Best Team You Have Seen?

[Gregory2Smith1]

tonight's friendly got me thinking about the time i watched the dutch at wembley in '77,great side,cruyff,rep,neeskens the list goes on

the only other team i have seen that come close was the french in '99,another footballing lesson at wembley,zidane and co,petit in particular was superb that night

what's the best team you have seen?

 

[FamilyGuy]

Liverpool FC 1983, they were one of the best teams in Europe - and we beat them! and I was there to see it in 1983 and again in 1984

 

[NMH]

England in the Tournoi de France.

Unfortunately that let the World know that we had perfected a pure teamwork comnination with talent, that would dominate in the impending WCFinals.
It was the quintessential 'English game' epitomised at last. Hoddle had taken the best that we could be from our league and our better performances, and refined that into a group of excellent players. He had the discipline and the quality there, and we should have gone on to win the World Cup after that

The result was a revelation, but one that gave our oppositions determination to try and foul our midfielders, get at our temperament - plus officials held a singular low regard for our fan reputation as hooligans (like we were the only country with yobs and idiots!), and I believe that made them want us gone from the competition.

The Beckham sending off was ridiculous, yet idiots blamed him. Cambell scored a proper good goal agains the Argies, but we were doomed to go out.
That would have been our second WC Trophy, and we deserved the chance to gain it.

 

[Mellotron]

Brighton 2010-2011.

 

[kevo]

I saw a 'Rest of the World XI' play a Football League XI at Wembley in 1987. Line-up included Maradona and Platini:

1-Dasayev (Spartak Moscow & USSR)
2-Josimar (Botafogo & Brazil)
3-Celso (Porto & Brazil)
4-Julio Alberto (Barcelona & Spain)
5-Hysen (Fiorentina & Sweden)
6-Bagni (Napoli & Italy)
7-Berthold (Verona & W Germany)
8-Lineker (Barcelona & England)
9-Platini (France)
10-Maradona capt. (Napoli & Argentina)
11-Futre (Atletico Madrid & Portugal)

Subs:
18-Zubizarreta (Barcelona & Spain) for Dassayev 45 min
15-Elkjaer (Verona & Denmark) for Lineker 45 min
12-Detari (Eintracht Frankfurt & Hungary) for Josimar 61 min
14-Larsson (IFK Gothenburg & Sweden) for Celso 70 min
13-Belanov (Dynamo Kiev & USSR) for Bagni 70 min
17-Stojkovic (Red Star Belgrade & Yugoslavia) for Platini 70 min
16-Zavarov (Dynamo Kiev & USSR) for Futre 83 min


Also went to Brazil v Argentina at the Emirates in 2006 - Brazil were outstanding that day (especially Kaka who came on as a sub and scored a sublime goal) so was going to nominate them, but looking at the line-up I noticed they had Gomes in goal, so maybe not! Argentina lost 3-0, but had Messi and Tevez in their line-up!

Brazil: Gomes, Cicinho (Maicon 66), Lucio, Juan, Edmilson (Cearense 69), Gilberto, Elano (Julio Baptista 73), Silva, Fred (Vagner Love 80), Robinho (Rafael Sobis 89), Daniel Carvalho (Kaka 59).

Goals: Elano 3, 67, Kaka 89.

Argentina: Abbondanzieri, Coloccini, Rodriguez (Samuel 46), Zabaleta, Mascherano (Somoza 46), Riquelme, Bilos (Insua 72), Tevez (Aguero 66), Milito, Gonzalez, Messi.

(The match I'd been to prior to this, the previous weekend, was Stenhousemuir v Queen's Park in Scottish League Div 3 - It was almost like watching a different sport!)

 

[catfish]

Liverpool 1979. They beat us 4-1 at the Goldstone & played us off the pitch. It was a footballing education & I remember feeling privileged to have have watched them even hough I was obviousley disappointed we'd lost.

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Watched Man Utd V Ac Milan when i was in New York in a pre season friendly, probably that.

Also watched Germany V Czech Republic group match in Euro 96.

