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  1. Mr. Shoes

    Mr. Shoes Well-Known Member

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    Stupid post of the week?

    The reasons are obvious. Only one team can win, so this is the next best target.
     
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    Mr. Shoes, Feb 28, 2017
  2. Steven Toast

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    Said it before, but the Champion's League should be for the Champions of each country. If you finish second, third or fourth, you're not a champion, so why should you qualify for the league?
     
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  3. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
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    Because they want the best teams in the competition and the second and third best teams in the top leagues are at a completely different level to the winners of things like the Welsh Premier League.
     
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    originallambrettaman, Feb 28, 2017
  4. Barchullona

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    They could have a competition just for the Champions. And one for the second, third, fourth best teams and the winners of the League Cup to maintain interest in that competition, and call it the UEFA Cup. Then to make the FA Cup and other Cup competitions attractive to the bigger clubs a competition for Cupwinners and call it the Cupwinners Cup...
     
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  5. SydneyTiger14

    SydneyTiger14 Well-Known Member

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    All the Champions now go in Pot 1 so it's the same thing.
     
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  6. Barchullona

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    It isn't.
     
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  7. SydneyTiger14

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    As OLM said, it's the best case you're going to end up with unless you want to watch the Welsh Champions take on the Slovakian Champions.
     
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  8. Amin Yapusi

    Amin Yapusi Well-Known Member

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    FA cup winners and league winners for the champions league.

    That would liven up a lot.

    If you think we have it bad some countries have about half the league in play offs for europa league spots.
     
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  9. SydneyTiger14

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    Belgium have their league set up best I reckon.
     
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  10. Barchullona

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    Well in that case rename it then.
     
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  11. SydneyTiger14

    SydneyTiger14 Well-Known Member

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    Name changes are bad and ruin history.
     
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  12. Barchullona

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    They could shorten it from the Champions League to The Competition For League Champions And Three Or Four Other Clubs From Each Country.
     
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    Not sure why they scrapped that in the 90s
     
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  14. onlyme

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    have any actual champions of the premier league won the chapions league.thought man yoooo,liverpoo etc were runners up when theyve won it? and maybe chelski?
     
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  15. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Money.
     
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  16. originallambrettaman

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    Man United won the Champions League and the Premier League in 2007/08.
     
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  17. bum_chinned_crab

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    But to answer his point they'd have to win the Champions League the year after they won the Premier League. I haven't checked if they did that, but winning them in the same year isn't his point, unless I misunderstood it.
     
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  18. originallambrettaman

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    That's not how I read the question.
     
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  19. Chilton's Hundreds

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    Just hold it there you two while I go and get me popcorn...
     
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  20. bum_chinned_crab

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    I dunno what you mean, this cant even be a debate. We're dealing in facts - for a reigning EPL champion to win the UCL, then the latter has to happen the year following the former.

    If he didn't mean that in his question and wanted to know if a team won them both in the same year, then that's a different point. Only onlyme can clarify what he meant with his question.
     
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