Comments on: glorious double http://whacked.net/2008/05/21/glorious-double/ thoughts on open spaces Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:15:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Stephen Lau http://whacked.net/2008/05/21/glorious-double/comment-page-1/#comment-97461 Stephen Lau Thu, 22 May 2008 17:14:49 +0000 http://whacked.net/?p=968#comment-97461 <p>Exactly - it's a competition of Champions, and it just so happened this year that the two best teams in the tournament were from the same country. If you tossed Chelsea or ManU out of the finals because you don't want to have two teams from the same country play, then you're not seeing the best of Europe.</p> Exactly – it’s a competition of Champions, and it just so happened this year that the two best teams in the tournament were from the same country. If you tossed Chelsea or ManU out of the finals because you don’t want to have two teams from the same country play, then you’re not seeing the best of Europe.

]]> By: SW http://whacked.net/2008/05/21/glorious-double/comment-page-1/#comment-97451 SW Thu, 22 May 2008 12:36:47 +0000 http://whacked.net/?p=968#comment-97451 <p>Gotta love glory hunters...</p> <p>The CL is a money-grabbing farce these days anyway, it's stupid that more than one team from the same country can be it. It's supposed to be the competition of Champions, not "champions, runners-up, and maybe the one after that as well". Bring back the old format with no group stages, I say.</p> Gotta love glory hunters…

The CL is a money-grabbing farce these days anyway, it’s stupid that more than one team from the same country can be it. It’s supposed to be the competition of Champions, not “champions, runners-up, and maybe the one after that as well”. Bring back the old format with no group stages, I say.

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