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What team plays the most attractive football?

  • 22-11-2011 08:19PM
    #1
    pudzey101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭


    Who do you cherish watching play every weekend?
    For me its Barca, But this is going to be a premier league poll :pac:

    Which Team 142 votes

    Man U
    0% 0 votes
    Man City
    11% 17 votes
    Arsenal
    30% 43 votes
    Chelsea
    18% 26 votes
    Liverpool
    2% 3 votes
    Spurs
    10% 15 votes
    Other : Please state
    26% 38 votes


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  • #2
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    Who do you cherish watching play every weekend?
    Sligo Rovers.


  • #3
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    OK controversial statement, slightly OT too.

    Barca play technically brilliant football but I dont think it's that attractive certainly better than most teams, but I find counter attacking football more attractive.
    Barca passing the opposition out of the game can be pretty boring at times.....

    I voted spurs by the way with City a very very close second.


  • #4
    1mcampo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭1mcampo1


    City

    Nice, counter attacking football


  • #5
    KingdomYid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭KingdomYid


    Spurs all the way, the way football should be played :D


  • #6
    G.K.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,704 ✭✭✭G.K.


    City


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  • #7
    Gringo180
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭Gringo180


    When Arsenal are on song there by far the best team to watch, most of the premier leagues all time classic games involve us :D


  • #8
    pudzey101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭pudzey101


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    When Arsenal are on song there by far the best team to watch, most of the premier leagues all time classic games involve us :D

    Well said :)identical to barca in many ways:)
    cant belive the ammount of votes spurs got !! only time i like them when modric or bale have the ball :D
    I cant see chelsea doing well here they play the most boring ball in the prem imo ;)


  • #9
    MUSEIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭MUSEIST


    Stoke


    close thread


  • #10
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    Who do you cherish watching play every weekend?
    For me its Barca, But this is going to be a premier league poll :pac:

    So the original post and you already go against the poll. My call as a spurs fan is liver... Spurs.


  • #11
    MUSEIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭MUSEIST


    pudzey101 wrote: »
    Well said :)identical to barca in many ways:)cant belive the ammount of votes spurs got !! only time i like them when modric or bale have the ball :D
    I cant see chelsea doing well here they play the most boring ball in the prem imo ;)

    LOL, except without the winning of major trophies.:P


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  • #12
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,147 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Didn't realise the forum had that many Spurs fans :eek:


  • #13
    Radharc na Sleibhte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    On their day, arsenal.


  • #14
    KingdomYid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭KingdomYid


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Didn't realise the forum had that many Spurs fans :eek:

    People recognise good football when they see it. If we are going by this season Spurs and City should lead the poll.


  • #15
    KingdomYid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭KingdomYid


    Gringo180 wrote: »
    When Arsenal are on song there by far the best team to watch, most of the premier leagues all time classic games involve us :D

    Are we talking about the past or current season????


  • #16
    bullvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭bullvine


    defo not United, they haven't played good football consistently since 2007, I voted for Spurs.


  • #17
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    My da would batter your da.


  • #18
    pudzey101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,920 ✭✭✭pudzey101


    Meant to mention where going by now :)


  • #19
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Those hunky dory girls play real sexy...


  • #20
    killwill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,785 ✭✭✭killwill


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    OK controversial statement, slightly OT too.

    Barca play technically brilliant football but I dont think it's that attractive certainly better than most teams, but I find counter attacking football more attractive.
    Barca passing the opposition out of the game can be pretty boring at times.....

    I voted spurs by the way with City a very very close second.

    Nothing controversial there, you are just not jumping on the Barca wagon!!!

    Arsenal in the last 5 games have played the nicest football.
    Spurs second
    City third.
    Utd struggling!!!


  • #21
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Why the Academy of Football of course - The Real United, West Ham United.


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  • #22
    killwill
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    bullvine wrote: »
    defo not United, they haven't played good football consistently since 2007, I voted for Spurs.

    And in Utd's defence, they know how to play to win titles on a consistent basis.
    They could go out and entertain week in week out but that would mean conceding alot of goals.


  • #23
    Bodhisopha
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    From that rubbish list, City.


  • #24
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    I luv Barca when they don't have the ball.
    Nobody works as hard as they do to win it back.

    I like watching teams that can adapt their tactics to certain situations.
    The Italians are very good at this.
    The English teams tend to be predictable most of the time.


  • #25
    electrobanana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭electrobanana


    Spurs without doubt great to watch this season.


  • #26
    CSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,157 ✭✭✭✭CSF


    Spurs aswell.


  • #27
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,824 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    OK controversial statement, slightly OT too.

    Barca play technically brilliant football but I dont think it's that attractive certainly better than most teams, but I find counter attacking football more attractive.
    Barca passing the opposition out of the game can be pretty boring at times.....

    Its ability to bore is its attractiveness for me. The control of a game that other teams can only dream of.


  • #28
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    City are the only EPL team i go out of my way to watch


  • #29
    Crazy Horse 6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Crazy Horse 6


    Defo City but the general standard in the premiership is pretty poor tbh.


  • #30
    bullvine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭bullvine


    killwill wrote: »
    And in Utd's defence, they know how to play to win titles on a consistent basis.
    They could go out and entertain week in week out but that would mean conceding alot of goals.

    Give me Uniteds crap football any day of the week and the prem league at the end of season!


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  • #31
    PHB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    In terms of overall, Spurs obviously. Week in week out they play a very attractive brand of football, largely because they care little about defending which leads to incredibly exciting matches.

    United for me, when they function at their peak, play my favorite brand of football. Pacey, Physical, Technical, Aggressive, with a directness which I think teams in the style of Barca and Arsenal lack. However, United havent played that way for about 8 games, so it's tough to say that they play it now.

    The general point though is I prefer the way United or Madrid play to how Barca or Arsenal play. The former play a much much more direct game, less focused on possession, more focused on directness. I find, at times, Barca and Arsenal's style of play to be somewhat dull. Too much time spent passing around the back 6, rather than the risk of giving it to the front 6 and losing the ball more.


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