Originally Posted by Thomas007:
“Just remember when the worlds media, BBC/ITV included were falling over themselves declaring Spain the greatest international team of all time in the postmatch discussion of their 4-0 win against Italy in euro 2012.
I bumped that thread which was started on here two years ago, would they all agree with that now? Despite being the lowest scoring WC winners ever, maybe they're just one of the best instead?
What about FC Barcelona? Sky and the worlds media were self declaring them the greatest club side ever 2009-2012, what happened to that? I argued they had to retain the champions league, doing so would mean they have done something no one else had done, but no they were the greatest side then even before that. They failed to retain the CL and so Sky have not pushed that opinion since, maybe they should have waited first?”
“Just remember when the worlds media, BBC/ITV included were falling over themselves declaring Spain the greatest international team of all time in the postmatch discussion of their 4-0 win against Italy in euro 2012.
I bumped that thread which was started on here two years ago, would they all agree with that now? Despite being the lowest scoring WC winners ever, maybe they're just one of the best instead?
What about FC Barcelona? Sky and the worlds media were self declaring them the greatest club side ever 2009-2012, what happened to that? I argued they had to retain the champions league, doing so would mean they have done something no one else had done, but no they were the greatest side then even before that. They failed to retain the CL and so Sky have not pushed that opinion since, maybe they should have waited first?”
I agree.
For some reason the media seem to be intent on telling us that we are constantly witnessing the greatest of things. The hype around sportsmen beggars belief at times.
The Spain team was a great team, but the greatest? There's no way of knowing and how do you measure this greatness anyway?
The same can be said of the Barcelona side. They were undoubtedly a very good team, but how can anyone say they are the greatest? What is the criteria?
Every generation or era has it's own great team, but trying to compare them to past teams when there is no means by which to do so is futile really. They are all great in their own way and should simply stand side by side in the history books as great teams of their time.



