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Strilo
Title: PT Manager
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Date Posted:
5/19 11:58am
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RE: UEFA Euro 2008 Football/Soccer
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rechedelphar
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Well the great thing about the Bundesliga is that there is quite a bit of parity
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Strilo
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Parity?
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rechedelphar
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you know like the NFL where there are different teams that win. In the Bundesliga there are new teams that win and the teams aren't seperated by such a wide margain like in the Premeir league.
Premeir League its Arsenal, Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea always at the top then comes Everton, Tottenham, Portsmouth, Blackburn and then there's the rest. Its been this way for about 3 years now.
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Strilo
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Date Posted:
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Yeah I prefer something like the Bundesliga.
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Yeah, rechedelphar has a point there. All over Europe it's the same teams winning again and again. Spain is Real Madrid/Barcelona, France is Lyon (7 years in a row), Italy - Inter Milan (3 years in a row I think?). Stuttgart were German champions last year, Bayern Munich were this year (usually have been champions) but there are other teams like Werder Bremen, Schalke 04 and Bayer Leverkusen that have all stepped up in the recent past to win it.
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Strilo
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Date Posted:
5/19 2:49pm
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Yeah I like that sort of thing.
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Is it normal for this many famous players to not be named for their national team for a tournament like this?
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yankee8255
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Date Posted:
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The Bundesliga is just as repetitive as the other big European leagues -- since 2000, Bayern has won 5 out of 8 titles, with Dortmund, Bremen and Stuttgart each sneaking in once. The 90s were a bit more diverse, with Bayern only winning 4 times, Kaiserslautern and Dortmund twice, Bremen and Stuttgart twice.
That is a little more diverse than the Big 3 (Spain, Italy and England), where its an even more limited number of clubs that ever even have a chance, mainly because TV money is divided more evenly in the Bundesliga.
And only 18 days (and 9 hours) left until kickoff!
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The disparity in the leagues will never be as bad as the Dutch league (where PSV, Feyenoord and Ajax ruled the league since the 60s) nor the Portuguese one, which in its 70 year history only managed to produce a whopping five winners and two of them only once.
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Teh flipside to my earlier post on the Bundesliga is that representation in the Champions League is a bit more varied, at least 7 clubs I can think of have been in in recent years (Bayern, Bremen, Schalke, Stuttgart, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Hamburg). In England, it's really just the Big 4, with maybe Everton, Newcastle, etc getting lucky every once in a while. Spain is a little more varied too. In Italy it's always among Juve, the two Milan clubs and the two Rome clubs, though that was changed a bit with the penalties from the match-fixing scandal (Fiorentina managed to sneak in this year).
A big reason for that, I think, is that the Bundesliga only gets three spots, as opposed to the four the top 3 leagues get, whihch provides greater insurance for clubs like Liverpool that they'll get the big CL payday.
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This is all very interesting! 
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The disparity in the leagues will never be as bad as the Dutch league (where PSV, Feyenoord and Ajax ruled the league since the 60s) nor the Portuguese one, which in its 70 year history only managed to produce a whopping five winners and two of them only once.
Don't forget the Scottich league. The Old Firm (Celtic and Rangers) dominate.
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I just found the coolest site for HD sports on TV!
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