The greatest blog post ever?

I decided to take a brief detour - on my way to giving Liam Gallagher the textual beating I feel he requires - to talk about something which was brought back to my attention yesterday. It ties in with this trend that we, the current generation of sycophants, have for attempting to claim every most recent thing/person/achievement as the 'greatest of all time' which, quite frankly, is a moronic conversation in any circumstance. Allow me to explain exactly how I arrived at this topic.

I watched the Mexico-Italy match on BBC the other day and found myself listening to the dorks in the studio talking about a recent Spain side possibly being the best team ever assembled. They then decided to hold a fan poll on what the greatest football team of all time is and included the gargantuan total of two teams. A choice of either Brazil (1970) or Spain (2010). On what basis is it a two horse race? And why is anyone having this discussion? It is a waste of time. The only way we will ever find out the greatest side ever is if scientists developed a way where we could bring every team that won every competition since professional football began and throw them into a tournament, but even then the result would never be absolutely definitive. Some teams wouldn't play against each other and there would always be a certain way of playing that some oppositions wouldn't be able to handle no matter how good either side is. A lot of results depend on how the players feel and/or perform on the day. One bad game and your potential title could be screwed. You've also got the possibility of the tournament lasting about a decade in which players would age, lose some of the talent they once had and probably retire in the middle of it. Plus, the two horse thing is a joke. It's all based on statistics which mean almost nothing. Did you ever consider that Spain may have won those titles not because they are that good, but because the opposition was that bad at the time? No, of course you didn't. It's not just about how good the winner is, you also have to consider how garbage the loser was. Another thing which should be accounted for is each individual person's interpretation of a great team. There are those who believe that the best teams win everything there is to win, but others judge on things like entertainment value and/or how skilled a team is.

We are living in a generation where we are strangely desperate to claim that we had the 'best ever' at most things, especially in sport. A guy for some football team scores a decent goal for once in his career and, just because the commentators go bananas, all of a sudden we're attempting to claim that this guy is the best ever!? I don't understand why we can't just watch and admire without comparing things which are not even comparable. It's a dumb debate and not one that those bums on the BBC or anyone else should be wasting their time on. If you can't accept it then too bad for you.