This team won't be considered great until...

I think if you asked a representative sample of football fans to "name great PL football teams" the biggest nominations would be united's 98/99 team and Arsenal's 03/04 invincibles. Clearly those teams didnt exist in a vacuum, they won trophies in adjacent seasons. But it was their achievements in those particular seasons that conveyed "greatness"

If City were to win the CL this season then this year's team will eventually be labelled as a great. Some might argue that it wouldnt be a great team if we didnt go on to win additional trophies. But its highly unlikely that we'll prove to be one season wonders.

At this stage of the 98/99 or 03/04 season, hardly anyone would have described united or Arsenal's teams as being great. Neither club was dominating the league in the same way that City are this season. United's team went from being a "very good" team to a "great" team in the space of a fortnight. Its only at the end of a season that the label "great" can be applied, but I think a team can be labelled as great based on the achievements in a single season.
 
Given that we’re dealing with a moveable feast that began back in 2009 with Becky Wecky and ‘Shit on the’ Lou Macari informing everyone and anyone who would listen that “money was no guarantee of success” (to have admitted otherwise would have been to detract from the myth of Taggart as the world’s greatest ever manager you understand), I reckon that we will finally be recognised as a great side when we eventually defeat Alpha Centauri Rovers in the inaugural Known Universe Cup Final, and even then Martin Tyler will be quick to point out that all of the opposition players only have one eye each and that they were tired after a long midweek trip to Gamma Delta V for a league game 3 days previously
 
difference between all time great and great.

all time great we just need to keep doing it over time and the rest will take care of itself.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
Given that we’re dealing with a moveable feast that began back in 2009 with Becky Wecky and ‘Shit on the’ Lou Macari informing everyone and anyone who would listen that “money was no guarantee of success” (to have admitted otherwise would have been to detract from the myth of Taggart as the world’s greatest ever manager you understand), I reckon that we will finally be recognised as a great side when we eventually defeat Alpha Centauri Rovers in the inaugural Known Universe Cup Final, and even then Martin Tyler will be quick to point out that all of the opposition players only have one eye each and that they were tired after a long midweek trip to Gamma Delta V for a league game 3 days previously
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In fairness a day, on Gamma Delta V is only ten minutes long.
 
It's all about definitions. If we use the Rags & Liverpool as benchmarks then we will never see a ''Great'' team again. These 2 dominated for 2 decades each. This won't happen again in the modern game.

It's rare that any manager stays at a club for more than 5 years. No time to build continuity & ultimately a dynasty. It took Ferguson 7 years just to build the foundations at the Rags.
 
Anyway who cares I still think the team consisting of

Coton
Hill
Curle
Vonk
Pointen
Brightwell
Simpson
Brennan
white
quinn
sheron

was great despite league position and trophies.

Balls to what people think we know we are great ;-)
 
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