OK, well done to both Palace (3-2 winners) and Bournemouth (1-3 losers). Which means that even if we lose @Soton, and Citeh win @Fulham, they'd have to score 8 more than the opposition to steal 2nd place. If that happens then new legal charges will be filed!
Soton have only won twice all season, Ipswich and Everton. We shouldn't be worrying about goal diff no matter what.
Absolutely! But… they held Citeh to 0-0 ten days ago. Yeah yeah I know it was only a Pep team so… nevermind.
I accidentally swiped left on the FotMob app looking at today's EPL results and couldn't believe my eyes . . . The Europa League final is tomorrow and features Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United??? The two teams hovering just above relegation in the EPL table? I'm not sure what is crazier, the state of these two clubs or the fact I never heard they were still alive in the Europa League.
Am I going to get banned if I reveal I will prefer Spuds* to win (more appropriately, I definitely want United to lose....).....
I couldn't care less who wins, but it would be hilarious for United to round out their season with a cup final loss lol I've never really got into the rivalries if you are not actually English. Like when I lived there, i felt there was zero practical difference to the quality of fandom just because you headed towards seven sisters. Having said that, when I went to a game at WHL, i did think their fans were a pack of twats lol. I do dislike Man U as a club though - because of the arrogance of the SAF era. But that is more online arsejappery.
The Europa League winner is more of a “champion” than the 5th place team in La Liga. I’d put the Conference League winner straight into the Champions League league phase too.
Nah, but we need to bring back the Kangaroo Court. Or bring back @antifan (with his Judge Dredd avatar) to enact appropriate vigilante justice
While I could never fathom being a Spuds supporter, this scenario going into tonight's tie is bonkers: a win and it's their best season in ~40 years, a loss and it's their worst season in ~50.
It's probably a little bit funnier if they win because they can't fire Ange without paying him a stupid amount of money and United aren't going to fire Amorim On the flip side, Sperz being cash starved is probably a better outcome for Arsenal so it's better if United win? United already print money, so them making Champions League doesn't really change things as much.
Tottenham being cash-starved or cash-flush doesn't really matter because we know they're almost certainly going to squander whatever they have.
Yeah, I'm basically with you on that. Or maybe maximum 2 "champions" per major league, 1 per lesser league & qualifying for the real minnow league champs. The fact that England will have 5-7 teams in UCL next year seems kinda ridiculous.
It would be more fair, but it’d be a lot less enjoyable. I don’t have much interest in seeing Arsenal or Real Madrid against the Irish champions, which is how far you’d be plumbing the depths with that kind of format. Like, we absolutely blew the doors off the champions of Europe’s 6th-best league. There’s no benefit to anyone if we’re playing the champions of Europe’s 30th-best league.
People like nostalgia because it happened when they were young. There is no joy in seeing Barcelona putting three touchdowns on the Slovakian champions.
Honestly I get why people would want to return to the classic, two-legged format in the old European Cup...but do you really want to see Inter put 8 past APOEL Nicosia in a first-round away leg?
I woulda classified Irish League champs as minnows, thus they'd have to go through qualification on merit to play in the group stage, and thus we'd likely not see them. My suggestion of 2 per major league, 1 per lesser league, and X minnows to make up an even group table was pretty much OTTOMH, but it might be an interesting exercise to delineate the European leagues in those 3 categories and see how the math might work out. For example... Majors (2 each): England, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal?, Nederlands?, other?? (16-18 teams) Lessers (1 each): Scotland, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Austria, Czech, Suisse, Sweden?, Denmark?, etc? (10-12 teams) Minnows (1 each after quali-round): Ireland, Slovenia, Slovakia, etc, etc, etc? (<=6 teams) I'm sure I've missed some countries. And maybe the majors should be 3 each, or based on some UEFA coefficient so the big 4-5 leagues would get 3 each while the others would just get 2?