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Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by MrM123
As a Liverpool fan, i think FPP is fantastic. Clubs, like people and governments, should live within their means. And develop their own talent.............which your lot seem to have stopped doing (unfortunately) since you won the jackpot. City used to have a great youth set up............
Originally posted by Taggart
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by MrM123
As a Liverpool fan, i think FPP is fantastic. Clubs, like people and governments, should live within their means. And develop their own talent.............which your lot seem to have stopped doing (unfortunately) since you won the jackpot. City used to have a great youth set up............
Yeah, Liverpool fans would hate if a Qatari Royal family or someone bought their club eh!
As for the FPP, this will set liverpool back even more. Man Utd Actually make money so they will go from strength to strength.
What is more of a surprise to me is that they need to have a practice draw. Why? It isn't exactly rocket science.
Originally posted by misscurious
Originally posted by something wicked
Originally posted by khimbar
Originally posted by Skyfloating
For Americans: Champions League is, besides the Superbowl, the worlds biggest Sports event
I seem to remember reading more than twice as many people watched the Champions League final than watched the Superbowl this year?
I'm not surprised by this. It's a massive money spinner and I've no doubt this is a fix.
And people will just shrug and go 'Blimey, that's a coincidence'.
Wonder what the odds of it are? *off to a calculator*
The odds are 5.000 to 1 but I find that strangely high seeing as in this round two teams from the same football association cannot compete against each other - Man United couldn't face Arsenal, Real Madrid couldn't face Barcelona, same with the German teams (of course, due to seeding that possibly couldn't have happened anyway).
They shouldnt face each other at this stage or it becomes a standard domestic game.. Defeats the purpose of having a European competition.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Ive never heard of the draws being "rehearsed" either. If it was an internet-leak then the "rehearsal" story might be a cover-story.
Originally posted by Flavian
reply to post by ignorant_ape
Complex to an extent - as complex as 16 teams can be. There are only so many variables........
Anyway, go Celtic and Malaga!
Originally posted by TrueBrit
Wether you call the game football, like a reasonable person, or soccer, like an oaf, there is but one thing that unites all things related to the game.
They are utterly unimportant. Football is an intellectual cancer, it is a plauge of the mind, as is supporting any one of the outrageously over wealthy clubs in the UK, or anywhere else for that matter.
I hope the whole game, from the owners of the clubs, to the droning hordes of idiot fans, are swept aside by the scandal, and the game banned from any location where gentlemanly conduct and honour would be prefered. Anything to spite the larger swilling masses of morons who go home and either beat, or lay thier wives according to the results.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
(For Americans: Champions League is, besides the Superbowl, the worlds biggest Sports event)
Originally posted by TrueBrit
reply to post by something wicked
No , no university for me. I am a working class fellow as it happens. But I am not a lout, and if there is one thing that screams lout louder than ownership of a Ford Escort RS200, it is ownership of this years team kit for the team of choice, and a Stella Artois habit that rivals that of the entirety of the European contient.
These things appear to go together, because where I am from, match day, for football fans means gathering in a pub, drinking more than is physically possible, let alone recommended, and having a fight after the game, outside the pub, no matter what the result was. A pox upon the whole bloody affair.