CL extended to 64 teams?
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I disagree, IMO a league format is a better way of determining the best of the best because you don't have to play everyone in a knockout tournament. The result is influenced by the 'luck of the draw' in terms of what opponents you are drawn against e.g. if you recall a couple of years back when somebody analysed Chelsea's FA Cup draws they seemed to have a fairly good number of lower league opponents.
If a knockout format is deemed to show the best of the best then why is the League title held in higher esteem than the League Cup?
disagree
for European Cup there would be no easy draws as it would simply be a straight K.O tourney of all the league champions, so each team in the draw is the best team from the top league for its country. Domestic cups don't work like that because the teams come from all divisions from PL right down to blue square north......
As said a previous poster, it shoul dbe about the glory, the game and the imortalisation as heroes. Its becuase its about the money that national squads (like Englands ) are uterly crap....
Why was the FA Cup held in more esteem than the league title by overseas players?
Disagree.
Permitting only domestic league champions does not in itself guarantee quality or fairness of draws; if you get drawn against the champions of Spain, England etc that will be much tougher than the champions of say Denmark, Hungary or whatever.
A league structure, and I'm talking a proper league not mini-groups, is fundamentally a better measure of quality in my book than a knockout competition where you can get an easy ride in the early rounds.
You only have to go back to the European Cup in 1992, first round, to see what kind of mismatches there were - two 10-0 aggregate wins, an 8-0 and a 7-1. Whereas some other teams had to scrape through on away goals.
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