Trumpet Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: CL FC Santa Coloma (Moldava) vs. Banants (Armenia) La Fiorita (San Marino) vs. Levadia Tallinn (Estonia) EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Sliema Wanderers (Malta) vs. Ferencváros (Hungary) Jeunesse Esch (Luxamburg) vs. Dundalk (Ireland) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapo Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 C'mon Dundalk! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Snrub Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Been looking forward to this since the draw was made. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Been looking forward to this since the draw was made. Such a simple joke, yet it's always so funny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Genuinely love all those first rounds of European football. I first started following them last year, after having a look at UEFA Coefficients. It's a great observation how a smaller nation can develop their country, rack up the coefficient points, and get more representatives as they move up the ladder. Every win gets them points and matter. Love studying football in developing nations, the formula to success and improvement looks so easy on paper, yet so few of them actually execute it properly. Be interesting to see smaller countries whose national team has come leaps and bounds (e.g. Iceland) can replicate the same in club football. I remember last year a Kazakhstan team was a 90th minute Celtic goal away from making group stages of Champions League. Gibraltar team play their first CL game tomorrow. Tromso (The team in Spurs' group who got relegated from the Norwegian league last year) is again in EL this year. Fewest number of Yellow and Red cards in the league last year got them a spot. That's their excuse sorted in case they fail to gain promotion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Impressed and slightly concerned at that level of interest Karagandy was the team, btw. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapo Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Dundalk win 2-0 in Luxembourg, Ritchie Towell with both goals. This is surely Towells last season in Ireland, I expect a bottom half Championship team to take a punt on him before the summer is out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Was planning to go to the Motherwell away game but it'll be either Bangor City or a team from just outside Reykjavik Was hoping for Poland or Hungary. Malta would be fun, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Was planning to go to the Motherwell away game but it'll be either Bangor City or a team from just outside Reykjavik Was hoping for Poland or Hungary. Malta would be fun, too. I've not been but everyone I know who has says Iceland is amazing. Bagnor, not so. Can fly from Edinburgh too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Genuinely love all those first rounds of European football. I first started following them last year, after having a look at UEFA Coefficients. It's a great observation how a smaller nation can develop their country, rack up the coefficient points, and get more representatives as they move up the ladder. Every win gets them points and matter. Love studying football in developing nations, the formula to success and improvement looks so easy on paper, yet so few of them actually execute it properly. Be interesting to see smaller countries whose national team has come leaps and bounds (e.g. Iceland) can replicate the same in club football. I remember last year a Kazakhstan team was a 90th minute Celtic goal away from making group stages of Champions League. Gibraltar team play their first CL game tomorrow. Tromso (The team in Spurs' group who got relegated from the Norwegian league last year) is again in EL this year. Fewest number of Yellow and Red cards in the league last year got them a spot. That's their excuse sorted in case they fail to gain promotion. Pissing their league already. No excuse to fuck it up. That division is half'n'half professional teams and semi-pro teams. Tromsø probably has the budget size of the reast of the 15 teams combined. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: CL FC Santa Coloma (Moldava) vs. Banants (Armenia) La Fiorita (San Marino) vs. Levadia Tallinn (Estonia) EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Sliema Wanderers (Malta) vs. Ferencváros (Hungary) Jeunesse Esch (Luxamburg) vs. Dundalk (Ireland) What is this nonsense?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: CL FC Santa Coloma (Moldava) vs. Banants (Armenia) La Fiorita (San Marino) vs. Levadia Tallinn (Estonia) EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Sliema Wanderers (Malta) vs. Ferencváros (Hungary) Jeunesse Esch (Luxamburg) vs. Dundalk (Ireland) Dunno why but it seems peculiar that we've played 2 of those in recent history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Was planning to go to the Motherwell away game but it'll be either Bangor City or a team from just outside Reykjavik Was hoping for Poland or Hungary. Malta would be fun, too. Outside of Reykjavik is incredible. The road to Selfoss is gorgeous. You lucky man, I'd defo make the trip if the Icelandic team makes it. 2 hours flight only as well. When I was there last month just outside of Reykjavik, before Selfoss, wanting to hike to get to natural hot springs, There is a