Real Football (Soccer to you Yanks) Thread

I don't think the current Arsenal line up have the heart to come back from that in the second leg. They don't have enough experience in the team to do so, it's not there missing many first team players. Very disappointing performance but at the same time my hats off to Milan, who played really well.

Actually looking forward to watching Man United on Channel 5 tonight :)
 
Zorak said:
Sad state of affairs really... With only Chelsea to pin hopes on in the CL. And the 2 supposedly best English teams competing in the channel 5 cup :(
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We cant pin our hopes on Chelsea either because quite frankly they are in a rut lately with regards to form and finding goals. If one of the Manchester teams fails to win the Channel 5 Cup it will be a sad day for English football.

Although I support Liverpool so I'm not in a position to talk :)
 
Maybe the Premiership isn't as strong as it once was....It's certainly a fact that the representation hasn't been as strong as in recent years. 2007 had 3 English sides in the semi's, 2008 had the same, as did 2009. Then 2010 had none, and 2011 had one. Italy's certainly got stronger recently and Spain possesses a strong set too.

I wouldn't be totally surprised if Napoli knocked Chelsea out.
 
Premiership quality has definitely declined. You only have to see how Fergy reacted to that question a few months back. As a general rule of thumb - if you piss Fergie off, you've hit the nail on the head.
 
No, humiliating being in the Europa League. The Champions League is great because you play better sides there, and more money. But we were poor this year in the Champions League, and deserved to go out, no use dwelling on it, and we might as well try and win this just to win a trophy. Bring back the Cup Winners Cup, now there was a competition drool (1).gif

Game tonight's been fine, performance has been good enough, Ajax sadly aren't the team they were because this could have been something special.
 
Springsteen said:
The Champions League is great because you play better sides there, and more money. But we were poor this year in the Champions League, and deserved to go out, no use dwelling on it, and we might as well try and win this just to win a trophy. Bring back the Cup Winners Cup, now there was a competition View attachment 12418
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I'd like to see the Champions league take 2 teams from the best leagues, and one from the weaker leagues. And then the uefa cup could take the runner up and one cup winner (not worthless league cups though). Get back to the idea of it being the best of the best.
 
I'd take 2 each from England, Spain, France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Portugal and Russia, then one each from Ukraine, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Denmark...and other countries to bump it to 32 teams like now. Have the group stage, have it normal. But there's really too much money involved for that to sensibly happen. I still want the CWC back though, that would be a nice incentive for those winners.

2-0 up, Chicarito with the second. That'd be us through.
 
I'd honestly love the above suggested idea's for the Champions League, even though it'd have to be renamed back to European Cup, and I'm all in favor for the Cup Winners Cup to come back and return to Channel 5 while the UEFA Cup goes back to BBC2 or wherever it was originally in the 90's.
 
Not really, we'd still have the group stage so the Champions League could remain but it'd just be more Countries represented. I'd have the third and fourth placed teams in the bigger leagues go into the Europa league, and the second team from the other leagues. Have the CWC come back to override the Europa League like it used to (so if you finished 3rd in the Premier League but won the FA Cup, you're going into the CWC) oh and have it just for the FA Cup because the other Leagues just have one domestic cup.

Man City beat Porto 2-1 in Porto which is a very good result and should see them through. Sadly Mario Ballotelli was reportedly racially abused by the Porto fans, something we do not like to see. Valencia beat Stoke 1-0 at the Britannia, that'd be Valencia through then.
 
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