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What clubs are the greatest underachievers in football from the following regions.

Scotland

Scotland (without Hibs)

England

Europe

International.

My selections.

Scotland ; Hibs

Scotland(without Hibs) Aberdeen

England; Tottenham

Europe: toss up between Roma and Schalke. I'll go with Schalke

International. Draw between Enland and Russia/USSR

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Scotland is a funny one as you could argue Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen have all underachieved massively compared to us and the scum. Hibs definitely are historically the poorest out of those three.

Don't agree with Spurs though, the sixth most decorated side in English football history! Would say someone like Birmingham City given the size of the city have been truly woeful down the years.

On the European level Roma are a decent shout. Until recent investment PSG would have been right up there. Hertha Berlin is a shout as well.

Internationally Russia/Soviet Union, England and in the last 2 decades Argentina, no major trophies since the 1993 Copa America is pretty abysmal given the players who have turned out for them in the last 20 years.

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Scotland is a funny one as you could argue Hearts, Hibs and Aberdeen have all underachieved massively compared to us and the scum. Hibs definitely are historically the poorest out of those three.

Don't agree with Spurs though, the sixth most decorated side in English football history! Would say someone like Birmingham City given the size of the city have been truly woeful down the years.

On the European level Roma are a decent shout. Until recent investment PSG would have been right up there. Hertha Berlin is a shout as well.

Internationally Russia/Soviet Union, England and in the last 2 decades Argentina, no major trophies since the 1993 Copa America is pretty abysmal given the players who have turned out for them in the last 20 years.

Different ways of looking at it I suppose. Amazingly Bradford is the sixth largest district in England and have done nothing in football terms. Englands difficult to judge with Cricket and Rugby league being big sports in many parts.

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Domestically we are kings, but when it comes to European Competition we are under achievers. Granted we may or my not have been cheated out of a CL final appearance and we were sabotaged by our own football authorities in cahoots with c****c in the Europa Cup final. This was the same football authorities that pushed for a limit on the number of non-Scots we could play in Europe and then changed their minds after we weakened our squad to comply.

The fact is that we should have been a lot more successful in Europe than we have been with a large number of our big name signings failing to produce the goods in the European competitions for us.

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