[Albion] Global Club Soccer Rankings

[B-right-on]

How 643 international club teams compare by Soccer Power Index, updated after each match.

Number 21

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/global-club-rankings/

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

That list looks pretty accurate to me until you see Man U about 15 places too low and us about 10 too high.

I'm not complaining though. It's something nice to wave around if we get Leeds or Villa or someone on here going on about how much bigger than them we are.

 

[Driver8]

Lost me at “soccer”.

 

[US Seagull]

Need to break into the top 20. Still "below the fold", or at least the digital equivalent, below the "see more"

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Lost me at “soccer”.

what you don't understand the "English" word invented in this country in 1863 ?

It is not an American word, it was taken over to America by college and university teachers.

 

[US Seagull]

what you don't understand the "English" word invented in this country in 1863 ?

It is not an American word, it was taken over to America by college and university teachers.

It gets me that people still think complaining that an American site uses the word "soccer" is somehow insightful or original.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

It gets me that people still think complaining that an American site uses the word "soccer" is somehow insightful or original.

I would normally agree with you, but my wife has instilled in me to never trust anyone from Ohio for some reason, she calls them all Rutters !!

Why ?

 

[US Seagull]

I would normally agree with you, but my wife has instilled in me to never trust anyone from Ohio for some reason, she calls them all Rutters !!

Why ?

First I've ever heard of it. Apparently it's a Southeast Ohio thing...which happens to be where my wife grew up (although she was born in NE Ohio). I'll have to ask her if she's ever heard it.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rutter

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

Do we get a trophy?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Lost me at “soccer”.

Why? The term comes from England.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

First I've ever heard of it. Apparently it's a Southeast Ohio thing...which happens to be where my wife grew up (although she was born in NE Ohio). I'll have to ask her if she's ever heard it.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rutter

Any derogatory slang you use against folks from Michigan or Detroit, i can use against her ?

 

[US Seagull]

Any derogatory slang you use against folks from Michigan or Detroit, i can use against her ?

Personally, no. But I can tell you that the University of Michigan is widely hated. You can maybe remind her of who won the Toledo War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

 

[Mayonaise]

I did chuckle at number 50

 

[The Wookiee]

Lost me at “soccer”.

Could have been worse - could have said “Footie”

 

[FatSuperman]

I did chuckle at number 50

Other notable positions;
149
151

 

[rool]

I don't understand how this works.
My Palmeiras supporting son in law is always telling me that they are better than a small club like Brighton yet they are 75th.
That said, I would have thought that them and Flamengo would be higher then the positions in that chart.

 

[Popeye]

Cool idea but WAY too much time on their hands...

 

[Eeyore]

First I've ever heard of it. Apparently it's a Southeast Ohio thing...which happens to be where my wife grew up (although she was born in NE Ohio). I'll have to ask her if she's ever heard it.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rutter

I thought Ohio folk were known as Buckeyes.

 

[clapham_gull]

Why? The term comes from England.

As do the vast majority of words used in the USA but language moves on and the game is described pretty much worldwide as football.

It would therefore to me appear a bit odd to describe a global ranking index as "soccer".

 

[RexCathedra]

Why? The term comes from England.

"Soccer" is an odd survival. The word 'footer' is roughly contemporaneous in origin, and identical in meaning. Only luck kept that one relatively obscure. Probably would be lost to time except from an immortal passage in Wodehouse

The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting ‘Heil, Spode!’ and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode s******* about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?’”

Apparently one cannot say 'sw@nking about' in these parts....