Poll for the greatest ever 10 Football Club sides:

[roni10_levi]

Hello mates. here is a list with some of the best club sides in history of Football. please, select 10 that you think were the best ever. I will pick my 10later. Discuss.

[Wendellgee REM]

Not one Man Utd team in there, Shame on you!

[Abbeygoo]

I'm a City fan and am very surprised that United's treble winning team of 1999 aren't in or even of their double winning teams either ....... makes a mockery of it.

[Ian J]

Really this poll should only be open to the over eighties as no-one younger would have first hand experience of 1940 team

Even I'm not that old

[fcz]

couple of strange choices in there i think.

porto 2004? didn't think they played great football which was beautiful to watch!! some might say they dived and cheated their way to euro victory, although they did win it which is a big achievement. (all be it down to a mistake by a linesman at old trafford and they wouldn't have made the final!)

dortmund 97? another strange one for me. i went to both the games against utd and thought they weren't outstanding but just worked hard and were good on the break. sammer and kohler were top class centre halves and paul lambert was probably the most underated footballer in the world at the time, but to call them one of the 10 best club sides ever is a bit much.

my vote would be for either the great milan team or the ajax team that won the champs league in 95. i also don't think that list is complete without the united treble winning team. love them or hate them, that is probably one of the greatest achievements in world football!!

[hdsport]

For me.

1. Milan 1989-90
2. Real Madrid 1956-60
3. River Plate 1940s (especially late '40s) although this was a toss up with the Torino team of the same period (devastated by the Superga disaster)

[Ian J]

Originally Posted by hdsport

For me.

1. Milan 1989-90
2. Real Madrid 1956-60
3. River Plate 1940s (especially late '40s) although this was a toss up with the Torino team of the same period (devastated by the Superga disaster)

According to your profile you're only 26 so what experience do you have of any of the three teams that you've picked

[LFC_SL]

Can you only vote if you are 80 years old or called John Motson???

I can safely disregard halve the list!

Interesting poll...

[roni10_levi]

I pick: both Ajax, both Real Madrid sides, Milan 89'-90', Bayern Munich, Santos, Benfica and Inter of the 60's and Juventus 85'

[hdsport]

Originally Posted by Ian J

According to your profile you're only 26 so what experience do you have of any of the three teams that you've picked

Didn't realise that this was a poll of the greatest team you've seen play in which case I'd still pick Milan (ok I only saw them on TV)!!! Whilst books/newsreel footage etc isn't as good as seeing the team I still feel you can make a judgement.

I've been listening to an excellent audiobook by Niall Ferguson in the car recently about conflict in the Twentieth Century he was (according to google) born in 1964 is he not allowed to express opinions on anything pre say 1970? I believe you can be a historian (allbeit very amateur in my case) of football just like any other subject. If not history would be a much narrower subject if you exclude anything beyond your own lifetime.

I don't think you need to have been around to know about the merits of say Real in the early days of the European Cup! Otherwise this poll is irrelevant unless someone like Brian Glanville is a member of AVF.

[Manxstar]

Shame about the Man Utd omissions, or perhaps they were seen as flukes?...
Anyway, I'd put late eighties/early ninties Milan firmly at No.1, as they were the last team that truly dominated European club football for a number of years.

Me being mid-thirties I'm probably too young to remember anything from the great Real Madrid and Torino sides.

[Sicknote10]

Tottenham 60-61 obviously

[wiser1]

none of the above

Man utd 1999 End Of

[Marc]

another vote for Man Utd 98/99, absolutely unbelievable that you missed them off! Won the treble playing the most stylish football you could hope to see.

And a mate just reminded me of the 'untouchable' Arsenal side of a few years back, no mention of them either?

[Ian J]

I have edited the poll and Manchester United 1989/90 has been included