The OTF Champion of Champions League

[Jon]

Real Madrid 1955-1960.

[Sean of the Shed]

Thanks to jon that's 29 entries now. Still no Liverpool team of any era? No Spain?
With or without them we will begin once we have three more nominations in.

[pebblethefish]

Leicester 2016. Would be expected to struggle against the likes of Ajax and Brazil, but they were expected to struggle for the whole of that season. I'm relying on the fact that they were clearly blackmailing God to see them through.

[Ek weet nie]

Liverpool 2018-2020. Mostly to have them in the mix. I'm not old enough to have seen the 70s or 80s vintage.

[Simon G]

Leicester 2016. Would be expected to struggle against the likes of Ajax and Brazil, but they were expected to struggle for the whole of that season. I'm relying on the fact that they were clearly blackmailing God to see them through.

I've nominated but not seconded - so I'll second this one

[Tactical Genius]

Nigeria 1994-1998

Could have gone the whole way in 1994.
Olympic champions 1996.
Knocked out Spain in 1998.

And they were just fun to watch, really.

This is why I like this guy so much. Always posting sensible stuff.
I second this nomination, as you all expected me to.

[anton pulisov]

And of course being tonked 4-1 in 1998 second round by Denmark just adds to the mystery. The Laudrup brothers never played so well together as in that match

[Flynnie]

Did they really under-estimate Denmark? The Danes had a reputation already from Euro 84, for which they qualified by knocking out England, and that group was the pre-advertised Group Of Death. I'd also say that the loss to Morocco simply went to form; Scotland were very poor (relative to their 70s sides) by 1998.

Maybe it's because I've just watched the BBC documentary series on Scottish football on iPlayer and that's informing these views a lot, but they definitely fancied their chances against Morocco and were surprised a bunch of lads who played at first-division or high second-division Italian, French and Spanish clubs could, er, play a bit.

In the end, Scotland would have failed to qualify even had they won because Norway upset Brazil.

Jock Stein made poor team selections in 1982. Including picking Allan Evans for one of his 4 Scotland caps against New Zealand in a match where Scotland conceded 2 goals - Scotland Missed out on qualifying on goal difference by 2 goals. Stein had much, much better defenders at his disposal, such as Aberdeen’s Willie Miller. Stein wasn’t exactly helped by the likes of Alan Hansen who tackled Miller whilst facing his own goal in the final game versus Russia when the ball was obviously Miller’s to clear. Hansen played in all 3 games and Scotland conceded 8 goals. Tin hat on, Hansen was a great player for Liverpool but he was average at best for Scotland.

I don’t think “who the fuck are these lot” is valid for Denmark (who had a very good team). Against Costa Rica and Morocco, Scotland played very poorly, nothing more, nothing less.

Good details, I just didn't see anything pop out at me regarding 82 in the way you can look at other tournaments. Certainly 1978, where Ally McLeod seemed to completely write off the Copa America champions, much less Iran.

[DPDPDPDP]

Maybe it's because I've just watched the BBC documentary series on Scottish football on iPlayer and that's informing these views a lot, but they definitely fancied their chances against Morocco and were surprised a bunch of lads who played at first-division or high second-division Italian, French and Spanish clubs could, er, play a bit.

In the end, Scotland would have failed to qualify even had they won because Norway upset Brazil.



Good details, I just didn't see anything pop out at me regarding 82 in the way you can look at other tournaments. Certainly 1978, where Ally McLeod seemed to completely write off the Copa America champions, much less Iran.

Scotland went to South America in 1977 for a couple of friendliest. They beat Chile 4-2 and drew 1-1 with Argentina (winners in 1978). I think this successful tour Actually contributed to the poor performance in 1978. Also significant was That Scotland were 1-0 up against Peru before Don Masson missed a penalty. Who knows what might have happened had we been 2-0 ahead.

iran was shocking performance and just a complete and utter embarrassment, especially coming after Peru when it was a must wIn game. Holland was just typical Scotland- great performance, but too late. How can you draw 1-1 with Peru and then beat Holland 3 days later?

[Tactical Genius]

Guys, This thread would be 1000% better with some youtube links to accompany your excellent posts.

[Simon G]

To support my nomination - Leeds tearing Southampton a new one in the 71/72 season

[Sean of the Shed]

Guys, This thread would be 1000% better with some youtube links to accompany your excellent posts.

Here are Forest absolutely pulverizing Man Utd at Old Trafford. The third goal in particular, Gemmill setting up Robertson, is an absolute peach.
And as I said in my nomination, just check out the film I Believe in Miracles.

[Sean of the Shed]

Meanwhile, one more nomination and we have 32 teams to go ahead with this. Come on somebody,

[Sporting]

Perhaps as the organiser you can shoehorn in another one yourself? Celtic 1967 for example?

[That Night In Barcelona]

How about Brendan Rodger's Celtic.

[Satchmo Distel]

I think Spain 2008-10 are covered by Barcelona 2008-09, who are actually a better side.

It would make sense to have the current world champions, who won it quite convincingly (quite similar to Spain 2010 in that their closest and probably luckiest KO game was the final).

[Lobachevsky]

tottenham hotspur 1960 - 63

[Sean of the Shed]

Looks like Brendan Rodgers Celtic just pipped Bill Nicholson's Spurs to the last spot.

[Sean of the Shed]

Unless, of course, we have a play-off, after all qualifying play-offs are de riguer these days.

Celtic 16-19 v Spurs 60-63
Pick yourselves a winner, votes close at 12 midday tomorrow.

[Sean of the Shed]

And by the way, nominations are now closed.

[Sporting]

Spurs by a mile

[elguapo4]

Spurs for me too

[Sean of the Shed]

I have to say Spurs as well.

[delicatemoth]

Sorry Ted, I have to opt for Spurs.

[Satchmo Distel]

Spurs