England? Probably right now tbh, 2018-Present. The prem is the richest league and most successful in Europe over the last 5 seasons. The national team has been pretty good. The talent pipeline has been fantastic and the future looks bright. England have a solid chance at winning this upcoming euros in 6 months time. England just rose to 3rd in the fifa rankings and you didn’t see people complaining, big sign of how far the team has come right there. End of the day, I’m living in the good old days right now so I might as well enjoy it while it lasts.

Rooney 47th all time is probably generous tbh.

Man for man, England had a more stacked starting XI in the 2000s than now. They had world class players in every position in those days. This England team performs better and is also pretty stacked but not quite world class in every position yet. Like another person said, the 2000s England team mostly peaked around kind of the same time (2004-06) but this one has more of a mix of veterans and youngsters so they should be decent for longer.

Haha, that’s pretty funny. You just can’t beat the biggest club in the world I guess.

Then we get more blatant fouls and offside calls being missed. Who’d want to go back to that world?

Spent his time well at rennais I guess haha

Liverpool will fall away in February with afcon and Asia cup hampering them. This’ll affect Arsenal too but they don’t have a Mo Salah in their team. Arsenal will continue to push until may because of their fantastic defense and control but City will win again after they get into their Spring gear. City aren’t as dominant as they used to be but it’s tough to see Arsenal winning besides major City injuries and everyone miraculously staying healthy at Arsenal.

The number of international matches has actually been fairly constant. Look at legends of national teams like Charlton and Kane for England and you’ll see that Charlton played more games. Even lineker played more games but with a shorter career.

Kind of crazy to think this current City team isn’t as good as previous ones in the league st least. It’s somehow true but they’re still clear of everyone haha.

Kane has played almost 20 fewer games than Charlton for England. I’m not sure where you’ve got the idea that there are significantly more international games.

Not really. It’s fairly comparable and if it’s not the same the difference is a handful of games. Man U played 59 games in 76/77 and 54 games in 21/22 for example from that other commenter. It’s kind of a myth really that players play 15 or whatever extra games these days. The game is just more intense and high pace.

The prem is stronger these days, so it’s not bad for a team like Chelsea to be mid-table during a rebuild. The real question is if they’re still mid-table two or three seasons from now, that’s when you know the status of the club has seriously changed.

Not just a couple seasons ago for Forest, literally last season haha. Yes, QPR made a lot of changes for the 14/15 season. Rio Ferdinand and everything. Didn’t do well haha and went right back down. QPR continue disappointing me till this day, painful to be a supporter.

Classic striker’s finish there from Bellingham, the man can’t help himself this season. Good run from rodrygo too.

Fantastic delivery there, lovely whip and pace. Happy with pau scoring this too cause he’s on my fpl lol.

Yeah it does. A few years ago we were talking about him bursting on to the scene and what a prospect he was. Now we’re talking about him refining his game and in a decade we’ll be talking about his legacy and how good he was at his peak haha.

I thought 1954 was their peak when they reached the world cup final?

Fantastic ball from Saka there, people aren’t talking enough about it. Nice to see someone other than City top the table for once. Well done to Arsenal for grinding out the win.

Wow that’s nice. Surprising to see someone like Sterling doing this.

Its surprising how high Spurs are. Who did they have up there from back in the day? Greaves, Lineker, Graham? Who else?