Italian > English football

pires7 · Post by **pires7** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:10 pm

It's dissapointing when young players from Australia venture to england as pretty much from then on we can give up on them becoming world class!

As if Carney is going to develop to the level he could playing in France or Holland, compared to sheffield united

adriano10 · Post by **adriano10** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:18 pm

Hawkesy wrote:
adriano10 wrote:
Hawkesy wrote:As an Englishman. The Italian league is technically superior, skill level is better. BUT the English game is more watchable.

I admit I'm biased but i far prefer watching the more physical and faster game that is the English game.

PLUS, I don't like dour defensive football that is Seria A. If that doesn't get some bites then nothing will
i was waiting for that - even if you're just trying to stir the pot a little...

stats show that over the past seasons Serie has the highest number of goals amongst the big 3 leagues in world football - more than La Liga or the EPL
Have a look at the small print in white just after my comment in bold. Here fishy fishy

I was a step ahead of you mate! I saw the fine white print hence why I wrote "Even if you're just trying to stir the pot a little..."

King Ledley · Post by **King Ledley** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:56 pm

This topic is about Italian football and English football but in my opinion Spanish is better than both

ForzaChievo · Post by **ForzaChievo** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:58 pm

Italian football>>>>> English football

FerrariTifosi27 · Post by **FerrariTifosi27** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:01 pm

Italian football>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>English Football by a long country mile.

Our clubs are more successful, our leagues are most entertaining, more goals every season, more World Cups won.

Laziale your a legend and give us Italians a great name

ronaldo07 · Post by **ronaldo07** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:17 pm

olympiakos wrote:for technical football, i would put serie A and La Liga way ahead of EPL, for entertainment and especially for a casual follower EPL is the best, there is obviously a reason why the cream of the crop never go to england, zidane? totti? carlos? ronaldo? riquelme? messi? just some examples, the very best technical players will never be drawn to england, say what u want but english league is no where near italian and spanish in terms of technical football

even bundesliga is quite good to watch, on setanta

yeh, and that's why Henry, C Ronaldo, Fernando Torres etc play / use to play in EPL bcos they dont have the skill pfffft ...

this topic has been discuss over and over again, but no conclusion has been made ... it's getting bored now to be honest ...

milanista, if u said Seria A is most entertaining, why ppl choose EPL over seria A ?? Why the TV Coverage not airing the Seria A , instead they choose to airing 'less entertaining' football which is EPL ?? u knob

FerrariTifosi27 · Post by **FerrariTifosi27** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:49 pm

ronaldo07 wrote:
olympiakos wrote:for technical football, i would put serie A and La Liga way ahead of EPL, for entertainment and especially for a casual follower EPL is the best, there is obviously a reason why the cream of the crop never go to england, zidane? totti? carlos? ronaldo? riquelme? messi? just some examples, the very best technical players will never be drawn to england, say what u want but english league is no where near italian and spanish in terms of technical football

even bundesliga is quite good to watch, on setanta
yeh, and that's why Henry, C Ronaldo, Fernando Torres etc play / use to play in EPL bcos they dont have the skill pfffft ...

this topic has been discuss over and over again, but no conclusion has been made ... it's getting bored now to be honest ...

milanista, if u said Seria A is most entertaining, why ppl choose EPL over seria A ?? Why the TV Coverage not airing the Seria A , instead they choose to airing 'less entertaining' football which is EPL ?? u knob

It's cause these Aussie pigs are racist pigs against Italians thats why they don't show it, they show GAYPL cause of all the Aussies abroad. Your a knob and stop being such a dumbcunt I bet you love Serie A in your sleep. You knob

King Ledley · Post by **King Ledley** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:55 pm

