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It's difficult to have a debate with someone as wilfully ignorant as you appear to be. If you'd bothered reading the responses to your earlier posts, you'd have known that Hamburg beat Real Madrid in their semi-final and 'bang average' Bruges beat Juventus. You seem more preoccupied by the fact...

It's probably had more of an impact on the town centre than it's had on the club. Average attendances at the new stadium are generally higher than they were for the last few seasons at Burnden. Don't forget that there's a generation of supporters who were born after the club moved and have...

The examples you've provided demonstrate your distinct lack of knowledge of European football back then. As does your comment that it was 'easier to win'.

Teams had to win their league first before they even got to enter the European Cup. English teams effectively played a 42 game group stage before the knockout rounds started.

If you're saying that teams like Forest could never win it now, then that's a different argument. The original point was that it was easier to win the European Cup than the Champions League because the opposition wasn't as good, which is just not true. The teams that Forest and Liverpool faced...

What's that got to do with the last sentence of #17?

How was it easier to pull off a shock and win the competition back then? For a start teams had to win their respective league. Then the 'smaller' teams had to beat the bigger teams to even reach the final. Bruges beat Juventus in the semi-final before facing Liverpool in the final in 1978...

You're dismissing some very good teams there. Eastern European teams like Dynamo Dresden and Dynamo Berlin were state funded and their best players weren't allowed to leave. Borussia Mönchengladbach were one of 'Europe's elite' at the time. They also had Allan Simonsen, the European...

Whoever they hired to find a location that looked like Manchester in 'The Looming Tower', has obviously never been there.

A big thank you to the players who refused to play for that parting gift. I hope none of them are planning on staying.

The hotel has been closed for a while as the previous owner of the club hasn't paid the staff.

A sale may be easier in administration. Buyers won't have to pay off £40M of debt for a start.

Why does the top flight in Scotland only consist of 12 teams? Wouldn't it be better to have 16 teams playing each other twice a season rather than four times a season?

Sportscene on BBC Scotland is quite a good watch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004y62/sportscene-05052019 They showed some of the lower league games as well as the top flight matches at the weekend. It's pretty alarming to see some of the sparse crowds in the top flight, Aberdeen's...

Half-time. Huesca 0 Valencia 5. Wonder if Huesca will bother coming out for the second half?

4-0 after 30 minutes. Huesca appear to have given up defending. They now need to score at least five to stay up.

20 minutes in and Valencia already 3-0 up!

More singles were sold in 1979 than any year. It's not surprising when you see that list, it's incredible to think that they were all released in the same year. And we had TOTP as well, bringing them all into our living rooms in prime time. What a time to be alive!

Captain Fantastic. Heartwarming and quite funny in places. Decent film.

Interview with the band: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48146646 New single from the album 'In The End':