No More Champions League For Me

[Skashion]

Not a great competition at all.

• Because of the way UEFA structures the competition you get dull repeats constantly. We've had Bayern three times and CSKA twice. Arsenal keep getting Dortmund. Variety is the spice of life, not in UEFA's competition it isn't.
• Games are often dull stop-start affairs because of European refereeing which doesn't allow long passages of play where teams can start to get disorganised and errors be exposed by decent football.
• Atmosphere is usually shite. Plenty of regulars don't go. When I look around me at Champions League matches about half the usual faces are missing. Considering I'm in 110 - the best place in the ground for atmosphere, so many regular singers missing doesn't bode well. I'd imagine due to high ticket prices. The away fans, facing expensive trips and supporting expensive elite clubs domestically, are usually very quiet as well. No-one in the Champions League has come anywhere near Poznan or Aris for their support.
• Fans not allowed too near the pitch in case they get in the way of advertising - which is, of course, what football is really all about. For UEFA competitions the first two rows are closed.
• Competition sponsored by major breweries, beer not sold separately, in fact not sold at all, because football fans can't be trusted with beer...

The competition is the living embodiment of everything that is wrong with modern football.

 

[M18CTID]

The greatest and most prestigious competition in the world.

A chance for City to show the world how good we are and finally this season I believe we have the players with the necessary experience to achieve victory and make it our finest hour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

I hear all these Liverpool fans bursting with pride who cannot wait for their team to step out at Anfield and dominate the football world again?????ha ha!!!.

And then you enter bluemoon and think the same type of excitement that will be generated by City fans on Bluemoon........and what do you get.

A load of people moaning, negativity, conspiracies, saying they are not going, they're gonna skip it, problems with the format........bloody hell.

How totally and utterly pathetic. Thank God we have plenty of proper fans who will give great support to their team when they really need it against the best club sides in the world.

this this this!!!!

While I've got some issues with the competition, I tend to agree. As it happens, I'm more pissed off that we've only got one decent away trip to look forward to in our group than the actual difficulty factor. Besides, we actually had quite an easy group last year which seems to have been forgotten by some.

 

[M18CTID]

this this this!!!!

Take a deep breath before you bury your head in the sand.

nearly said the same..It must be about to turn into whos the biggest blue thread....
its corrupt..fixed and im glad i wont be attending any of these games this season.
As I said last night..roll on the thread when the prices are announced.
Cant wait for a proper cup game..bring on Sheff Wednesday.

Not being funny but let's see if you change your tune if we get to the final in Berlin. I wouldn't mind betting that a fair chunk of those saying they're not attending any CL games this season suddenly perform an almighty fucking u-turn.

 

[BigJoe#1]

Enjoyed the trip to Barcelona but TBH the football for me was not enjoyable. I shall be swerving going to the games this season, if I travel it will be for the atmosphere amongst the Blues fans and watching the games in the bar.

I shan't be going to the home matches, it's a very long journey for me (us) but I will watch with interest on the telly.

Anyway, onwards and upwards looking forward to (hopefully) giving the clueless one an arse whipping tomorrow!

 

[razman]

the brilliant martin article highlighted the obvious issues of the UCL draw , but come on! its is our 4th continuous year of many to come

i really think the seeding and the draws will get better !! stay positive !!

 

[BigJoe#1]

Not a great competition at all.

• Because of the way UEFA structures the competition you get dull repeats constantly. We've had Bayern three times and CSKA twice. Arsenal keep getting Dortmund. Variety is the spice of life, not in UEFA's competition it isn't.
• Games are often dull stop-start affairs because of European refereeing which doesn't allow long passages of play where teams can start to get disorganised and errors be exposed by decent football.
• Atmosphere is usually shite. Plenty of regulars don't go. When I look around me at Champions League matches about half the usual faces are missing. Considering I'm in 110 - the best place in the ground for atmosphere, so many regular singers missing doesn't bode well. I'd imagine due to high ticket prices. The away fans, facing expensive trips and supporting expensive elite clubs domestically, are usually very quiet as well. No-one in the Champions League has come anywhere near Poznan or Aris for their support.
• Fans not allowed too near the pitch in case they get in the way of advertising - which is, of course, what football is really all about. For UEFA competitions the first two rows are closed.
• Competition sponsored by major breweries, beer not sold separately, in fact not sold at all, because football fans can't be trusted with beer...

The competition is the living embodiment of everything that is wrong with modern football.

Totally agree with all of the above!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Not a great competition at all.

