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Probably yes!!The 2011–12 Real Madrid team under the management of Jose Mourinho was the most lethal team in Europe, so lethal that it could dominate Pep Guardiola’s FC Barcelona which was considered the one of the best squads in the history of football.In the 2011–12 season, Real Madrid broke the long standing monopoly of Barcelona over La Liga when they won the league for a record extending 32nd time. They did so in style as they collected a record 100 points from a possible 114 points.Also,They scored a record 121 goals(now broken) with a goal difference of +89.They won 32 games overall and won record 16 games out of 19 away from home.Cristiano Ronaldo scored 46 goals in the league and came second in run for the Pichichi award.Mesut Ozil topped the assist table.This was about La Liga. Overall, Real Madrid felt agonisingly short of a victory in UEFA champions league semi final when they lost to Bayern Munich on penalties. They lost CDR quarters to Barcelona.In all competitions,Real Madrid scored 174 goals all thanks to Mourinho’s counter attacking system consisting of Ronaldo, Benzema, Kaka, Higuain, Di Maria, Ozil and Callejon, each of them were amongst goals.Real Madrid lost just 5 games that season and won 46 out of 58, a wonderful outcome.Stats - Goals-Ronaldo - 60Benzema - 32Higuain - 26Callejon - 13Kaka - 8Di Maria - 7Ozil - 7Real Madrid’s high tempo counters were a treat to watch. Real played in an ideal attack minded 4–2–3–1 formation. The creativity of Ozil, Kaka, Xabi Alonso and Di Maria perfectly matched with the pace of attackers. It’s quite surprising that Higuain and Callejon were not even regular starters and still were among goals.Even though Real Madrid stumbled in the UCL semis, 2011–12 season can still be termed as one of the most successful season in the history of the club, all plaudits to the ever threatening counter attacking instincts of the team.

Manchester City 3-2 QPR (May 13, 2012)City were up against a struggling Queens Park Rangers on the final day of the 2011/12 season— a chance to win their first EPL title since 1968.City had a 1–0 lead at half-time. However, within three minutes of the second half; QPR levelled things up.City now had to re-take the lead. And yet to everyone's surprise it was QPR who scored next.City's equation was simple: score two more goals and be crowned champions.Frustrations turned to despair. City fans leaving the ground in tears. The fourth official held the board up indicating five minutes of injury time still to be played.Lifeline? You better believe it as Dzeko rose high to head home Silva's corner in the second minute of stoppage time to give City fans a glimmer of hope.As the clock ticked down, there looked to be no hope.But, in the final moments leading up to 93:20, Aguero plays a one-two with Balotelli, collects the return pass, drives into the gap and rifles an unstoppable shot past the QPR goalkeeper.Martin Tyler screams the unforgettable "Agueroooooooooo..." as City win the title in dramatic fashion.Arguably the greatest moment in Manchester City's history.

I find it astonishing-and quite depressing-that none of the respondents to this question so far (August 5, 2015) has bothered to challenge the premise of the question-- that the poor are getting poorer in India. That is completely wrong. In fact, the poor in India are escaping from extreme poverty in historically unprecedented numbers. For example, between 1987/88 and 2011/12, the share of people living below the international extreme poverty line--$1.90/day adjusted for purchasing power — dropped by more than half, from 44.8% to 21.2%. Moreover, the pace of improvement has been accelerating: the poverty rate dropped by nearly a one-third in the final two years of that period.Because of India’s large population, that’s a huge reduction in human misery. Most of that progress has been spurred by the economic policy reforms that India has undertaken since the mid-1980s, and especially since 1991, which in turn have boosted its rate of economic growth.The same rapid progress is seen when poverty is measured against India’s national poverty lines – Rs 22 per day in rural areas and Rs 27 per day in cities, both stated in 2011-12 prices. Rural poverty has fallen from 50% in 1993 to 25.7% in 2011; even faster reductions in urban poverty rates, together with gradual urbanization, have brought the all-India poverty rate down from 45.3% in 1993 to 21.9% in 2011.Progress would have been faster if India’s economy were not as tightly regulated as it is, especially the labor laws that make it virtually impossible for a large firm to fire a worker who doesn’t perform, which in turn makes them very reluctant to hire workers.Just as important, a large share of Indian young people leave school without having to learn to read a single sentence, and without any other skills that would help them find a job in the growing economy. That, in turn, reflects the egregious performance of India’s government schools-- with the exception of a few serving the elites. Teachers in government schools are paid 5-7 times as much as teachers in private schools, but many - especially those working in schools serving poor children — routinely fail to come to school. They do so secure in the knowledge that no teachers are ever dismissed for failure to do their jobs. As a result, millions of poor Indian families have turned in desperation to low-cost private schools, where the teachers often lack impressive educational credentials, but at least they show up. As a result, these low-cost private schools achieve far better results for their students than do the government schools. This scandalous situation is well covered in this week’s Economist magazine.The lack of accountability is truly astonishing. The Harvard economist Lant Pritchett personally witnessed the headmaster of a village school explain to parents why none of their children had learned to read after spending multiple years in school: “You’re donkeys,” he told the assembled parents, “and because you’re donkeys, your children are donkeys too. We can’t be expected to teach donkeys to read.” If government school teachers faced even a modest degree of accountability for their performance, such as a requirement that all children learn to read with fluency after no more than two years of school, the prospects for India's poor would improve dramatically.The $1-a-week schoolAugust 2019 update: When I wrote this answer in August 2017, the most recent poverty data – from 2011-12 – were already five years old. Since then, two more years have passed, with no update to the poverty data. Based on the “status of current activities” published by the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation Status of Current Activities, it appears that an additional round of the National Sample Survey covering household expenditure — the essential data for poverty measurement — was conducted in July 2014- June 2015. No results from this survey were released. Yet another round was conducted in 2017-2018, the results of which Planning Minister Singh promised to release by the end of June, 2019. Since 2011, the Indian economy has been growing rapidly, and we have every reason to believe that the prevalence of extreme poverty has continued to fall as a result of that growth. But “reason to believe” that something has happened is not the same as “evidence to show” that it actually has happened. For that purpose, we need more frequent collection of household expenditures surveys, and more timely dissemination of their results.June 2020 update. In November 2019, the Indian government announced that the data from the 2017-18 National Sample Survey of Consumer Expenditure would not be released, due to “data quality issues.” According to reports in the press, the problem was that the data from the NSS survey pointed to falling consumer expenditure and therefore higher poverty rates than in the previous round covering 2011-12, implications that were strongly contradicted by non-survey evidence such as rural sales of farm implements and rural and urban sales of food, which increased robustly over the same period.The basic problem seems to be that India has adopted a variety of means-tested social safety net programs, which provide significant assistance to many lower-income households. It appears that many of these households suspected that the information they gave on the NSS survey might be used to exclude them from eligibility for these programs, and therefore systematically under-reported their household expenditure. This puts India in the unfortunate position of having to choose whether to help the poor or accurately measure the extent of their poverty.In the meantime, the impact on global poverty measurement have been devastating. In particular, the World Bank has been forced to suppress its regional poverty estimate for South Asia in 2018, because the most recent reliable data for India (those for 2011-12) are too old to be usable. Very, very unfortunate.What is Consumer Expenditure Survey, and why was its 2017-2018 data withheld?