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Zinedine Kilbane 110
Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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The top 4 teams from England, Spain, Italy and Germany are through to the group stages. That’s 50% of teams from 4 leagues. They are very close to hand picking the teams they want in the competition. |
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Gary McKay
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Hope Ajax, Lyon and Porto do well this year.
Fed up with the same 4/6 teams in the semis. |
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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If they do well, they will find a way of removing them for next year.
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 37336 |
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No they aren't If they were that would be 16 teams. |
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Gary McKay
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They'll lose their best 2/3 players to the richer clubs like they always do. Deals already being negotiated for De Jong and de Ligt. |
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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Robbie Keane I am MALDING Joined: 30 Nov 2014 Location: Trumpton Status: Offline Points: 44659 |
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As much as I hate the ****s, it's incredibly sad. All the fun and unpredictability has been sucked out of football.
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Gary McKay
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No more 'crack' Eastern European teams with their dodgy haircuts, dodgy food and dodgier refs.
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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Zinedine Kilbane 110
Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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16 of the 32 teams in the group stages are from those 4 leagues. No play-offs required.
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Roberto Baggio
Robbie Keane UNBELIEVABLE JEFF Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Status: Offline Points: 37336 |
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Ah right you are then ZZ, picked you up wrong |
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Territorial
Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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Which would make a mockery of a competition with group stages, since with the top one or two teams in each group virtually certain to go through, most the games would be meaningless and/or completely one-sided. And if you went back to the old (FA Cup-style) European Cup, you could get the two top teams in the tournament meeting in an early knockout round, thereby making it more of a lottery. Of course, the present system of seeding etc by UEFA is transparently chosen to get as many "big" teams (in TV terms) on board as possible, and then guarantee them as many games as possible. But if UEFA doesn't indulge them to some extent, then they'll just breakaway, and then you'll be left with the situation eg in Darts, where the "Superleague" (PDC) has all the top players and UEFA (BDO) is left with the second raters. And UEFA already has enough trouble supporting its second raters in the Europa League as it is.
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Shedite
Jack Charlton Joined: 09 Dec 2011 Status: Offline Points: 9820 |
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You'd have the Champions League teams then playing their Premier League games on Wednesdays. Not a fan of it, but it's where I think it will go
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Zinedine Kilbane 110
Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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You'd have the Champions League teams then playing their Premier League games on Wednesdays. Not a fan of it, but it's where I think it will go [/QUOTE]
It won’t be the champions league if it moves to a Sat. That would cause too much disruption to the domestic leagues. If it does happen it will be a new European league. |
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max
Liam Brady My new name is Wax Joined: 08 Jan 2012 Status: Online Points: 1884 |
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Am I right in saying if you topped your group that you will play away from home in the first leg?
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16470 |
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Handy enough draw for Man City
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16470 |
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Man United getting PSG
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16470 |
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Tough one for Liverpool and Spurs
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath Cheese, it’s not just for eating Joined: 27 Sep 2010 Location: Clairefontaine Status: Offline Points: 16470 |
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Round of 16
Schalke (GER) v Man. City (ENG) Atlético (ESP) v Juventus (ITA) Man. United (ENG v Paris SG (FRA) Tottenham (ENG) v Dortmund (GER) Lyon (FRA) v Barcelona (ESP) Roma (ITA) v Porto (POR) Ajax (NED) v Real Madrid (ESP) Liverpool (ENG) v Bayern (GER) |
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Roberto Baggio
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Liverpool will beat Bayern I think
Spurs v Dortmund could be a cracker
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