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 There's five reasons why you should come to this thread: --You're bored on a Thursday night --You support Tottenham/Fiorentina and this is becoming normal for you --You support a team from a smaller country that's just happy to be here or one that got knocked out at the wrong time in the CL group stages that's pissed about having to go to loving Azerbaijan mid-week --You actually know that nine times out of ten the Europa League produces great football and makes stars out of players/teams that go on to do great things on a bigger stage (an example: Ludogorets Razgrad, the Bulgarians that had that insane penalty shootout vs Steaua and came thisclose to drawing Liverpool at Anfield, had a great EL run last year where they topped their group and then beat PSV and Lazio in the knockout stages) --You're Portuguese, in which case your side will parachute down after finishing 3rd in their CL group and will go on to win the whole drat thing and artificially boost your coefficient, and you just want to scout your eventual opponents Also, there's a big change to the EL starting this year: the winner of the competition gets an automatic place in the group stages of next year's Champions League. So that's a sizable incentive. Here's the twelve (yes, twelve) groups that start play later today, and as per usual there's some big names both old and new:  Streams can be found at Wiziwig, seeing as if they can find a stream for competitive lawn bowls, they can drat well do so for European club football.
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I've never heard of any of these teams. Is this a professional competition?
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Sep 18, 2014 13:20
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Since there are apparently over 9000 teams in this tournament, what are the chances of Celtic and Legia meeting at some point?
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Sep 18, 2014 13:31
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ITV4 Thursday nights 
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Sep 18, 2014 14:27
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Troy Queef posted:--You're Portuguese, in which case your side will parachute down after finishing 3rd in their CL group and will go on to win the whole drat thing and artificially boost your coefficient, and you just want to scout your eventual opponents
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Sep 18, 2014 17:00
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Really excited about the Europa League.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:36
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How is winning a competition "artificially boosting your coefficient"? I think that's the point of, you know, coefficients.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:48
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Gentlemen, it is time to foot some ball. #THFC team: Lloris (c), Naughton, Fazio, Vertonghen, Davies; Bentaleb, Stambouli; Lennon, Paulinho, Townsend; Kane. #THFC subs: Vorm, Chiriches, Dier, Capoue, Eriksen, Lamela, Soldado
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Sep 18, 2014 17:55
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spurs v parti is looking tight , full, and thick
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Sep 18, 2014 18:10
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BTW if you're American and have a cable sub you can watch the EL here: http://www.foxsports.com/foxsportsgo/
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Sep 18, 2014 18:30
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From Javier 'Il Capitano' Zanetti to Fredy 'Fuckface' Guarin as captain.. kill me.
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Sep 18, 2014 18:38
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GreatestLurker posted:From Javier 'Il Capitano' Zanetti to Fredy 'Fuckface' Guarin as captain.. kill me. lmao Guarin, seriously? Why not Handanovic? Make Icardi captain next.
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Sep 18, 2014 18:40
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russian bieber with a lovely finish to put Dynamo one up on Panthakios
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Sep 18, 2014 18:43
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Townsend should be off. Spurs attacking players look clueless. Fazio is a cool mix of awesome stuff and clown car defending.
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Sep 18, 2014 18:48
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Gigi Galli posted:lmao Guarin, seriously? Why not Handanovic? then nedved or someone, i don't know
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Sep 18, 2014 19:02
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Gigi Galli posted:lmao Guarin, seriously? Why not Handanovic? I'd actually approve of Maurito as captain, because he'd end up doing something hilarious in the name of "team building".
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Sep 18, 2014 19:03
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this match is basically guarin leaning against a dnipro player, falling over and not getting a freekick repeat
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Sep 18, 2014 19:07
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Wtf are spurs doing at the back 
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Sep 18, 2014 19:08
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Stefan Scepovic just came inches away from chipping the Red Bull Salzburg keeper, this is quality stuff tonight e: holy poo poo, Craig Gordon with a phenomenal double save
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Sep 18, 2014 19:10
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It seems Celtic are winning away
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Sep 18, 2014 19:19
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Gigi Galli posted:It seems Celtic are winning away Yes, and it's actually a decent match to boot. (Inter just scored in Kyiv, D'Ambrosio to be specific) e: Red Bull equalize on a loving cracker of a free-kick
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Sep 18, 2014 19:32
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Mazzarri tried it in some friendlies, but I would honestly never think I'd see it before my own eyes Jonathan is playing as a central midfielder in a competitive football match 
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Sep 18, 2014 19:39
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sassassin posted:
He's seemed cool and good to me. The missed header off the set piece in the 1st was bad, but Vert was there to clean up. Davies, on the other hand, has looked like hot garbage.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:47
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fishtobaskets posted:He's seemed cool and good to me. The missed header off the set piece in the 1st was bad, but Vert was there to clean up. Davies, on the other hand, has looked like hot garbage. Davies has been on the Luke Shaw diet by the looks of him. He got a bit better in the 2nd half but the way Spurs use full-backs doesn't suit his game imo, and he misses having Big Ash on his shoulder telling him what to do. What does Harry Kane have to do to get Clarke Carlisle to say a bad word about him?
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Sep 18, 2014 19:55
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PSV managed to win at least, now to watch Feyenoord embarrass themselves against Sevilla. I doubt that anyone cares, but here are the teams anyway: Feyenoord: Vermeer; Wilkshire, Van Beek, Mathijsen, Nelom; Toornstra, El Ahmadi, Clasie, Vilhena; Schaken en Manu Sevilla: Rico; Figueiras, Carriço, Kolodziejczak, Navarro; Krychowiak, Mbia; Deulofeu, Reyes, Banega; Bacca.
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Sep 18, 2014 19:55
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Nice job ruining the perfect record with a draw, Torino.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:01
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Good to see we are still incredibly incompetent 1-0 for Sevilla.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:14
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Lol Napoli. Celtic played pish and got an away point.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:20
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for fucks sake, Napoli, at home too? The Fat Spanish Waiter is gonna get sacked any day now.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:26
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Looking forward to Sevilla successfully defending their title this season, and the season after that.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:26
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Hamsik hits the bar off an absurd free-kick, then Napoli win a penalty for deliberate hand-ball, which results in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXROcBwRf2E (Also, Napoli finally changed their numbers to something actually legible, though maybe they'd be winning if they wore the Canadian Tuxedo kit.)
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Sep 18, 2014 20:29
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Troy Queef posted:Hamsik hits the bar off an absurd free-kick, then Napoli win a penalty for deliberate hand-ball, which results in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXROcBwRf2E Who knew Pep was so versatile?
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Sep 18, 2014 20:30
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Vargas puts Fiorentina up 1-0 agains Guingamp
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Sep 18, 2014 20:46
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GD, Constant scored for Trabzonspor against Metalist.
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Sep 18, 2014 20:59
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GreatestLurker posted:GD, Constant scored for Trabzonspor against Metalist. lmao Metalist must be loving garbage
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Sep 18, 2014 21:05
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European sides are going to get owned by the whole 'Baines to LW, Barry to LWB' ploy because they're not English enough to play big booming diagonals into the empty channels.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:09
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Mertens makes it 2-1 Napoli.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:20
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Tim 'secretary of defence' Howard has returned from his months long hiatus.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:20
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Estoril lost to PSV and Rio Ave is getting trashed by Dinamo Kiev. gently caress.
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Well done Everton
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