Thursday night saw another impressive performance from a solid, if unspectacular Fulham side at home to Wolfsburg in the Europa League. However I could not help but think that this was a match, with no disrespect at all to Fulham or to Roy Hodgson who has done a fantastic job, that should have been contested by Juventus.
Sure, the Calciopoli scandal (which my 'mates' do not let me forget) certainly derailed what was once a successful team, by fair means or otherwise...but that was three years ago, and last year alone we spent over 50 million Euros. Ok, new players need time to gel, but there is taking time to gel, and then there is playing like absolute shit.
There can be no more excuses. With talk rife about who will replace the interim Alberto Zaccheroni at the helm, only an exceptional run of results in the final stages of the season, combined with a few slip ups from fellow fourth placed contenders Palermo, Sampdoria and Napoli will see them qualify for Europe's elite competition again.
Do they deserve it? Well if they somehow miraculously pull it off, then yes, otherwise it will be it's slightly less glamorous, yet seemingly just as tough (yes, that is a snide sideswipe)little sister, the Europa League.
It's just a pretty big 'if'...
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