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Just now, Bishop Briggs said:

It's not context, just marketing hype to justify the expansion. It's been carved up to  benefit the big clubs in the four top leagues at the expense of the Champions of the lesser leagues, including ours.

The European Cup was originally called the European Club Champions Cup. There are no champions in the CL final this year. I woulds prefer a real Champions League of just the league winners only.

 

People have been tediously banging on about this for over 20 years. I’d give up.

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Just now, The OP said:

Would be decent if they did away with the rule that says teams from the same league can’t meet until the last 8 tbf.

This.

4 English teams in the same group for a massive heads gone.

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They do.  As you say they understand English perfectly, and are using champions in a different context.  The 'how can it be the champions league if teams in it didn't win their domestic league' is utter fanny talk.
The first few years of the rebranding still had only the league winners though. The addition of non league winners came a few years later.
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Just now, Rab B Nesbit said:

I think it’s fair to say that absolutely anything could happen. 

Not true, I predict right now that Estonia under 21s won’t contest the match against the Armenian women’s team on a field of wheat.

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It's not context, just marketing hype to justify the expansion. It's been carved up to  benefit the big clubs in the four top leagues at the expense of the Champions of the lesser leagues, including ours.
The European Cup was originally called the European Club Champions Cup. There are no champions in the CL final this year. I woulds prefer a real Champions League of just the league winners only.
 
Yeah Malmo against Molde would be really good.
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1 hour ago, Honest_Man#1 said:

Really want Liverpool to win this now. I don’t have anything against Spurs but for some reason just find them an incredibly boring, beige club and would be a really shit winner.

Mate you support Ayr. Which shade of jobby brown is your club if Spurs are beige!?

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1 minute ago, The OP said:

Not true, I predict right now that Estonia under 21s won’t contest the match against the Armenian women’s team on a field of wheat.

Woman's world cup thread for this pish.

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2 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said:

This.

4 English teams in the same group for a massive heads gone.

Although you’d need teams like Huddersfield and West Ham to finish 3rd and 4th for that to be possible with the seeding system.

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1 minute ago, Chewing Taffies said:

Mate you support Ayr. Which colour of jobby brown are your club if Spurs are beige!?

He doesn’t support Ayr he supports Middlesbrough, apparently. 

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17 minutes ago, dysartrovers said:

Worst champions League final ever. It's a joke that a team can be the best team in Europe but aren't even the best in their country

I think there was an all Italian final a while back that was grim.

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1 minute ago, The OP said:

Although you’d need teams like Huddersfield and West Ham to finish 3rd and 4th for that to be possible with the seeding system.

We could bin the seeding system at the same time.

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