Chelsea away
Chelsea away
Why are Dinamo Zagreb still Dinamo Zagreb, but Red Star Belgrade seem to have to be called Scissor Edna?
I don't think we've ever played Barrow, and if we have, I don't know about it.
1948, apparently. 5-0. Lofty's great-grandad in the mud.
Big fan of The Beeb securing European highlights.
Isn't 'Red Star Belgrade' just what we call them because that foreign jumble is their actual name and who can be arsed? Like 'Inter Milan' or 'A.S. Juventus'.
Crvena Zvezda is for those bedroom wankers with long hair who call managers the 'trainer' and Juventus 'The Old Lady'.
Dunno if such people actually exist but let's say they do.
Brasil.
My grandad played for Barrow but it was 1949, not 1948Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
http://barryhugmansfootballers.com/player/15212
I see that O'Riley chap was instakilled by a horrendous challenge from the Crawley Town captain. Nuke the Broadfield Stadium.
Fizzy Pop draw
Liverpool vs West Ham
Man City vs Watford
Arsenal vs Bolton
Man Utd vs Barnsley
Wycombe Wanderers vs Aston Villa
Coventry vs Tottenham
Walsall vs Leicester
Brentford vs Leyton Orient
Blackpool vs Sheffield Wednesday
Preston vs Fulham
Everton vs Southampton
QPR vs Crystal Palace
Stoke vs Fleetwood
Brighton vs Wolves
AFC Wimbledon vs Newcastle
Chelsea vs Barrow
I'm struggling to understand the excuse for the seeding system other than to try and keep 'the big clubs' from knocking each other out too early.
Brighton v Wolves feels like a cup game that happens every year.
There’s extra games with the new CL and EL fixtures. They could end up playing each other within 24 hours of their European game
Champions League winner this season could feasible play 17 games (excluding any qualifiers), which includes 2 playoffs games if they finish between between 8th-24th. 17 (SEVENTEEN).
How long before they sack it off and go back to something more like the old format?
Two group stages was the one.
I'm a twit
I know some of you must have done a few playthroughs on FM and can tell me otherwise, but instinctively this feels like it will deliver more random results depending on who gets the luck with schedule (which I suppose is the same as having an easy group, but doesn't feel as such in the league format).
From my vast FM experience, a few more random results, but the additional games just gives the bigger teams time to correct any one-off freak results.
The second round (or play-off round) could be more interesting with some smaller clubs scraping through against those top teams who didn't quite make the top 8.
Absolutely.
I feel like in hindsight it's not as popular as I imagined, but in my head it's still king.
Two group stages was absolutely dire, even though we had one of our best runs and legendary European nights under that format. Knockout football >>>>
It feels to me like they are trying to turn the 'European Season' into an NFL type thing.
Is the play-off round seeded in anyway [ie 9 plays 24 etc] or is it a random draw? Can teams from the same nation play each other in the initial mega-league phase?
No more Trippier at Left Back for England.
You must be quaking in your boots lads.
Robbie fucking Brady.
It gives your minnows a better chance to claim the odd win in their 2 games in the teams from the same pot.
What I think they're more after though is ridding the group stages of that last pointless game or two. One giant group stage for the most part keeps everyone playing their best teams for fear of not getting in that top 8/24.
Your City/Madrid will likely still sail to that point and at the other end, there will be a team that loses all 8, but it keeps that drama going.
It also makes it massively advantageous to play the BIG BOYS later in your schedule rather than earlier.
A bit of both. A draw with 9-16 seeded and 17-24 unseeded.
My guess is also that there's always goal difference / tie breaker trains at places 8, 16 and 24 in the last round of games. DRAMA.
Did we forget to tell Carsley about his promotion?
These UEFA presentations and fluff before draws get worse each time.
I'd love it if the AI software helping the draw fucks up.
Man City will get Inter and Dortmund, Shakhtar and Club Brugge, Celtic and Young Boys and Sturm Graz and Brest.
Edit: Not as easy as that but still a breeze.
This draw style is so shit.
Absolutely nothing to say they havent already made up these fixtures before hand.
Following this on the BBC livetext I haven't a scooby-doo what is going on.
They have Buffon drawing a team manually, then Ronaldo pushes a big button and the fixtures for that team appear.
I thought it was only one big group? Why the draw?
You need to be randomly drawn your two opponents from each pot, to make up your 8 games.
You only play 8 games so the draw is to see who you play.
You get two from each pot.
Looks a fairly horrendous draw for Arne Slot's boys.
Would be nice to beat Madrid for once.
PSG look like they've been stitched up as well, but maybe none of it means anything.
I like the look of this format. Effectively no seeding.
Yeah, it's irrelevant which pot you are in. Someone hasn't war-gamed this properly for the Big Club Alliance.
Livramento called up.
The creeping menace will presumably be 5 and 6 places given to the big leagues at some point.
It's coming home.
I probably do have to look at myself as a self-hating white person when I see names like Eberechi Eze, Angel Gomes, Noni Madueke in the squad and the only name that triggered the reaction of 'Wait, he's English?' was Tino Livramento.
It's great, really. Portuguese dad, Scottish mother and a very Italian name.
Chelsea getting beat by Servette
This defence is beyond tragic
"Best player in the league" with a shocking miss there.
You’re saying it like he’s not.
Bobbled anyway
Group stage soccer. Please draw us against TNS or some other proper jokers.
Angel Gomes at the 6. MGW at the 10. Phwoar.
Is that the Angel Gomes who got pied by Man Utd? I’m not the know-it-all I was 20 years ago but what the fuck is going on here?
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