Apart from that only been to Albion games

 

[kevo]

Liverpool 1979. They beat us 4-1 at the Goldstone & played us off the pitch. It was a footballing education & I remember feeling privileged to have have watched them even hough I was obviousley disappointed we'd lost.

That match was featured in the Liverpool programme - was talking about it on the way back from Anfield. Every player in that team was a household name - Clemence, Neal, Thompson, Hansen, A Kennedy, R Kennedy, Dalglish, Case, Johnson, McDermott, Souness. Sub - Heighway. I was there that day too. They truly (unsurprisingly) took us apart.

 

[sant andreu]

vs Albion, I remeber Crewe some time in the mid-late 90s under Dario Gradi looking very tidy, with a great range of passing going on. Must have been in what's now called div 1. For some reason they stick out in the memory. Most of my Albion watching has been in the lower 2 divisions, against plenty of not that special teams!

Overall, I've seen the current Barcelona team live -got given a ticket for the CL last 16 v Lyon 3 years ago- and seen nothing else to match them.

Other than that, as for best players. I remember going to the Emirates and seeing Fabregas play (v Spurs 3-0) and marvelling at his awareness and control

 

[kevo]

vs Albion, I remeber Crewe some time in the mid-late 90s under Dario Gradi looking very tidy, with a great range of passing going on. Must have been in what's now called div 1. For some reason they stick out in the memory.

Yeah, they won 4-0. Great performance from them, one of the best I've seen by an away side against us - should have been applauded off the pitch by our fans.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Liverpool 1979. They beat us 4-1 at the Goldstone & played us off the pitch. It was a footballing education & I remember feeling privileged to have have watched them even hough I was obviousley disappointed we'd lost.

yeah,remember that game,thinking back to the best team i see at the goldstone,would probably be that team or arsenal on the opening day of the season,dalgleish and brady absolutely superb

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

I saw a 'Rest of the World XI' play a Football League XI at Wembley in 1987. Line-up included Maradona and Platini:

1-Dasayev (Spartak Moscow & USSR)
2-Josimar (Botafogo & Brazil)
3-Celso (Porto & Brazil)
4-Julio Alberto (Barcelona & Spain)
5-Hysen (Fiorentina & Sweden)
6-Bagni (Napoli & Italy)
7-Berthold (Verona & W Germany)
8-Lineker (Barcelona & England)
9-Platini (France)
10-Maradona capt. (Napoli & Argentina)
11-Futre (Atletico Madrid & Portugal)

Subs:
18-Zubizarreta (Barcelona & Spain) for Dassayev 45 min
15-Elkjaer (Verona & Denmark) for Lineker 45 min
12-Detari (Eintracht Frankfurt & Hungary) for Josimar 61 min
14-Larsson (IFK Gothenburg & Sweden) for Celso 70 min
13-Belanov (Dynamo Kiev & USSR) for Bagni 70 min
17-Stojkovic (Red Star Belgrade & Yugoslavia) for Platini 70 min
16-Zavarov (Dynamo Kiev & USSR) for Futre 83 min


Also went to Brazil v Argentina at the Emirates in 2006 - Brazil were outstanding that day (especially Kaka who came on as a sub and scored a sublime goal) so was going to nominate them, but looking at the line-up I noticed they had Gomes in goal, so maybe not! Argentina lost 3-0, but had Messi and Tevez in their line-up!

Brazil: Gomes, Cicinho (Maicon 66), Lucio, Juan, Edmilson (Cearense 69), Gilberto, Elano (Julio Baptista 73), Silva, Fred (Vagner Love 80), Robinho (Rafael Sobis 89), Daniel Carvalho (Kaka 59).

Goals: Elano 3, 67, Kaka 89.

Argentina: Abbondanzieri, Coloccini, Rodriguez (Samuel 46), Zabaleta, Mascherano (Somoza 46), Riquelme, Bilos (Insua 72), Tevez (Aguero 66), Milito, Gonzalez, Messi.

