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Which League is the best?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    DesF wrote: »
    eircom League of Ireland First Division.

    I heartily agree. See you next season!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Deffo, but only if you try an sort out the weather situation in The Flan Siro.

    Every time we visit it's windy and cold.

    Even in June.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Mr Alan wrote: »
    oooohhhhhhhhh fight! fight! fight!
    :D

    More like Sav is dropped tbh, until he bucks his ideas up.

    I hate airing dirty laundry in public though, highly unprofessional for a manager of my standing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    DesF wrote: »
    Deffo, but only if you try an sort out the weather situation in The Flan Siro.

    Every time we visit it's windy and cold.

    not unlike longford women..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    Roar wrote: »
    not unlike longford women..

    :D

    Will I be seeing you on Sunday Roar?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,148 ✭✭✭✭Raskolnikov


    Not one vote for Serie A.

    Shame the Italian FA are really letting corruption, cheating, hooliganism and a variety of other issues kill the game. Not to mention the monopoly that the top 4 teams have on TV money.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭estebancambias


    I think the Serie A has got more exciting in recent years, but the star power does not exist anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    La Liga mainly as the champions can lose up to 10 games a season and really deserve to lose those matches vs anyone in the league, better players play there. Hands down La Liga is best.


    2nd is the English Premierships Champions League otherwie known as the top four, some teams in the UEFA spots can be watchable but Spurs BBurn Villa and portsmouth can be seriously awful to watch with their style of play and general issues. They can beat the top four rarity but still possible. PL top four fansexpect their team to win every game as they that much better then whats below them.

    La Liga is different below teams have the players and the passion to beat the top 2.

    kdjac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    DesF wrote: »
    :D

    Will I be seeing you on Sunday Roar?

    unfortunately not Des, manning the office that day.. at least i'll be able to watch it anyway.. that and after Shels away this year, I've banned myself from any away trips in the Cup... better for all concerned i think!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    hah, yeah.

    Hope we get ye in a cup next season.

    This time we'll beat ye, and it'ss be another escuse for me to abuse the absolute shíte out of peanur Kearney.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 562 ✭✭✭ro2


    Champions League.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    DesF wrote: »
    :eek:

    What about the other league you play in?

    Traitor.

    :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 868 ✭✭✭tdv


    La Liga.

    Higher number of quality teams. Simple.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,563 ✭✭✭kinaldo


    PHB wrote: »
    The reason people like La Liga is because we have limited exposure to it. We only ever really see Barca and Real play, then Valencia and Sevilla on the odd occassion. Imagine watching United or Arsenal play every week, you'd think the premiership is amazing.
    Does that apply in reverse i.e. do you think Spanish people are in awe of the Premiership coz they similarly have limited exposure to it? I doubt it very much, but they probably don't care either way. Madrid and Barca supporters consider their clubs to be the biggest in the world and expect to beat every team put in front of them from whatever league that may be. The rest of the clubs in Spain would feel similarly towards the big two, whether they admit it or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,606 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    England.

    Spain is too easy to score in.

    Milosovic, Kovecevic, Morientes, Forlan, Kanoute.

    Contraversial.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,951 ✭✭✭DSB


    KdjaCL wrote: »
    La Liga mainly as the champions can lose up to 10 games a season and really deserve to lose those matches vs anyone in the league, better players play there. Hands down La Liga is best.


    2nd is the English Premierships Champions League otherwie known as the top four, some teams in the UEFA spots can be watchable but Spurs BBurn Villa and portsmouth can be seriously awful to watch with their style of play and general issues. They can beat the top four rarity but still possible. PL top four fansexpect their team to win every game as they that much better then whats below them.

    La Liga is different below teams have the players and the passion to beat the top 2.

    kdjac
    What is wrong with Villa's style of play exactly? Alot of pace and creativity in the side.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    Tauren wrote: »
    England.

    Spain is too easy to score in.

    Milosovic, Kovecevic, Morientes, Forlan, Kanoute.

    Contraversial.

    Spain.

    England is too easy to make it as a mediocre player in.

    Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Vinnie Jones...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,606 ✭✭✭✭Mitch Connor


    An Citeog wrote: »
    Spain.

    England is too easy to make it as a mediocre player in.

    Kevin Davies, Kevin Nolan, Vinnie Jones...
    HAH!

    All AVERAGE players for AVERAGE teams.

    I'm sure there is players in the same style in Spain.

    Aldo Duscher for one!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    Tauren wrote: »
    HAH!

    All AVERAGE players for AVERAGE teams.

    I'm sure there is players in the same style in Spain.

    Aldo Duscher for one!

    Yeah, not very good with the aul' examples! :o

    The point I was trying to make is that saying it's too easy to score goals in is just a sweeping generalisation. There's a lot more emphasis on passing, technical ability and attacking football in Spain than there is in England. Just like Forlan never managed to make it with United, would Alan Shearer have been a top striker in Spain? What about Emile Heskey, Darius Vassell, Defoe? These are/were all England internationals and established players in the Premiership.

    Outside the top 4, the quality in England is very poor. In Spain, you'll nearly always have Madrid and Barça in the top 4. The other 2 places though, are up for grabs between the likes of Valencia, Villarreal, Sevilla, Atletico and Espanyol. There's more balance in the league and there's no such thing as an easy 3 point banker, particularly away from home. That's what makes La Liga number 1 for me with the Premiership in second place, Serie A 3rd and the Bundesliga in 4th.


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