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Post by Roaster©®™ on Jan 26, 2007 12:00:48 GMT -1
European football to benefit from having a younger, vastly experienced former pro at it's head? "Football is a game before it is a product, a sport before it is a market and a show before it is a business" news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6284365.stmJust need younger blood at FIFA and who knows - maybe at last football will be dragged into the 21st century. |
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Post by addicted2venos on Jan 26, 2007 12:09:58 GMT -1
Worringly though Platini was Sepp Blatter's choice for the job ...... so maybe they share similar views, which wouldn't be a good thing. As Blatters views on certain issues in football can accurately be described 'moronically stupid, bigoted madness'!!
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Post by Shippers on Jan 26, 2007 12:13:29 GMT -1
second that motion (A2V's that is) Blatters choice = football's enemy.
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Post by Roaster©®™ on Jan 26, 2007 12:14:41 GMT -1
Whilst I admire Platini wanting to restrict the number of clubs per country to 3 in the Champion's League - I'm a tad pissed pissed off the name hasn't changed. I might be old-fashioned but I'd much prefer to see European Club football's premier trophy being fought out by the respective country's League Winners - not he Runners Up and 3rd and 4th place also-rans.  |
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Post by thales on Jan 26, 2007 12:18:29 GMT -1
Whilst I admire Platini wanting to restrict the number of clubs per country to 3 in the Champion's League - I'm a tad pissed pissed off the name hasn't changed. I might be old-fashioned but I'd much prefer to see European Club football's premier trophy being fought out by the respective country's League Winners - not he Runners Up and 3rd and 4th place also-rans. true, but wouldnt have had as many european nights a few years ago... <memories, everybody needs memories....  > could be an interesting appointment, but in all honesty, if he's involved with uefa-fifa, you just know he wont be good for football |
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Post by ovechkin8 on Jan 26, 2007 12:48:35 GMT -1
Well I hope he can fight the ever greedy avaricious so called elite of Europe strangling the smaller clubs further.
Theres no limit to their greed & disrespect of footballs history. Only fair to see the champions in Eastern Europe being given a fairer crack of the whip as opposed to seeing the likes of Crevenz Zvedza (Red Star) or Sparta Praha having to play in prelim rounds with the likes of Linfield or Nicosia.
Hopefully he can depose Blatter soon from FIFA.
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Post by ESR on Jan 26, 2007 13:03:21 GMT -1
I think he said he wanted to get rid of the groups in the Champions League? which I would be all for, same with the UEFA Cup as well - these competitions need to be total knockouts but they are only leagues just to generate more money  |
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Post by gw on Jan 26, 2007 13:16:18 GMT -1
I think he said he wanted to get rid of the groups in the Champions League? which I would be all for, same with the UEFA Cup as well - these competitions need to be total knockouts but they are only leagues just to generate more money They should go back to the old format. Bring back the cup winners cup  |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 26, 2007 13:23:14 GMT -1
They should go back to the old format. Bring back the cup winners cup Agreed!  |
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Post by ESR on Jan 26, 2007 13:25:08 GMT -1
They should go back to the old format. Bring back the cup winners cup Agreed! Lets go back to how things were in the 90's eh?  |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 26, 2007 13:30:15 GMT -1
Agreed! Lets go back to how things were in the 90's eh? well yeah, so long as we stay in this division lol! |
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Post by gw on Jan 26, 2007 13:40:07 GMT -1
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has warned newly-elected Uefa president Michel Platini not to revamp the Champions League format. Platini wants to cut each country's maximum number of Champions League places from four to three. But Ferguson said: "The tournament really starts in February, but I think it is ok the way it is at the moment. "The appeal of the Champions League is when the giants of Spain or Italy or England come up against each other." Platini won an election in Dusseldorf to replace 77-year-old Swede Lennart Johansson as European football's most powerful figure. Ferguson added: "The Champions League has been good. If you go back a few years, there were maybe too many games with two qualifying groups because you had to play about 17 games to win it. "If you take away the fourth place teams, the only way to address that is by reducing the competition or by giving other countries two places." Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate, meanwhile, claims Platini's hopes of establishing a salary cap in football is desirable but unworkable. He said: "A salary cap generally or teams having a salary cap would, there is no question, make it a better and tighter league. "But we have to be realistic and in the modern world, people would always find a way around it. "Unfortunately, I suspect that would be a bit of a non-starter." Doesnt sound like Ferguson agrees |
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Post by ESR on Jan 26, 2007 13:41:37 GMT -1
Why should the 4th place team go into the Champions League though, 4th place isnt an achievement!
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 26, 2007 13:52:19 GMT -1
Why should the 4th place team go into the Champions League though, 4th place isnt an achievement! Well there's no obvious answer other than that the top three leagues in Europe each have at least 4 teams which are spectacularly good Prem - ManU, Arse, Chelsk, L'pool Liga - Real, Barca, Valencia, err... currently Sevilla! Serie A - Juve, Milan, Inter, Roma etc! Actually I may be talking out my arse...  |
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Post by Greenday Everyday on Jan 26, 2007 15:22:53 GMT -1
Platini comes across as a spoilt child, a french one at that. I'm not sure hes going to take Uefa any further forward, his appointment worries me somewhat.
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Post by C@V on Jan 26, 2007 20:07:17 GMT -1
We're fucked now!! Blatter has an ass licking French bell end to help him change world football for the worse! BRILLANT! FUCKING FRENCH TOOL!
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Post by Sterland (S4E) on Jan 26, 2007 20:11:30 GMT -1
Could be worse.. We let Sven Idiot Eriksson get to the top of our game on the strength of stirring Stan Collymores porridge.. We're fucked now!! Blatter has an ass licking French bell end to help him change world football for the worse! BRILLANT! FUCKING FRENCH TOOL! |
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Post by C@V on Jan 26, 2007 20:27:01 GMT -1
Could be worse.. We let Sven Idiot Eriksson get to the top of our game on the strength of stirring Stan Collymores porridge.. We're fucked now!! Blatter has an ass licking French bell end to help him change world football for the worse! BRILLANT! FUCKING FRENCH TOOL! How could it be worse a French man is the most powerful man in European football. |
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Post by gw on Jan 26, 2007 20:47:22 GMT -1
We're doomed  |
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Post by ESR on Jan 26, 2007 20:50:20 GMT -1
I'm expecting pink cards for diving, sin bins and probably ice rinks in football now |
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