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feldido:
Things like this happens ones in 20-30 years in every league.

not in every league. There are some leagues that has refused small clubs of lifting the trophy. I was so stunned by the case of Leicester nobody saw that ever coming they never showed sign of it. And their manager was just a failure always missing it at the last minute after every good work. But here he had no money. Infact their mission was just to stay in the premier league and then they made history. The case of Montpelier is another shocking tale. Let's see if any low rated club will break any jinx this year

This clubs against all odds have done the impossible and unexpected going more than 28 league games both home and away to win the league title in their different countries. In writing this article certain factors/parameters were considered such as financial base, quality of players, previous form, book makers odd, etc.
1 LEICESTER CITY 2015-16: they were champion of England in 15/16. Leicester were a team railing against a vertiginous financial hierarchy; a new manager looking to rescue his reputation after a calamity against the 187th worst country in the world; a group of players ignored or cast aside by big clubs; a 5,000-1 title shot. Their story is that of a humble origins and the overwhelming power of unity and the collective strength to win. It is the ultimate underdog story, albeit with some notable blemishes. The first of which acted as a catalyst for what was to unfold across the most astonishing Premier League season of all. They not only stunned England, they stunned the world in a country dominated by clubs such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool etc. Leceister were not even fancied at all considering that they managed to escape relegation. But yet they proved people wrong by going on to win the league.
2 KAA GENT 2014-2015: The season took the Belgian league by surprise as Gent went ahead to win their first league club after 115years of waiting. They do not have rich players like Anderlecht, nor were they popular as club brugge, but yet they still went ahead and won the league proving critics wrong
3 ATLECTICO MADRID 2013-2014: They had no star players such as Messi, Ronaldo, Iniesta, Benzema etc. But yet they were able to lift the Spanish league In what was seen as a winner-takes-all match, there was no winner after all, as a draw proved enough for Atletico Madrid to walk away with the league title, becoming the first team to take the Spanish League away from the monopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona in more than a decade. It is impossible to judge, but this may have been the hardest Spanish league title to win. Yes, ever. Logic suggested that a decade of dominance would be extended. As Simeone put it, there is "only a €400m difference" between their budget and that of the big two; each year Madrid and Barcelona take three times more in TV money alone. Atlético's income is still embargoed by the tax man; this is no model club. The 11 players on the pitch had cost under €40m. Less than Cesc Fábregas. Or Asier Illarramendi.
4 MONTEPELLIER 2011-2012: [b]After all, Montpellier had finished just three points above the relegation zone and scored a paltry 32 goals in 2010-11. They also set out with a budget of 36 million euros ($46.5m), barely a quarter of that of Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain. Against the financial might of the men from the capital, not to mention Marseille, Lyon and Lille, Montpellier are small fry. The football club compete with their rugby and handball counterparts for attention in a city with a population of 250,000, and the average attendance at the Stade de la Mosson is barely 17,000. Theirs is a triumph of David versus the Goliath that is PSG and one that will probably never be repeated, especially with the capital side well-placed to dominate in the years ahead. It is hard to imagine a club of such means ever winning the title in any of Europe’s other leading leagues in an era when financial power counts for so much.[/b]
5 TWENTE FC 2009-2010: Steve McClaren has felt the heat from intense dislike and been hurt by indifference but on a rainy afternoon in the southern Netherlands he finally basked in wholesale adoration today. "McClarenism" is all the rage in this corner of Europe after the Yorkshireman led FC Twente to the Dutch title for the first time in their modern history. nly one Steve McClaren," chanted the away support following his side's 2-0 win at NAC Breda which meant Twente finished a point ahead of Martin Jol's richly resourced Ajax. As the victorious manager faced suffocation by bear hug at the final whistle a giant banner proclaiming "What we do today echoes in eternity" was unfurled at the away end.
6[b]WOLFBURG 2008-2009:[/b] Wolfsburg sparked wild celebrations when they clinched their first German Bundesliga crown after thrashing beaten UEFA Cup finalists Werder Bremen 5-1. In a league that is dominated by the likes of Bayern, Weder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund this relatively unknown club under the tutorship of Felix Magath were able to lift the crown. What an unbelievable achievement.
7 BOAVISTA 2001-2002: Tradition was against them but Boavista refused to stay with tradition as they went ahead to lift their first Portuguese league title. Not only would it be the first time that the Oporto club, the poor relations of city neighbours Porto, had taken the title but they would also become the first team outside Portugal's 'Big Three' to win the trophy in 55 years. Current champions Sporting, Porto or Benfica have won the league every year bar one - 1946 when Lisbon's Belenenses slipped in and stole it. Marshalled by wily coach Jaime Pacheco, a former Portuguese international blessed with the knack of getting the best out of players, Boavista showed a remarkable composure as they made history. The club's performance is even more remarkable as their spending on new players this season was only a fraction of the £4.5 million that Benfica paid Vitesse Arnhem for Dutch international striker Pierre van Hooijdonk.
8 DEPORTIVO LA CORUNA 1999-2000: It’s easy to be cynical about Spanish football these days. Barcelona and Real Madrid dominate the division year in and year out, such is their talent pool and financial might. Atletico Madrid‘s triumph in 2013/14 seems like one of those rare anomalies in everyday life which is unlikely to occur for another millennium.
If we cast our minds back just 15 years though, the landscape of Spanish football was flipped on its head, thrown in a blender, turned into an omelette, eaten and then forgotten about like tears lost in the rain.
In the 1999/00 season, Deportivo La Coruna did the unthinkable and managed to win La Liga, in what was one of the weirdest seasons in the country’s prestigious history. The constant power struggle outside of Spain’s top two clubs varies year-on-year as a selection of teams mount challenges to break the dominance of Real Madrid and Barcelona. The hope of claiming the accolade of Spanish Champions all the incentive needed, but sustained success has never been achieved. The quest to conquer La Liga seems to hold a biblical aura similar to that of the Holy Grail for the rest of the league.
However, you can count the number of clubs to win the Spanish top division since 1985 on one hand; Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Valencia and RC Deportivo de La Coruña. Competing with the financial might of The Galacticos of Real Madrid or Barcelona’s modern mix of tika-taka and talent development has proved close to impossible.
9 LEEDS UNITED 1991-1992: Back in 1991, English football witnessed the start of a spectacular and exciting league campaign. Despite Arsenal and Liverpool having shared the tag of Champions in the four years prior, it was Leeds United and Manchester United that ended up slugging it out for the 1991/1992 title. Refreshingly for the neutral, neither team had the so-called nous and experience to call upon from previous title challenges, and it thus culminated into a fascinating story of bravery, belief and even a calamitous own goal. Afterwards, a joyous Wilkinson admitted his team had never claimed to be one of the greatest League champions, but they would enjoy it nonetheless. At their worst, Leeds were a scrappy, physical team, but at their best they were a dynamic and irresistible force, tight at the back and capable of hitting goals both home and away. Such overachievement deserves to be hailed rather than belittled, yet Wilkinson is often damned for having such players in the first place. We forget why: only two years earlier Leeds had been in the second tier of English football, so Wilkinson had not had time to develop his squad for a crack at the title. They were miles ahead of schedule. Blackburn are remembered as the overnight success of modern-day English football, but they won the title in their third year in the top flight, and on a greater budget. Leeds won the title in their second season after promotion. That is a remarkable achievement – arguably the worthiest title victory since Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest did it at the first attempt in 1977-78 – and entirely inconceivable in the current climate. When we consider the "englobingly extensive prolongation" of Leeds' title victory, we should not lose sight of that
10 [/b][b]SAMPDORIA 1991-1992: A domestic league has surely never been as superior as Serie A in the late 80s and early 90s. It was so seductively chic and suffused with gravitas that the world's best players were drawn to Italy like VIPs to the coolest afterparty. Goals may have been at a premium but the entertainment was of a subtler kind. Serie Awowed its disciples with an intimidatingly high technical and tactical quality. It is in this context that we must understand Sampdoria's first and only scudettoin 1990-91, one of football's great modern fairytales. It was a gloriously improbable triumph dripping with enough charm and romance to melt the hardest heart; as incongruous as a love story in a gangster movie, only in a good way. They were the feelgood hit of the spring.
Sampdoria were far from greenhorns, but they had never before finished above fourth in Serie A. That should not suggest that their triumph was anything but richly deserved. They lost only three games, they were the top scorers and, by the time the title was won, they had conceded only five goals in 16 away games. They beat both Milan clubs and the champions, Napoli, home and away as well as taking a win and a draw off Juventus. The authoritative European Football Yearbook noted that their triumph "brooked no argument. [They] were far and away the classiest act in the league."
So guys there you have it. Which underdo success achievement inspires you a lot and why?

