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Has the European Conference League worked?
By: RCG Date: March 18, 2022, 4:40 am
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This week saw the European Cups reach the last 8 stage. The
Conference league was heralded as a way of giving more nations,
more chance of European football.
Has this materialised in the final 8?
2 strong Dutch teams, both with European pedigree, 1 from
France, England and Italy.
Norway, Greece and Czech Rep make up the nations involved.
Credit to the last 3 although the Greeks and the Czechs used to
regular have teams in at least the group stages of CL. The
Norweigan team probably the only one ploughing a new furrow.
Factor is the CL and EL representation and you get:
England 5
Spain 4
Germany 3
Portugal 2
Italy 2
France 2
Netherlands 2
Scotland, Norway, Czech Rep and Greece 1
Only 2 countries east of Germany, only 1 from Scandanavia
Only 4 nations represented in CL QFs
Not sure how the Albanian crowd will get too excited about the
Conf League final.
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Re: Has the European Conference League worked?
By: bmb Date: March 18, 2022, 9:19 am
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Not sure how I feel about really. None of our clubs lasted any
longer than usual & the club that lasted the longest started in
the CL & went into the EL. I'm sure it was only invented as
another money making scheme & to help prevent the 3rd/4th based
teams in the big nations from lowering themselves to meet some
unworthy nations champions in the CL!
They'd do better to actually have the CL for Champions imo, it's
a mockery of its own name when smaller nations champions have to
go through a whole qualifying process and the big nations get
3/4 teams automatically qualifying for it. If anything all the
excess big nations teams should have to be the ones going
through the qualifying process because they're not champions &
the smaller nations champions actually automatically qualify for
the tournament.
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Re: Has the European Conference League worked?
By: guest42 Date: March 23, 2022, 12:51 pm
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Any competition that sees Mourinho well and truly embarrassed
6-1 at the Aspmyra Stadion is automatically an excellent idea in
my book
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