Football (Soccer)

Originally posted by yerssot
last one was in the fifties?

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Originally posted by G.P
Yeah!!!! Barthez is likely to go to Marseille for the rest of the season (loan)!!!

You like him?

Not especially...But again it will help to pretend our French championship is not as crappy as it is in reality 😖

you won from anderlecht 👆

I found it.

From 2004/05, the UEFA Cup format will be based on a first round knockout phase of 80 teams, followed by a group phase involving 40 teams in eight groups of five. The 24 teams who negotiate this stage (the top three from each group) will then be joined by eight teams from the UEFA Champions League for the final knockout phase, which will consist of 32 teams.
A significant difference between the Champions League format and the new UEFA Cup format is that the UEFA Cup group stage will not feature clubs playing each other on a home and away basis. Instead the five clubs in each group will play the other four teams in the group only once.

Originally posted by yerssot
you won from anderlecht 👆

You just say that 'cos you don'tlike Anderlecht... 😖hifty:

stupid! no other words for it!

So my point was that Uefa cup is already not that interesting, because it's an under-Champion's league competition... (Generally those who win are those who were push out of the 1st round-mini-championship of CL ). That new rule only go further in this way

that sucks GP

best thing is to make it a totally seperated cup, without anyone coming from CL to Uefa!ç

(hmm would be bad for belgian teams)

well, then they should play BETTER!

> Fire : My theory or the new rule ?

Well it used to be... or sort of. Remember 10 years ago there was a "Cup of the winners of (national) cup(s) " = C2 (FYI CL= C1 and uefa cup=C3)

At that time the C2 was more important than the C3. Now the C2 has disappeared...*sighs*

Cup Winners Cup no?

Ya ... I only know the name in French....must be that...

the Rule GP
and yea that's bad now you only have that damn European Super Cup match which is really not worth it usualy

btw what is intertoto exactly?

had it on an old Championship manager-game 😖

Originally posted by yerssot
best thing is to make it a totally seperated cup, without anyone coming from CL to Uefa!ç

How? CL has more money...and every team wants to be there. It will always be teams that dont make it in the CL.

And what did you mean by "last one was in the fifties?"?

teasing benfica with the current "not-winning" streak they have with the league 😉

oh, FM, Cup Winners Cup: de Beker der Bekerwinnaars

Originally posted by yerssot
teasing benfica with the current "not-winning" streak they have with the league 😉

oh, FM, Cup Winners Cup: de Beker der Bekerwinnaars

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UEFA is for smaller teams. Most teams get direct access to CL which makes it difficult for smaller teams and lower (football wise) countries.