the greatest ever sporting teams ever

[johnboy14]

More than 30,000 people took part in our vote for the greatest ever sporting team. Here's how they voted:

1. Brazil's World Cup-winning side of 1970

2. The Liverpool side that won three European Cups in five years
3. The Real Madrid side that won five consecutive European Cups
4. England's World Cup-winning side of 1966
5. Celtic's European Cup-winning side of 1967

6. Manchester United's Treble-winning side of 1999
7. England's World Cup-winning side of 2003
8. Arsenal's unbeaten side of 2003/2004
9. The Australian side of 1995-2005
10. England's Ashes-winning side of 2005
11. GB's Olympic gold medal-winning Coxless Four of 2000
12. The West Indies side of the 1980's
13. The France side that won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000
14. The New Zealand All Blacks of the 1980s
15. The Wales side of the 1970's
16. The Nottingham Forest side that won back-to-back European Cups
17. The US Postal Tour de France-winning team of 2004
18. Manchester United's European Cup-winning side of 1968
19. The Hungary 'Magical Magyars' team of the 1950s
20. The Ferrari team of 2003
21. The British Lions side of 1971
22. The Australian Invincibles of 1948
23. Red Rum, Ginger McCain, Brian Fletcher and Tommy Stack
24. Torvill and Dean's Olympic gold medal of 1984
25. Europe's Ryder Cup-winning side of 1987
26. The dominant Wigan side of the 1980s
27. Tottenham Hotspur's double-winning side of 1961
28. The touring Australian Invincibles of 1982
29. GB Men's 4x400m gold medalists of 1991
30. The Rangers side of the late eighties and nineties
31. The France side of the 1980s
32. Mark Woodford and Todd Woodbridge (The Woodies)

Our treble winning side should be above england 66 and the celtic team of 67 ast least. That brazilian side of the 70's and liverpool of the 80's is hard to argue with.

www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/sport/greatestteam/

[Chris]

Crazy. The bloody BBC are obsessed with bastard Liverpool. United of 99 should defo be in the top 3 and Uniteds sucess in 68 has to be higher when you bear in mind that Munich was 10 years previous. Fucking hate the BBC.

[johnboy14]

I hate the scousers to but 3 european cups in 5 years can't be ignored. What I am upset with is they forgot the great AJAX team of the 70's and munich side of the 70's plus milan of the late 80's early 90's. To many english sporting sucesses that weren't that impressive.

[Imy]

not suprised scouse bastards are near top,, bbc bum the life out of them!

[RedArmy20]

johnboy14 said:

I hate the scousers to but 3 european cups in 5 years can't be ignored. What I am upset with is they forgot the great AJAX team of the 70's and munich side of the 70's plus milan of the late 80's early 90's. To many english sporting sucesses that weren't that impressive.

exactly.

this is absolutley bollocks!

our 68 european cup triumph should be number one. livshite are just a bunch of wanking cheats.

[kearnsey6]

muss said:

johnboy14 said:

I hate the scousers to but 3 european cups in 5 years can't be ignored. What I am upset with is they forgot the great AJAX team of the 70's and munich side of the 70's plus milan of the late 80's early 90's. To many english sporting sucesses that weren't that impressive.

exactly.

this is absolutley bollocks!

our 68 european cup triumph should be number one. livshite are just a bunch of wanking cheats.

Nah im afraid i have to agree with bbc here with liverpool. Theyt deserve to be up there. But i think ther up there because of actually what they did, not what they were. its hard to expain but i mean we won the treble, does that mean we had the best team in premiership history?? No not really people could say its chelsea or arsenal. But we all know not matter how many points them two got we had the best team ever in club football. This is reflection on liverpools success not there actual team. They won 3 out of 5 european cups thats amazing but would they of beat our treble team??? Very very debateable. So for this one i agree with the bum licking bbc...because its along the right lines...but if they asked whos the actual best team in football history? Club wise its united in 99. Success wise its debateable

[Red Yank]

How can you ignore Liverpool's success??


They're rubbish and if they never win anything again I'd be fine with that, but they've had a good run in Europe and as a fan of football you can't deny that.

[Suprah™]

In all honesty, I believe Real Madrid's 5 consecutive European Cups >>> Liverpool's 3 in 5 years

Hell with a team like Puskas, Kopa, Gento, Di Stefano...only a fool would ignore that. Also Ajax under Johan Cruijff and Bayern Munich under Beckenbauer & Muller not being mentioned is utter bollocks as well !!

Speaking of which why arent the Holland and West Germany sides of 1974 World Cup not mentioned ?? Total Football

[Tatty]

To be fair the Celtic 67 team should be above the 99 team as thy were all from Glasgow, I doubt any other team even attempted to win a trophy based on that ethos.

And I may be blind, but where's the Ajax teams of the early 90's?
Juventus in the mid 90's?
The German sides of the early 90's?
And the 74/78 Dutch teams?

[kokka78]

Italian Volleyball male national team

[Suprah™]

tatty said:

To be fair the Celtic 67 team should be above the 99 team as thy were all from Glasgow, I doubt any other team even attempted to win a trophy based on that ethos.

Actually Celtic are by far the only team in Europe to have won the proper Quadruple. In that 66/67 season they won the Scottish League, Scottish FA Cup, Scottish League Cup, as well as the famed European Cup triumph in Lisbon over Inter Milan.

[ReD RaT]

No Chicago Bulls of the '90s?