What has slagging the current team got to do with silverware, being critical of players and how the team play is something that has always happened, it hasn't just started since you have had a clue about what was going on.Vlad III wrote:What is difficult to understand about the difference between something being important and something being a high standard?
To a Walsall fan the Johnstones paint trophy may be important. Does that mean that the quality is also high? No, it doesn't. So just because I thought the CWC was important doesn't also mean I have to think that it was a top notch competition.
What makes me laugh, is that people can slag off the current team till the cows come home, yet I mention the CWC wasn't gold standard and I'm slaughtered!
The CWC was a prestigious bit of silverware as was the uefa at that time, that is judged by how serious the teams took it and how serious the fans took it and i can tell you as could plenty of others it was taken very seriously and the final was a big event for football fans not just if it was your team but regardless of who was playing.
There would have been little difference in quality between the last four of the CWC and the last four of the EC in those days, the Uefa was actually probably more difficuilt to win than the EC because their was more strength in depth as the 2nd and 3rd and even fourth best teams in the top leagues were in it, but of course i suppose that was another pony bit of silverware in your 8 year old eyes.
