Rafa Watch

[danperkins]

Serie A is very competitive this season, and it is not like the prem has been highly competitive up until this season.

Funny i thought that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world for years now? Fact is Rafa is horribly underachieving with a treble winning team and world class squad.

[Craig_H]

Full time. Eto'o scored in stoppage time, but it ends 2-1 to Chievo.

Least Inter will definitely stay above Palermo now

[destinydude]

Both have done equally bad in their jobs. Inter are 9 points off the top now, so are we.

[danperkins]

FT 2-1 Eto'O. jesus without Eto'O Inter would be in the relegation zone, goal machine this season.

[Mattshark]

Funny i thought that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world for years now?

Yeah, ok, how many teams have won the league in the last 15 years? 3
Only 5 teams have even won the FA cup in the last 15 years. Only Portsmouth, outside of Us, United, Arsenal and Chelsea.

[Craig_H]

Funny i thought that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world for years now? Fact is Rafa is horribly underachieving with a treble winning team and world class squad.

What is your definition of a 'competitive league' ?

[Craig_H]

Both have done equally bad in their jobs. Inter are 9 points off the top now, so are we.

You could argue that the PL has been shocking this season though. In a 'normal' season, we'd be more than 9 points off the summit.

But that's by the by, the point is Inter should be doing much better - although i dont agree that it'd be 'inexcusable' if they didnt win Serie A.

[anfieldanfield]

Both have done equally bad in their jobs. Inter are 9 points off the top now, so are we.

Yeah, but the difference is Inter were CHAMPIONS last season, whereas we finished 7th.

So far, Rafa has done worse than Hodgson this season. Sin duda.

[Mattshark]

You could argue that the PL has been shocking this season though. In a 'normal' season, we'd be more than 9 points off the summit.

But that's by the by, the point is Inter should be doing much better - although i dont agree that it'd be 'inexcusable' if they didnt win Serie A.

I think that is a fair comment.

[danperkins]

What is your definition of a 'competitive league' ?

Well in general IMO the Premier League is a much better league than Serie A. But by saying competitive apart from the Milan teams no other Italian team has challenged in the Champs league, Juve 8-9 years ago. Whereas Liverpool/Man Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal have all challenged for Champs for 5 or 6 years running, last season being only season in 5 or 6 that an English team hasn't been in the final.

Sure in 2007,2008 and in 2009 in the semi's consisted of 3 English teams out of the 4 semi finalists, speaks for itself how strong the premier league was and considering Man United/Chelsea/Spurs/Arsenal/Liverpool are all top of their groups in Europe at the moment, seems the premier league is still very strong.

[lickedlollipop]

thank you purslow for letting rafa out

[dom9]

A question for a new thread really but, does the fact that the top teams in England are not doing so well against the lesser teams mean that the league is more or less competitive?

[Mattshark]

Well in general IMO the Premier League is a much better league than Serie A. But by saying competitive apart from the Milan teams no other Italian team has challenged in the Champs league, Juve 8-9 years ago. Whereas Liverpool/Man Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal have all challenged for Champs for 5 or 6 years running, last season being only season in 5 or 6 that an English team hasn't been in the final.

Sure in 2007,2008 and in 2009 in the semi's consisted of 3 English teams out of the 4 semi finalists, speaks for itself how strong the premier league was and considering Man United/Chelsea/Spurs/Arsenal/Liverpool are all top of their groups in Europe at the moment, seems the premier league is still very strong.

That just suggests the Prem has been a stronger league, it has nothing to do with the competitiveness of the league.

[Craig_H]

Well in general IMO the Premier League is a much better league than Serie A.

Based on what, exactly?

But by saying competitive apart from the Milan teams no other Italian team has challenged in the Champs league, Juve 8-9 years ago. Whereas Liverpool/Man Utd/Chelsea/Arsenal have all challenged for Champs for 5 or 6 years running, last season being only season in 5 or 6 that an English team hasn't been in the final.

Sure in 2007,2008 and in 2009 in the semi's consisted of 3 English teams out of the 4 semi finalists, speaks for itself how strong the premier league was and considering Man United/Chelsea/Spurs/Arsenal/Liverpool are all top of their group sin Europe, seems the premier league is still very strong.

What does CL performance have to do with competitiveness of Serie A and the PL?

As i suspected, you dont really know what the term 'competitive league' means.

[Mattshark]

A question for a new thread really but, does the fact that the top teams in England are not doing so well against the lesser teams mean that the league is more or less competitive?

That is something new to the prem this season however.