*Official* English Football Season 2014-15

[Cabinet96]

Well played Basel, deserve to go through.

Freaking Europa League - would so much prefer nothing.

You're Liverpool, not Hull.

 

[Nate]

Players look tired, the constant rotations are hindering the understanding between the newer players - I'd rather just focus on the league and cups. Europa never has and never will mean anything to me.

 

[sledger]

Players look tired, the constant rotations are hindering the understanding between the newer players - I'd rather just focus on the league and cups. Europa never has and never will mean anything to me.

Haha, you say that now, but if in a few months' time Liverpool are fighting it out in the final you might change your stance somewhat.

 

[Uppercut]

Fulham and Middlesborough have made the final. Liverpool are crap now but by the time the big games roll around they could be on a decent run.

It will definitely affect your league form though. As a United fan I'm not disappointed at all to see you in the EL.

 

[Cabinet96]

What do you seriously think are Liverpool's chances of finishing top 4? Not trying to have a dig or anything, but I wouldn't of thought they were high enough to want to scrap another potential pathway into next year's competition.

 

[Pothas]

They will not win it though, will lose to a half decent Spanish or Portugese side.

 

[sledger]

Still perfectly possible, but I would say it is very unlikely. Despite Arsenal's poor form, I suspect they will still get 4th.

Edit: @ Cabinet

 

[Nate]

Haha, you say that now, but if in a few months' time Liverpool are fighting it out in the final you might change your stance somewhat.

If it's the final and we're languishing somewhere in mid-table - yes.

What do you seriously think are Liverpool's chances of finishing top 4? Not trying to have a dig or anything, but I wouldn't of thought they were high enough to want to scrap another potential pathway into next year's competition.

Who even knows. So much could change in the January window and/or when Studge comes back. Outsider's chance.

 

[GIMH]

Europa League carrying a CL place should add so much more prestige but nobody seems arsed

Rebranding it did all sorts of bad things to the competition. When yer scousers won it in 01 it was a huge deal for them

But I'm ****ed off tonight because my Wembley dreams were shattered

 

[Pothas]

Wembley is **** anyway, you don't want to go there.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Europa League carrying a CL place should add so much more prestige but nobody seems arsed

Rebranding it did all sorts of bad things to the competition. When yer scousers won it in 01 it was a huge deal for them

But I'm ****ed off tonight because my Wembley dreams were shattered

Only because they were desperate to crown it as their own Treble though really.

By the time 2001 came around there were multiple CL places available so the UEFA Cup was pretty poor by then. In fairness tbf Liverpool did beat Barcelona in the semis IIRC (I assume they must have come 3rd in their CL group that year) but they were at a pretty low ebb at the time.

I'm not sure rebranding has too much to do with it, I think the competition was piss poor for a few years before that tbh. I think it had more to do with the multiple CL spots; before then you were guaranteed some genuinely massive names in it. Now they're just all in the CL unless they have fallen off big time.

 

[Tom Halsey]

What do you seriously think are Liverpool's chances of finishing top 4? Not trying to have a dig or anything, but I wouldn't of thought they were high enough to want to scrap another potential pathway into next year's competition.

It's strange to say of a knockout competition but I think they've got less chance of winning the Europa than they have of coming fourth in the league.

They are piss poor so I reckon they will go out to the first even halfway decent side they face in the Europa. But most Premier League teams are also piss poor at the moment, and for all Liverpool's general hilarity this season they are only five points off fourth. A couple of injured players return, and a couple find some sort of form, and whilst they still won't be very good they won't be significantly worse than anyone else to the extent that we can write off fourth IMO.

 

[sledger]

Celtic knocking Liverpool out in the year the former got to the final was one of the most amusing UEFA Cup moments for mine.

 

[Ikki]

Next Europa league fixture for us will be 19th of Feb; so hopefully Sturridge going well by then.

 

[Cabinet96]

Credit to Monaco for managing to top a Champions League group by doing a Villa. Reckon we'll draw them and breeze into the last eight.

 

[duffer]

Even as a "WengerOut" I find that heartbreaking. Much more so than an inoffensive banner at a match. The "get out while you still can Joel" is blood boiling. Right behind Arsene for the Newcastle and Liverpool games.

 

[duffer]

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah the actual stuff they say is comical. The stuff to Campbell like he isn't a player who is desperate to be at Arsenal and play and is in fact a world star playing at a club beneath him. And telling Wenger to "get out of my club", as if the club is somehow more the club of some loudmouth drunkard than its greatest ever manager. **** sake.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I remain very firmly pro-Wenger, but even if I wasn't stuff like that would still leave the taste of bile in my throat.

As Cabbers alludes to the man is an absolute legend and deserves much better from some of the ingrate wuckfits who follow the Arse.

It's a mark of the man that he won't walk away, but I wouldn't blame him if he did.

 

[duffer]

Not having a go at you BB but I wouldn't walk away from £8m a year either.