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Imagine Real vs Inter, mourihno going back to his old club. Hope that don't happen though I like both teams.
UEFA Champions League 2010/11 Matchday 6 *** Spoilers ***
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If I had my way it'd be Champions from each league with the runners up having to qualify.
After all, it is a Champions League, why are we letting the teams who came third into the competition (and 4th into the qualifiers) when certain other countries' winners have to qualify?
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Yeah totally agree, and having a straight knockout round.
Because those other countries winners are typically a bit crap.
When you look back at some of the routes to the final taken when it was a champions only affair it's shocking.
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I think a lot of people mentioned Inter with Rafa would be not even in the same league in terms of quality compared to last year. Honestly I thought Bremen might have more to say about it, Twente aswell but turned out not to be.
I really don't like the "look how well they've done in the debut in the CL" rubbish, like no ones ever played a football game before. They've done well, no where near as well as people are saying, honestly the only team thats made a donkey of themselves is us, only team with a real chance of not qualifying though I'd be truly shocked if Braga and Partizan manage to pull off the results required to dump us out.
Fact is, all 4 English clubs, 3 Spanish clubs, 1 German, 1 French and 3 Italian clubs are essentially a given for the knock out stages, any one of them that doesn't make it, should be laughed and ridiculed frankly.
Its like the world cup qualification for England is nothing, at all, group stages isn't much either, anything below knockout stages is simply embarassing.
Spurs have been entertaining though, scoring goals, and having absolutely no ability to keep a clean sheet is better than the snoozefest most Utd games have been. It seems shocking that Chelsea have won all 5 games when you look at their league form, highest points tally even with teams like Barca having played all 6 games already.
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That's because peoples' favourite sides don't always win their domestic league each year. However putting those 'regular' winners in an annual competition is a fantastic cash cow for UEFA/FIFA.
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End of the day Champions league is worth so much and worth winning because you beat the BEST teams from the BEST leagues in Europe, honestly if it was a proper "champions only" league, it would be 9/10 games, utter utter rubbish, there would be no money in it(well very little) and the top teams wouldn't risk their best players. Its fine the way it is, it would be unfair to cut out even more crap teams and put in more Spanish/English/french/italian/german teams, though it would make for a better actual competition.
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Because then you'd have the champions of Albania and other such nations playing alongside the best of Europe. FIFA made clear last year that they're an organisation dictated by commercial concerns rather than idealism, so I wouldn't hold out hope that UEFA would make the Champions League 'true to its name'.
I added a little fix to that for you, hope you don't mind.
And so what if the clubs from places like Albania are crap? It's a vicious circle - they can't grow because they get battered before the lucrative group stages.
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Chelsea did probably have the easiest group for all the top seeds to get through. Bunch of no hoppers baring an away trip to Moscow which can be tricky for any team on an artificial pitch. But I guess you can only beat what's in front of you.
But Spurs went into the group stages as third seeds, and not top seeds like the other English sides, and have made quite like work of it, so it is quite impressive for a debut in the champions league.
But Spurs went into the group stages as third seeds, and not top seeds like the other English sides, and have made quite like work of it, so it is quite impressive for a debut in the champions league.
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I'm not saying I disagree with you, it's just that there's two sides to the coin here and the quality of competition and commerical viability is the reverse to helping out smaller clubs in smaller countries. I think FIFA are firmly rooted in the 'pragmatic' side of the argument as they've shown repeatedly, so I wouldn't hold out hope of change any time soon.I added a little fix to that for you, hope you don't mind.
And so what if the clubs from places like Albania are crap? It's a vicious circle - they can't grow because they get battered before the lucrative group stages.
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I really believe spurs can go far in the competition. They great to watch and the teams that have a chance of drawing them in the next round will not wanna be drawn against them.
we have experience in the competition now but we really need to be stronger at the back. remember there was no modric or vdv tonight either
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Spurs still has to be tested by a 'big' team as Inter were and are pretty much toothless. It doesn't look like it's coming in the next round either given their potential opponents.