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yeah the only teams certain of which side of the draw now are qualifiers like us, so we couldn't play psg/gala/juve/real until final now

Also torn, would fancy Barca trip after going over and the game being called off in 02, but Chelsea much easier on paper, and could be Spurs/Atleti after that. Although part of me thinks we raise game for european opponents and chelsea would just turn into usual premier league away loss.

agree, from what i understand if we progress again could be spurs/liverpool/atleti/bruges

Does anyone know if we would find out the dates on Friday, or just opponents?

all of Englands are I think.

Yeah defo legit from second season I believe.

That new badge thing looks like the snide ones shoot used to do on posters etc

Why not try it with one of the other team new ones if they’re up there?

How can you loosely follow another premier league side? Not having a go just genuine question, they’re too big for the ‘look for their results’ criteria.

Probably but by virtue of the Welsh cup, Merthyr got to the cwc 1/4 in the 80s even and beat Atalanta at home.

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Can’t have been many times us and the mackems have both been in round 5, part of the reason we didn’t draw them for so long was both being so bad and not progressing far. Hope it’s not them.

2-2 Celtic now, totally football show reckon loads of Aberdeen fans don't want Hearts to win the league so they don't lose status of being last non OF to win it.

Sunderland has an asian community too, and have an Asian mayor now.

Don't think we should be casting aspersions on diversity, tyne and wear and the NE as a whole is fairly similar, maybe Newcastle a bit more diverse due to size but Northumberland, North Tyneside etc fairly similar. Newcastle is probably the whitest of the bigger cities for example, compared to even Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol etc.

I wonder what the club would set prices at for the lesser European games, would be tricky to gage. Anywhere near the champions league prices and there would be empty seats although they have the fear element of missing out on a potential final.

that was Europa, probably the last one of those I watched! Final is in Istanbul (Besiktas) next year, Europa is Frankfurt.

yeah but you have a two leg qualifier so amounts to the same number of games.

other one was for 300, one had palace, one had villa, I have personally cursed dyche I feel, 30+ shots!

Couldn't decide between palace or forest, took forest in my other one, did consider Man U so bullet dodged.

My hatred for Spurs has wavered over the years but its easy to see why people wouldn't like them , since I got into football in the early 90s they were seen as one of the big 5 despite never really doing anything in the league after winning the cup in 91 with England's gazza and Lineker. A bit of a media club too, Ginola and Parker winning player of the year there summing this up. Then after an upturn and some champions league appearances they are somehow considered part of the toxic big 6, getting thei badge on cadburys products et al, despite being largely average and rarely competing for domestic honours. London is a loophole for psr they can charge ore for tickets than say us, Burnley or Safc etc and have beyonce/nfl on too. Just look at the emergence of southern clubs like brentford, Bournemouth and brighton and demise of like of Bolton, Blackburn and sheff wed to name but a few and I feel apart from being poorly ran geography definitely is a factor. I know some spurs fans who are sound too although I've heard more than one say they often struggles as they are a few teams biggest game - West Ham, Chelsea and Arsenal, which is probably not true.

they have arsenal next, I don't think they will go down but they are certainly in the conversation, if only west ham held on last night.

thats the only one of the tees I still own, and the fleece jacket.

with trips to Liverpool and Man City coming up where we traditionally get nowt.

Concur that cl has gone for us now. Still important to get some sort of European football though.