Favourite ever non-Liverpool side

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I fucking loved the 97-98 Juventus side me, Zidane, Davds, Conte, Del Piero, the fucking animal that was Montero, and Zidane remains my favourite ever player.

 

Whisper it quietly too, but I thought Wenger's first league winning side was fucking class as well, especially Overmars. Maybe I just got a soft spot for teams that fucked the mancs?

[JagSquared]

Ajax 95 - just look at that squad.

 

GK Fred Grim

GK Edwin van der Sar

DF Danny Blind (captain)

DF Winston Bogarde

DF Frank de Boer

DF Michel Kreek

DF Michael Reiziger

DF Sonny Silooy

DF Mendel Witzenhausen

MF Ronald de Boer

MF Edgar Davids

MF Kiki Musampa

MF Tarik Oulida

MF Marc Overmars

MF Martijn Reuser

MF Frank Rijkaard

MF Clarence Seedorf

MF Ignacio Tuhuteru

MF John van den Brom

MF Nordin Wooter

MF Finidi George

FW Patrick Kluivert

FW Peter van Vossen

FW Jari Litmanen

FW Nwankwo Kanu

[Section_31]

Ajax 95 - just look at that squad.

 

GK Fred Grim

GK Edwin van der Sar

DF Danny Blind (captain)

DF Winston Bogarde

DF Frank de Boer

DF Michel Kreek

DF Michael Reiziger

DF Sonny Silooy

DF Mendel Witzenhausen

MF Ronald de Boer

MF Edgar Davids

MF Kiki Musampa

MF Tarik Oulida

MF Marc Overmars

MF Martijn Reuser

MF Frank Rijkaard

MF Clarence Seedorf

MF Ignacio Tuhuteru

MF John van den Brom

MF Nordin Wooter

MF Finidi George

FW Patrick Kluivert

FW Peter van Vossen

FW Jari Litmanen

FW Nwankwo Kanu

 

Aye, fucking hell that was some academy.

[Faustus]

The Arsenal invincibles were something else. Absolutely outstanding. Just a joy to watch.

 

Quite baffling how Wenger seems to have forgotten how to build a decent side now, seeing as he's had some of the finest teams the country has ever seen.

[Elite]

Agree about that Juve side, awesome.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

The Arsenal invincibles were something else. Absolutely outstanding. Just a joy to watch.

 

Some incredible football. Really unstoppable at times. 5/6/7 goals to none at times. Brilliant.

[s(k)aturation]

Holland 1974.

Fucking fucking cool.

[RobbieOR]

The current Barca team.

[Dan M]

Brazil World cup squad 1982

[Jairzinho]

Sacchi's Milan or the current Barcelona side.

[MAC5]

Parma from 1998 used to love the Italian footy on as unsay afternoon and the bald guy who presented!

Gianluigi Buffon

Matteo Guardalben

Alessandro Nista

Davide Micillo

Defenders

 

Antonio Benarrivo

Luigi Sartor

Luigi Apolloni

Néstor Sensini

Roberto Mussi

Fabio Cannavaro

Lilian Thuram

Paolo Vanoli

Midfielders

 

Reynald Pedros

Diego Fuser

Dino Baggio

Juan Sebastián Verón

Mario Stanić

Alain Boghossian

Pierluigi Orlandini

Stefano Fiore

Raffaele Longo

Federico Giunti

Attackers

 

Hernán Crespo

Faustino Asprilla

Abel Balbo

Enrico Chiesa

[Karl_b]

Same as you Section, loved Juventus at that time.

[Razoray]

On paper and on the field Capellos Milan were a great squad:

Goalkeepers

Mario Ielpo

Sebastiano Rossi

Francesco Antonioli

 

Defenders

Franco Baresi

Alessandro Costacurta

Filippo Galli

Paolo Maldini

Stefano Nava

Christian Panucci

Mirco Sadotti

Mauro Tassotti

Rufo Emiliano Verga

 

Midfielders

Demetrio Albertini

Zvonimir Boban

Angelo Colombo

Francesco Cozza

Fernando De Napoli

Marcel Desailly

Roberto Donadoni

Stefano Eranio

Brian Laudrup

Gianluigi Lentini

Alessandro Orlando

Dejan Savićević

 

Attackers

Daniele Massaro

Jean-Pierre Papin

Florin Răducioiu

Marco Simone

Marco van Basten

 

but I just prefer Saachi's team of a few years earlier. The team that won the 1989 EC was unreal:

GK 1 Giovanni Galli

RB 2 Mauro Tassotti

LB 3 Paolo Maldini

RM 4 Angelo Colombo

CB 5 Alessandro Costacurta

CB 6 Franco Baresi ©

LM 7 Roberto Donadoni

CM 8 Frank Rijkaard

CF 9 Marco van Basten

FW 10 Ruud Gullit

CM 11 Carlo Ancelotti

[Carvalho Diablo]

82 Brazilians

[withnail71]

Barca circa 2011.

