| Europa League 22:28 - Apr 16 with 1159 views | Zx1988 |
Just looking at tonight's results; the removal of the 'second chance' for the Champions League failures seems to work really well.
A semi-final line-up of Villa, Forest, Freiburg, and Braga, whereas a few seasons back it would most likely have been teams like Roma, Man Utd, Atletico, and Dortmund. |  |
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| Europa League on 23:15 - Apr 16 with 1033 views | Perublue |
… and that’s better ,why ? |  |
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| Europa League on 00:21 - Apr 17 with 978 views | Illinoisblue |
Could end with Forest winning the Europa League to get into the Champions League… and also be relegated. Championship fixture chaos ahoy! Actually hope it happens just for the sheer absurdity of it. |  |
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| Europa League on 06:05 - Apr 17 with 817 views | SitfcB |
| Europa League on 00:21 - Apr 17 by Illinoisblue |
Could end with Forest winning the Europa League to get into the Champions League… and also be relegated. Championship fixture chaos ahoy! Actually hope it happens just for the sheer absurdity of it. |
Yeah I’d love to see how’d they’d manage it.
But will be more funny if Tottenham go down and can’t have both. |  |
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| Europa League on 06:55 - Apr 17 with 750 views | Zx1988 |
| Europa League on 06:05 - Apr 17 by SitfcB |
Yeah I’d love to see how’d they’d manage it.
But will be more funny if Tottenham go down and can’t have both. |
I'd take Forest in the Champions League in the Championship as a fallback. Real Madrid on Tuesday followed by Lincoln on Saturday would be quite the fall back to earth! | |
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| Europa League on 07:52 - Apr 17 with 665 views | SitfcB |
| Europa League on 06:55 - Apr 17 by Zx1988 |
I'd take Forest in the Champions League in the Championship as a fallback. Real Madrid on Tuesday followed by Lincoln on Saturday would be quite the fall back to earth! |
They would have to play nearly every single mid week through the season. | |
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| Europa League on 09:58 - Apr 17 with 480 views | Guthrum |
| Europa League on 00:21 - Apr 17 by Illinoisblue |
Could end with Forest winning the Europa League to get into the Champions League… and also be relegated. Championship fixture chaos ahoy! Actually hope it happens just for the sheer absurdity of it. |
That's not so different to what we did in 2002-03, being relegated to what was then called Division 1 and also in the UEFA Cup (thanks to fair play). |  |
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| Europa League on 13:24 - Apr 17 with 359 views | Zx1988 |
| Europa League on 23:15 - Apr 16 by Perublue |
… and that’s better ,why ? |
Because the final stages are actually made up of Europa League teams, rather than them having been dumped out early on in the knock-out stages by the Champions League rejects. | |
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| Europa League on 15:34 - Apr 17 with 302 views | Perublue |
| Europa League on 13:24 - Apr 17 by Zx1988 |
Because the final stages are actually made up of Europa League teams, rather than them having been dumped out early on in the knock-out stages by the Champions League rejects. |
… and that’s better ,why ? | |
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| Europa League on 15:45 - Apr 17 with 266 views | Zx1988 |
| Europa League on 15:34 - Apr 17 by Perublue |
… and that’s better ,why ? |
Because the teams who qualified for the tournament actually stand a decent chance of winning it, rather than the group stage merely being a way of working out which teams get to be knocked out by the UCL rejects.
Imagine if, mid-way through the domestic season, the bottom six of the EPL got dumped down into the Championship, purely to give them a second chance of winning something for the season. Or if the teams knocked out in the third round of the League Cup got a second chance in the Football League Trophy. | |
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| Europa League on 15:46 - Apr 17 with 262 views | iamatractorboy |
| Europa League on 15:34 - Apr 17 by Perublue |
… and that’s better ,why ? |
Because it's not rewarding failure. | | | |
| Europa League on 16:02 - Apr 17 with 226 views | Perublue |
| Europa League on 15:46 - Apr 17 by iamatractorboy |
Because it's not rewarding failure. |
Isn’t failure already being rewarded by being in the Europa league .. or conference ?
Format’s like before were already in place in other major football competitions and other sports .. Rugby Union champions league to their lesser tournament.
Globally the euro league and conference finals recently have been taken notice of outside Europe with the better teams in them.
I’m not going to die on this hill but it’s just wasn’t clear why you thought it was better .. I do understand now only disagree. | |
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| Europa League on 17:33 - Apr 17 with 168 views | WeWereZombies |
| Europa League on 23:15 - Apr 16 by Perublue |
… and that’s better ,why ? |
It spreads success and availability of games to regular supporters for teams based in regional centres rather than concentrating the final stages upon capital cities or second centres like Munich and Porto. Diversity if you like. |  |
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