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C. Kane said:
I wouldn't mind United or Porto. I think we could beat them both. Ajax worry me - they are young, hungry and playing without fear...they remind me of us a few years ago. In our current state though, drawing Porto or Ajax could well lead to us showing the 'arrogant complacency' Poch has highlighted recently and doing ourselves over as we did in our first CL campaign and then applied the icing on the cake against Gent later that year.

I think we can take Juventus. They really aren't that special. City and Barca are the only teams who genuinely scare me.
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Ajax look like they're going all-out for the CL knowing the team will get dismantled in the summer, sort of like Monaco a couple of seasons back (in both senses...) so they worry me - not least because, if they did beat us, the Lunatic Fringe would be ****ing insufferable even by their usual standards
 
No need to speculate. We know what will happen. City and Barca will get easy ties ( Porto and Ajax ).
We will probably get an English tie-probably Liverpool.
Juventus vs Utd for the Ronaldo return.
EDIT: And the draw for semi final will keep City and Barca apart because that is the planned final
 
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Anyone can beat anyone at this stage, as long as you turn up. Remember, there is no Mike Dean or Michael Oliver to play 12th man.

You know who you are, you know who you are, Mike Dean, you know who you are.....
 
Apparently the draw has been leaked and we got Utd.

City got Barca and Liverpool got Ajax.

That would be some draw.
 
KingHotspur said:
Apparently the draw has been leaked and we got Utd.

City got Barca and Liverpool got Ajax.

That would be some draw.
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One would hope this is bullshit. But I’ve lost all faith in the honesty of cup draws after Craig Bellamy told everyone who was playing who 24 hours before the Carabao Cup semi final draw! <laugh>
 
KingHotspur said:
Apparently the draw has been leaked and we got Utd.

City got Barca and Liverpool got Ajax.

That would be some draw.
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I saw this earlier on Twitter. From a purely financial perspective (i.e. UEFA's default one) it makes a lot of sense to keep the Manc teams and Pool apart and hope that either combination of City/Utd or Utd/Liverpool go through to set up a grandstand semi final. I am expecting us to get Barca or City so I bloody hope this is true!
 
C. Kane said:
I saw this earlier on Twitter. From a purely financial perspective (i.e. UEFA's default one) it makes a lot of sense to keep the Manc teams and Pool apart and hope that either combination of City/Utd or Utd/Liverpool go through to set up a grandstand semi final. I am expecting us to get Barca or City so I bloody hope this is true!
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They always do a dry run the day before the draw to make sure that everything's working properly and they know the routine.
It's probably the result of this.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
They always do a dry run the day before the draw to make sure that everything's working properly and they know the routine.
It's probably the result of this.
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Well there is certainly precedent for the actual draw being a carbon copy of the rehearsal, despite the odds being ridiculous. Happened in the Round of 16 draw 2012/13, although in UEFA's defense any rigging that year was probably to protect the tournament from death by boredom after Chelsea were crowned (Route)masters of Europe the previous season.
 
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Just did 'spin the wheel' on the Spurs official twitter site, and we got Citeh.

Had a second and third go, Ajax/Juve
 
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So if I am anti PL, my rigging needs two all PL QFs,
and the winners of those ties to not be drawn against
each other in the SFs.
 
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