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I haven't really seen much panicking. But then I'm not looking for it either.

That's hilariously pathetic 😂 One thing to turn up with a few flags, it's another to film it from a drone as if it was some rousing pre-battle scene from a Ridley Scott film.

The Premier League is 17 teams with three EFL guests so, when you put it like that, more than a third of the division qualifies for the Champions League now.

Really like that, will look class with white shorts and green socks. I know, Saudi. But the trouble is, dark green and white makes for a class footy kit.

Let’s make sure we take a moment and watch those replays again. We won a fucking trophy. Fuck the UCL, fuck PSR, fuck what percentage of revenue we spend on wages. this year will never be repeated and all of us that were here to see it; we are the luckiest and righteous of all of them.

Read that Trafford wants £100k a week. I hope we look elsewhere.

The ones with the chriss cross background are always fakes.

The Europa competitions are probably in a bit of an existential crisis now, certainly in terms of being an honour in their own right. The Conference League title will mean very little if there's always an English team of Chelsea's strength munching through the competition with their second string. Then again, Olympiacos pulled off a shock last season and Betis might yet do the same. Perhaps there's not enough of a carrot to guarantee the English clubs won't treat it with disdain (like Spurs did under Conte). There's a slim hope that variety will prevail but ultimately every season will be about stopping a default Premier League victor. What is really depressing is that the same will seemingly now apply to the Europa League, meaning a once great competition has been completely undermined by the structural changes. The double-whammy of having the very significant carrot of CL qualification, plus no CL dropouts to contend with, means it's far too winnable for PL teams to disregard. It's quite telling that this year is only the second time we've ever had an all-English final in the history of the tournament. I would love to see the side-effects of binning the prize of CL qualification.

It just seems so wrong Spurs or Man Utd will be in the CL next season.

I miss the old Bellamy-style bending the run from out wide, to between the centre-backs, to through on goal (to often hit at the keeper or wide tbf), but when the interpretation became more black & white, we've stopped seeing this as often. Law change would bring it back.

To clear this up. I remember being gutted that you'd fluked that cup final against a hungover City and stolen our rightful Europa place. However, now that it has been generally agreed as being a FARCE of a competition, it seems you actually did us a favour, because we wouldn't have wanted to be in it after all. Watched the end of your game and Amorim seemed genuinely chuffed walking down the steps. Nor has he come across badly to me in Interviews overall. Which is annoying, since we're all waiting for him to whip off his lizard mask and eat a mouse, like in V. But in seriousness, what do you reckon to Spurs in the final and your chances?

Said it before but I miss the days where they would release a kit and it was a surprise. Seen 250 variations of each one by the time they release the cunts nowadays. Same with transfers. You actually want whatever player it is to move to a different club because it’s been that much of a saga by the time the transfer happens. Wish clubs would put some of embargo in place.

Tbf they had loads of Injuries and unlike man united have been having to fight Top 4 in la liga while going in europa last season. If you dont have the depth for it then this is what ends up happening.

Surely can't be the only person wanting Sunderland promoted? I quite miss derby days and the opportunity to shag them twice a season.

Not close at all.

This is pretty close but from memory there are more stripes.

I assume it's only playing parts of your body, but aye, someone like Isak just needs to stick a leg out.

That sponsor is an eye sore.

That is a disgraceful effort from Bilbao over two legs. To concede 7 goals To one of the premier leagues most toothless sides takes some doing.

it's sad the way things are going but an English side winning a European trophy nowadays is not the special achievement it used to be all the money is now in the PL, the likes of West Ham and Bournemouth spend way more on transfers/wages than 95% of clubs in the Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese leagues and obviously dwarf the smaller leagues in spending the gap between the PL and Europe will only continue to grow and grow until English clubs are completely dominant sure we'd expect to win the Conference and be amongst the favourites for the EL if Spurs win the EL the best team they'll have faced will be MU, and we all know how shite they are relative to almost every other PL side all English finals are also shite that said I'd still happily celebrate us winning any European trophy

absolute garbage

Tbh, I think coefficients are less important in the new version. Having a low coefficient previously would seemingly inevitably lead to getting a group that was very difficult to qualify out of. Now, whilst you still likely get two (maybe three) very difficult games, you also likely get 2-4 (at least) that are eminently winnable, so you probably have a better chance of qualifying regardless of how low your coefficient is.

They were better side today for much of the game - subs / goal changed it

Bilbao couldn't score against 10 man Rangers. The teams are awful in the Europa. They may be good in their own league but they don't have the depth to properly compete in europa seriously.

Yeah I’ve no real problems with that as should be more balanced on the whole next season. We would be the team from pot four who teams would want to avoid.