10 years ago. Who would have thought...

Daysha

Wigan Athletic, Portsmouth, Hull City, Stoke City and quite possibly Burnley would make up 1/4 of the Premiership teams?

Newcastle would be playing in the same league as Peterborough United, Doncaster Rovers and Scunthorpe United?

Leeds United, Charlton Athletic, Norwich City, Southampton would all be playing 3rd tier football?

Greece would win the European Championship?

South Korea would reach a World Cup semi final, knocking out both Spain and Italy?

The 3 richest clubs in the world would be Manchester City, Chelsea and QPR?

Real Madrid wouldn't reach a Champions League final for 7 consecutive years?

Wimbledon would have become defunct and it's replacement, run entirely by the fans, would work its way all the way up to the Conference?

Funny looking back on it all, isn't it? Feel free to add your own.

patmac

Yeah Newcastle Utd v Scunthorpe Utd who would have thought it. I wonder who Keegan will be cheering on there? Although some things stay the same, didn't Utd win the treble in '99 including the CL and EPL hopefully history will repeat itself.

Bubs101

Liverpool still wouldn't have won a premiership.

Also, a champions league final between a portuguese and a french team

Frisbee

This Guy

bigstar

City won the division 2 play off final at wembley ten years ago almost to the day. didnt think wed be here ten years later tbh, its been some journey, hopefully better to come. tony pulis was gills manager that day.

Nicky Weaver = Legend.

mike65

Why is any of the above so weird? You kids have no history!

Check the teams of the Prem back in 1993/94
http://www.soccerbase.com/league2.sd?teamid=142

leninbenjamin

the weirdest thing really is that United are still the best team in the land. I was just looking back through the history of premiership winners and it really stands out. I don't think anyone would have predicted United to be so consistently competitive 10 years on, afterall Liverpool are the only other club to have had such a sustained period of success and that itself was unusual.

also the similarities are quite odd too... correct me if i'm wrong, but Pool's era started with a win in 72/73 and United's in 92/93. And in just over 15 years they both manage to win 11 titles...

Xavi6

May 30, 1999 -



Most important goal in our history. I still think he's gonna miss every time I see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tge11NHJ0U

rossie1977

leninbenjamin wrote: »

also the similarities are quite odd too... correct me if i'm wrong, but Pool's era started with a win in 72/73 and United's in 92/93. And in just over 15 years they both manage to win 11 titles...

thats correct, man utds title successes have mirrored liverpools exactly and well before 1972 it goes all the way back to the start, its beyond freaky, man utd have never won more titles than liverpool, they have always played catch up and always levelled no matter how many liverpool went ahead, this goes right back to the 1900-01 season

Jazzy

im still shocked that figo went to real.
judas!

5starpool

Who would have thought that Ronaldo was still winning the world player of the year award?

Neil3030

Screw the last 10 years, let's make predictions about the

NEXT TEN YEARS!!

• Liverpool to win the league
• The rest of us never to hear the end of it
• Villa to get to a CL Semi-Final
• The rest of YOU never to hear the end of it :P
• Chelsea to be relegated, enter receivership
• Doncaster to play in the prem
• Arsenal sign a 5 year old
• Celtic and Rangers enter the Premiership

A7X

Neil3030 wrote: »

Screw the last 10 years, let's make predictions about the

NEXT TEN YEARS!!

• Liverpool to win the league
• The rest of us never to hear the end of it
• Villa to get to a CL Semi-Final
• The rest of YOU never to hear the end of it :P
• Chelsea to be relegated, enter receivership
• Doncaster to play in the prem
• Arsenal sign a 5 year old
• Celtic and Rangers enter the Premiership

*shoots self*

Tom65

mike65 wrote: »

Why is any of the above so weird? You kids have no history!

Check the teams of the Prem back in 1993/94
http://www.soccerbase.com/league2.sd?teamid=142

What's an "Oldham"?

jesus_thats_gre

Tom65 wrote: »

What's an "Oldham"?

A brand of flour I think :P

Tom65

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

A brand of flour I think :P

Credit for not saying something along the lines of "it's some ham that was bought ages ago".

