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50th Best Team Ever according to.....

By davieG, in Leicester City Forum

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MattCan

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17 minutes ago, Benji said:

The video of Mahrez's goal at City sends shivers down my spine everytime.  What a moment. 

 

Pure football. Pure magic. Pure joy. A moment from the Heavens.

AKCJ

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50th seems harsh.

 

 

Without going into it, are there like 10 different Barcelona teams? Suppose it's actually not that bad if thats the case.

st albans fox

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As a pure 'team' rather than a collection of individuals who are very talented who come together and play together ( e.g. Barca, real etc), we are surely in the top 10 if not number one. I mean we proved exactly what teamwork can achieve in the most outrageous way ever! 

davieG

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1. Ajax 1965-73

2. Brazil 1970

3. Milan 1987-91

4. Real Madrid 1955-60

5. Barcelona 2008-11

6. Liverpool 1975-84

7. Spain 2007-12

8. Inter Milan 1962-67

9. Santos 1955-68

10. Hungary 1950-56

11. Benfica 1959-68

12. Bayern Munich 1967-76

13. Torino 1945-49

14. Celtic 1965-74

15. Manchester United 1995-2001

16. West Germany 1970-76

17. Independiente 1971-75

18. Juventus 1980-86

19. Netherlands 1974-78

20. Dynamo Kiev 1985-87

21. Barcelona 1988-94

22. Estudiantes 1967-71

23. Boca Juniors 1998-2003

25. Juventus 1994-98

24. Preston North End 1888-89

26. Borussia M’gladbach 1970-79

27. France 1996-2000

28. Budapest Honved 1950-55

29. Nottingham Forest 1977-80

30. Flamengo 1980-83

31. Austria 1930-36

32. Real Madrid 1984-90

33. River Plate 1941-47

34. PSV 1985-89

35. France 1982–86

36. Feyenoord 1968-71

37. Manchester United 1965-68

38. Brazil 1982

39. Ajax 1992-96

40. Arsenal 1930-35

41. Leeds 1968-75

42. Steaua Bucharest 1984-89

43. Tottenham 1960-62

44. Arsenal 2003/04

45. Marseille 1988-93

46. Hamburg 1977-83

47. Wolverhampton Wanderers 1953-60

48. Chelsea 2004-06

49. Saint-Etienne 1973-77

50. Leicester (2015/16)

51. Epworth Forest Juniors 1994-1997 

 

You won’t find many one-season wonders in this list, but such was the magnitude of Leicester’s title win in 2015/16 that it’s hard not to give an acknowledging hat tip to the Foxes.

When we’re talking about the greatest teams, Claudio Ranieri produced a near-perfect one that achieved immortality in arguably the world's strongest league. How else could they have managed to topple England’s illustrious elite just 12 months after barely surviving the drop?

Sure, Leicester had their outstanding stars – Jamie Vardy had a direct hand in 36 league goals; Riyad Mahrez 29, while new boy N’Golo Kanté proved the seasonal revelation in central midfield. But their real strength was the collective bond that helped them eke out big results, week after week, when the pressure was at its most intense.

They separated themselves from good to great with 14 all-important victories by a single goal – five 1-0 wins coming in the six games from February 27 to April 3 – and beat Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham en route. Only two teams managed to return the same treatment all year.  

In the end they won the title by 10 points. Ten points, for a team that needed six wins from its last eight games of 2014/15 to survive relegation. Surely their achievement – so unique it is – won't be repeated again.


Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/fourfourtwos-50-best-football-teams-ever-50-41#Gz3YGJbi4iZyChgP.99

 

Tielemans63

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Erm....why aren't Epworth Forest Juniors 1994-1997 on that list? We won the treble twice and the double twice and that big tournament down in Torquay and not even a mention. Unbelievable 

davieG

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3 minutes ago, Paddy. said:

Erm....why aren't Epworth Forest Juniors 1994-1997 on that list? We won the treble twice and the double twice and that big tournament down in Torquay and not even a mention. Unbelievable 

Fixed :thumbup:

ithuriel

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Top 50 from even national teams over so many years, shows how impressive they were.

If they were to do the impossible again in the Champions league, well, just another pipe dream at present like last seasons non attempt to win that title :filbert_2:

ScouseFox

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lol no real madrid galacticos but there is room for us. nice. 

