Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted December 4, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 4, 2020 Would be a shame to introduce a new tournament which didn't actually mean more teams having the opportunity to play European football. Quote
Fog Dude Posted December 4, 2020 Posted December 4, 2020 At the moment, 80 teams get to take part in the group stages of the two men's UEFA club competitions. The introduction of the Europa Conference League will increase this number to 96. Worth noting that when the Cup Winners' Cup was first abolished, the expanded UEFA Cup initially had 96 teams in the first round on its own (while it was still a straight knockout format). Both the Europa League and the ECL will have the new 'intermediate' round in February that Rick mentioned before the proper last 16 in March. The main problem with a third-tier tournament is that it'll be sharing Thursday nights with an existing one so even more people will ignore it. The pre-1999 UEFA Cup used to have Tuesdays to itself, with the CWC on Thursdays. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted December 7, 2020 Members Posted December 7, 2020 Lovely bit of shithousery from Sweden Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 7, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 9:34 AM, tiger_rick said: it reminded me that UEFA were supposed to be bringing back a third tier European trophy. Can Arsenal qualify for this third tier competition? I bet we'd fucking love to lose the final of this thing. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted December 7, 2020 Members Posted December 7, 2020 1 minute ago, PunkStep said: Can Arsenal qualify for this third tier competition? I bet we'd fucking love to lose the final of this thing. Probably have to finish in the top half of the table to qualify mate. Quote
Moderators PowerButchi Posted December 7, 2020 Moderators Posted December 7, 2020 Take it to your designated ghetto away from the eyes of decent people. Quote
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 7, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2020 Flagageddon. Quote
Paid Members Carbomb Posted December 7, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 7, 2020 Wow, it's Slavonic Boogaloo Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted December 8, 2020 Members Posted December 8, 2020 Utterly disgraceful situation tonight in the PSG game where the fourth official is alleged to have used racist language towards the Istanbul bench. I assume UEFA will fine themselves and put themselves on an awareness course. Ba should've fucking headbutted him. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 8, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 8, 2020 Fair play Demba Ba. And fair play to these lads too- celebrating QPR's goal by taking the knee in front of Millwall's fans. Respect. It's fucking bullshit that in 2020 this has to happen. The world is going backwards. Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted December 8, 2020 Members Posted December 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, PunkStep said: Fair play Demba Ba. And fair play to these lads too- celebrating QPR's goal by taking the knee in front of Millwall's fans. Respect. It's fucking bullshit that in 2020 this has to happen. The world is going backwards. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 8, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 8, 2020 (edited) Well that's fucking tremendous It goes without saying, but Millwall absolutely bottled it by this decision to have their players link arms instead. I say bottled, I don't think they give a shit. Edited December 8, 2020 by PunkStep Quote
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted December 12, 2020 Author Paid Members Posted December 12, 2020 Fuck Rory Delap. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/55239103 Quote
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted December 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted December 12, 2020 The FreeSports channel will now be showing Brazilian Serie A football. Quote
Glenryck Pilchards Posted December 12, 2020 Posted December 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Fuck Rory Delap. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/55239103 Steve Watson used to do that for Newcastle. He had a meek attempt at it Ayresome Park which was promptly proceeded with 'What the fucking hell was that' Quote
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