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Since Liverpool are starting their Europa League campaign tonight, may as well start this thread now.

This will be rodgers first season in Europe, so I expect he'll look to have a solid competition. I reckon AVB will take this competition more seriously than Redknapp and Newcastle will want to do well for sure. Hopefully these three teams will do well and help England's co-efficient points.

As for the CL, we're retaining it :jordan2

 
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#6,755 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

Schweinsteiger said he wants to go to the Camp Nou and beat Barca there at their own game. He'll get his chance.
Yeah I'm sure he also said he wants to go to the Allianz and beat a mediocre Chelsea team to claim the title, but that didn't happen. :cheer

Regardless of what happens at the Nou Camp, I think we are going to get crushed in Germany.
 
#6,762 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

A Dortmund/Barca final would be great as I've never seen them meet. I'd like to see Bayern there tbh. Bayern/Dortmund would be sweet but as much as I despise Barca, I want to see them & Dortmund put on a show.
 
#6,763 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

This just smacks so much of Inter's 2010 run to victory. Lose to Barca in the group stages. Beats an English team (Chelsea). Beats a team in the quarter finals that they should (CSKA). Gets revenge on the group stage loss by beating Barca. Beats Bayern in final in Spain and then moves to a club there next season.

Loses to Dortmund in the group stage. Beats an English team (United). Beats a team in the quarter finals that they should (Galatasaray). Gets revenge on group stage loss by beating Dortmund? Beats Bayern in final in England and then moves to a club there next season?

Something is happening...



































Oh yeah, we got a good draw :side:
 
#6,765 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

This just smacks so much of Inter's 2010 run to victory. Lose to Barca in the group stages. Beats an English team (Chelsea). Beats a team in the quarter finals that they should (CSKA). Gets revenge on the group stage loss by beating Barca. Beats Bayern in final in Spain and then moves to a club there next season.

Loses to Dortmund in the group stage. Beats an English team (United). Beats a team in the quarter finals that they should (Galatasaray). Gets revenge on group stage loss by beating Dortmund? Beats Bayern in final in England and then moves to a club there next season?

Something is happening...
2/1, get on it!
 
#6,766 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

I will say this.

Over the past few years, no one has choked more than this group of German players from an international and a club standpoint. They always come off as a dominant force, but collapse when it mattered the most. They've already shown their ability to choke in Europe this season.

I think Barca can exploit this, but the team will have to play like they did against Milan in the second leg. If they play like they did against PSG, then we are as good as dead.
 
#6,772 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

Over the past few years, no one has choked more than this group of German players from an international and a club standpoint. They always come off as a dominant force, but collapse when it mattered the most. They've already shown their ability to choke in Europe this season.


CL draw was pretty irrelevant for the neutral. The four best teams in the world, however mixed and matched, are going to dish up some unreal games. Hopefully we're not talking about WOAT refofficials come April whatever.

Probably looks toughest for Barca at this stage, if Messi can't get to 100% then say goodnight, Mr. Diaz.
 
#6,771 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

There's a lot of hate on Twitter today for the amount of 'phoney' Dortmund fans.
:mark:

I just hate when so many people claim to support them. The fuck were they in the mid 2000's when Dortmund were WOATing in the league and WOATing even more on the financial side of things?

I understand why many people will want them to win this competition. And I understand why many people like them. There's not a lot to not like about them, tbh. But I just can't take false supporting, hipster, ****** cunts.
 
#6,774 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

Everyone was wanking themselves silly over Athletic Bilbao too last year in the Europa League. Those people have gone quiet now. I laughed when Falcao destroyed them in the final.

The Dortmund bandwagonners will disappear too once Reus, Goetze, Lewandowski etc end up at the likes of Barca, Madrid and Chelsea or wherever.
 
#6,775 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

Bandwagoners can be annoying at times, but I've always maintained that there are no rules for supporting a football team. Anyone anywhere can support any team they like. Dortmund are a great club that play great football, so is it really a wonder that they have gained a number of new fans recently? With the rise of more foreign football being on TV and available over the internet through online subscriptions to Setanta and ESPN, it really shouldn't be surprising that more people are exposed to great teams that aren't local to them and are choosing to follow them.
 
#6,776 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

I think the support is more out of the fact that many people are excited that someone new has gotten so far in the competition. Plus they're an exciting side to watch and their rise from almost zero to hero is a great story. The other 3 teams are all great teams but it's a bit boring seeing the same bunch every year, right?

Bandwagoners will always be there in football. There's plenty of them in the English game too. It's no coincidence that I started seeing Manchester City shirts around London last season. The one thing I do hate about bandwagoners though is when they start knocking your team. Then they really deserve to be shat on.
 
#6,782 ·
Re: UEFA Champions/Europa League 2012-13 Thread - It Just Got Mythical

I think the support is more out of the fact that many people are excited that someone new has gotten so far in the competition. Plus they're an exciting side to watch and their rise from almost zero to hero is a great story. The other 3 teams are all great teams but it's a bit boring seeing the same bunch every year, right?

Bandwagoners will always be there in football. There's plenty of them in the English game too. It's no coincidence that I started seeing Manchester City shirts around London last season. The one thing I do hate about bandwagoners though is when they start knocking your team. Then they really deserve to be shat on.
I agree with that. With regard to my support for Arsenal, I'd have to say that I am a bandwagon supporter given I started supporting Arsenal in the late 90s only really because we were the next best English side to Man Utd, and because I was a contrarian, I didn't want to support Man Utd. I wasn't much of a fan in the early years given that games were so late here and we weren't televised often. It wasn't until 2001/02 (double winning season) where I really started to watch us regularly and get into it more, so really I was full on bandwagon back then, but in fairness I was just a kid. And over 10 years later, I'm still a gooner. But my main point is despite my roots in supporting Arsenal being stooped in bandwagoning, I'm not the type of fan now that only cares when the team is doing well, nor am I the type that shits on smaller teams (well, apart from Liverpool :troll). But in all seriousness I don't understand the kind of armchair fan that has essentially chosen to support a big/successful team that then mocks a team like Norwich or Portsmouth calling them small time, when the vast majority of fans of those teams didn't choose to support them, but rather were born into supporting them.
 
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