Re: RE: Re: long comment ahead (I have a day off)jazzypomMarch 13 2015, 10:04:43 UTC
There's one cup that sponsorship is gone a begging (I want to say League Cup), I'd get rid of that and keep the FA cup, since it's stepped in history and it covers non leagues as well as the league (whereas the capital cup or whatever is named now is league teams only). With more matches in 2016, I'm warming up to a suggestion that you made a couple of months ago, re: dropping 20 teams to 18. With an extra match day come 2016, 20 teams is too much. You'd have to go from about twenty five squad players to thirty and rotate to have an even chance of winning something.
There used to be a competition for the under 21s that was supposed to be a good bedding in for younger talent in clubs, and it was pretty immense and relatively democratic, and because my memory is a sieve nowadays I can't remember the name, but UEFA threw a strop and brought out lawyers so it had to be disregarded.
Once Platini got into UEFA, I think that's when things started to change I think. Platini is... difficult. What's with the English vs French bodies, eh? FA and FIFA would exist in a world without each other if they could.
RE: Re: RE: Re: long comment ahead (I have a day off)marsykeMarch 13 2015, 10:18:09 UTC
England and France have a very long history of trouble between them. Guess it won't ever go well. Here on the continent they sometimes think that the Brits like to do difficult because there are back on their island anyway, here we all sit on top of each other.
There is now a new youth competition, the Youth League. The youth teams of the CL group participants play each other like in the group stage of the big competition. (which means off course, the big teams get in once again). After the group stage, it goes on in one-leg ties. It gets a bit of attention here because Anderlecht beat Bvb, Arsenal and Barcelona and are now in the quarters.
There used to be a competition for the under 21s that was supposed to be a good bedding in for younger talent in clubs, and it was pretty immense and relatively democratic, and because my memory is a sieve nowadays I can't remember the name, but UEFA threw a strop and brought out lawyers so it had to be disregarded.
Once Platini got into UEFA, I think that's when things started to change I think. Platini is... difficult. What's with the English vs French bodies, eh? FA and FIFA would exist in a world without each other if they could.
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There is now a new youth competition, the Youth League. The youth teams of the CL group participants play each other like in the group stage of the big competition. (which means off course, the big teams get in once again). After the group stage, it goes on in one-leg ties. It gets a bit of attention here because Anderlecht beat Bvb, Arsenal and Barcelona and are now in the quarters.
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