People don’t hate the CL because of the footy played on the strip of grass between two teams... it’s because of the corrupt governing body and their FFP, for allowing debt to ruin the game but doing their utmost to get rid of the likes of City Malaga Leicester and Atalanta for daring the rock the Cartel’s boat, for colluding with the G14 to extend qualifying places to fit them all in, for seeding the group stages so the same teams always qualify for the KO stages, for brushing of racism under the carpet, that 8-4 bent game those years back, for that corrupt refereeing performance in the Chelsea v Barcelona semifinal, them banning Kyiv fans from the Ro16 but then reinstating them as soon as they pulled City out of the hat, them not doing anything about Moscow letting fans in when they were supposed to be banned against us, for fining City more for coming out late than Porto for racist chanting, for fining City more for six bookings (of which about two should have been given) than for Porto’s fans racist chanting, for warning City about our conduct for chanting “you’re not incredible” at Hulk, for making clubs move home fans from their seats to accommodate corporate away fans, the G14/Cartel, UEFA appointing the main Cartel CEOs as the main UEFA board members, them wanting to change the rules in case the Cartel finish outside their CL places in various countries can still get into the CL, them cutting and pasting bits of different emails together to make us look guilty for something we didn’t do, for banning Pellegrini pointing out corrupt refereeing, foe their continual corrupt refereeing, for the Jesus “offside” goal at Anfield, for the DSilva no penalty at Anfield, for the Sterling no penalty at Anfield, for the Sané “offside” goal at the Etihad, for the Milner handball not given at the Etihad, for not allowing City to retake the penalty at Spurs for encroachment, for not showing the ref different angles of the supposed Lorente handball, for banning Pep for simply pointing out corrupt refereeing... I could probably go on and on!
If it was one or two things you could understand but the whole thing from top to bottom is a corrupt load of shite, so I can understand why people hate it.
To me personally, this makes me want to win it more, but I don’t begrudge any City fan if they never watch a single second of the disgrace of a competition.