Milanista #22 wrote:
ronaldo07 wrote:
olympiakos wrote:for technical football, i would put serie A and La Liga way ahead of EPL, for entertainment and especially for a casual follower EPL is the best, there is obviously a reason why the cream of the crop never go to england, zidane? totti? carlos? ronaldo? riquelme? messi? just some examples, the very best technical players will never be drawn to england, say what u want but english league is no where near italian and spanish in terms of technical football

even bundesliga is quite good to watch, on setanta
yeh, and that's why Henry, C Ronaldo, Fernando Torres etc play / use to play in EPL bcos they dont have the skill pfffft ...

this topic has been discuss over and over again, but no conclusion has been made ... it's getting bored now to be honest ...

milanista, if u said Seria A is most entertaining, why ppl choose EPL over seria A ?? Why the TV Coverage not airing the Seria A , instead they choose to airing 'less entertaining' football which is EPL ?? u knob

It's cause these Aussie pigs are racist pigs against Italians thats why they don't show it, they show GAYPL cause of all the Aussies abroad. Your a knob and stop being such a dumbcunt I bet you love Serie A in your sleep. You knob

lol somebodys fired up

olympiakos · Post by **olympiakos** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:57 pm

ronaldo07 wrote:
olympiakos wrote:for technical football, i would put serie A and La Liga way ahead of EPL, for entertainment and especially for a casual follower EPL is the best, there is obviously a reason why the cream of the crop never go to england, zidane? totti? carlos? ronaldo? riquelme? messi? just some examples, the very best technical players will never be drawn to england, say what u want but english league is no where near italian and spanish in terms of technical football

even bundesliga is quite good to watch, on setanta
yeh, and that's why Henry, C Ronaldo, Fernando Torres etc play / use to play in EPL bcos they dont have the skill pfffft ...

this topic has been discuss over and over again, but no conclusion has been made ... it's getting bored now to be honest ...

milanista, if u said Seria A is most entertaining, why ppl choose EPL over seria A ?? Why the TV Coverage not airing the Seria A , instead they choose to airing 'less entertaining' football which is EPL ?? u knob

read my post again numbnuts, the great names of our modern game have never played in england, did u read zidane? ronaldo? cristiano was bought at an early age, u think that if he was ripping it up in spain he would ever leave?

The one and only · Post by **The one and only** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:59 pm

you guys are all trippa's i agree with diegom who cares this topic has been done to death all it is is the ppl who support italian teams getting on here saying italian football is better blah blah blah and then the epl followers getting on here and doing the same every one is just being biased like i said IMO the leagues are pretty on par with each other there has been players that have succeeded in the epl and failed in the serie A and then there has been players that have succeeded in italy and failed in the epl just watch what you like and who cares what all the know it alls think and what league they think is better

LFTWNG11 · Post by **LFTWNG11** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:06 pm

97 wrote:I'd say 99% of people that bag Serie A have never watched more than a dozen Serie A games in their life, let alone follow a season.

The only thing EPL has over Serie A is better picture quality and more TV exposure through the Commonwealth.

Gap isn't as big as it used to be, the EPL by far have more finances than Serie A of late, Man City spent bigger than Inter last summer.

Liverpool & Man U put together probably close to what the whole Serie A spent.

However Serie A is better because we have less Englishmen playing....for now anyway

classic, absolute fucking classic.

LFTWNG11 · Post by **LFTWNG11** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:09 pm

Berbatov wrote:This topic is about Italian football and English football but in my opinion Spanish is better than both

stupidest thing I have ever heard...

The one and only · Post by **The one and only** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:17 pm

LFTWNG11 wrote:
Berbatov wrote:This topic is about Italian football and English football but in my opinion Spanish is better than both
stupidest thing I have ever heard...

a spanish side does have the most european cups you cant say there is much between all three leagues come on

Missing Post Count · Post by **Missing Post Count** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:28 pm

olympiakos wrote:for technical football, i would put serie A and La Liga way ahead of EPL, for entertainment and especially for a casual follower EPL is the best, there is obviously a reason why the cream of the crop never go to england, zidane? totti? carlos? ronaldo? riquelme? messi? just some examples, the very best technical players will never be drawn to england, say what u want but english league is no where near italian and spanish in terms of technical football

even bundesliga is quite good to watch, on setanta

I've said it a few times, but I really enjoy watching the German league.

