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Who said anything about sacking him like? What, you don't remember saying it!?

Not really been following this much, but does no one else find it ridiculous Manchester got this, as well as the Commonwealth games? Not that I'm arsed about the Common' Games as a spectacle, but surely it regenerated that area of Manchester enough (I think the Casino is going in the same area)?

Christ, just realised it's the 28th. Another glorious transfer window, quite impressed with how much I managed to switch off during it. Anyone expected anything different?

His intentions will be hampered along the way and compromises will have to made, which will even things out, but in general, it's not a bad direction if it's done right. If next season the top 3 from every nation got in it would be a farce, but when it's done gradually it can help the teams in those nations. The teams I can best think of that have benefited from a fairer CL are Celtic and Rangers. They used to take regular roastings in Europe just to pick up that yearly 10 or 20 million quid. Now, not so much Rangers, bar last year, they're a pretty decent force. Sadly it has a knock on effect in that the rich just get stronger in their countries, but someone is always going to lose out. This'll improve the UEFA cup, which isn't a bad thing, due to the utter Mickey Mouse nature it is beginning to pick up. Another thing, unless it happens to be your team, people are always spitting the fucking shits when a fourth place team wins it. Fucking make your minds up.

And then actually consider how likely that is. A lot of people are making some wild, baseless assumptions.

Get into the top 3 then. The CL will NOT be turned into a farce because the 4th place team from 4 or 5 leagues will miss out. I mean, what will that be? 5 less teams? Get real. It's gutting news, don't get me wrong, for us more so than yourself. 4th is a realistic, perhaps one-off, aim, at least you lot have a realistic chance of 3rd for the next couple of seasons. But it's hardly going to have the disasterous effect people are trying to claim. The top four in these leagues are just getting a bit edgy in case the miss out the odd season that teams invariably slip up in.

Now I don't agree with that. Anway, will he not have a long way to go before all his promises are even in the pipeline? Naver mind any hurdles (if there is any) he may have to jump to get approval?

I've not read much on what he has to say, to be fair, but like I said, on the 3 team limit I have to agree. 4 linesmen seems fairly sensible too. Be interested to see what he's said on other things if that's the impression you've got like. I've never seen his comments on the 4 linesmen. What happens if one gives offside and the other doesn't? No idea, not seen the comments either, merely noticed someone mentioning it here. But I can't imagine that being too much of a problem, probably be left to the referee to decide, I assume.

I've not read much on what he has to say, to be fair, but like I said, on the 3 team limit I have to agree. 4 linesmen seems fairly sensible too. Be interested to see what he's said on other things if that's the impression you've got like.

It's a gutter, as 4th was basically our (optimistic) aim for the next few years, but in principle I agree on the 3 team limit. Better for the long-term. Alternatively, they could've just renamed the Champions League, considering there are more runners up in it than champions. I would've been happy with that. I've nowt against seeing the best against the best, but I don't want to see it under the pretence of Champions. It'll be better for Europe long-term, as it'll improve smaller teams as they begin to build up money gained from year after year of qualifications. By no means will this be any good in the short term. Much happier with Platini at the helm than some of the previous wretches.

Had to laugh at a Rangers fan earlier over this. "Fuck, I wouldn't even have him for us." Followed by plenty of sniggering, don't worry.

What number's that now?

Was thinking the same thing. Didn't like to say.

I think all the PMs were restored, just there, but I'm not sure why RobertT showed up first (did with me too).

and.....? That's a FACT.

Nope.

Normally they rank you in terms of how many posts you've made, but due to us having post counts off it just gives everyone 5 stars. We'll probably remove it at some point.

I believe you can only see hotmaill address, not your actual signed up accounts. Whether that happens to be the same as your MSN account, then so be it.

Red writing gone.

But never fear, cause he's back.

No idea, but they're gone.

Yeah, I'm needing to create categories to do that, but there's a small problem with that just now. Get done later.

Now.