Nalz

Neil3030 wrote: »

Liverpool to win the league

really?

mike65

No of course not Trilla, cos that could never possibly happen in the next 10 years or decades or centuries on Planet Manc could it!? :rolleyes:

Aidric

mike65 wrote: »

No of course not Trilla, cos that could never possibly happen in the next 10 years or decades or centuries on Planet Manc could it!? :rolleyes:

It could happen but probably won't.

everdead.ie

last ten
never expected the same four to take up the top four spots consistently
Leeds to fall so far so quickly
next ten years
expect chelski to go into recievership and re-emerge as afc chelsea
liverpool to win Champions league but not the league
Arsenal to finish below spurs when Arsne leaves
City to have ten new managers

jesus_thats_gre

rossie1977 wrote: »

thats correct, man utds title successes have mirrored liverpools exactly and well before 1972 it goes all the way back to the start, its beyond freaky, man utd have never won more titles than liverpool, they have always played catch up and always levelled no matter how many liverpool went ahead, this goes right back to the 1900-01 season

Tis just one of those really interesting coincidences.

Reminds me of that emails going around in the weeks leading up to Liverpool winning the the CL a few seasons ago about your one from Coronations Street etc.

cooker3

Daysha wrote: »

Wigan Athletic, Portsmouth, Hull City, Stoke City and quite possibly Burnley would make up 1/4 of the Premiership teams?

The arguments to make it an 18 team league seems rather compelling now.

That_Guy

Who'd have thought Joe Kinnear would take over at Newcastle..... What the hell where the odds on that.

legs11

hello,this is newcastle we are talking about. odds wouldn't have been much.

Daysha

legs11 wrote: »

hello,this is newcastle we are talking about. odds wouldn't have been much.

Well it was only 6 years ago that Newcastle had a good manager (Robson) a good team (Shearer, Given, Bellamy, Jenas, Dabizas etc) and had defeated teams like Juventus to reach the 2nd group stage of the Champions League. Even things off the pitch seemed to be stable enough.

MR NINE

Aidric wrote: »

It could happen but probably won't.

it probably will tbh, its a lot more likely to happen than not to happen.

CHD

Chelsea won't go bankrupt. Just won't happen. If RA left some other gaziollinairre will come in.

That_Guy

Daysha wrote: »

Well it was only 6 years ago that Newcastle had a good manager (Robson) a good team (Shearer, Given, Bellamy, Jenas, Dabizas etc) and had defeated teams like Juventus to reach the 2nd group stage of the Champions League. Even things off the pitch seemed to be stable enough.

The glory days.... without any glory.

dsmythy

CHD wrote: »

Chelsea won't go bankrupt. Just won't happen. If RA left some other gaziollinairre will come in.

And take over some other billionaire's leftovers? I wouldn't.

everdead.ie

CHD wrote: »

Chelsea won't go bankrupt. Just won't happen. If RA left some other gaziollinairre will come in.

To still be a billionaire after this crisis means there prudent when chelsea are delighted to bring there losses down to 80 million last year thats just not a prudent investment

Limerick Dude

That_Guy wrote: »

The glory days.... without any glory.

Just over 10 years ago when we beat Barcelona 3-2 at St James Park

Asprilla hatrick!!!!

eZe^

Jazzy wrote: »

im still shocked that figo went to real.
judas!

Damn f*cking straight..

leninbenjamin

Limerick Dude wrote: »

Just over 10 years ago when we beat Barcelona 3-2 at St James Park

Asprilla hatrick!!!!

ah, good old wobbly legs. Pity he never regained his Parma form, he was some player when in the mood.

bigstar

ten years ago i saw city and burnley at maine road in div 2. didnt think ten years later i could see them in the prem. ill have to go to that game next season.

ShooterSF

Neil3030 wrote: »

Screw the last 10 years, let's make predictions about the

NEXT TEN YEARS!!

• Liverpool to win the league
• The rest of us never to hear the end of it
• Villa to get to a CL Semi-Final
• The rest of YOU never to hear the end of it :P
• Chelsea to be relegated, enter receivership
• Doncaster to play in the prem
• Arsenal sign a 5 year old
• Celtic and Rangers enter the Premiership

Who goes on to win the Carling cup that season and within 3 years is the captain, most experienced and oldest player at the club.
They play fantastic football but are constantly let down by their 4 year old goal keeper getting lobbed.

leninbenjamin

ShooterSF wrote: »

Who goes on to win the Carling cup that season and within 3 years is the captain, most experienced and oldest player at the club.
They play fantastic football but are constantly let down by their 4 year old goal keeper getting lobbed.

now that's just silly. everyone knows a 5 year old can't sign a professional contract :rolleyes:

ShooterSF

leninbenjamin wrote: »

now that's just silly. everyone knows a 5 year old can't sign a professional contract :rolleyes:

Neither can a 16 year old, they can still play though.