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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

The big boys are coming for Girona - with baseball bats!

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Before we begin, please grant me one Christmas wish. If you are enjoying these posts, please share them with one football fan in your life who might also enjoy them. I thank you. At this time of the season, the Champions League group stages were done and dusted and we went into the break with the Round of 16 locked down. Not any more.

In today’s post, Pete Jenson and I tell you what we think about the new-look tournament structure as some big clubs face peril and some smaller participants are shell-shocked after a run of fixtures they would have NEVER have faced in the old format.

Now it’s over to you. Please let me know in the comments what YOU think of the changes.



This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit revistadelaliga.substack.com

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0:00.0

This broadcast is brought to you by Dom de Louise and some of the cast of Canterball Run.

0:06.0

Look, it's about that time, six games up in the new Champions League format, whereby the group stage

0:10.4

in the old format would be ending.

0:13.3

Now, principally we want to know what you think about it, but Pete and I have been

0:18.8

watching it, watching it, coming at, watching it, summing it it up and this might not be a very scientific approach. But Pete, I

0:24.9

would say that it's a tromposo, it's a trick-free format because interviewing Andy

0:29.7

Robertson the other day after you got ran out match against your own now, he talked

0:32.5

about lots of things, the league format, more competitive, six different rivals instead of like a group game where you just

0:39.7

faced three rivals twice. And he talked about lots and lots of goals. Now, there's been the same

0:44.6

moment of goals this season so far. Six games in, a new format with big teams occasionally struggling.

0:52.8

Peripherly, what are you thinking about it?

0:55.7

When Farringtonian Ferries came out with that dastardly scheme of his...

1:01.1

Announced on primetime television to the world.

1:04.5

We're doing this now, by the way.

1:06.3

And it sounded that we weren't doing that now, by the way.

1:09.4

But in most bad schemes, there's always a splinter of something decent.

1:15.9

And one thing that I thought they were on to something was the fact that you tended to get the same games over and over again.

1:24.5

Teams that were drawn in the same group and the thing about playing each other twice.

1:28.3

So well that's more and more honest format and this is a dishonest format because you only you might play this team at home play that's in the way.

1:35.3

It's given us better fixtures. There's no question about it. Dortmund have played Madrid,

1:40.3

Dortmund have played bars, both games were fantastic. Just a wider test, are you saying like...

1:46.0

Yeah, and you just, plants are get a broader range of fixtures.

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