King Ledley · Post by **King Ledley** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:00 am

LFTWNG11 wrote:
Berbatov wrote:This topic is about Italian football and English football but in my opinion Spanish is better than both
stupidest thing I have ever heard...

Cheers

thesoupnazi · Post by **thesoupnazi** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:36 am

milanista dont get sucked in by ronlado he is just a finocchio.he just tries to stir all the italians on this forum hiding behind his malaysian name and pretending his english is not very good but he knows what he's doing.italy won the world cup man thats all we need to worry about not that peanut called ronlado

Fred Goldstone · Post by **Fred Goldstone** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:48 am

I have to admit that the Italian game is certainly superior to the English game when it comes to the technical and tactical side.

You only have to look at the Champion's league last year to see that.

But the English game is better to watch if you like 'wham, bamm, thankyou maam' football.

The fans are the major reason for this difference - Italian fans like to see their teams play good football where the ball is played out of defence and openings are created by passing and interplay before a strike is launched - English fans prefer to see a faster, nore physical game where the ball is moved from defence to attack as quickly as possible.

The Germans and Dutch play a game somewhere between them.

As for interclub rivalry - players rarely share the same feelings as supporters because the game is their living, not their passion.

You would have no problem moving to an employer in competition with your own if they offered you more money, etc, would you? - so don't expect players to be 'loyal' to your club.

Hawkesy · Post by **Hawkesy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:52 pm

Fred Goldstone wrote:You only have to look at the Champion's league last year to see that.

You would have no problem moving to an employer in competition with your own if they offered you more money, etc, would you? - so don't expect players to be 'loyal' to your club.

You might well have to explain that to me. With 75% of the finalists being English. All the English sides won their groups. Don't see how it shows the italian superiority.

As for loyalty. that's dead in this world. Sheringham is the greatest example of that. So far he has admitted to supporting 4 different teams as a kid. Millwall, spurs, man ure and west scum. He goes where the money is. I can't wait until he admits that he's always supported Perth Glory as a kid.

I see the point about employers but no money in the world could make me wear a west scum shirt. BUT my mate who was a professional with Gillingham, openly admits to hating football and it's JUST A JOB!!

Fred Goldstone · Post by **Fred Goldstone** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:39 pm

But who won it? The Italian team!

The one and only · Post by **The one and only** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:53 pm

Fred Goldstone wrote:But who won it? The Italian team!

that makes no difference 3 of the 4 semi finalists were english

one of the italian sides got knocked out conceding 9 goals in the proccess oh they must be better

and it was an english team that milan barely beat in the final any way

if you like bringing it back to the champions league what country has had a team in the final the past 3 years england

so i dont see how you can say italian football is so much better

Owusu_1 · Post by **Owusu_1** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:58 pm

The one and only wrote:
Fred Goldstone wrote:But who won it? The Italian team!
that makes no difference 3 of the 4 semi finalists were english

one of the italian sides got knocked out conceding 9 goals in the proccess oh they must be better

and it was an english team that milan barely beat in the final any way

if you like bringing it back to the champions league what country has had a team in the final the past 3 years england

so i dont see how you can say italian football is so much better

There will be no mentioning of that. I swear that game was rigged!!! Rigged I tells ya!!!

The one and only · Post by **The one and only** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:00 pm

Romerpoolaide wrote:
The one and only wrote:
Fred Goldstone wrote:But who won it? The Italian team!
that makes no difference 3 of the 4 semi finalists were english

one of the italian sides got knocked out conceding 9 goals in the proccess oh they must be better

and it was an english team that milan barely beat in the final any way

if you like bringing it back to the champions league what country has had a team in the final the past 3 years england

so i dont see how you can say italian football is so much better
There will be no mentioning of that. I swear that game was rigged!!! Rigged I tells ya!!!

lol sorry man

E. Grant & Co · Post by **E. Grant & Co** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:15 pm

So Hawksey, if an employer came to you and said i have a job for you its an extra 10K a year more than what you are earning but you have to wear a uniform [West Ham shirt] you'd say no?

