Comments on: UEFA Cup becomes UEFA Europa League

By: Jambo

Jambo — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:32:10 +0000

yoni; Spurs in the top 5!!!!! ha ha ha ha ha

By: tigerpete

tigerpete — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:35:26 +0000

I agree with yoni, too many clubs who can’t compete at this level are being entered into the competition, and im saying that as a hull city fan, and we could well finish in a european position come the end of the season (9th) as for the changing of the format, its another one of Platini’s shite ideas

By: yoni

yoni — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:15:24 +0000

Champions League should all leagues of europe with only the champions from each. Then make the Uefa Cup(Europa) host teams such as PL 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th(chelski,the arse,pool,spurs, etc) then the cup will be more significant with larger clubs like a barca when RM win la liga and juve and inter if AC win and so on…

By: Jambo

Jambo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:52:05 +0000

This competition is ****. I’m an Ipswich fan and we were in it in 2002/03 as a championship side the year after we were relegated because we finished top of the fair play league, how **** is that? and I’m saying that as a fan

By: dnc1888

dnc1888 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:56:31 +0000

shut yer hole ya hun

zenit never cheated they beat yous fairly

get it up ya mohn eh hoops

By: a

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:24:23 +0000

rangers are the true uefa cup holders as in a months time, it will be handed it to them because zenit cheated!

By: ayack

ayack — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:16:46 +0000

ik hou van twente voor altijd gehaalt

By: augustus

augustus — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:25:52 +0000

The reason the UEFA Cup was and will remain irrelevant is not the format, it’s because they reach deeper and deeper down into the leagues to get the entrants. That won’t change.

These are second string clubs, and at best the big ones fallen on hard times (Bayern last year, for example) competing against each other. It’s the FA Trophy of European club football. No format changes will ever prevent that.

If UEFA really had the vision they’d have just the one competition, with exemptions for the champion clubs and cup winner’s – those who have actually won things – and the other clubs fighting for the right to join them in a league format in a series of home and away preliminary sudden death knockouts.

Clubs like Juventus, Arsenal and Barcelona should not have exemptions if they have not earned it, they should compete with teams from the recesses of the Greek, Armenian or Ukrainian first division for their place.

By: BRN442

BRN442 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:10:26 +0000

You may not like it but re-branding is crucial to any business entity. The UEFA Cup dipped in relevence due to the expansion of the champions league and almost became irrelevent. The last few seasons have seen its resurgance – thats a good thing for football. Now if UEFA had the balls to bar Champions league losers from parachuting to the 2nd stage.

By: Jambo

Jambo — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:30:53 +0000

They’ve ruined the competition, it used to be hard to win. Christ, even McDonut got Boro to the final so it must be ****.