Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

Villa getting beat. Doesn’t matter because they’ve made the group stage even duller and drawn out than it was before. Looks like a proper ground though. A touch of the old White Hart Lane about it.

 

Is it me or is Trossard not very good?

Also looks like he needs a good nights sleep.

 

Goons 1 down

Muhahahha

 

Ain't seen the penalty but the ref 100% correct to give it

 

State of Arteta man..touching the ball while it's in play.

 

Arsenal are the new stoke.

 

did he

 

Yea..somehow only got a yellow card for it.

 

Villa and Arsenal letting the English clubs down

 

Should be an instant red. Happened to wba manager against us last season.

 

I'm enjoying the new champions League format myself, not just cos of how well we're doing but the barrage of games between boring international breaks.

Thick and fast.

Into it

7\10 so far

 

I don't like it at all, no bother Liverpool being top, but the games are of no relevance, completely pointless. You beat one of the so called best teams 4-1 and.....what...like Arsenal losing tonight, means nothing, both City and Arsenal could still qualify for the next stage, and both these teams will tell you they are playing too many games. It's making a complete joke of football and competition. Celtic who are dogshit are 15th and also could qualify for the next stage. Liverpool have won all their games, but what advantage does it give them for all their effort? It just makes football more unaffordable when you have to travel around Europe to watch pointless matches.

 

Champions League should be solely for the Champions of each European League ... the end.

 

yep, but sadly everyone in football is ****ing greedy.

 

Had one of these at Brentford the other night. I think Norwich when I went there midweek a couple of years ago. The game needs rid of this. Shoot the parents of kids begging for shirts etc.

 

I think they have pretty much devalued their own products
The setup of
European Cup (Champions Only)
UEFA Cup (2nd & 3rd)
Cup Winners Cup

was pretty much spot on for me
I always thought the UEFA cup was brilliant because quite regularly the teams finishing second and third were pushing for the title the following year so the level was good

now the top teams are in the CL and quite rightly are not dropped into the UEFA cup but there is a lack of quality in that cup now
Granted it’s great for teams who don’t normally get European competition but I feel the competition is definitely weaker for it.

CL should be League winners only - although it wouldn’t bother me if it was League and Cup Winners with runners up in the UEFA

 

I liked the CWC as well.
It actually took priority over the UEFA cup too, meaning that if you won the FA Cup and finished 2nd or third, you went into the CWC OVER the UEFA Cup.

 

If he shouted at me like that in my face, he might get a response he weren't expecting. No problem with the rest of it.