Pumparse came up with the following bollocks:
Pumpy, old sausage.
Undeniable fact: The measure of a team is the league. The thing you've started out every season for the last 17 years thinking, this'll be the one, we'll do it this season, and failed miserably every single time.
Quite simply, SAF won more of these than dear old Bob.
Let's be honest. The CL is a desirable, but ultimately unnecessary bonus of a ko cup competition. Nice to have but not important, coming just ahead of the UEFA, FA cup, and League cup in the want-to-win stakes.
How to put it in such a way that a simple country bumpkin like yourself might grasp?:
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It's like two actors sitting down and comparing awards. Steve McQueen (United) says, I won nine Oscars.
Ross Kemp (Liverpool) counters, that's nothing, I've got three Inside Soap awards.
Now Kemp may have won more Inside Soap gongs than McQueen, but do you think our man is sitting up there astride his BMW 500 bemoaning his lack of success in the Soap awards?
No. Because he won more Oscars.
Get it now?