Why?As much as I try hard to support all the english teams in the Champions league, it takes a bit of pleasure with the amount of grief that I have had from shitty fans that they have a high probability of joining us on Thursday night football
Unfortunately I only grabbed the last couple of minutes, I really like Napoli - they are a really tactically interesting team and Man City struggled against them last time out against an unusual (to them) 3 man defence.
I'm enjoying Man City's struggles for obvious reasons, but also because it makes our CL group win last season look even more impressive. They'll be with us in the Europa league soon hopefully.
Why?
UEFA Co-efficient is the main reason to support other English clubs in the CL , not that I like it but it's a fact of life if the Premiership is to remain with 4 CL slots
Don't worry. The premier league is just fine. It'll have 4 spots for a while.
If all 4 English teams don't make it through the group stage this year it will have an impact
The Premier League has a gap of round 24.000 points towards Seria A.
For this year PL already has around 9.600 points already made, so assuming all PL clubs are knocked out right now out of CL and EL, and all Italian teams manage to get into Semi-Finals and Finals, which would result in maybe 20.000 points? that would only close the gap to 10.000. In that scenario of course Germany and Spain wouldnt gain that much points as Italy will have to knock all their teams out as well, so the first to worry about that would be Germany as they are on 3rd place and closest to Italy.
All in all, if from now on all english teams lose all their games in CL and EL it would take at least 3 more seasons to lose the 4th CL place.