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Can you, hand on heart, say that Manchester United 2004/5 is as good a team as Manchester United 1998/9?
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The teams are
different, coupled with different/better opposition.
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Howard is as good as Schmeichel?
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Van Nistelrooy better than Cole?
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Keane '05 is as good as Keane '99?
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Naturally players will lose their edge as they get older but you're talking of the team as a whole, not individual players unless you're deliberately trying to move the goalposts (no pun intended!)
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Not many United fans standing with you on that one, Russ.
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What, taken a vote have you?
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Also, considering you beat us twice this year and will still almost certainly finish behind us, it's evidently not the Arse raising standards that's the problem but getting beat by people like Portsmouth and Norwich, aka the flotsam at the bottom of the league. Arsenal took 12 points off those two, incidentally.
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You're not seriously trying to make a point there......are you??
So the biggest teams don't slip up to lower ones? Chelsea V Man City anyone?