So the overall quality has been poor has it? You probably haven’t discarded the years that are around the 10 year mark so would you say that the 2000-2001 campaign, which featured most of the same players as 2002 (if we’re going to get pedantic about it), was superior to this one just because the league was filled with professionals who were supposedly better? This, despite the fact that the league title was sewn up in mid-April by Manchester United, and the relegation places decided by the penultimate game?
Of course, you may think that the league season that has just been finalised was better than 2000-2001, but going by your hypothesis that the football has been ‘‘poor’’ and that it is ‘‘far from being the best’’, then using those words of David Moyes to back it up, it would appear that you base great seasons on technicality rather than excitement and drama. Does this mean it was worse than many of Italy’s Serie A campaigns where ‘technically superior’ players have often played out drab and stuffy 0-0 draws and 1-0 wins?
Would you prefer that at the expense of that other Italian pastime: theatre and entertainment? The sort of which we have witnessed for the past year? They may have been technically superior (maybe they still are), but it’s not as if the Premier League is or was far off. It must be said that going by the amount of allocated Champions League spots, the English league is currently better, whether that’s for technicality or enjoyment.
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Don’t forget that the fans have a massive, massive part to play and I am sure that from most of their mutual perspectives it has been the best. The Beatles may not have been the best technical band, but they conjured and then stirred up more emotion than any other. The people on The Voice, X-Factor or Britain’s Got Talent may be technically better singers than Bob Dylan, but it doesn’t mean they’re the best. Like a football season with its incidents and outcomes, the whole package has got to be taken into consideration, not rigid technicalities.
You got me into a bother with your narrow mindedness, but I should have seen it coming. After all you are the same person who feels that Xabi Alonso would be a more justified inclusion in a ‘best of Liverpool’ from the recent past than Steven Gerrard. What a ludicrous statement. If Alonso stayed, maybe, but with the way Gerrard has carried the Reds in matches over the last ten years or so, it’s a no-brainer as far as I’m concerned.
And what was it you said about Paul Scholes last month? ‘‘The Player of the Year surely has to be the one who has been most influential in the business of winning trophies, as well as being easy on the eye.’’ This is despite him beginning his season in January and United ending the campaign without a trophy, which I have to admit, was a surprise. But even if they had won the title, it would still have been a pretty preposterous claim on your behalf. Are you trying to be the Jeremy Clarkson of the football writing world? As in you say these things with force in order to create a minor controversy? Or something to that effect? Or are you as ‘dumb’ as the verdict that this was the best season?
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