Bill the Blue
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- The only football team to come from Manchester!
Won it 6 times have they..
Let's have a look at their wins in '76, '77, '81 and '84
Bearing in mind it was only the Champions who qualified for the European Cup back then..
The format was 1st round, 2nd round, QF, SF and final..
Rather easier to progress back then one could easily deduce..
Now, some of their Round 1 opponents included European Giants such as Crusaders, Oulun Palloseura (who ?) and Odense Boldklub (?)
Other teams they faced on their way to conquering Europe included Trabzonspor, FC Zurich, Aberdeen and some team called 'Bye' (fkin lol)..!
They fluked their win against Milan in 2005 and lost 4 games enroute to beating Spuds in 2019, a Spuds team let's not forget that basically shit themselves in the final..
Obviously a dodgy as fcuk penalty in the first minute helped the dippers along their way to be fair..
Also not forgetting that both their wins in 2005 and 2019 we gained against the backdrop of not even being Champions of their own domestic league..
They have won it 6 times as the dippers like to remind everyone but by fcuk there have faced some absolute fkin dross opponents on the way..
A measure of a 'Great Team' is one who competes on ALL fronts, not just in some glorified knockout cup competition..
A knockout cup competition that you can apparently lose 4 times on the way to winning it btw..!
Funny as fuck..!
Let's have a look at their wins in '76, '77, '81 and '84
Bearing in mind it was only the Champions who qualified for the European Cup back then..
The format was 1st round, 2nd round, QF, SF and final..
Rather easier to progress back then one could easily deduce..
Now, some of their Round 1 opponents included European Giants such as Crusaders, Oulun Palloseura (who ?) and Odense Boldklub (?)
Other teams they faced on their way to conquering Europe included Trabzonspor, FC Zurich, Aberdeen and some team called 'Bye' (fkin lol)..!
They fluked their win against Milan in 2005 and lost 4 games enroute to beating Spuds in 2019, a Spuds team let's not forget that basically shit themselves in the final..
Obviously a dodgy as fcuk penalty in the first minute helped the dippers along their way to be fair..
Also not forgetting that both their wins in 2005 and 2019 we gained against the backdrop of not even being Champions of their own domestic league..
They have won it 6 times as the dippers like to remind everyone but by fcuk there have faced some absolute fkin dross opponents on the way..
A measure of a 'Great Team' is one who competes on ALL fronts, not just in some glorified knockout cup competition..
A knockout cup competition that you can apparently lose 4 times on the way to winning it btw..!
Funny as fuck..!