This is funny in a way. Gives yet more ammo to the people who think the UEFA cup is a mickey mouse comp compared to the Champions league. Glad in a way it's going to change next season.
Game of the People Preferred it when we had 3 Euro comps meeself. The Europeran Cup was a proper tournament in those days Bennys and Blues . . . Benny Lennartson, who will lead his Viking Stavanger side against Chelsea in the UEFA Cup this week, has admitted he is a big Blues fan. Lennartson has plenty of experience of British football, having been in charge of Bristol City when they were relegated from the Second Division in 1999, but his love affair with Chelsea goes back even further. "I have been a Chelsea fan since 1958, when I met Tommy Docherty at the World Cup in Sweden," he said. "He arranged that I could train with Chelsea for a couple of weeks when I was in England on a language course. "It was a fantastic experience to train alongside people like John Hollins and Terry Venables, and from that moment on I was a Chelsea fan. "Since then I have always looked out for their results. I loved players like Peter Bonetti and Charlie Cooke, but now my favourite is Zola, I am really looking forward to meeting him."