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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
Its more than that, English clubs have dominated the Champions League for several seasons now and have consistently beaten the best teams that the other two big leagues have (La Liga and Serie A most notably) So clubs like AC Milan, despite being giants of world football, will still come into a tie against clubs like Man.Utd and Chelsea etc knowing that the English club is the favourite.
There are exceptions of course.....because its football, especially when Barcelona ended the English dominance last season and despite their deserved victory in the final, they only got there because of scandalous refereeing in the semis against Chelsea.
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I think it's just a pre match nerves kind of thing, I don't want to jynx it, and even though United are the clear favourites (I would've been happy with a 1-1 over there.) "we never make it easy for ourselves" as Fergie says.
Overconfidence has come back to haunt me in the past, a few derby matches especially.