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 still find it incredulous that Ajax, the one time masters of European fitba, the blueprint of the "total football" model, are viewed as "plucky minows" for getting to the European Cup semi finals.

Yes, there players were devastated at the end of the game midweek, that in and of itself has nothing to do with the "soul" of the sport.

And never mind, this experience will do them the world of good in next year's challenge (unless, of course, the big boys come waving wads of cash and half their team gets decanted to the G....whatever number they're up to now).