As many of you know, the UEFA Champions League has a new format this year. The field has been expanded to 36 with each team playing 8 games against 8 different teams in the competition with 4 at home and 4 on the road.
The top 8 at the end of this process move directly to the Round of 16. The next 16 will play each other in the first round of the Knockout Rounds. The last 12 are eliminated. Here is how things currently stand:
There are only two teams right now that are through to the Round of Sixteen: Liverpool and Barcelona. There are also 9 teams that are eliminated: DFO fave Young Boys, Slava Bratislava (I buy my own hotel!), RB Salzburg, Sturm-Graz, Czrvena Zezda (buy some vowels and maybe you’ll do better!), Girona, RN Leipzig (Red Bull HQ can’t be happy), Sparta Prague, and Bologna.
You may have noticed a very interesting name sitting just inside the Elimination Zone. Man City is having a terrible campaign, not just in the Premier League. If they lose, they’re out. Thus, there is A LOT at stake today.
In classic Elimination Round fashion, all the games will start at the same time today. The best coverage will be on Paramount Plus as they will be streaming EVERY SINGLE GAME and will also have Kate Scott (formerly Adbo), Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher, and Micah Richards previewing the games and providing live updates.
They are quite good at the hosting gig and they’re very funny. Sometimes they get close to Inside The NBA with the funny. There’s a long-running joke with Micah’s favourite team being Brest.
Here is today’s schedule with all times Pacific:
It’s going to be an exciting day with the possibilities of who qualifies, who gets eliminated, and who gets a bye into the Round of Sixteen changing by the minute.
There is a cool simulator on the UEFA website where you can pick the results of the games and figure out who will end up where. You can find it here: https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/simulator/
Who are you rooting for? Yours in the comments.
Utah Hockey nicknames down to 3 finalists:
a) Utah Hockey Club (been done)
b) Utah Mammoth (why the singular?)
c) Utah Wasatch (named for the mountain range, will have a bigfoot-type mascot)
I’m a little partial to (b), but again, Wooly Mammoths are cool, so why is it singular?
In conclusion, Utah is a land of contrasts.
Utah Soakers
*Raphael scores for Club Brugge*
Even dead painters of the High Renaissance are scoring against Man City’s pathetic defense, smh…
ppl forget he used a couple sai instead of paintbrushes
Champions League has a new format!
That sounds Rockingggg!
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/43610753/temple-student-dies-fall-pole-eagles-celebration
go birds
“As a member of the university’s club gymnastics team, Tyler displayed exceptional self-discipline and work ethic, spending countless hours a week training and honing his craft.”
So of course he dies from losing his balance & falling off a light-pole.
Well, he probably wasn’t shitfaced all those times he was practicing and honing his craft.
Aw man. I hate hearing about stuff like this. So many of us were fortunate enough to escape unscathed after doing similarly stupid stuff, it’s awful when someone ends up paying the iron price.
Agree totally; easily could’ve been me had any of my teams had success when I was in college. Or if I worked for Brian Kelly.
Since Napoli had such a mediocre season last year and are not in the mix, I’ll go with Inter. My youngest was an Inter fan as a kid, even had Dad put a stuffed Inter Crocodile in the car window by her seat. It sits down in the gym still.
Why does RFK2 look and sound like an old radio with dying batteries on a station just outside its broadcasting range?
Vaccines did that to him.
Are you sure it wasn’t the glass of whale carcass juice that he drank as a curative for his brain worms?
I’d go with snorting ivermectin
It’s the brain parasite giving new instructions.
Gumby’s ship made a port visit to Brest when we were in Scotland. He said the people were warm and welcoming. Pillowy, even!
Were they perky?
Absolutely. He loved them, said they were ” the tits!”
I heard it’s nice but really stands out when it’s cold.
Apparently the produce is really good there, everyone I know who’s been couldn’t stop talking about how great the “taters” were. They had nice things to say about the melons, too.
Tossed $5 on Brugge at +1000 to beat city.
The Widow Ms. Deadly-in-Law is on a heater this morning – that’s two separate refrigerator chimes and it’s not even 8:15 yet.
“I don’t know much about soccer but I do know that you can always count on Bologna. Sweet, sweet Bologna.”
-A. Reid
Andy’s kind of a frontrunner, though – he’ll cheer for Westham and Fullham too as long as they’re
properly seasonedhaving a good season.Announcer: ” The final score is 4-1. Fulham got smoked today!”
Andy: “Yes, of course. But how long was the curing process?”
Arsenal, obviously. But I also want the Young Boys to make some noise as as spoilers the same way that young boys who made too much noise spoiled things for the Archdiocese of Boston.
Would it be in bad taste if I posted to one of the fire recovery forums asking for someone’s Paramount+ password since they presumably won’t be using it and/or won’t get hassled by the man for the remote login?
That would be in very bad taste.
But you should still do it.
Where’s Scott Hanson when you need him?
I presume he’ll be covering the Young Boys game.
You guys are not paying attention: Young Boys have been eliminated from the tournament, just like young boys are now eliminated from any Penn State locker room facilities, because of that thing, you know that one, that happened a while ago and that Joe Paterno definitely didn’t know anything about even though that one other guy told him about it to his face.
Do you think the Boston priests would provide the sacrament of confession to each other and then get all confused and forget which one of them was on the confession side and which one was supposed to be providing absolution?
I need to get back on a book by Chuck Klosterman but it’s one of his essay collections and it’s focused around villainy. And his thesis is:
A villain is someone who knows the most but cares the least.
And he talks about the bad guy tying the girl to the train tracks as the early universal illustration of a villain. And, early on, explains Joe Paterno as the Villain of the PSU Football Program Boy Molestation Events because, even more than the university president, Papa Joe was the only one who understood every angle of the matter and what the coverup and associated maintenance meant from the absolute top. And he woke up every morning and decided to look the other way for his entire life.
For me I think the biggest villains are the ones who genuinely take joy in seeing others suffer.
/Rep Jim Jordan (R) has entered the chat
imagine they place him in cold storage like Judge Dredd between seasons
Resting and recharging in a Bacta Tank.
Also, related…
https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/scott-hanson-takes-a-piss/
Oh, you just know he has a “Stadium Pal”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIk8oCEk74s
There he is! They have him on the Golazo show on Paramount+!
This is fucking rocking!