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- From: djs@jet.uk (David J Stevenson)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Real Football in Torquay Shock (5-2 Ha!)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.093508.17541@jet.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 09:35:08 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.094816.4988@jet.uk> <JIM.92Nov16174018@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Organization: Joint European Torus
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- In <JIM.92Nov16174018@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov16.094816.4988@jet.uk> djs@jet.uk (David J Stevenson) writes:
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- > Anyone know a worse football side than Torquay United?
-
- >The present English and Scottish national teams would do for a start. :-)
-
- Well, both of those are better than Northern Ireland and Wales, so perhaps
- it's time to resurrect the Home Championships (but don't let Eire in) :-)
-
-
- >When you see the sheer quality, skill and style of the Italian sides
- >(thank you Channel 4!), you get a fair idea of just how dreadfully low
- >the standard of football is in the UK.
- To a large extent I agree with you about the high quality of Italian
- football, but I do often get the feeling on Sunday afternoons that I'd like
- to see them spend as much on decent defenders as they do on forwards etc.
-
- It will be interesting to see how well the Italian national team copes
- with the 'improvement' in Serie A, given that most of the top players
- play for Holland, Germany, Denmark, ... (I nearly mentioned England
- there, too!).
-
- One other point I would make about the standard of football in England
- (but not the rest of the UK) is the sheer depth of 'quality'. Our best
- isn't as good as Serie A IMHO, but one suspects that the GM Conference is
- rather higher than the '5th division' in most other countries.
-
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- | David Stevenson djs@jet.uk Tel: +44 235 465028 |
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- - Disclaimer: Please note that the above is a personal view and should not
- be construed as an official comment from the JET project.
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