Premier League or Champions League?

What do you want us to win more?

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The Premier League is the only competition where winning it as a stand-alone trophy is a measure of greatness. Cup competitions, in isolation, are not necessarily a measure of greatness. Take, for example, 2019. The domestic cups were great to pick up because we won the league and could call ourselves treble winners. If we'd won just the domestic cups, however, nobody would have felt like we'd had a great season.

The CL, for all its glitz and PR, is another cup competition. It is essentially rigged through its seeding process and keeping teams from the same country apart until the QF. You can't tell me that beating Inter, Benfica and Villarreal en route to the final (with the safety net of two legs) is comparable to the 9-month slog of a Premier League season. Liverpool in 2005 won it in spite of being shit. Spurs got to the final in 2019 in spite of having lost 13 league games that season. Chelsea won it last season but scraped 4th on the last day of the season and are miles off top this season. Sure, I'd like us to win it in the same way I'd like us to win the domestic cups. But for all of the bluff and bravado about European Royalty and famous nights, it's a cup competition at the end of the day.

Premier League, for me. The best team wins the league. Always.
 
John Wayne said:
The Premier League is the only competition where winning it as a stand-alone trophy is a measure of greatness. Cup competitions, in isolation, are not necessarily a measure of greatness. Take, for example, 2019. The domestic cups were great to pick up because we won the league and could call ourselves treble winners. If we'd won just the domestic cups, however, nobody would have felt like we'd had a great season.

The CL, for all its glitz and PR, is another cup competition. It is essentially rigged through its seeding process and keeping teams from the same country apart until the QF. You can't tell me that beating Inter, Benfica and Villarreal en route to the final (with the safety net of two legs) is comparable to the 9-month slog of a Premier League season. Liverpool in 2005 won it in spite of being shit. Spurs got to the final in 2019 in spite of having lost 13 league games that season. Chelsea won it last season but scraped 4th on the last day of the season and are miles off top this season. Sure, I'd like us to win it in the same way I'd like us to win the domestic cups. But for all of the bluff and bravado about European Royalty and famous nights, it's a cup competition at the end of the day.

Premier League, for me. The best team wins the league. Always.
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