Might as well get this started, didn't think Corky should be the one to start it this season with United in Europa. That and who knows when I will get another opportunity.
Champions League Pot 1 Real Madrid Barcelona Leicester Bayern Juventus Benfica PSG CSKA Moscow Champions League Pot 2 Atletico Dortmund Arsenal Man City (probably) Sevilla Porto (probably) Napoli Leverkusen
Qualification gets underway today. Below are today's matchups: Zrinjski (Bih) -Legia (Pol) Dinamo Tbilisi (Geo)-Alashkert (Arm) Qarabag (Aze)-Dudelange (Lux) H. Beer Sheva (Isr)-Sheriff Tiraspol (Mda) BATE (Blr)-SJK (Fin) Lincoln Red Imps (Gib)-Celtic (Sco) TNS (Wal)-APOEL (Cyp) Valletta (Mlt)-FK Crvena zvezda (Srb) Salzburg (Aut)-FK Liepaja (Lat) Vardar (Mac)-D. Zagreb (Cro)
Also Lincon Red Imps from Gibraltar is my new favorite soccer team name, this is their crest: And their stadium with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background:
All of the teams in Gibralter play in that stadium. Iirc they are building a new stadium since they joined Uefa
They got bailed out at this stage last year when some Eastern Euro club subbed on an ineligible player and in the last few minutes of the second leg with Celtic being down by more than 1 goal. I'd expect the Imps to have their shit together.
Qarabağ2-0Dudelange H. Beer-Sheva3-2Sheriff Valletta1-2Crvena zvezda TNS0-0APOEL BATE2-0Seinäjoki Lincoln1-0Celtic Salzburg1-0Liepāja Vardar1-2Dinamo Zagreb
Out of the Lincoln Red Imps Starting XI, only 5 players are full time footballers. The rest: 2 police officers, a customs officer, a laborer, a civil servant, and a shipping agent. I also saw somebody tweet that Lincoln Red Imps hadnt updated their twitter status yet because the social media manager was marking the Scottish captain in the game. A Scottish reporter also said that when he arrived at Gibraltar he was talking to the guy at the counter helping him book a cab and he told him that he hoped Lincoln Red Imps had a good game to which the guy at the counter replied me too, I play for them.
Anyway here are today's games: 13:15 Rosenborg (Nor) -Norrkoping (Swe) 13:15 Zalgiris (Ltu)-FC Astana (Kaz) 13:30 Ludogorets (Bul)-Mladost Podgorica (Mne) 14:00 Crusaders (Nir)-FC Copenhagen (Den) 14:00 Partizani (Alb)-Ferencvaros (Hun) 14:30 O. Ljubljana (Slo)-Trencin (Svk) 14:45 Dundalk (Irl)-Hafnarfjordur (Ice)
so sky ran with all those stats Gunners posted. Turns out they got it from some dude who just made shit up in Twitter.
Results: Rosenborg (Nor) 3 - 1 Norrkoping (Swe) Zalgiris (Ltu) 0 - 0 FC Astana (Kaz) Ludogorets (Bul) 2 - 0 Mladost Podgorica (Mne) Crusaders (Nir) 0 - 3 FC Copenhagen (Den) Partizani (Alb) 1 - 1 Ferencvaros (Hun) O. Ljubljana (Slo) 3 - 4 Trencin (Svk) Dundalk (Irl) 1 - 1 Hafnarfjordur (Ice)
monaco fener is one sweet matchup for this round. Salzburg vs Ferencvaros is going to be pretty good as well
How neat would it be if they got bounced? I'm going with pretty neat. It wouldn't be a good look for the coefficient though.
Well we are going to make the quarters just like every other time we've been in the CL, maybe you guys could chip in with something other than R16 for once.
That is something I could get on board with. When it comes down to it, Chelsea and United really are the worst.
There are much worse fans here Well Shadow did go to Tennessee for his honeymoon. Still him because he support the best damn club in the land
We aren't talking about just here, you guys are alright in my book as far as TSB posters go. Just the worst in general. You guys are a distant 2nd to Chelsea in that regard though.