football field and a game was being played in massive rain. I stopped by and asked if it's a pro game, ....was told it's 4th tier of Icelandic football . The weather will be at its finest, and if you avoid rain, you'll be in for a treat. Bank account will take a hit probably though. Finnbogason, Dutch league's top scorer last season, came from one of those small towns outside of Reykjavik, with population of 1000 people only. @ Kaziero, didn't know that. They should cope well then. Norwegian team got a pretty tough draw in CL, but the EL draw looks generous to Norwegian sides. http://i57.tinypic.com/2bel4p.png that picture has made me want to go so much But thanks for the info, the team is called Starjnan (the team with the funny celebrations) and is in Garðabær. Think the money thing is an issue as we don't have much. The scenery and landscape would be amazing, for sure, but I'm not convinced as an overall trip. Would eliminate Iceland from my "to see" places so I'd rather use it for a special part. This is going to be a couple of nights as opposed to a tour. Wales can fuck off, am I fuck going there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Tremendous day for Kazakhstan football. All 3 representatives beat their EL opponents in the first leg (2 of them away from home !!). Tromso is destroying Estonian representative 5-0 away from home into second half. No wonder Estonian coefficients are even lower than those of Luxamburg. On another note, Gibraltar's first ever CL appearance ended up in a 1-1 home draw vs. Faroe Island champions yesterday. Plenty of more games to be played today. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140408000304/creepypasta/images/9/9f/Cool-story-bro_542.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ^ Trust me it's a lot more fun than following transfer rumours and such during the summer. I'm a socialist, so fully on board with Platini to encourage developing football infrastructure in lesser countries. Just seen this Welsh team in EL named "Airbus UK Broughton" ...How do people come up with these names Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Just messing around Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ^ Trust me it's a lot more fun than following transfer rumours and such during the summer. Look at me! My team buys so many players that I have transfer fatigue. Would you like to see all my hope? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpet Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 ^ Trust me it's a lot more fun than following transfer rumours and such during the summer. Look at me! My team buys so many players that I have transfer fatigue. Would you like to see all my hope? To be fair, getting linked to crap like Ryan Bertrand and Dejan Lovren (to strengthen the weakest part of your team) when you were a slip away from winning the league, isn't the nicest of sights...in context. As you guys would know due to Pardew, I think proper coaching and management trumps all transfer activities, Moyes made Mata look like Matt Jarvis, whereas Fergie made Fletcher look like prime Edgar Davids for a few seasons. Transfers aren't worth getting worked up for, until you've seen how they fit in the team. Only people benefitting from transfer windows are attention whores like Harry Redknapp, Felix Magath, Indikayla and such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 It must be nice to be so laid back about the inevitability of transfers that you can see that it's all a farce. Sounds like you have more than four players on your team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I don't know why but I just did a quick look up of Gibraltar's league system, they seem to only have two division, one being added last season, Lincoln Red Imps have won the last 12 league titles, going back to 2002, and have a strong youth ethic. There is also a team called Manchester United, that seem to be consecutively 2nd. Also every team in the division plays in the same stadium, the stadium only seat's 5000 but it is pretty epic: http://cache.images.globalsportsmedia.com/soccer/venues/600x450/7821.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Been looking forward to this since the draw was made. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Champions League starts tonight. and same with Europa League. Notable ties of tonight: CL FC Santa Coloma (Moldava) vs. Banants (Armenia) La Fiorita (San Marino) vs. Levadia Tallinn (Estonia) EL Shkëndija (Macedonia) vs. Zimbru Chișinău (Moldova) Sliema Wanderers (Malta) vs. Ferencváros (Hungary) Jeunesse Esch (Luxamburg) vs. Dundalk (Ireland) Bit liberal with your definition of the word "notable" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-more Mag Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I don't know why but I just did a quick look up of Gibraltar's league system, they seem to only have two division, one being added last season, Lincoln Red Imps have won the last 12 league titles, going back to 2002, and have a strong youth ethic. There is also a team called Manchester United, that seem to be consecutively 2nd. Also every team in the division plays in the same stadium, the stadium only seat's 5000 but it is pretty epic: http://cache.images.globalsportsmedia.com/soccer/venues/600x450/7821.jpg That's awesome. I want to go. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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