Guff football is pish

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Wow. You really think the soul is still in Euro fitba

The soul has completely gone and has been for years. Its designed for moneyball big leagues/teams.

Its not designed to incorporate Aberdeen, Mechelen, Slovan Bratislava, Magdeburg, IFK Gothenburg, Dinamo Kiev et al.

Its designed for Man City, Chelsea, Paris St Germain, Juventus , Real Madrid and other rich list teams English, spanish, German, Italian plus PSG are all that matter.

Look at the way teams qualify. Or how leagues are favoured. For example two teams who havent won the league in decades are in the "Champions League" final after being placed straight in the groups. yet teams who won their leagues had three qualifiers to get in and failed

The souls not gone?So how come there have been finals where 30k of a stadium has been divided out between the two teams and the other 30k has been sponsors and corporate arseholes

Euro fitbas as f@cked as guffball

I enjoyed the 1980s European competitions and barely watch any now unless I attend them in person (and I don't really have much interest in the Champions League although I have been to two matches, Dynamo Kiev v Sporting Lisbon (because I was there because of the Dnipro game against the Dons) and Benfica v Anderlecht...

However, the 1980s was not a halcyonic era of fair competition either. Teams from the communist bloc like Dynamo Kiev, Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade (actually from a non-aligned state but the same rules were in effect) were successful because they hoovered up all the talent within the country which was made possible by the restrictions on players moving abroad before a certain age. They were, for all intents and purposes, national teams.

Bribery will still be alive and kicking but back then away legs were very difficult to achieve a positive result due to the amount of pre-match gifts and entertainment that was presented to the match officials and the cheating was overt.

Indeed, Aberdeen were able to win the European Cup Winners Cup but the team we beat in the semis, Watershcei, had been involved in a bribery scandal the year before when Standard paid them to take a fall, and the manner of their semi final collapse was suspect