I dare say the EL team will bear little resemblance to their Prem League team. Not the point I know and it is wrong. Didn't we play Thursday and then Sat Lunchtime against Chelsea once though.
It was in the 2006/07 season. Sevilla on Thursday, Chelsea early on Saturday. ****s. That was following the previous round, where we'd played Braga in Portugal and the game finished at midnight. Early Sunday game in the FA Cup followed. Blew a 3-1 lead. The opponents? ****ing Chelsea, again. Utter bollocks.
Add to that in 2010 we were away to Inter on Wednesday night and that was followed by a Saturday lunchtime kickoff against Everton. Thanks Sky!
Even the Spanish press can't seem to mention the Mousers' obvious double standards about tapping-up players... http://www.marca.com/en/football/barcelona/2017/09/23/59c6290446163f402a8b456d.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41348471 1. A different approach to the possibility of Chelsky being one day punished for stockpiling talent and loaning them overseas ?? 2. Should it be illegal ?? I remember ENIC had to divest itself of stakes in other clubs once they bought Spurs ??
That's what makes the way the City Football Group stockpile clubs that much more cynical: they've got City in the Premier League, NYC FC in MLS, Melbourne City in the A-League, plus minority stakes in Yokohama F Marinos, Atletico Torque and Girona - and they're sniffing around a bunch of other clubs too. What really sticks out about their stake in Girona is that it seems to be them testing the waters to see if they can flout the rules, given they're supposedly sniffing around Saint-Etienne and Boavista (among others), seemingly because they saw Red Bull got away with the obvious conflict of interest with their Salzburg and Leipzig clubs causing a potential conflict (and isn't it lucky that Salzburg got just far enough in the CL qualifiers that their losing saw them play in the Europa League instead?)
I guess they are seeing how close they can get (while already owning club 1) to having 49.9% ownership of clubs 2-N, before FIFA/UEFA pile onto them. ENIC appeared to basically not even bother to try pushing the above, once they acquired THFC.
Huddersfield and then Bournemouth, let's get 6 points because after these two things get difficult. 3 points on Tuesday would be good too because then it's Real.
Seismic tremors coming thru from football land : The Poool are 2-0 up AWAY against the most attackingest team ... in the world. Ever.
I truly hope that Leicester get slaughtered and have to face the embarrassment of Klipperty dancing like a twat to the away support.
Definite anti-Leicester agenda now in the PL. First Huthball is banned. Now Vardy is not allowed to score penalties any more.
Also Mahrez isn't allowed to leave, even though Leicester supposedly had a gentleman's agreement that said he could...
That was another pen that Leicester should have had after the first was missed, ManU, ManC and Chelski would have been given it - and I daresay Pool would have as well at home. The Leicester pen could have seen the keeper sent off too, it would have been harsh but how many "harsh" decisions regularly go against the opponents of those three clubs and the pundits just say something like "you can see why he gave that..."
no it would have just been wrong. see double jeopardy rule which is now in place. PS don't know if you watched the game but i did & the officials were bloody useless throughout the game - what decision was given was a bit of a lottery irrespective of which way it went.
