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Stoneage
I realize I'm talking for deaf ears here but the Champions League used to be a tournament for league champions. It's not anymore. For smaller countries like Norway or Sweden it's almost impossible to qualify with even one team to the tournament while England, for example, can have five teams in the tournament with no qualification rounds at all. It's disposed for the big clubs to win over and over again.
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open-g
At least the germans won.
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Black Angel
Twenty- two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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Stoneage
It's the tenet not the country that matters, PR 2000. What would you say if the EC consisted of four English teams, three German, three Spanish, two Italian, two French and two teams from the rest of Europe?
Imagine a final between Spain one and Spain two: Would that be something to look forward to?
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Stoneage
To simplify what I mean: The Champions League should consist of the league champions in every European state. One team per state. Not zero teams from 20 states and four from one as it is now. Either you do that or else rename the tournament to something else. Maybe The Big Five Tournament (England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France)? Funny thing it was a Swede who commercialized European football (Lennart Johansson)...
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Stoneage
It says Champions League: It's supposed to be the league champions of every European country that battles it out. Not five teams from England, four teams from Spain, three teams from Germany and two from Italy.
One team from each country. It used to like that until Mammon came along.
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mtaylor
By the way - how come clubs in a country, which is basically broke, unemployment over 50% among the young ones etc., can buy football players for 90 mio. £ (Bale), pay C. Ronaldo 230.000 £ a week (17 mio. € a year), Messi 16 mio. € a year, Neymar 15 mio. € a year etc.?
The unequality in this kind of countries (fx Spain), is getting bigger and bigger and they complain about EU and ask the Germans to pay more and more Money to EU!!!!
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Come On
well well well German soccer...at least my team is back in german premier league
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Big Al
I know this little twerp will never compete in the Champions League and that perhaps it has no relevance in this thread, but I just wanted to share this ridiculous moment when Joey Barton adopts a mock French accent after signing a loan deal with Marseille. Dick head :-
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Stoneage
Some great mock French there! It puts Peter Sellers alee! How many days do you have to stay in France to put on an accent like that?