• Because of the way UEFA structures the competition you get dull repeats constantly. We've had Bayern three times and CSKA twice. Arsenal keep getting Dortmund. Variety is the spice of life, not in UEFA's competition it isn't.
• Games are often dull stop-start affairs because of European refereeing which doesn't allow long passages of play where teams can start to get disorganised and errors be exposed by decent football.
• Atmosphere is usually shite. Plenty of regulars don't go. When I look around me at Champions League matches about half the usual faces are missing. Considering I'm in 110 - the best place in the ground for atmosphere, so many regular singers missing doesn't bode well. I'd imagine due to high ticket prices. The away fans, facing expensive trips and supporting expensive elite clubs domestically, are usually very quiet as well. No-one in the Champions League has come anywhere near Poznan or Aris for their support.
• Fans not allowed too near the pitch in case they get in the way of advertising - which is, of course, what football is really all about. For UEFA competitions the first two rows are closed.
• Competition sponsored by major breweries, beer not sold separately, in fact not sold at all, because football fans can't be trusted with beer...

The competition is the living embodiment of everything that is wrong with modern football.

Great post. Been to many Euro away trips and the Europa is better for fans. Amazing atmosphere in Poznan, Salonika, Porto, Schalke but plastic at Barca and Bayern. The CL is overhyped.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Not a great competition at all.

• Because of the way UEFA structures the competition you get dull repeats constantly. We've had Bayern three times and CSKA twice. Arsenal keep getting Dortmund. Variety is the spice of life, not in UEFA's competition it isn't.
• Games are often dull stop-start affairs because of European refereeing which doesn't allow long passages of play where teams can start to get disorganised and errors be exposed by decent football.
• Atmosphere is usually shite. Plenty of regulars don't go. When I look around me at Champions League matches about half the usual faces are missing. Considering I'm in 110 - the best place in the ground for atmosphere, so many regular singers missing doesn't bode well. I'd imagine due to high ticket prices. The away fans, facing expensive trips and supporting expensive elite clubs domestically, are usually very quiet as well. No-one in the Champions League has come anywhere near Poznan or Aris for their support.
• Fans not allowed too near the pitch in case they get in the way of advertising - which is, of course, what football is really all about. For UEFA competitions the first two rows are closed.
• Competition sponsored by major breweries, beer not sold separately, in fact not sold at all, because football fans can't be trusted with beer...

The competition is the living embodiment of everything that is wrong with modern football.

Great post. Been to many Euro away trips and the Europa is better for fans. Amazing atmosphere in Poznan, Salonika, Porto, Schalke but plastic at Barca and Bayern. The CL is overhyped.

It is for me. As I said above, I'd FAR rather we won the league again, even if it meant not getting out of the group stage.

Let me ask people this, which would you prefer this year?

A) Finishing 2nd in the league behind Chelsea, and making the CL Semi's?

or

B) Winning the league again, but not getting out of the CL group?

I'd take B every single time. And in fact, if we prioritise the league, we'd probably still get out of the group but likely we wouldn't top it and perhaps we'd go out next round like we did last year. That would do me easy, if we win the league again.

 

[chris85mcfc]

Valid points on both sides of the argument,
For the pure footballing thrill of seeing us go toe to toe with the big boys again will be great, but the fact that the Prem champions of 2 of the last 3 seasons get placed in with champions of another league? Again? If there are rules to not let teams from the same country iplay each other in the group stage, surely a rule to prevent champions of individual leagues meeting in the group stage would be an even greater priority? Else why is it a champions league? Surely it would be better for the champions to meet at a later stage?
As they say, well have to beat the best at some pion to progress, so bring it on and up yours Platini!

Our group actually has 2 teams that won their leagues, and a team that finished runners up In italy.

Chelsea's group has them (who finished 3rd), Schalke (who finished 3rd, 26 TWENTY SIX points behind the winners), Sporting (runners up in Portugal) and Maribor who managed to win their league in Slovenia, who just scraped past Celtic in the qualifiers and are a team I can honestly say I've never heard of...

 

[BillyShears]

The negativity in this thread is both ridiculous and depressing. First we spend years trying to get in the CL and dreaming of being in it. We've been in it for five minutes and now half of you want out because you're a bunch of moaning miserable ungrateful bastards. Harsh but true.

These were the ties some of us longed for down the years. Being able to play the likes of Barca, Bayern - hell even CSKA Moscow. Too many of you seem completely unbothered about the actual football and just want to moan about the lack of alcohol, the lack of atmosphere, the price, the food, the weather, whatever you can think of.