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Dubai Trip, CSN Demonstration & Skewed Co-efficients

Dec 01, 2005 23:30

The tentative dates for my (family's) Dubai Trip are the following: Wednesday 21 December - Sunday 25 December.

Any of you who will be around, lemme know, I'd love to go out for dinner, shisha, an outing or something! I know I've already touched base with dubaiwalla.

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buthan December 2 2005, 22:48:02 UTC

Yeah, me and Hari had a nice discussion on these stats last nite as I couldn't believe it myself. It is obviously true that clubs like Chelsea, Liverpool or Barcelona are better than the 3 Romanian teams put together. But what UEFA does is that it takes an average of efficiency (wins vs losses and draws) which is again misleading, as our teams played average teams in the UEFA Cup (more or less, but not Barcelona material). That could be another cause of confusion ( ... )

mcgillianaire December 3 2005, 02:38:50 UTC

Now that you've had your time in the sunshine, go back to playing UEFA Cup. ;)

Nah man, it's fantastic improvement indeed. Well done Rromanys! :P

but not Barcelona material dubaiwalla December 3 2005, 05:54:01 UTC

Well, you just used my team as a benchmark for good football. I think there is room for both of us to be happy.

Re: but not Barcelona material buthan December 3 2005, 19:43:25 UTC

Hehe... glad to hear that... I would rather take Spanish or Italian football over Premiership. I consider Barcelona the team that has best chances of winning the CL this season...

Re: but not Barcelona material dubaiwalla December 4 2005, 12:08:52 UTC

Of possible interest to both of you: up to date coefficients

Barcelona are in pretty awesome form right now. If anything, I hope they haven't peaked too early. They are ridiculously consistent in qualifying for Europe- they're the only team to have played in continental competition every single year. But they have a way of throwing things away in the quarters or semis. I love them, but I would never bet my own money on them.

That having been said, Hari pointed out to me last night that it's a lottery from the second round on- just about anyone can win. After all, how many people really expected Liverpool or Porto to be champions of Europe?

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