The Euro's - football's best competition?

Barlett

Speaking strictly from a European point of view...is the European Championship in it's present form, football's best competition? Euro 00, 08 and so far 12, all top class from start to finish.

No other competition in my view offers the same, certainly not the bloated Champions League with it's dull group stage...not a patch on the competition it was back in the late 90s.

What competiton do you feel is the best?

Xavi6

No, the World Cup by a significant margin for me.

Kiwi_knock

The Euro's has the better football usually, but for some reason I still prefer the World Cup. In my opinion the WC just has something, do not even know what it is, that the Euro's are lacking.

monkey9

The Euros is better on the pitch, but the World Cup is the bigger occasion! I mean, it's the World Cup!!!!!!!!!

fryup

imo i think the euro's is better than the WC...you have 16 quality (ahem) teams and its good competitive football from the get go...think its a big mistake if they increase it to 24 teams this will dilute the quality and just drag it out too long like the WC

GavRedKing

The WC is tha marquee competition, its the one the whole world recognises as THE tournament to win and watch as a football fan and player.

for me though, the Euro's is a tougher competition to win as there is no weak teams on the scale of your North Korea's, Saudi Arabia, Trindad & Tobago etc etc

However, for the enxt Euro's and the fact they're introducing another 8 teams for the Finals it will weaken the tournament a bit but bring more countries in and more support and more cash.

grumpymunster

gavredking wrote: »

The WC is tha marquee competition, its the one the whole world recognises as THE tournament to win and watch as a football fan and player.

for me though, the Euro's is a tougher competition to win as there is no weak teams on the scale of your North Korea's, Saudi Arabia, Trindad & Tobago etc etc

However, for the enxt Euro's and the fact they're introducing another 8 teams for the Finals it will weaken the tournament a bit but bring more countries in and more support and more cash.

Would agree adding an extra 8 teams will only dilute the competition.

It is possibly harder to win than the World cup because the overall quality is much higher and few weak teams makes the finals. Even gross underdogs such as Denmark and Greece have managed to win it.

But the World Cup is the World Cup and it has Brazil and Argentina added to the best of the Europeans so it really is the daddy of competitions (though I think the last 4 in the Champions league in any given season would go a long way to winning a World Cup).

adox

World Cup ftw.

This years Euros have been fantastic so far though.

Leftist

The Euros are a higher concentration of quality. Although I understand Uefa will be extending the euros which will dilute it with ****e water. Like ireland basically.

A good world cup is always the most memorable, but there are too many crap ones recently.

Kilkenny14

The Euro's are usually much more open and competitive, but the World Cup is the king and always will be, no matter where FIFA take it (Qatar in summer- seriously Blatter?)

frag420

Kiwi_knock wrote: »

The Euro's has the better football usually, but for some reason I still prefer the World Cup. In my opinion the WC just has something, do not even know what it is, that the Euro's are lacking.

Brazil, Argentina etc...............

mike65

As I said in the other thread if you invited Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and say Ghana or Ivory Coast you'd have the perfect tournament. 24 teams will be a disaster.

kryogen

The Euros will lose its lovableness for me in the next one I think, too many teams then and the quality will suffer, I enjoy the Copa America also, there are teams there who lack defensive quality but they do have technical ability and I always enjoy the attacking football of the tournament.

The WC group games can be quite tedious but the knock outs are generally enjoyable

EuropeanSon

mike65 wrote: »

As I said in the other thread if you invited Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and say Ghana or Ivory Coast you'd have the perfect tournament. 24 teams will be a disaster.

If you just kicked out Ireland, the Czechs, Sweden and Greece for Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Ivory Coast it'd be perfect.

stovelid

Nah: the World Cup just by dint of its geographical spread inspires the imagination a lot more.