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Feel just as nervous if not more for this than I was before Spurs. HTL, 3 points please.

Sheff Wed and their fans too busy arguing about their shithole stadium to focus on getting out of the third tier of English football. Hilarious stuff.

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Not a chance that the likes of Slovan Bratislava, Larnaca, Mura and Djurgarden get past the sides in the Conference League that have been usual suspects in the higher competitions, like. The quarter finalists and semi finalists of this season's and last season's UECL have proved that.

Okay I get that, but why not just expand the CL and EL instead? Extra teams in the group stage, a round of 32 in the CL and an extra round post group stage in the EL? I don't see why that couldn't have happened instead of a tertiary competition being created.

I don't know why the UECL exists tbph. If they wanted clubs from lesser leagues involved in UEFA competitions they should've either expanded the Europa League or had the UECL as a tournament for just those lesser leagues, offering a chance of getting into the Europa League by winning it rather than being dumped out of third or fourth qualifying round which is what tended to happen. Either that or bring the Cup Winners' Cup back.

Golazzo di Roma

This Roma game has been shit tbh. Stop-start, no quality, neither side has had the ball for any meaningful amount of time in the opposition's third. Third Europa League game I've watched this season and they've been a triumvirate of shiiiiiite.

Roma v Leverkusen for me. Bit of #scouting of Diaby.

Win on Saturday and we only need 4 points from 2 back to back home matches. Got the jitters about Saturday for no real justifiable reason though.

Without wanting to make it sound like an insult to him as I really like him but it's mad how even bloody YouTubers like James Allcott are far better than pundits these days. That lot on BT, fuck me. Awful. Humphrey gets a pass from a few of our fans because he did to be fair get it spot on regarding Ashley, but I've always thought he's always been absolutely desperate to be liked. At times he's too far up our hoop to the point where it gets cringe. All of the apparently flagship pundits on there are terrible, I'd never go out of my way to listen what they have to say about a specific match, bit of play or just the game in general. Whereas if Carragher was doing a section of MNF on us I'd 9 times out of 10 tune in. They have people there as well that they just don't use. I'm not a huge fan of James Horncastle as I think he's a bit holier-than-thou but he does know his stuff and articulates it well on camera. Just needs a whole revamp.

Don't watch too much CL or EL at all until the latter stages but that'll change next season *touch wood*. Hope the coverage isn't this lifting but I won't hold my breath. BT have the rights to every Serie A match with journalists specialised in Italian football doing the punditry; think they also have European football journalists as the pundits on their CL/EL goals roundup shows but they stick with that triumvirate of doom on commentary and four horsemen of the apocalypse on punditry for an all Italian CL semi final. So shit.

State of Milan. No midfield, just vibes.

Hate how much he feels the need to constantly talk. Matterface-esque.

Milan are so open its outrageous. Inter look like they're gonna score every time they go forward.

Never a pen. Amazed at these morons on BT. "Stonewall" ffs.

Maddison is a quality footballer and seems the perfect kind of character from interviews for what Howe is building here in terms of that no dickhead policy. Been poor for Leicester of late but if it wasn't for him and his form earlier in the season they'd be down already. Great player and I'd love to have him here, though where he fits into our 4-3-3 I don't know. Also unsure whether signing him would scupper a Diaby/Raphinha type deal if we're looking to play him on the right of the attacking 3.

Doing rainbow flicks, man. Unreal.

Love watching Vini Jr. So good.

Just a load of phlegm from him.

"¡Puta madre!" from that fella you can hear on BT.

This somehow came up on the timeline, fuck me we were shit.

Out of interest I looked at what other PL clubs charge for CL tickets. Liverpool charge exactly the same prices for CL as they do for league matches. £53-£59 for the Main Stand/pitchside stands, £37-£48 for the Anfield Road and Kop ends behind the goals. They also only charge juniors £9 for anywhere in the ground. Can't find any info on Man City but I do know some of their fans have had a huge go at the club both this season and last for what they charge for league matches. They were charging ~£70 for a seat in the upper tier in one of the main stands for a rearranged Thursday night game v Spurs in the winter on Sky. Chelsea charge £35 nigh on across the board everywhere in the ground in the group stage, but that almost doubles to £55-£70 depending on where the seat in the ground is in the round of 16. Then it goes up again for the quarters and semis, £65-£76.

Aye. IIRC (may be wrong, I was only 12 ) for the Europa League under Pardew they sold tickets just like how they do for cup matches now, so ST holders only get the 19 league matches but get first dibs on their seat before member sale. Will probably just be that.

Bizarre. The prestige of it or interest in it not there? Just having a quick look at the home gates from .com match reports from 02-03; Feyenoord: 40,540, 1500 away fans Juventus: 48,570, <300 away fans Dynamo Kyiv: 40,185, 150 away fans Inter: 50,108, number of away fans not in report Bayer Leverkusen: 40,508, 200 away fans Barcelona: 51,833, 181 away fans Wasn't just us. Even now fans of clubs from countries that don't really have away fan culture like Spain would bring at least 2k to games in England now surely?