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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Do you know where I could watch some games of the team? A season with a narrative might be interesting enough to make me care.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgEPx6ZBiOU
It's only ten minutes. Wouldn't recommend looking for old games really. All the big moments will be in that.
*BORING FOOTBALL INFO POST*
To appreciate what they did, you have to understand that the league has been monopolised by a handful of teams spending hundreds of millions of pounds every year, with the top five or six squads absolutely stacked with star internationals. Any time a team outside of that elite group starts to progress by building a team capable of challenging, the billionaire clubs buy their players, they are back to square one and the cycle continues. The only way to do it is to spend billions yourself if you get taken over by foreign investors, but this club spent next to nothing on no mark players.
That league win bucked the trend, they are a small club who had never been champions in their 100+ year history (their manager had never won the league either) and were in the lower leagues a year or two before, hence 5000-1 odds.