Football Daily | Celtic, Al-Ahly, Real Madrid … move over for the true kings
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Which football club is the best in the world? Come on, let’s get this straightened out, once and for all. A good place to start would be the current club world champions, Real Madrid – who can also point to 15 European Cups, 36 league titles and a world-beating 400 million subscribers across various Social Media Abominations. Yet those humble trophy-lifters from the Bernabéu can be beaten on sheer hardware count by Egypt’s Al-Ahly (125 pots in total, to Madrid’s 103), Celtic (118 domestic trophies to 71) – and Linfield, the south Belfast galacticos with a world-record 57 league titles.
Re: north v south (yesterday’s Football Daily). Leaving aside the issue that we need more football like Donald Trump needs an ego boost … the North v South game has already happened. With Sheffield famously being the first northern town or the first midlands town, depending on your direction of travel, last weekend’s derby between the Blades and the Owls was clearly it. And the south of the city (just) won. No need for another game” – Trevor Townson.
Reading the recent article on Eddie Howe being awarded the freedom of Newcastle. I wondered if the city might go a little further and rename the famous Barrack Road that leads up past St James’ Park, Eddie Howe’Way, instead?” – Stephen Rea.
Thanks for the link to the Mexican league (yesterday’s Still Want More, full email edition). I’ve learned something. I always assumed it was Sergio Ramos-Sentoff, like Kyle Walker-Peters or Trent Alexander-Arnold, or Darwin Nunez-Mistasitta. And as for Alan Hansen (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs, full email edition), great to see him fit and well. I genuinely miss him on MotD, but you can tell from his palms up that he’s just told Prince William his medal handling skills are absolutely abysmal” – Antony Train.
Despite the fact I vowed to never write to you again since you won’t select any of my deluge of letters, I do have a serious question. The group of words at the very end, right after Memory Lane (full email edition), which in the latest posting is ‘One Egg’ … what in the wide, wide, world of sports are you on about with these enigmatic utterances?” – Michael Shain.
Re: yesterday’s last line: un œuf est un œuf!” – David Bell.
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