[Baltar]

Gotta agree that some of Wenger's teams have been class. They played a brand of football that no team has done so in the Premiership since, and the players they had were brilliant.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Holland 1974.

Fucking fucking cool.

 

This and Brazil 82. Both played the game how I enjoy it. Club wise there have been quite a few down the years, Ajax and Bayern early 70's were very good.

[njackets]

Ajax 95 - just look at that squad.

 

GK Fred Grim

GK Edwin van der Sar

DF Danny Blind (captain)

DF Winston Bogarde

DF Frank de Boer

DF Michel Kreek

DF Michael Reiziger

DF Sonny Silooy

DF Mendel Witzenhausen

MF Ronald de Boer

MF Edgar Davids

MF Kiki Musampa

MF Tarik Oulida

MF Marc Overmars

MF Martijn Reuser

MF Frank Rijkaard

MF Clarence Seedorf

MF Ignacio Tuhuteru

MF John van den Brom

MF Nordin Wooter

MF Finidi George

FW Patrick Kluivert

FW Peter van Vossen

FW Jari Litmanen

FW Nwankwo Kanu

 

Saved me typing that out, think they went the season only losing a couple of cup games then they got broken up. If they'd have kept that team together its scary how good they could of been.

[njackets]

On paper and on the field Capellos Milan were a great squad:

Goalkeepers

Mario Ielpo

Sebastiano Rossi

Francesco Antonioli

 

Defenders

Franco Baresi

Alessandro Costacurta

Filippo Galli

Paolo Maldini

Stefano Nava

Christian Panucci

Mirco Sadotti

Mauro Tassotti

Rufo Emiliano Verga

 

Midfielders

Demetrio Albertini

Zvonimir Boban

Angelo Colombo

Francesco Cozza

Fernando De Napoli

Marcel Desailly

Roberto Donadoni

Stefano Eranio

Brian Laudrup

Gianluigi Lentini

Alessandro Orlando

Dejan Savićević

 

Attackers

Daniele Massaro

Jean-Pierre Papin

Florin Răducioiu

Marco Simone

Marco van Basten

 

but I just prefer Saachi's team of a few years earlier. The team that won the 1989 EC was unreal:

GK 1 Giovanni Galli

RB 2 Mauro Tassotti

LB 3 Paolo Maldini

RM 4 Angelo Colombo

CB 5 Alessandro Costacurta

CB 6 Franco Baresi ©

LM 7 Roberto Donadoni

CM 8 Frank Rijkaard

CF 9 Marco van Basten

FW 10 Ruud Gullit

CM 11 Carlo Ancelotti

 

That Capello's Milan team was something else! Took Cruyff's Barca side to school in the CL final. I will also throw Rafa's Valencia team into the mix, never to this day have I seen us completely played off the park like we was against them we was just chasing shadows.

[Newport]

Barca when Cruyff was their coach. What a wonderful team that was Zubizarreta, Sergi, Koeman, Guardiola, Stoichkov, Romariol, Laudrup. When I hear the name Busquets I still think about Carles who was the reserve goalkeeper at the time and not his son.

 

I was so gutted when they were completely outplayed against Milan in the 94 final. I got kind of the same feeling at half-time in 05 obviously.

[Evil_Ways]

The Arsenal invincibles were something else. Absolutely outstanding. Just a joy to watch.

 

Quite baffling how Wenger seems to have forgotten how to build a decent side now, seeing as he's had some of the finest teams the country has ever seen.

 

Yeah, though his transfer policy was quite similar back then to what it is now. Lots of bargains you really could not know would turn out as good as they did. Vieira, Pires, Ljungberg, Henry in that team. He also inherited some great players when he came to Arsenal which basically meant he had a very good foundation to build on like Seaman, Adams, Keown, Bould, Winterburn, Dixon, Bergkamp. Dont take the credit away from him as he did fantastically well, but the success rate he had with his early signings was almost unrealistic.

[jamespp]

Tranmere 94 when they had Aldo

Ajax 95

Blackburn 95, not a great football side but I wanted them to win games almost as much as a Blackburn fan

Arsenal late 90s/early 2000s

Newcastle Keegan Era

 

Ajax 95 probably

[Harry Squatter]

AC Milan 1988-1994. Had some of the world's best players, beating Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 final in Athens was an awesome display, hardly ever heard Romario or Stoichkov's name get mentioned during the game, they got hammered that night.

 

Shouldn't say this but I always enjoyed watching Everton's 1985 team and hated us playing them because they were so good, though i was glad they never won the FA cup that year though as they would have done the "real" double before us.

 

I couldn't enjoy an everton team winning anything now though

[sir roger]

The Everton team of 93/94 were only half an hour & a bribed goalie away from being mine.

[Jonjo Baldy]

The late 90's Ottmar Hitzfields Munich team was half decent as was 2003/04 Milan team of Ancelotti.