 

arsenal's unbeaten team should be a lot higher though. not sure how some of those teams (inc. us) are ahead of the brazil side at the turn of the century or teams like the milan one that won 2 champs leagues and got to a final with some of the finest starting XIs ever recently. seems to be a bit skewed towards the past. 

Chico1958

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They separated themselves from good to great with 14 all-important victories by a single goal – five 1-0 wins coming in the six games from February 27 to April 3 – and beat Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham en route. Only two teams managed to return the same treatment all year.  

In the end they won the title by 10 points. Ten points, for a team that needed six wins from its last eight games of 2014/15 to survive relegation. Surely their achievement – so unique it is – won't be repeated again. JB

 

Only if we win the CL will I ever be happier than 2015/2016, it was an amazing achievement by a Team that was really a TEAM.

Fox92

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Arsenal 03/04 should be a lot higher. To go a full season unbeaten is remarkable.

 

Preston rightly there but I'm surprised Huddersfield aren't.

 

Also expected Madrid to be top, how many European Cups did they win in that period!?

 

But I'd love to have seen that Ajax side. When Cruyff is picking the ball up as the deepest player and just beating players for fun it's unbelievable. Some players are just on another planet. 

crazyleicester

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We were better than Brazil in 82. As much as I remember watching that as a kid and loving the whole process and amazing star players that we knew little about being pre-internet and 5000 channels we get these days but the reality is they didnt even make the KO stages. BTW a side note England played 5 games in that comp, won 3 and drew 2, didnt lose on penos and still got KO`ed!! Work that one out!! Anyway, with that said, Ive elevated us to 49th in the list lol I must admit,

 

BTW, Ive never known a club gain so much love from all over the place and on a personal note Ive never smiled so much by watching us play. Whether it was our amazing home support who hardly ever booed, whether it was beating so called mega clubs like Chelsea and helping get Moanino sacked or turning over sides like Spurs, Liverpool and Man City in style with some wonder goals in the mix or just seeing our players smile and man love each other so much. It also made us all believe that anything is possible with hard work, great management and large chunks of amazing ability. As far as Im concerned, we could suffer successive relegations and end up playing Barnet and I would still sit back, close my eyes and smile my ass off.

Finnegan

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Was this written by Fox92?

 

Standard hipster clap trap probably written by someone not even born when most of those played.

 

I mean, Preston get in for playing twenty games of park football for chrissakes.

boots60

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All in all, not a bad list. Would have Brazil 70 as my no.1 over Ajax. 

Nearer the lower end I'd sling out Steau Bucharest 80's, a very dull side & Marseille early 90s as everything they won they cheated.

Jacnah

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7 hours ago, Finnegan said:

Was this written by Fox92?

 

Standard hipster clap trap probably written by someone not even born when most of those played.

 

I mean, Preston get in for playing twenty games of park football for chrissakes.

Love that turn of phrase...hope its not 'TM' as i think I'll be rolling it out frequently :thumbup:  

st albans fox

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4 hours ago, Gerbold said:

I picked your post from a stream of a few others of like-minded opinion. Did you look at the top ten? And, if you did, did you watch some video action of those top ten - I'm guessing you never saw the Di Stefano Real Madrid or the 1970 Brazil. But I guess you'd have seen the Spanish and Barca sides containing Iniesta, Xavi and Messi. None of these sides were anything but 'teams' containing the highest standard of player. Did you watch the clip of the build up to the Carlos Alberto goal?

What City did as an underdog team was incredible and proved how teamwork and three exceptional players and three or four more very good players could achieve, but every one of those teams in the top block (I didn't bother looking at the other 39) would have bested City nine times out of ten.

Having stated that, the acid test will be, when we move on to the knock-out stages of the CL, how we fare against the teams that will inevitably make it there alongside us. Then we'll see how good City can be. Shame really that Kante had to be the one to desert us - with him it would have made the journey so much more authentic.

We wouldn't beat any of those top whatever - my comment is purely based on the definition of team as in 'a group of people put/brought  together with a common aim'. 

 

All the best teams seem have the best players dotted around them. For pure achievement through teamwork then us or Forest are a better 'team' than Brazil 1970 or Liverpool late seventies/early eighties etc etc. 

 

They are light years ahead of us as a football playing team  but I was merely being a pedant! 

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