Sales Job rocks. But many people don't understand what its takes to be a sales man. Some people are scared of target while others are scared cos they think its a commission based work. But sales is more than that. In every organization sales is the life wire of the company and the companies progress depends on the amount of sales its generates out there. A sales man can never go out of job because its the only process that interface with other humans no wonder sales men are the last to be touched in every company. People must buy and people must sale. People must eat, bath, drink, cook, play, sleep, etc and its takes a sales man to fix all this issues. If you doubt me apply for sales position for any FCMG company and you will never go back to the office to work

The annoying thing is that "This is just the beginning" Its just not only the hand that will be lost, lives will be lost. When will our youth learn to know that there is nothing in game..... Its pays to be rich mehn........... Sorry bro

I support Team I must be RICH....

Raddie:
Now what is the KOKO?

Ask D.banj... he knows the KOKO

rare is a four latter word

Women are nice and funny being but sometimes can be very annoying. below are seven funny but annoying character ladies display in a relationship. Abeg make una no mind the typo... I no study english for school oooo.

1.Bags and Baggage: women are associated with loads while travelling, at home, office and even in their body. They are fond of carrying loads both the ones they need and the ones they do not need they will sha carry. Most especially when they want to travel; the annoying part is after arranging the loads they know they can't carry, they will leave it for the male to carry to make the matter worst they use languages like: "can't you carry it, You are not romantic, is it not for our own good? I send you work?

