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Yid-ol

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Jan 16, 2006
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24.06 If, at any time during the season, the UEFA administration deems that, for
whatever reason, a venue may not be fit for staging a match, UEFA may consult
the association and club concerned and ask them to propose an alternative
venue, in accordance with the UEFA requirements. Should such an association and
club not be able to propose an acceptable alternative venue by the deadline set
by the UEFA administration, UEFA may select an alternative, neutral venue. The
club concerned will have to make all the necessary arrangements for the staging
of the match together with the relevant association and local authorities. In both
cases, the costs of staging the match are borne by the home club. The UEFA
administration takes a final decision on alternative match venues in due time.
 

Saoirse

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Aug 20, 2013
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5.55 Kick offs at Wembley that will be fun

The 5.55 games won't be at home for the English teams. Much the same as the Europa League has 6pm kickoffs but they're only used for English teams when they're away. Home games will be 8pm, away games will be either 5.55pm or 8pm (which is 6.55/9 in Central European Time, far more reasonable).
 

vegassd

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Aug 5, 2006
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So with the new stadium not being ready until end October and 3 CL group stage games taking place before then does that mean we have to now play all our CL home games at Wembley or can u switch stadium.

Not sure how accurate the source, but I found this article on ES from back in May:
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...s-league-home-games-next-season-a3842801.html

While they would need permission from the Premier League to host top-flight fixtures in two different stadiums in the same season, Uefa has no hard and fast rules about playing every European match at the same venue.

Spurs have held talks with the European governing body about playing one, two or all three group matches at Wembley before then moving to their yet-to-be-named new stadium if they qualify for the Champions League or Europa League knockouts.

Clubs have until 5 June to submit official entry documents to Uefa, including a stadium safety certificate issued by the Football Association. However, Spurs should be able to submit the stadium documents to Uefa at a later date and they could yet open the ground with a Champions League game.

They are considering beginning next season with a run of four away matches in the league, but Uefa cannot guarantee Spurs an away start or allow them to reverse a fixture with an opponent. The first Champions League group games take place on 18-19 September, following four rounds of Premier League matches.

Take it with a bucket load of salt, but who knows. Maybe the group stage games are held at Wembley for consistency and then we play the knockouts in the new gaff?
 

tototoner

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The 5.55 games won't be at home for the English teams. Much the same as the Europa League has 6pm kickoffs but they're only used for English teams when they're away. Home games will be 8pm, away games will be either 5.55pm or 8pm (which is 6.55/9 in Central European Time, far more reasonable).
where did u get those KO times from ?
 

guy

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May 31, 2007
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Didn't know whereabouts to post this,

It's been announced that the Eredivisie have postponed all matches the weekend before our home semi in order to help Ajax out. They have a clear week before the 1st leg now

Their season will now finished a week later.

Wow, if only we'd get some assistance, instead we'll be shafted by the tv scheduling or something
 

Winksy97

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couldn't help but have some fun on paint
 

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tototoner

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Not a fan in any way of The Daily Fail but this is quite an interesting article from Martin Samuels

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...s-terrified-upstarts-like-Tottenham-Ajax.html

European elites are terrified of upstarts like Tottenham and Ajax

Ajax were last in the Champions League’s final four in 1997; Tottenham in its European Cup equivalent in 1962.

Yet marvellous surprises like this are why Juventus want to turn the greatest club competition in the world into a moribund closed shop. They’re terrified. Frightened that they’re not good enough and that money can’t always buy success.

The Juventus team eliminated by Ajax on Tuesday included Cristiano Ronaldo, the player acquired for £100m plus £12m in add-ons, specifically to deliver this trophy. That must be galling.

No wonder Juventus, and their president Andrea Agnelli, want to leave nothing to chance in future. No wonder in his brave new world in which the past trumps the present, clubs like Tottenham and Ajax may not be admitted at all.

Ajax have a wonderful history but haven’t been among Europe’s elite for many decades now.

In 1997, having sold the majority of their Champions League winning team, they lost their semi-final to Juventus, 6-2 on aggregate. One quarter-final appearance in 2003 aside, they haven’t been near since.

Dutch football does not generate the money to mix with Europe’s super elite these days and Ajax have to rely on the fruits of their youth policy. As Manchester United know, it is a strategy that will produce sporadically.

This is the first young Ajax team capable of thriving at this level in more than 20 years and the interim period has seen the club unable to get into the Champions League or much beyond its group stage.

If European football was reimagined the Juventus way – with guaranteed places for the wealthiest and biggest – there is no guarantee Ajax would be among the lucky few granted a permanent ticket.

