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brighty said:
In a way it is bad for my country because we are struggling to get our coëfficient high enough to get a automatic qualifier and the money and experience that comes from playing in the CL could help our league raise the current level of play (its pretty bad really). But Anderlecht are the biggest and by far richest club in my country and they always act like they have the right to buy however they want from the smaller clubs and have very questionable morals (as do most people in football). They are the first to condemn clubs and if the same kind of situation happens to them they seem to suffer from alzheimer all of a sudden. So fuck em.
Belgian Spur said:
On the plus side though, they are my feeder club in Footie Manager and have helped me bring a great many South Americans and Africans to these shores.
On a serious note, they will probably end up first seeds though, so will get an easier playoff draw so will no doubt make the groups anyway.
pedrivo said:
or make it so every domestic leagues season ends with certainty over what their final place means - the integrity of the 'best' leagues is a joke with the current rules
No alcohol on European nightssammyspurs said:
Also I read (possibly on here?) that prices have to be fixed from the start of the season, so we couldn't just let people in for £5 each for the group games then smack it up to £50 for the semi-final if we got that far.
I'd like to take it seriously but know it isn't going to happen, we'll go out in the groups again (seriously, stick money on it, the odds will be great). If we do ignore it though, we should seriously be looking at a title shot. I'm not deluded, we've proved we can be up there after 25 games this season, if we ignore 'the blip' we wouldn't be that far behind.
1882 said:
Thats not my quote you posted.......quote properly Ant (or Dec)
Dunno about anyone else... and I know it was a VERY different competition back then, but some of these images are (FA Cups aside) amongst my fondest EVER supporting Spurs... you can't just sweep that under the carpet by feigning disdain for a competition that have brought us so many wonderful memories...?
Abbey Yid said:
Correct.
You have to tell Uefa from the start what your ticket prices will be - in fairness it protects our away fans as much as anything else as other teams know will be well supported and without this rule we'd get screwed over on ticket prices everywhere.....
1882 said:
Bang Fucking On!
Fuck the Champions League - its the cancer of football (with the current champions being a prime example..). Of all my european trips the UEFA cup games were the best, who can forget the tits in Prague (in and out of the ground), mounds of cocaine in Spain, coppers getting thrown off top tiers, brothers getting caught wanking by hotel maids, 10 hour train journeys on the piss through random countries, Joe getting dildo'ed by a stripper, Ricky sleeping in cars, dodgy hotels (sleeping ten to a room), turning up somewhere and the place is full of Spurs two days before the game, the train journey back to Amsterdam after the PSV loss, the beers in Cologne .....cant fucking wait for the roller coaster to start again. Prague III brothers, its on.
a piece a wrote aaaaagesss ago on this here competition http://footballthatsall.blogspot.co.uk/ ... s-cup.html
To build on football's being as expensive as phone sex,
1. UEFA events can have different prices depending on some variable (round, opponent, whatever)
2. UEFA event prices are not all set at the same time.
If only 1. is true, then Spurs can charge sfa for the group stages and ramp up the price for the later rounds. If only 2. is true, then they can do the same thing. If both are true, then they can do the same thing.
So it surely doesn't seem to be UEFA regulations forcing Spurs into charging for EL group stages matches as though they were PL matches.
Hence, at least one of the following is true:
1. UEFA events can have different prices depending on some variable (round, opponent, whatever)
2. UEFA event prices are not all set at the same time.
If only 1. is true, then Spurs can charge sfa for the group stages and ramp up the price for the later rounds. If only 2. is true, then they can do the same thing. If both are true, then they can do the same thing.
So it surely doesn't seem to be UEFA regulations forcing Spurs into charging for EL group stages matches as though they were PL matches.
But that's what I mean. As far as I understood it, the complaint was that Spurs charge first team prices for U21 matches (group stages of the EL). One response for that was since the prices have to be fixed in advance. The Bilbao example shows that, even if it may be the case that prices have to be fixed in advance, it does not follow from that that all matches must cost the same. If Bilbao can charge £77.50 when Man U comes to town, then Spurs can charge £5 when whatever-minnow-we-arrogantly-make-fun-of-until-their-bare-chested-traveling-fans-outsing-us-and-players-outplay-us shows up at WHL.