For an extra 10k a year I'd even wear an Arsenal shirt to work if that what it took.......I'd be thinking of my family and future before how stupid i'd look in a uniform.

Le King · Post by **Le King** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:00 pm

epl > serie a

diegom · Post by **diegom** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:08 pm

MUFCBOY wrote:epl < serie a

And what would U know???

Hawkesy · Post by **Hawkesy** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:13 pm

Ted from Taperoo wrote:So Hawksey, if an employer came to you and said i have a job for you its an extra 10K a year more than what you are earning but you have to wear a uniform [West Ham shirt] you'd say no?

For an extra 10k a year I'd even wear an Arsenal shirt to work if that what it took.......I'd be thinking of my family and future before how stupid i'd look in a uniform.

Why would I wear that shirt for a mere 5% pay rise?

# 9 · Post by **# 9** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:03 pm

personally, im split on this somewhat irrelavant decision, even tho my heart sways just that lil bit towards EPL cause im half english. BUT! that will never take me away from loving Serie A. im a soccer nut, and have fav teams from many countries. i could never say that one is better than the other out of the two, when the budesliga and the Spanish league are up there too, like every league theyt have theyre ups and downs that everyone has pointed out.
after watchin Serie A and supporting Fiorentina for about 5years now, ive come to learn that the Serie A aint so defensive as everyones says it is, if anything its not so played in the midield, its that in the Serie A team can go from defence to attack in the blink of an eye, and people are mislead to believe that that is defensive. Serie A is very very skillfl too, if you want to watch a player burn another every game, then watch the serie A. on the other hand you have EPL, which has the upperhand in 1-touch ability and of course long range efforts, not to mention where even the little teams can make theyre game a headliner. its impossible to say that some suppoerters are more passionate than others, its just what stadium security allow the supporters to do. just cause there are streamers and flairs in italy doesnt make them more passionate about theyre team than an engishman about his football team.

both leagues have shit loads to offer, as the saying goes 'each to theyre own' which offers peoples opinions swayed by theyre hearts and passions to drive the game further and further into the future.

thank f.u.c.k.. the lord invented this wonderful game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

E. Grant & Co · Post by **E. Grant & Co** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:21 pm

HEY hlebby - you are well spoken for a Gunner......

......I might even agree with what you said, but it still comes down to what each of us enjoys more and me I enjoy the EPL more than the Serie A

# 9 · Post by **# 9** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:56 pm

Ted from Taperoo wrote:HEY hlebby - you are well spoken for a Gunner...... ......I might even agree with what you said, but it still comes down to what each of us enjoys more and me I enjoy the EPL more than the Serie A

yea, just like i quoted...'each to their own', which means everyone has theyre own tastes/opinions.

id rather watch EPL to Serie A too. but id watch fiorentina play over sum other team in EPL... but Arsenal comes first

u kno wat im gettin at tho ay

FerrariTifosi27 · Post by **FerrariTifosi27** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:02 pm

The one and only wrote:
Fred Goldstone wrote:But who won it? The Italian team!
that makes no difference 3 of the 4 semi finalists were english

one of the italian sides got knocked out conceding 9 goals in the proccess oh they must be better

and it was an english team that milan barely beat in the final any way

if you like bringing it back to the champions league what country has had a team in the final the past 3 years england

so i dont see how you can say italian football is so much better

Yeah but Super Pippo Inzaghi's finishing is top class it shows that poms are scared of the worlds best goal poacher and can't handle him cracking through their shit defence. Italians have more quality goals & gameplay EPL is just boring same old stuff everyweek.