2. Shopping: Na you carry her go shopping tell her the amount you wan spend, she agree... after she has exhausted the money you have budgeted on her, she keep pestering for other things. using some annoying languages like "No be your mate dey carry their friends go shop for Paris, Can't you even do this for me. Don't worry God will provide.

3. Taking Out : You invite her out, she go carry 2 or 3 extra friends join body as if say you be father xmas. The annoying thing be say even the friends say no go use their brain know say na guy man money dem dey chop. Dem go ask for first plate and even collect take-away. Haba woman the guy not be ATM nau even money dey finish for ATM.

4. Offence: I bet you, you dare not want to be near woman when you break traffic offence which she is ignorant of. Because her mouth go even make the LASTMA man carry you go office and put extra charge on your head.

5. Bad Mouth: This part is so annoying because her mouth can put you into trouble most especially if you meet the argument for half way. If you meet her dey talk to agbero any how, my guy abeg take style waka comot because if you dey the place, na you go collect the beating. I remember as my girl take make two agbero beat me wella one day for wetin no concern us. At the end na black eye i take go home all because i know want make dem slap my girl. If to say i know i for allow them slap her because i don try calm her down but she no hear me. At the end of the whole show she come gentle like ice water while me carry black eye for 1 week plus. Women Deris God oooo

6. The Koko: Its so annoying when una finish the choppings and she say make you bring tissue come wash the plate. haba, women na una get the plate and na una know how to wash am wella. because you come give me food chop come mean say i go wash the plate?

7. Not Accepting Fault: You break plate, they scream, you fail exam dem say you be dummy, you no get money them say you too lazy, you short dem say na ur fault. But she break plate she talk say na you dey at fault because you put the plate for road. She fail exam, she go talk say na the lecture give her F because she no give the man the KoKo. She no get money, she go talk say no be woman responsibility to make money. Haba women when una go accept fault.

feel free to add yours.

Emilo is the nice name. I live In rumuola, its would be nice to hook up with ph peeps. Send me a pm

My name was wrongly misspelt with a letter, my jamb spelling does not correspond with my school spelling which shows i cant register on nysc website what do i do.

Hi Guys, Please give updates, insights, and results of the Mckinsey PSt here.

kaiii... You're so hilarious!! .. So just because you failed ehn? And did i just hear JUJU?? No wonder you were rejected! They could tell that you are just a superstitious young man that doesn't understand that JUJU doesn't move in these professional business circles!!

dadaic:
It means you failed the test. I will be sincere with you. BAT is a really tough place to get into. You strictly and sincerely have to know someone. I know of two persons working there using strong juju just to keep their job. It's no joke, because the life they live there seems unreal. They get paid well, and the training they get is out of this world. It is a world class organisation and those who are in will do anything for their own personal persons to be there. The tests were pretty easy, you just get the usual format style, after some mins, you see that your status has been rejected. But no reason will be sent as to why the tests were failed. It is a cold world we live in people, and some persons who work in that place will go to church, dance like never before, but they are the ones sending the rejection e-mails just for you and I not to work there.

Op
You are forgetting the most important point. Don't ever change ur religion believe or church for someone u r not married to yet

zyzxx:
people are my strength and people also are my weakness. My brother like sayin dat statement.

statement doesn't make sense if its don't contain clause

akinsadeez:
Absolutely spot on. The average fan in some remote areas might not even know the name 'Okoye'. The name psquare will draw instant attention; peter Okoye won't. the company really goofed

i have just three questions to ask you and i want you to provide me with the answers. When we get the answers to these questions we can reach a conclusion.

1. Do you think peter signed the deal without paul knowing?
2. Do you think that the company didn't contact the twins before using peter?
3. Have p-square, ever branded for any company and do you think the company would not have tried to negotiate terms with both twins?

i await your response

philantoxx:
peter okoye is not a brand.p square is.the company goofed.

The logical thing for you to do is ask the question why peter okoye was the only one used. But instead you are here thinking or rather saying that the company is goofed. You funny o. Do you think peter would have been the brand ambassador without paul knowing?

philantoxx:
this shows the milk is produced by a clueless company.

Which is a clueless company there? You get company? For your information Olympic milk is produced by PZ Nutricima.

kristen12:
Using style to beg for #100 recharge card

i didn't get ur pm as i can read pm. Do u want to reach me?

scribble:
we all remember than 100% of her fans are fans of NL but

not 100% of NL fans visit Linda ikeji

This is the reason why i give people e-slap. Now take you own. What makes you certain that 100% of linda's fan visit here and not 100% fans of nairaland visit her blog? And you kept on using the word "HATERS" sorry if i may ask, who is hating who? Eh?

The after 4 comers. They are always coming just when the security men have closed the door. They are always at the door begging and giving excuses why they came late.

The western union boys: this are yahoo guys that came to collect western union and funny enough they are always lousy and are always in group. Some wouldn't even take their bath before coming why some people wouldn't even brush their teeth before leaving the house.