Bundesliga to overtake the premier league on the Uefa coefficient table...thoughts

che wrote:

The_Badger wrote:
Again; you seem to be completely missing the point here. We, England, have large participation in a wide variety of sports and we generally excel at them. We may not be the best at every single one, that's an incredibly difficult feat, but we can hold our heads up and say we provide world class participants to a range of popular global sports.

which is of course as opposed to germany and its ~1500 olympic medals?

plus as far as i can tell the "range of popular global sports" is limited to three sports that are popular in 4 countries

fatman123 wrote:In terms of the CL, looks as if Bayern are carrying the league again, although it can be argued that BVB got unlucky with injuries.

The_Badger wrote:

Ruben Pardo wrote:IIf England's Anglo-Saxon cousins over in Germany can produce great players then there's no excuse

Except there is. Football isn't the only sport played in England, we have great interest elsewhere in others.

pls, you lot are useless at every sport you play other then football

The_Badger wrote:

fatman123 wrote:

The_Badger wrote:4th best Test Cricket side. 4th best RU side. 3rd best RL side.

Third best RL side becuase there are only three countries who play it Fiji is 5th and the Fijian national side is made up of Australians and NZers who cant arent good enough to play for Aus/NZ now/anymore but still want to play internationaly, same deal for all those Island countires and Italy too

I dont know if your a rugby league fan or not, but if you are then you would know theres a huge drop in quality from Aus and NZ down to England and then an even bigger drop down to Fiji and co. Even the superleague shows that, its full of old NRL players looking for a final pay day and all the top superleague players go to the NRL to test themseves at the top level eg Burgess x4, Graham, Tomkins etc

Same sort of logic can be applies to RU, theres quite a gulf in class between Aus, NZ, SA and Eng compared to the rest of the nations, (the British and Irish Lions team are top top quality though)

And youve got a good ranking in cricket now, but that team is sliding down hill fast, and again outside the top few, theres not too many great cricketing nations

Again; you seem to be completely missing the point here. We, England, have large participation in a wide variety of sports and we generally excel at them. We may not be the best at every single one, that's an incredibly difficult feat, but we can hold our heads up and say we provide world class participants to a range of popular global sports.

S wrote:He's an Aussie.