(The match I'd been to prior to this, the previous weekend, was Stenhousemuir v Queen's Park in Scottish League Div 3 - It was almost like watching a different sport!)

brilliant!

stenhousemuir-queens park one week,argentina-brazil the following,not many can say that

what would you compare the standard of football to at stenhousemuir,conference level?
not being funny in any way,i would very much like to go up to scotland to watch kilmarnock and/or queen of the south one day,followed their scores since as long as i can remember

 

[Paskman]

Brazil 1980 - Socrates, Zico etc WOW just WOW!!!

Sent from - not telling as it upsets some people!

 

[kevo]

brilliant!

stenhousemuir-queens park one week,argentina-brazil the following,not many can say that

what would you compare the standard of football to at stenhousemuir,conference level?
not being funny in any way,i would very much like to go up to scotland to watch kilmarnock and/or queen of the south one day,followed their scores since as long as i can remember

It's difficult to judge the standard - probably below Conference level. Certainly, the facilities/support etc in the bottom two divisions is more like Conference South / Ryman League Premier level.

A mate and I always make a point if we are in Scotland over a weekend to try and take in some lower division Scottish football. Been to Albion Rovers, Stenhousemuir, Clyde, Partick Thistle, Falkirk and (many years ago) Queen of the South. The games have always been entertaining - we used to say we were almost guaranteed a spectacular goal and a comedy sending-off... Next on the list is Cowdenbeath before they move out of Central Park.

 

[Mackenzie]

Best performance against Brighton I've seen was a 0-4 home defeat against a Trevor Francis managed Sheffield Wednesday. We didn't have a bad team in 90/91, yet these guys destroyed us in that match. Too good.

 

[Storer 68]

The best team I ever saw has to be one that won the biggest prize.................. so that has to be the West german team that won the 1990 World Cup Final (very good but a bit lacking in flair tho). Unfortunately Brazil and argentina were very disappointing in that tournament even tho the Argies kicked their way to the final

Two dutch teams come close - the 1977 one that I saw at Wembley (school trip to see Cruyff etc) , and the 1988 team that won the European Championships (Gullitt, van basten, rijkaard etc).

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

England in the Tournoi de France.

Unfortunately that let the World know that we had perfected a pure teamwork comnination with talent, that would dominate in the impending WCFinals.
It was the quintessential 'English game' epitomised at last. Hoddle had taken the best that we could be from our league and our better performances, and refined that into a group of excellent players. He had the discipline and the quality there, and we should have gone on to win the World Cup after that

The result was a revelation, but one that gave our oppositions determination to try and foul our midfielders, get at our temperament - plus officials held a singular low regard for our fan reputation as hooligans (like we were the only country with yobs and idiots!), and I believe that made them want us gone from the competition.

The Beckham sending off was ridiculous, yet idiots blamed him. Cambell scored a proper good goal agains the Argies, but we were doomed to go out.
That would have been our second WC Trophy, and we deserved the chance to gain it.

campbells goal was correctly ruled out, shearer blatantly fouled their keeper....and beckham's sending off was also correct

we weren't that good in that tournament (remember we lost to romania in the group stages)...and probably would've lost to the dutch in the next round, who were a piece of ronaldo magic away from the final....they were the best team in the tournament imo

 

[The Mole]

I saw Liverpool beat Forest 5-0 in 1988 - MoM Steve Sutton in Forest's goal. At the time Forest were a class team - but on that day Liverpool were on another level

 

[Ninja Elephant]

The Scunthorpe team that beat us 4-1 at Withdean in 2008 was pretty special.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

I was very lucky to be at Wembley twice during Euro 96. Firstly the excitement of beating the Scots 2-0 and that Gazza goal was immense. Just when I thought it couldn't get better I rocked up a few days later and saw us tear apart the Dutch. OK so the Dutch were going through a load of infighting then but we absolutely ripped them apart that night, Shearer and Sehringham up front were awesome.

I don't think they will go down as one of the best teams ever because we din't win the Euros but in terms of performances that has to be right up there. Hence why whenever we play the Dutch, video highlights of that game get played all the time.