Topic: Team(non Liverpool) you most admire

[Oscarmac]

What team do you most admire, by that I mean a group of players over a club in general.

For Example Milan 1988-90 or the Celtic Lisbon Lions.

[FlashingBlade]

Rotherham Division Three 1970/71 season...Delightful football.

[classycarra]

Everton 1891/92 - there was just something about them that felt destined for greatness

[Samie]

Sacchi's AC Milan of the late 80's/early 90's is a thing of beauty to admire. 

[rob1966]

What team do you most admire, by that I mean a group of players over a club in general.

For Example Milan 1988-90 or the Celtic Lisbon Lions.

Klopps Dortmund 11/13 -loved watching that team play football

The Arsenal sides from about 01 to 05

[Terry de Niro]

Brazil 1970.
Pure Class.

[Dim Glas]

Borussia Dortmund’s teams between 2009-2013 under Jürgen!
The football was a breath of fresh air, utterly intense, and honest. Just a group of young players with little cynicism playing the most fun football imaginable. Hummels, Kuba, Subotic, Schmelzer, Großkreutz, Piszczek, Sahin, Götze, Kagawa, Lewandowski, Barrios, Gundogan, Reus.... Fantastic.

[JRed]

Everton over the last couple of seasons. They have brought us all so much joy.

[PeterTheRed ...]

Brazil 1982. The best team not to win the World Cup ...

https://youtu.be/KxyENH_ODJA

[Samie]

Rijkaard's Barca team with Ronaldinho at his brilliant best was Gary Neville sounding orgasmic. 

[Samie]

Brazil 1982. The best team not to win the World Cup ...

https://youtu.be/KxyENH_ODJA

I think there is a legitimate claim for the Dutch 74 team here mate. Brazil 82 was more entertaining though, I'll give you that. 

[Party Phil]

Rijkaard's Barca team with Ronaldinho at his brilliant best was Gary Neville sounding orgasmic. 

This was the first that came to my mind. Ronaldinho, Messi, Xavi, Iniesta, Deco, Eto'o, Puyol, Thuram etc. What a team.

[DiggerJohn]

Napoli always the underdog to the northern italian clubs.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Argentina in 86

[In the Name of Klopp]

Aston Villa W 2021-x

[dirkster]

The 1994 AC Milan team that beat Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 champions league final. Milan were jaw droppingly brilliant.

[CHOPPER]

It’s a toss up between Pans People or Legs & Co.

Back to you in the studio.

[Jwils21]

Valdes
Alves - Pique - Puyol - Abidal
Xavi - Busquets - Iniesta
Messi - Eto’o - Henry

Or

Dida
Cafu - Stam - Nesta - Maldini
Seedorf - Gattuso - Pirlo
Kaka
Shevchenko - Crespo

Closest we’ve come to all round perfect sides in the last 20 years

[Samie]

The Valencia era of Coupet and Rafa was fantastic too. Was great to see a team other than Barca or Madrid winning consistently over those two.

[Terry de Niro]

It’s a toss up between Pans People or Legs & Co.

Back to you in the studio.

Hill's Angels shit all over them both.

[Oscarmac]

The Valencia era of Coupet and Rafa was fantastic too. Was great to see a team other than Barca or Madrid winning consistently over those two.

I remember Rafa at Anfield with Valancia. Pablo Aimar was boss that night.

[BobPaisley3]

The 1994 AC Milan team that beat Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 champions league final. Milan were jaw droppingly brilliant.

Interestingly, two of their most important players, Baresi and Costacurta, didn’t play that night.

[TipTopKop]

As Terry mentioned Brazil '70, Peter's '82 Brazil also a good shout, and to be fair the '02 Brazil (though weren't fancied to begin with) had some amazing set of players there.

[BobPaisley3]

The Valencia era of Coupet and Rafa was fantastic too. Was great to see a team other than Barca or Madrid winning consistently over those two.

Shame they couldn’t win a European cup at the turn of the century, very good side.

[Wabaloolah]

Argentina in 86

Maradona's first against England was a thing of beauty, the second was just him showing off! 😉

[RedSince86]

Capello's Milan side when they destroyed Barcelona in 94 CL final.

And the 95 and 96 Ajax side of Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal.

Milan with the art of defending, when they won the Scudetto that season they conceded 15 goals,

Milan just ripped up that defensive style in that final, the words by Cruyff and Barcelona calling them anti Football etc in the build up for weeks that made Capello take the reins off.

That Ajax side was ridiculous, average age must have been early 20's.

[duvva 💅]

Liverpool Reserves

[disgraced cake]

Everton, for all the laughs they've given me over the years

[TipTopKop]

For pure talent, the Spain 2010 WC winning squad was ridiculous:

1 - I Casillas (c)
15 - S Ramos
3 - G Piqué
5 - C Puyol
11 - J Capdevila
16 - S Busquets
14 - X Alonso
8 - Xavi
6 - A Iniesta
18 - Pedro
7 - D Villa

Substitutes

12 - V Valdes
2 - R Albiol
4 - C Marchena
9 - F Torres
10 - C Fàbregas
13 - J Mata
17 - A Arbeloa
19 - F Llorente
20 - Javi Martínez
21 - D Silva
22 - J Navas
23 - P Reina

[gerrardisgod]

Valencia 2000-2004, so many wonderful technical players and I was stupidly convinced we were signing a load of them.

[Jimmy Raggatip]

Brighton

best scouting network
top coach
great continuity and contingency planning
done it all from nearly oblivion back in 1997 and without the aid of a nation state

[ScouserAtHeart]

Milan early to mid-2000s

A special mention to Levante in 2011. I'd recommend reading this if you have 5 mins:

A year ago almost to the day Levante's coach, Luis García, announced that beating Real Madrid would be "like kissing Miss World". Back then, Levante didn't beat Madrid but the striker Rafa Jordá announced that drawing with them wasn't bad either: "like chewing the face off your girlfriend". This time, Levante did beat them. In September 2010 it finished 0-0; in September 2011 it finished 1-0. In the week that Cristiano Ronaldo said people had it in for him because he is "handsome, rich and good at football", Madrid were defeated by a team that, as the banner at the Ciutat de Valencia stadium put it, are "ugly, poor and bad at football".

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/feb/28/la-liga-levante
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/oct/17/levante-la-liga-expendables-2

[Solomon Grundy]

AC Milan. Liked them since the late '80s, early '90s. Just loved the way they played back then. It wasn't a typical Italian style of football at all. I've had a soft spot for them ever since. Also, their fans were great in both the 2005 & 2007 finals as well.

[Solomon Grundy]

Napoli always the underdog to the northern italian clubs.

 Their fans put me off them. The Millwall of Italy.

[Solomon Grundy]

Interestingly, two of their most important players, Baresi and Costacurta, didn’t play that night.

Neither did Van Basten. It was the beginning of the end of his career for him.

[FiSh77]

Manchester City, what a fucking fairy tale, brings tears to the eye

[Solomon Grundy]

Manchester City, what a fucking fairy tale, brings tears to the eye

It's amazing what they've done against all the odds.

[duvva 💅]

The 1994 AC Milan team that beat Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 champions league final. Milan were jaw droppingly brilliant.

Yep I remember watching that and they were brilliant, unplayable. Think Savicevic was fantastic every time I watched him that season

[Party Phil]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Al-Hilal 2023/24 yet, the plucky underdogs going toe to toe with the mighty Al-Nassr. Truly inspirational.

[thejbs]

Man City. They’re just so well run. An example to club teams everywhere.