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Refreshing to see fans avoiding knee-jerkism. To be honest, West Ham played really well. Poyet and Zarate are two very good players for them.

Neymar will definitely not play.

If you are vaccinated and you still catch the viral disease, then the negative effects are much less than if you had not been vaccinated. In cases of catching the disease without being vaccinated it is extremely dangerous, potentially lethal.

You can still get it even if you had been vaccinated. The parotitis vaccine is only effective 90% of the time. This is some properly shit news.

You either create a general level playing field by restricting foreigners across the board, or you have meritocracy (on the current basis of financial power) so that the CL group stages are at least of high quality. While giving chances to minor league clubs to play in the CL sounds noble on...

Platini wanted the support of the smaller federations so that he could get elected. Hence, this ludicrous situation.

For many years, the CL qualification stages did not have a "league route" (very tough route) and a "champions route" (mini-Mickey Mouse route) but a unified route. It needs to become like that again (as was before the season 09/10) and whoever is the best team, may they win. Why would it be...

For a club in the EPL, getting into the CL, increases yearly revenue by 10 to 20%. For a club in Cyprus/Croatia/Denmark, getting into the CL increases your yearly revenue by as much as 400%. Very bad analogy you attempted there.

Celtic used to be good. They have been gash recently. One win over Barca does not change the fact. Apoel actually made the last 8 (lost easily to Real Madrid) but in their other two CL participations, they have done nothing more than park the bus, and still lose almost all of their games.

It has nothing to do with Valencia playing Monaco and everything to do with very weak teams facing off against each other for a prize they are nowhere near deserving. Also, you fail to account for the fact that by the same degree that you are "helping" the champions from minor leagues, you are...

Like I said above, this generates a very negative vicious cycle for the domestic rivals of those clubs that manage to get into the CL a couple of times. Platini's rule ends up helping a few clubs from small countries, degrading the CL group stage, and also harming some very strong clubs from...

For the small clubs that get into the CL via the "champions route" that is still a colossal triumph since for them, playing the likes of Barca/Real/Juventus etc etc is an earth-shattering occasion. Moreover, the money they receive from UEFA for making the GS is an El Dorado (this season, it will...

What you are saying is romantic and all, but the bottom line here is that clubs like Apoel, Bate, Zaghreb, Basel etc etc get to enter the CL GS, while clubs like Lazio/Valencia/Monaco/Leverkusen have to knock out other strong teams in order to take their place in the CL proper. Just have a...

Platini's stupid rule that separates so-called "champions" from the minor leagues from proper teams like those that finish 3rd/4th in the major leagues means that you get match-ups like Valencia vs Monaco, Lazio vs Leverkuzen on the one hand, and on the other you get Apoel vs Astana or Zaghreb...

Valencia with the short end of the stick in today's draw. They will have to beat AS Monaco to get into the CL group stages. United, quite lucky to draw Club Brugge, and another tough draw is Lazio vs Leverkusen. Shaktar Donetsk were the luckiest of all to get Rapid Vienna.

3-1 Messi, Neymar, Suarez

CSKA Moscow fighting back from behind to turn a 2-0 deficit into a 2-3 victory in Prague. Apoel eliminated the Danish champions despite playing with 10 for almost 70mns. Astana beat Finnish champions (HJK) despite going 0-2 behind, and having to play the final 30 minutes or so with 10 men...

I seem to have forgotten our winning of the CL in 2014, or 2013, or 2012.

Why? Is there any fundamental difference?

I think that Samper (or any other promising youngster for that matter) will get their chances in the avalanche of games that awaits us in the official season.