Champions League draw

[AndyRFC]

O good, Manchester will host those most gracious of guests from the north again. Hopefully they'll be just as keen to make a good impression as last time.

Rangers in Manchester

Was there 100 odd arrests out of 120,000+?

At the end of the day you must be CeLOLtic sporting a St PauLOLi badge. DeLOLusionaLOL

[prostak]

Yeh, mainly cos the cretins following your team decided to hurl bottles at the big screen (and each other, hilariously) when it failed. Cos that'll make it work again.

Incidentally, I find both of the Old Firm an embarrassment - the very definition of two bald men fighting over a comb. God knows how Scotland's coefficient has remained high enough to retain two Champions League places for this long.

I see you follow a communist army team, too. Interesting choice - I'd have thought Arkan's team were more your thing...

[RoyalChicagoFC]

Its been handed to Arsenal there

Braga look like they won't be rolled over

Absolutely love the latter club's ground and am looking forward to seeing plenty of it from here into December

Arsenal always get the cake draw for the group stage, or at least they've done ever since I started paying attention, so no surprise there

BTW did anybody watch much at all of the play-"orff" round, in particular the second legs this Tuesday/Wednesday with everything from a who-needs-what perspective in sharp focus?

I found the general standard of play shocking and woefully short of what one in all reasonableness would expect at this level of competition

[cmonurz]

Europa League draw now taking place - the competition is so bloated there is a Group L!

Man City have been drawn with Juventus, Salzburg and Poznan. Toughy for Liverpool with Steaua Bucharest, Napoli and FC Utrecht.

[papereyes]

Group A

Juventus
Manchester City
Salzburg
Lech Poznan

Group B

Atletico Madrid
Bayer Leverkusen
Rosenburg
Thessaloniki

Group C

Sporting
Lille
Levski Sofia
Gent

Group D

Villarreal
Club Brugge
Dinamo Zagreb
PAOK

Group E

Alkmaar
Dinamo Kiev
BATE Borisov
FC Sheriff

Group F

CSKA Moscow
Palermo
Sparta Prague
Lausanne

Group G

Zenit St Petersburg
Anderlecht
AEK Athens
Hajduk Split

Group H

Stuttgart
Getafe
Odense
Young Boys

Group I

PSV Eindhoven
Sampdoria
FC Metalist Kharkiv
Debreceni

Group J

Sevilla
PSG
Borussia Dortmund
Karpaty Lviv

Group K

Liverpool
Steaua Bucharest
Napoli
Utrecht

Group L

Porto
Besiktas
CSKA Sofia
Rapid Vienna

Each group has at least 2 teams that have some level of size and reputation. Last season, the UEFA cup was far better value than its bigger brother.

[Big Foot]

Are Europa League games exclusively played on a Thursday night?

Would love to go over to Brugge vs Dinamo Zagreb

[RoyalChicagoFC]

They go to We/Th on the final two matchdays of the (six-match-per-side) group stage

Club Brugge v. Dinamo Th 4th Nov

^^ 'Greed papes

[Victor Meldrew]

can see Liverpool getting knocked out of the Europa LOLeague tonight

Memo to self-don't bet on any predictions by Soggy Biscuit.

[soggy biscuit]

Jimmy Jump made another appearance last night!

[papereyes]

On a similar note, Liverpool vs Napoli isn't too far from me.

Last time City were in the UEFA cup, the game vs Hamburg was £10 tickets. City vs Juve might be a struggle but I reckon I could get tickets.

[prostak]

On a similar note, Liverpool vs Napoli isn't too far from me.

Last time City were in the UEFA cup, the game vs Hamburg was £10 tickets. City vs Juve might be a struggle but I reckon I could get tickets.

Any idea how easy it'd be to get tickets for the away end? I don't trust the Polish postal network to get them to me before October 21st...

[papereyes]

If you fancy it, AP and I were talking about going to the Juve game. If you can stomach a home end ticket, then I think it would be easily sorted.

But I can also chase up away end tickets. The GF is a Juve fan so I may have a look.

EDIT: turns out I'm away for the Juve H game but Poznan at City is 21st October. That gives me plenty of time to look - AP you fancy it?

[prostak]

I'd definitely want away end tickets for Lech, if you're able to sort these things...

[TBM]

Its been handed to Arsenal there

Braga look like they won't be rolled over

[soggy biscuit]

Its been handed to Arsenal there

Braga look like they won't be rolled over