top teams, of which we're one, each can be the best on their day. Over a longer term....we'd have to be up there?

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Always remember leaving the ground seeing a teenager who must have had a shirt bought as a present with "The best team in the land or the world" on the back of it.

Still gives me a smile like my mate (Oldham fan) who I took to an evening game a few years ago who said "Can you smell gas?" As we passed the storage tank neat the fire station.