I wouldn't normally start this one, but Ranger just tanked out of the Europa league 2-0 to Progres Niederkorn, the fourth place team last year from... Luxembourg. Ouch. Guess they wanted to maintain the domestic focus.
I doubt it. They needed the home gates from those extra matches.
Here's the thing ... Rangers aren't even really in camp yet and they have to play a European qualifier. Anything can and does happen. Some pretty decent Celtic sides have bombed out of Champions League qualifying in recent year to turkeys from junk leagues. Not to mention that all of us American fans have seen just how bad even really good Premiership sides generally look in their pre season tours of North America. Those qualifiers are tricky, tricky business.
The first qualifying round of the Champions League is already in the books too.
Trepca'89 lost to Vikingur Gota from the Faroe Islands 6-2 on aggregate.
Yup ... and the Faroe teams WERE consistently the worse in the tournament. Not they've got Kosovo to kick around.
Yeah ... but look at the Welsh league sometime when you're truly bored. It barely exists as a professional league. Even the Irish leagues dwarf them for investment and Irish fans don't give a crap about their domestic leagues. It's like dog racing in the States. Punters only.
OK, but don't they get coefficient points for the National teams too? Wales lost in the semi finals of Euro 2016 in their first ever appearance.
On the Men In Blazers podcast, Mark Clattenburg said he let Spurs “self destruct” in their match against Chelsea near the end of the 2016 season. They needed a win alto have a chance of catching Leicester but drew 2-2. He handed out 9 yellows but didn’t send anyone off. He said he easily could have sent 3 Spurs off but didn’t want that to be an excuse of why they didn’t win the league.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42219327
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Clatts has got to have the biggest ego of any non-politician on Earth.
You mean like getting tats for calling the 2016 Champions League and Euro finals?
On the Men In Blazers podcast, Mark Clattenburg said he let Spurs “self destruct” in their match against Chelsea near the end of the 2016 season. They needed a win alto have a chance of catching Leicester but drew 2-2. He handed out 9 yellows but didn’t send anyone off. He said he easily could have sent 3 Spurs off but didn’t want that to be an excuse of why they didn’t win the league.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42219327
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Well he knows that everyone in attendance is there to see him. Personally, if I turn on the prems and I don't see Clatts out there, I just turn it off.