Confusement: The UEFA Nations League begins, England regroup and Denmark make do
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s coming home again as England prepare for the inaugural UEFA Nations League campaign, and what a confusing campaign it’ll be if the format is anything to go by. Full disclosure, we’re all for it. If anything it isn’t complicated enough.
We talk about England’s renewed spirit, double agents in the Bundesliga and the need for legs, while we also enjoy the musings of Robert Earnshaw and flood the show with Pompey mentions.
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Further reading:
The UEFA Nations League explained:
Ryan Giggs gets his feet under the table:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45428534
Denmark’s improvised national team:
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| 0:00.0 | Got to get up to get down ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the football ramble preview show |
| 0:05.2 | sponsor by bet 365 Englander back and in search of glory Wales Face Island and Denmarker |
| 0:11.0 | in the Saray. |
| 0:25.0 | It's coming home. It's coming home. It's taking this bloody time. Yeah. It's on a ferry. Got lost on the way. |
| 0:32.5 | It's on a very much an extended gap here. It's on a British train. It's got an inter-airing. |
| 0:39.6 | Yes, the UEFA Nations League is finally here. Can you use the full name for it please? |
| 0:45.7 | The UEFA Nations League which boasts a very simple tournament structure. No, the real quiz. |
| 0:50.8 | It's done with the real quiz. I've put together six bullet points to give people a |
| 0:56.0 | bit of an impression of what the UEFA Nations League is and how it works. Are you interested in that? |
| 0:59.5 | If not, it's fine. Very much so. Let me set you up by saying 55 nations in the four leagues, |
| 1:03.6 | in the four mini leagues, trophies and European championship qualification are up for grabs, Luke |
| 1:07.3 | more. Yes, takes place. So people who are confused by this allow me to help you. I watched the |
| 1:12.4 | official video on the UEFA Nations League website and almost transcribed it to present to everyone |
| 1:18.3 | listening what it actually means. Takes place every two years and replaces every friendly with a |
| 1:22.5 | competitive game. Yes. Evenly match teams in different leagues based on their coefficient. |
| 1:27.7 | Each league is devided into four groups. We'll need a three or four teams and the matches take |
| 1:34.2 | place home and away within those groups. Group winners gain promotion from Group leagues BC and D |
| 1:39.2 | and those that finish bottom in A, B and C will be relegated. In June 2019, the four league A |
| 1:44.4 | group winners will contest the Nations League Finals, which is two semis, a third place match and |
| 1:49.5 | a final and 16 group winners. So four times four leagues, times four groups, 16 group winners, |
| 1:55.2 | who have not already qualified for Euro 2020, will progress to the playoffs to compete for the |
| 1:59.3 | final four places at the Euro's. Thank you very much for listening to the previous show. |
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