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I dont think they do want to progress. Especially after AF comments on playing Thursday/SundayOriginally posted by Craig_H View PostI thought you just meant Europa. Its even more unlikely when you add CL too
Ajax are ****, United will stuff them if they actually want to progress. Same with City & Porto.*Except Michael, who died.Comment
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From what I've heard Ajax have been terrible this season (in part hence the Cruyff madness of late). I don't think the draw could have been much kinder to United - well scouted but weak opponents seems about perfect for them.Originally posted by Shaggy View PostQuite tricky for United, not sure if I'd have preferred that or some absolute non-entities to really rub salt into the wound."The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
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The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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Originally posted by ElRabiosa View PostWorth a bet at 125/1
Gives me a team to support aswell
You'd have been better off spending that £5 on a pint and a packet of peanuts.
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Originally posted by Lee View Post
You'd have been better off spending that £5 on a pint and a packet of peanuts.
A pint can't win you £600
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Originally posted by Craig_H View PostStoke v Valencia
What a ****ing mismatch of styles
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Neither will a punt on Lyon.Originally posted by ElRabiosa View PostA pint can't win you £600
Good luck though lad.Comment
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Fixed.Brandt - Keita - Van Dijk - SessegnonComment
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I do hope this is a joke article!
LONDON: FIFA and president Sepp Blatter have opened up the outside possibility of Manchester United being reinstated in the Champions League knockout stages writes KEIR RADNEDGE.
United apparently lost hope and were ‘relegated’ into the Europa League – in which they face Ajax Amsterdam in the second round in the spring – after losing their last group match 2-1 to FC Basel in Switzerland 10 days ago.
Basel thus finshed as runners-up in Group C behind Benfica and, yesterday, were drawn against Bayern Munich in the second round in February and March.
However, in the early hours of this morning FIFA announced that it would suspend Switzerland from all international football – which would, logically, include the European club competitions – unless it brought the rebellious FC Sion club to heel.
Sion president Christian Constantin has been fighting through the sports and civil courts against FIFA, UEFA and the Swiss football authorities over the fall-out from a transfer ban wrangle with the world federation.
On Thursday the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected Sion’s plea that UEFA should reinstate the club in the Europa League from which it was expelled last August. Sion’s legal advisers have indicated the club’s intention of carrying on with an appeal to the Swiss federal court which need not be registered until later next month.
A FIFA statement, after today’s executive committee meeting Tokyo, said: “Following the latest developments in the FC Sion/Olympique des Alpes SA (OLA) case, and in particular the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport of 15 December 2011, the Executive decided to give a final deadline of 13 January 2012 to the Swiss FA to enforce the registration ban imposed on OLA by the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber and confirmed by the Swiss Federal Court and to sanction the attitude of the club repeatedly trying to circumvent this decision in a legally abusive manner.
“As a consequence, all matches in which the relevant players participated shall be declared forfeit or three points shall be deducted respectively. Should this deadline not be respected, the Swiss FA will be automatically suspended from 14 January 2012 onwards.”
Given the warlike and nothing-more-to-lose stance of Constantin, it seems likely only that FIFA’s threat will harden attitudes in Sion.
This would then trigger a domino effect of Switzerland’s suspension from all international football, Basel being barred from the Champions League and, logically it would appear, United’s reinstatement in the Champions League.
Comments are awaited from FIFA and UEFAComment
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Sounds like made up nonsense to me.The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.Comment
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Wouldnt surprise me if it was true. Seems to be par for the course that FIFA think it fair Basel should suffer a punishment for doing nothing wrong.Football without Origi is nothingComment
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