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50 greatest european club sides
Topic Started: Jun 14 2011, 09:18 AM (182 Views)
Jimmymac™
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This isnt supposed to be asking people what they think are the greatest sides, thats been done to death and we all know the differing views of how to work it out cause conflicting ideas.

Here we have a website that has tried to do it somewhat subjectively and their points system is to my mind actually fairly good, obviously some will pick it to bits but as an attempt I think its a fairly decent one, thoughts?

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50 Greatest European Club Sides - Football Parthenon

it is genuinely futile to try and argue whether one historic side would beat another. The rules, trends and even fitness techniques have all changed far too much.

But one thing never changes: how fully a team dominated their own era. Since any individual side can only ever be the best in their own time, it is actually possible to compare and contrast how completely they dominated it.

For example, if a side won every competition they entered in their first season – as Barcelona did in 2008-09 – then that translates to 100% domination. Extrapolating that across a team’s ‘cycle’ – as Ferguson would put it – it is possible to put some sort of a number on whether a side was truly all-conquering. This formula formed the basis for our attempt to objectively determine the best club team of all time. How we worked it out can be seen here

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Dotty
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I read a fair amount of this guys stuff. The amount of work he puts in is unreal, it takes him months to put articles together.

Don't think I've read this one. Will give it a look when I get home :)
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stacie
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i confused :(
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Dotty
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stacie
Jun 14 2011, 10:17 AM
i confused :(
It's basically taking the percentage of competitions won that a team has entered over it's cycle and subjectivly ranking them.
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King U no it makes sense
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So what are the top 50 teams?
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Mar 11 2011, 01:54 PM
Balotelli is Man City's Uno :balotelli:
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Jimmymac™
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Guessing the picture ain't showing for you, if not it's on the link
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King U no it makes sense
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Oh, no there is no pic.
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Mar 11 2011, 01:54 PM
Balotelli is Man City's Uno :balotelli:
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stacie
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Oh, I thought this was going to be a list of clubs, not teams, if you understand. Was wondering why Barca was up in that sh*t so many times :lol:
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YidArmy
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flawed. Liverpool 1977 to 1984 and then 1985 to 1990? Why did that cycle end and start, they should be put together.
Avatar, name, and sig change bet with paddypower. Spurs to finish above Liverpool
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Jimmymac™
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77-84 - paisley era (fagan being a blip)
85-90 dalglish era


For the most part it seems that they are based on managerial tenures, unless of course in the case of Man Utd where the manager is long standing it looks like they have then gone by the generation of players
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