Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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This is one reason I believe the CL has to be a priority this season, as it would be the capstone trophy that makes everyone sit up and realize this really is the best team England has ever seen.
It depends how we play in the CL. We have always had a propensity to shoot ourselves in the foot against quite ordinary opposition. CLs are won by teams who have above all else a set of dogged defenders who can be blessed with everyone else's good fortune. And I've always said that in any competition of six or seven knock out games you only have to play well once to win it, and it needn't be in a final. The best team in Europe, always a subjective thing, doesn't necessarily win the CL. And were we to brush aside any opposition this coming season, and win the final with the same footnote we saved for last season's FAC Final, the RDAHMeedya would still find something about which to be wholly negative, and compare it unfavourably with that club who lost four games before carrying off the trophy last season.