Jae
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Just have to mark Hazard out of the game now and the cup is ours.
Genuinely feel for him actually, that’s a horrible injury and it looked like he’d put his injury problems relatively behind him.
Both him and Hudson-Odoi in the space of a month is horrible.
Why would it be empty? I'm sure there's loads of fans in Baku, and there's most certainly been sold tickets to other organizations as well.
Being reported that he's out for 12 months. Such a shame at his age.Genuinely feel for him actually, that’s a horrible injury and it looked like he’d put his injury problems relatively behind him.
Both him and Hudson-Odoi in the space of a month is horrible.
Most important game of the last decade? Considering the financial implications if we lose (transfer window) and have us fall further behind our rivals by several more years. Too much is at stake here. If we lose, Man U will spend and overtake us next year and we'll be fighting with Wolves for Europa league next season. We could actually sort the defence out and have a solid team with the CL budget. But if its 40mill without Europa then no chance.
Yep. That's where football is headed anyway. Just look at UEFA's plans to re-organize CL, EL and the coming third intl club tournament into a league structure and place that on the weekends, shifting domestic leagues to midweek and thus ridding domestic football of any importance.
They are turning football into an events sport more than ever, with the focus not on fans or season ticket holders, but day guests, so to speak. They are 100% sure they can replace genuine fans by event visitors, like random concert goers or something: "Oh, xyz is playing at that venue tonight, let's go!" Just pay some influencers to pose it all off as this "magical trip" to exotic Azerbaijan, and on the go you can even taste the atmosphere of a big european football night. Things like an EL final in Baku and that next EC split over various countries are test runs for that. Anf if stadiums are too empty at the beginning, you can always invite some sheikhy with his entourage, fill the luxury boxes and a couple of seats with their, ahem, "employees".
Yep. That's where football is headed anyway. Just look at UEFA's plans to re-organize CL, EL and the coming third intl club tournament into a league structure and place that on the weekends, shifting domestic leagues to midweek and thus ridding domestic football of any importance.
They are turning football into an events sport more than ever, with the focus not on fans or season ticket holders, but day guests, so to speak. They are 100% sure they can replace genuine fans by event visitors, like random concert goers or something: "Oh, xyz is playing at that venue tonight, let's go!" Just pay some influencers to pose it all off as this "magical trip" to exotic Azerbaijan, and on the go you can even taste the atmosphere of a big european football night. Things like an EL final in Baku and that next EC split over various countries are test runs for that. Anf if stadiums are too empty at the beginning, you can always invite some sheikhy with his entourage, fill the luxury boxes and a couple of seats with their, ahem, "employees".
The Super Bowl: two weeks of nonsensical hoopla in which the game itself becomes almost secondary to the larger event. Daily parties, concerts, food festivals -- even a beer festival. It's the future and like everything else, it's for the rich and those who overextend themselves.
Super league needed if UEFA truly thinks this way.
If they do that I won't care about intl footie anymore. Can't be arsed to follow that route of football as a mainstream entertainment event for the vast masses. That air actually already kind of killed the last WC and EC for me.
I'd rather spent my Tuesday night watching Stuttgart in a stadium with at least some fans, even if it feels like 3rd division, than watch CL and feel like at a Taylor Swift concert.
If they do that I won't care about intl footie anymore. Can't be arsed to follow that route of football as a mainstream entertainment event for the vast masses. That air actually already kind of killed the last WC and EC for me.
I'd rather spent my Tuesday night watching Stuttgart in a stadium with at least some fans, even if it feels like 3rd division, than watch CL and feel like at a Taylor Swift concert.