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Original Dub wrote:I dreamt of us playing in the Champions League because I used to love the drama of watching it as a neutral.

Now that I kick every ball, I just find it frustrates the shit out of me. I hate that the refs blow for every bit of contact, meaning the teams with the smallest/cheating/diving players tend to reach the latter stages. The ones who know how to "play the game".
"You have to adapt to the Champions League" is a common lump of shit line thrown at us from robot pundits. Adapt? Learn to work the ref more like.

We have a team built to play fair and that will work in every competition except the Champions League.
I want to win it, just to say we won everything.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch it. And I'll watch the latter stages after we're knocked out. Because I'll be neutral again and I can relax and watch the soap opera... enjoying it with a couple of beers and without it affecting me any more than the likes of True Detective or Breaking Bad did.

Wonderwall wrote:Bring Back the:
European Cup
UeFA Cup
Cup Winners Cup

and make every round a knockout round, stop all this fancy dan bollox, make each one a REAL COMPETITION

Wonderwall wrote:Bring Back the:
European Cup
UeFA Cup
Cup Winners Cup

and make every round a knockout round, stop all this fancy dan bollox, make each one a REAL COMPETITION

South Stand Balti wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Bring Back the:
European Cup
UeFA Cup
Cup Winners Cup

and make every round a knockout round, stop all this fancy dan bollox, make each one a REAL COMPETITION

I totally agree and I think this highlights the biggest problems with the Champs league. The group stages are a joke with teams scoring 6 or 7 goals all over the place. This makes them boring and shows it should just be the champions involved. I'm always grumbling about the Chsmps league but I must confess i was feeling happy about it when we were 2 up at half time. I'm in the cup scheme and will remain in it.

Goaters 103 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:Bring Back the:
European Cup
UeFA Cup
Cup Winners Cup

and make every round a knockout round, stop all this fancy dan bollox, make each one a REAL COMPETITION

Id agree wholeheartedly but sadly the Uefa cartel and G14 would choke at the thought.

Only 1 team from each country in the Champions Lge? That wont create nearly enough money in the trough to get their snouts stuck in to.

john@staustell wrote:

Mikhail Chigorin wrote:

Bridge'srightfoot wrote:I remember a few years ago watching the likes of Liverpool and rags in the competition and the atmosphere in big games was electric, it was like a cauldron, like watching the hamburg game and a bit more. I wanted to see us on those big European nights and to see our stadium rocking. It just seems the fans have a really indifferent attitude to this competition. We've played barca, Madrid, bayern and dortmund in last few years and not once have we had a great atmosphere. Not even half of the hamburg atmosphere.

In the 1990s and the early part of this new century, I went a fair few times to the Swamp to watch some of the mid-week European games with a friend of mine who, although he is a Geordie, is a Scum fan (Just for the record, he used to get two tickets for himself and his son and if his son couldn't make it, he used to ask me. He had a beautiful Alfa 164 which I used to love and it was worth going, just for the pleasure of riding in that car).

From what I can recall, although the Swamp was pretty much full to capacity on such evenings, the 'atmosphere' was never much to write home about and the crowd were often quite subdued. To be fair, these were usually the earlier games in that competition, so the crowd reaction might have been different in the later stages.

All in all, it was nothing to shout home about and when, in 2002, he sold his 164, I didn't go after that.

Did you wash after?

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

london blue 2 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

anfield atmosphere shits all over the etihad unfortunately.

london blue 2 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

anfield atmosphere shits all over the etihad unfortunately.

Blue Since 76 wrote:Newcastle next week and CSKA the week afterwards. I know which one I'm looking forward to the most - the one against the team from the frozen land with the ugly fans you can't understand. The CSKA game on the other hand is boring me already.

As others have said, the Barca game last season was the final straw for me. I was really looking forward to seeing how good they were, yet all I saw was a team who were great at falling over and the referee was all over it. If that is football, give me a game vs Stoke any day

Original Dub wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

anfield atmosphere shits all over the etihad unfortunately.

Last night it was very similar to the atmosphere at cska.

No, they have an extremely catchy tune with a nice slow build up and can be sang in a long loop. They sing it before the match, aided by intercom... then they either sing it if they score, or at the end when they've been beaten.

It's very catchy.

There was no atmosphere last night, except for that gerry and the pacemakers song.

Bridge'srightfoot wrote:

Original Dub wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

anfield atmosphere shits all over the etihad unfortunately.

Last night it was very similar to the atmosphere at cska.

No, they have an extremely catchy tune with a nice slow build up and can be sang in a long loop. They sing it before the match, aided by intercom... then they either sing it if they score, or at the end when they've been beaten.

It's very catchy.

There was no atmosphere last night, except for that gerry and the pacemakers song.

Would agree with that.
Last season they did have a good atmosphere though mainly because they started games fast, they regularly came out like a steam train and got a couple of goals early and got the crowd in the mood.

Still, probably an upgrade on the atmosphere at ours the majority of the time.

Bridge'srightfoot wrote:

Original Dub wrote:

london blue 2 wrote:

Wonderwall wrote:maybe we could persuade our fans by creating an atmosphere of Anfield proportions, did you see the scouse1 ground bouncing last night....no? Thought Not Guffawwww.

anfield atmosphere shits all over the etihad unfortunately.

Last night it was very similar to the atmosphere at cska.

No, they have an extremely catchy tune with a nice slow build up and can be sang in a long loop. They sing it before the match, aided by intercom... then they either sing it if they score, or at the end when they've been beaten.

It's very catchy.

There was no atmosphere last night, except for that gerry and the pacemakers song.

Would agree with that.
Last season they did have a good atmosphere though mainly because they started games fast, they regularly came out like a steam train and got a couple of goals early and got the crowd in the mood.

Still, probably an upgrade on the atmosphere at ours the majority of the time.