Match Day Thread 2016/17 Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

Also despite the increased team, no team will play more than they currently would do and if can get it into same time frame then shouldn't have any impact on club teams.

 

theres more matches but not more matches for each team

you have a qualifying round in effect to win to get to the real comp and then these mini groups where you play 2 matches.

 

its to kill off the minnows fast, have more in but give them one game only.

barring shocks like england losing to iceland every time.

 

The irony of a Chelsea fan complaining about the amount of money in the game.

 

But we love to share and care with our money doling it out to other clubs. These boys are just out to make the game worse and keep the money for themselves

 

Its actually swapped form the time i read it.

its not a preliminary round like i thought but a start off group of 3.

2 from 3 go through. dumping the real minnows so whats the point in watching any group games really?

its 2 group games not 3 then last 32, last 16, QF Sf F.. There not actually any more games for a team to play.

so england will play 2 games not 3 from now on

Have they said how these places are distributed yet?

 

Jurgen Klopp is getting that title feeling again... after admitting his Liverpool story is starting to remind him of Dortmund’s fairytale success.
The Reds boss believes the young and hungry side he is building at Anfield has the same character as the squad he took from hopeless also-rans to Bundesliga Champions, writes Mirror Football's David Maddock.

Almost a decade ago, he inherited a team at Dortmund that had finished 13th, and was written off as too old and too poor to ever challenge for the title, but within three years he had produced a miracle to take them to the summit of German football.

Now, he reckons he can do the same at Liverpool, after witnessing the same qualities that so excited him at his previous club.

“I am not sure I should compare but it is another nice situation if you want. It is cool. It is not the same, but it is similar to what we had at Dortmund,” he explained
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-news-rumours-reds-9370848

 

Let's ****ing hope so

 

Apparantly, there was a proposal for an increase to forty teams on the table with sixteen in the knockout stages.

I can only assume that would have been eight groups of five, top two qualify...

 

at least we all now have faith in the manager

 

Nah cos then you'd lose a round of knockout which FIFA probably wouldn't want.

Would prob do stupid best place 3rd teams etc like did at Euros

 

Sky building this game up as Rooney v hull. All about overtaking the record, not much about it actually being a semi final

 

I doubt it will be much of a competition, so I can see why they are focusing on something else.

 

You seem concerned?

 

I think Hull will be quite glad of that.

 

Pogba barges into Hull player shoulder to shoulder. He falls over and the ref gives pogba the foul

 

Looks like might just have dislocate sshoulder or something. Hull already down to bare bones

 

This training game for utd isn't good for us. They could get a lot of goals tonight

 

Hull still doing OK

 

jeez Hull have lots of luck don't they - shame it's all bad