Saturday, October 17, 2009

Liverpool Or Manchester United?

Liverpool or Manchester United? Forget what you know about any other rivalry in English football, this is the only one. No sectarian divide here, but the pure hatred that comes when these two are not out of place if any. These are the bastions of English football. Even if it is the oldest football league in the world, has only been in operation for one hundred twenty (109 actual seasons because of two world wars) and the two have won almost a third of them - divided into 36 equal parts. Their closest rivals Arsenal 13. I just want to compare the period of domination from Liverpool with the period of domination by Manchester United. A total of 23 different winners of the Football League / FA Premier League on 109 stations in 2008-09. Liverpool and Manchester United are tied on 18 each, Arsenal 13 Everton 9 Aston Villa 7, 6 Sunderland, Newcastle and Sheffield Wednesday 4, Wolves, Leeds, Huddersfield, Chelsea and Blackburn 3 each, then Preston North End Spurs, Derby County, Manchester City, Burnley and Portsmouth 2 each, with a win for each of the WBA, Ipswich, Sheffield United and Nottingham Forest. Taking the starting point, purely arbitrary, the 1967-68 season, the home of Manchester United 25 one-year hiatus can see that until the 1991-92 season there were a total of 8 different winners of the first division. Liverpool tops the list with 11, followed by Arsenal, Everton and Leeds with 3 and 2 Derby County and Manchester City, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest, with one each. Since the formation of the Premier League in 1992-93 and the return of Manchester United win, a total of 4 winners in a 17-year period (until 2008-09). Manchester United leads the list with 11, Arsenal 3, Blackburn Rovers 2 Chelsea and a single victory. During this period, Manchester United has not finished outside the top four and Arsenal three times only. From 2004-05, when Everton forced rivals Liverpool in fifth place, the four always been Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. But what are the reasons for this apparent bias? Money is the easy answer, but I'm not entirely convinced that this is the case. Traditionally, the Manchester Untied was the richest of all the clubs in English football. However, this does not help us before 1992-93, and 1967-68, before taking a turn with all the other teams as the winners - after winning in 1966-67, had 7 wins, as it did with Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton, Sunderland and Aston Villa, 6 each. No, I think it's much more down to good management - must be all that money into the wrong hands, Ron Atkinson, Gerard Houllier, to name but two. During the domination of Liverpool, have always had the money to splash, if necessary, but Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Kenny Dalglish win and everyone knew what they were doing, of course, Matt Busby and Alex Ferguson does. Arsène Wenger has kept Arsenal in the hunt at the top of the Premier League has always been the development of young players. Looking back in time, Herbert Chapman, the architect of 3 consecutive wins in 1920, Huddersfield Town and Arsenal 1930 five titles, including 3 in a row, was also an excellent manager. So the answer to the original question? To be honest, the original question is probably rhetorical, because there are 90 teams in the league in England and Wales. Of course, as a football team that support has fallen a lot. People say that geography should be the paramount consideration, and I have much sympathy for that. However, young boys who do not live in Liverpool or Manchester seems to go with the flow and follow the most successful team or the team as his father. Domestically, Arsenal and Chelsea seem to be less popular than the two great - Manchester United and the national team and probably held that position since 1958, Liverpool fan base, probably grew exponentially in 1970 and '80, when they won everything ahead. So, what do you think ...?

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