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MC Prussian

Europa League 2011/2012

By MC Prussian, in General Football and Sport

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Corky

Corky

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I know it was only hearts but 'kinhell Spurs played some beautiful football!

The sooner England sack off Postman Pat and get Harry teaching England how to play football like that the better!

It reminded me of treble winning Arsenal, maybe they don't need Modric, and they could use the cash to sign another striker and a solid midfielder or prospect similar to Modric.

Also if Defoe isn't starting up front for England in our next game then there is something severely wrong!

We'll do what we always do, beat the weaker teams and come up short against the better sides.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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All I can say is, the standard of play in the Scottish Premier League is getting worse with every new season.

Even Celtic and Rangers fans have to admit that their teams are no longer top of the pops in Europe (if they ever were).

Thought about going to see Sion play Celtic next week, but it appears the stadium has sold out and all that is left are tickets at 80 Swiss Francs (£55). No, thank you.

Rather off to Berne and hoping the Young Boys can produce a quality effort to get past Braga. Tickets start at 30 Swiss Francs (£20).

lcfcadam

lcfcadam

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In other news both sides at White Hart Lane tonight are exceptionally good-looking; unexpected joys of matches involving 2nd string sides... Any girls on the board tonight who concur?

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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Plenty of big clubs fail in europe.

... all the time.

Why do I get the feeling I've heard your words of wisdom before - verbatum? You're quite a specialist, Ron! :)

As for the Scottish clubs... Hearts get some sympathies, the other two definitely not. :mrgreen:

lcfcadam

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As for the Scottish clubs... Hearts get some sympathies, the other two definitely not. :mrgreen:

Hearts fans have been pretty spectacular, their team marginally better than last week but still the desperate level of Scottish football remains a worry...

AjcW

AjcW

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Plenty of big clubs fail in europe.

.....Sevilla and Roma this evening it's not just the Scotts

MPH

MPH

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LargeAl, what's the situation oop North? All lanes closed, supermarkets looted, houses burning?

All three scottish teams knocked out whilst average english sides make it... This is not to gloat or anything but wow... it has to be a new low for scottish football....

Guest Bilo

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Massive respect to Shamrock, surely up there with the greatest results of all time for Irish club football.

Scottish football meanwhile is in serious crisis, the spectacle of all their representatives being dumped out of all European competition is a new low. It will surely send their UEFA coefficient ranking, and therefore number of places available to them in UEFA competition tumbling.

That said though, Rangers fans must really be regretting giving us all the claptrap about European football now. lol

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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Went to watch the Young Boys - Braga match tonight and it was ugly.

Berne couldn't produce anything productive in the first half, Braga was much smarter and scored the opener in the first half thanks to an error by Swedish YB midfield maestro Alexander Farnerud.

Second half was entertaining, to say the least. And not just because of the mostly thunderous weather conditions, which had the artificial pitch soaking up rain in abundance.

The Portuguese started to play a 5-4-1, defended deep, hardly ever allowed an attack to even remotely approach the box.

Cue a free-kick outside the area. Header. Equalizer.

But that was just the start. YB striker Nassim Ben "misses more chances than the Armaggeddon prophets" Khalifa wants to get the ball out of there real quick to get the game moving on.

Instead, he doesn't touch the Braga keeper, but it's enough for the latter to start acting as if he'd been killed twice.

The otherwise solid Croatian referee falls for it and Khalifa gets sent off.

What follows is a prime example of how not to play football.

Braga reverted to cheap time-wasting tactics, passing the ball back and forth, doing a little bit of bad acting here and there (just fall to the ground and hope the referee believes you've been hit by a freight train).

The goalkeeper was one of many Braga players booked for intentionally slowing down the game.

And with a one-man advantage, they had all the trumps in their hand.

A quick counterattack leads to the 2-1, the Portuguese think it's all settled.

Then, miraculously, Berne equalizes through a direct free-kick from Farnerud. Hope is back.

But Braga prevailed.

I've hardly seen a worse and more unsportsmanship-like team than this Sportive Club.

Then again, YB should also blame themselves for acting so chicken during the first 45 minutes.

On a sidenote, I'm well chuffed for Sion. I just hope they don't get into troubles with UEFA because of their player eligibility farce.

And dear Scots - take a look at Shamrock and take note.

Benji

Benji

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Funny how Rangers fans gave Danns so much stick for coming here and "turning down european football for the money". Good luck with that.

Bugg

Bugg

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Prussian, I know what you mean about Braga being cheating bastards.

That helped them a lot to getting to the final last year.

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