Tottenham, equally so. They might have one of the finest stadiums in Europe, but there will only be room for so many platinum club members in this proposed carve-up and, in England, they all play in red.

It is the blue teams – Chelsea, Manchester City, Tottenham – that Juventus fear, coming in, taking what is rightfully theirs.

Tottenham have even been omitted from some of the clandestine meetings of elite Premier League clubs. The last thing these self-appointed kings of Europe want is new blood.

It is why David Gill grafts so hard at UEFA to undermine Manchester City. They are all worried men. Worried that their own club isn’t good enough. Worried they have bought the wrong players, picked the wrong manager.

Worried that they aren’t smart enough to survive on their wits alone. That is the root of their lousy protectionism; not respect for tradition or financial fair play.

Unsurprisingly, the clubs that have turned their domestic league into one-horse races were undone in Europe. Weeks without real competition turned them soft.

Bayern Munich were dismal against Liverpool, in the last 16; Juventus, on the brink of an eighth straight title, could not handle a young, creative Ajax side.

Yet they want it all ways. They wish to make their leagues a cakewalk, without risking the inevitable consequences in Europe.

They want to make the Champions League equally uncompetitive, with the same clubs returning to play the same fixtures, over and over until everything that is great about the competition is lost.

That Tottenham are in their first semi-final in 57 years should be applauded, welcomed, celebrated. That they did it by overcoming a Manchester City team with considerably greater resources should be a delight.

And while the established elite will no doubt relish City’s elimination, they won’t enjoy the emergence of Tottenham, or the resurgence of Ajax. These are their feeder clubs, the ones who make or nurture talent, for it to be picked off.

Ajax match-winner Matthijs de Ligt and his team-mate Frenkie De Jong are already on their way to Barcelona this summer. Real Madrid’s recent Champions League success was aided by two former Tottenham players: Luka Modric and Gareth Bale.

In this new European order every club knows it place, and that place will be cast in stone. The Champions League will not be for the likes of Leicester, no matter what they achieve domestically.

And while we may see Juventus’ exit as a grand come-uppance, no doubt in a backroom somewhere, scared men are scheming to make sure it can never, ever, happen again.
 

slartibartfast

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Whatever you think of Jose, he brings up some fascinating ideas of how to beat Ajax...


Let me guess, fill your team with big strong physical lumps. Sit and defend but when you win the ball boot it long to another big lump who can hold it up and someone get a shot off. Hopefully nick it 1.0. If they counter get one of your thugs in midfield to wipe them out.
Oh and dont forget to crowd the referee, moan like fuck and contest every decision that doesn't go your way.
Its a winning formula. 5 years ago anyway.


The blokes a charlatan. I hate the prick as you may have guessed lol.
 

danielneeds

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May 5, 2004
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Let me guess, fill your team with big strong physical lumps. Sit and defend but when you win the ball boot it long to another big lump who can hold it up and someone get a shot off. Hopefully nick it 1.0. If they counter get one of your thugs in midfield to wipe them out.
Oh and dont forget to crowd the referee, moan like fuck and contest every decision that doesn't go your way.
Its a winning formula. 5 years ago anyway.


The blokes a charlatan. I hate the prick as you may have guessed lol.
A charlatan doesn't win the CL with Porto and Inter.

Watching the Ajax v Juve game I couldn't believe how much Ajax reminded me of mk 1 era Poch Spurs. They are so vibrant and on the front foot, but they are also incredibly naive, give you chances, and make poor decisions in key areas. If we are to do them at WHL without Son, it's going to be through our experience and PL physicality.
 

Colonel Dax

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A charlatan doesn't win the CL with Porto and Inter.

Watching the Ajax v Juve game I couldn't believe how much Ajax reminded me of mk 1 era Poch Spurs. They are so vibrant and on the front foot, but they are also incredibly naive, give you chances, and make poor decisions in key areas. If we are to do them at WHL without Son, it's going to be through our experience and PL physicality.

Agreed. Hopefully Sissoko can out-muscle the Ajax midfield. I just worry about where the goals are gonna come from without Son and Kane. Dele has had a sub-par season. He needs to step up.
 

danielneeds

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Agreed. Hopefully Sissoko can out-muscle the Ajax midfield. I just worry about where the goals are gonna come from without Son and Kane. Dele has had a sub-par season. He needs to step up.
I think Dele was scratchy after the WC, looking for form and fitness. Since December he’s been very good, but asked to do a lot of different roles from the simple inside forward he was playing the last couple of years.

I’d play Llorente in the home leg. Get him to try and isolate Daley Blind as much as possible and he should get some chances in the air.
 
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