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Threesome: Most boring ever sides
By eleven-a-side.com
Relentless victory can be difficult to watch – Chelsea, Michael Schumacher and Pete Sampras were often tarred with the “boring” label for merely being better than everyone else – but occasionally football sides who unscrupulously dispense with all attacking tendencies emerge to truly bore the pants off the watching public. eleven-a-side.com looks at three of the most boring teams in living memory.
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Posted by: lessons_in_obscurity
Title: Club v Country / Euro 2008
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Ok, clubs pay the players - I get that; club football takes up nine months of the season - I get that too; and fans primarily support clubs rather than countries.
But I’ve always had a fascination with the international game. Nothing floats my boat more than the big summer tournaments. I’m really, really looking forward to Euro 2008 next month, even though it’s a purely continental affair. I’d love Ireland to be there, I’d be happy if England were, but who cares? It’s a massive tournament, more open than the World Cup (two of the last four winners are Denmark and Greece). There is real uncertainty at the start, unlike the Premiership where you can narrow down the league race to three or four teams, unlike Spain or Scotland, where it’s usually a two-horse race.
I love the way teams develop through a tournament, the way players - who might previously have been unknown - come to the fore. Ricardo Carvalho is a case in point. I know he was part of the FC Porto team which had won the Uefa Cup and Champions League, but I knew very little about him until Euro 2004, when he was routinely brilliant in every game.
To me, the big summer tournaments are the essence of the game. They, more than the Premiership, get children out kicking a ball around a field or the street on the sunny summer evenings. Money talks in the major leagues. In international football, it’s all about coaching and team spirit. I can’t wait for the Euros.
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Posted by: redkpd9
Title: Half the Country want to go
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Just read what C Chawke is supposed to have said about Sunderland "half the country want to go" well I must be in the other half . 
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Posted by: irishbhoy22
Title: Celtic/Sevilla v Rangers/Manchester
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What a contrast! Celtic fans win friends for generations and special merit awards from Uefa for their behaviour in Seville five years ago.
Rangers despoil and destruct Manchester city centre after their horrible Huns lost to St Petersbourg on Wednesday.
Well done Huns! You’ve proved your monstrosity for the world to see!
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