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Keep laughing at the thought of being an Arsenal fan this morning. They must be feeling a bit like Frank Grimes; how wonderful.

He was drinking water every time they were took - hence why he's not in any

Nope...

Feel like they can have their name back for a bit. I'm sure they'll earn the Roflham Lolspurs title again in due course.

Not seeing Isak in the training photos?

That's not the thought experiment though... We're on about trophies aren't we?

Exactly this.

Heard Australia is pretty good this time of year.

He'll come good. He's still feeling his way back in. He peaked this season right before the injury. Over the 2 legs vs Arsenal he was brilliant. Just needs to refind his mojo

I came in here to feel bad for them but welp!

They were always picking the Liverpool game because of the presentation.

Sky don’t care about which game is the better watch.

Surely city at Fulham would have been a better watch over Liverpool v Palace, neither have anything to play for.

Teams play 8 different teams - 2 from each pot. So every teamfaces two pot 1 sides, 2 from pot 2 etc. So everyone gets the same spread of difficulty more or less. Thats my understanding anyway.

Basically

Aye as they're in the CL next season. If they have any sense they'll bin Ange and bring in someone like Iraola, their squad isn't bad.

Catts for me like

I don’t mind it, the 4 way split multiscreen is next level.

That bloke makes the thicker than castle walls, cemented with whale spunk McKola appear like a genius by comparison

100%! I had a house full round mine from 5am before the Cup match due to the ridiculous 9am meet at SJP for the coaches - we ended up on the last coach back and didn’t get into a boozer in town until after 6pm and were completely sober whereas everyone was steaming! Shite!

I do agree with that assessment. If it wasn’t for fan nerves anyway. We all should if we’re thinking logically.

Can confirm as a paying customer. It's a terrible platform, but at least we can watch whatever we want. DAZN used to have everything, including Cup's and UEFA tournaments.

Its changed since we were in CL last there are no groups anymore you get drawn against 4 teams and play them home and away. As new-look Champions League begins, here's how the format works The UEFA Champions League is back, but not how we've ever seen it before. Some changes are simple, others are more complicated, and a few might seem a bit of a mystery until we get to Let's start with the basics. This season marks the first time in 21 years that we've had a format change for Europe's top club competition. For the previous 21 seasons, 32 teams qualified and were drawn into eight groups of four. The top two teams went through to the round of 16, with third dropping into the UEFA Cup/Europa League and fourth eliminated from Europe. We now have 36 teams, but they are no longer drawn into groups. Instead, we have the Champions League "league phase." So, how does it work? • Teams were drawn to play eight fixtures, four at home and four away • Teams in positions 25 to 36 are eliminated in January • The 16 teams in positions 9 through to 24 play in the knockout phase playoffs, in February, to earn a place in the round of 16 • The top eight go straight through to the round of 16, played in March Also new for this year: it's no longer possible to drop into the Europa League from the Champions League (or into the Conference League from the Europa League). Once you're out, you're out. From the knockout phase playoffs onwards, the competition retains its two-legged format through to the semifinals, with a traditional one-legged final, but with limited draws -- more on that later. Ok, so how were the fixtures created? Rather than groups, the Champions League draw created individual eight-game fixture lists for each of the 36 participants. Not much changed in how the draw looked on paper, as there were still four pots of teams that contained nine clubs rather than eight. But there were still some notable adjustments given the expanded field. How seeding changed Pot 1 used to house the holders of the Champions League and Europa League, plus the champions of the top six domestic leagues. Pots 2 through 4 would then be ordered by strength based on UEFA's club coefficient, which ranks clubs on performance in Europe over the previous five seasons. Now only the Champions League titleholders were automatically in Pot 1, all other positions are based upon the UEFA club coefficient. This is intended to give a sliding scale of strength down through the pots, so teams face two opponents from each bracket. However, the new Champions League format means the pot you are in has less relevance, as teams were drawn to play two clubs from their own pot. Under the old system, being in Pot 1 could give you a more generous draw, as you couldn't play teams from the strongest pot in the group phase. There were two main principles to the draw this season: • No club could play another team from their own league (for example, Arsenal couldn't play Aston Villa) • A club could play no more than two teams from one country (as Arsenal drew Inter and Atalanta, they couldn't then play Bologna)

We’re talking about a superstar player here who needs to go for superstar prices, £90m and we can start to talk