The Big Thing: Changes are coming to the Champions League
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🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The Champions League format is undergoing a pretty significant overhaul in the 2024-25 season. On this week's Big Thing, Ryan, Graham and Joe discuss the changes, the reason for them coming in to place - and whether the contest will be better off...
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| 0:28.5 | Thank you. Welcome to the Big Thing on Total Soccer Show, the weekly show where we dig into the meatiest |
| 0:57.7 | topics in the beautiful game. Today we're talking about the Champions League, which made its welcome |
| 1:03.2 | return this week. But the contest as we know it is facing some big changes that are going to kick in next |
| 1:10.6 | season. What are those changes? |
| 1:12.7 | Why are they happening? And will they make things better? Today, we're going to find out. My name |
| 1:18.6 | is Ryan Bailey, joining me today to answer those questions. And many more, we have Mr. Joe Lowry. |
| 1:23.3 | Hello, Joe. Hello, Ryan. How are you? Marvelous. All the better for speaking with you, my good man. |
| 1:29.7 | And we also have Mr. Graham Ruffin joining us. Hello, Graham. |
| 1:33.6 | Hello, Ryan. Strange tone to start this episode. |
| 1:36.4 | It's a little weird. |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, positive and jolly, because what we're getting into, Graham, is maybe not that same tone. |
| 1:43.8 | Yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about this, |
| 1:46.7 | Ryan. Can we not just keep things the same in general life, but also with the Champions League. |
| 1:52.1 | Let's not change it. So this is an interesting concept to start with in this episode, Graham. People |
| 1:57.1 | generally don't like change when it comes to things they like, such as the Champions League. |
| 2:01.5 | So there is a natural feeling that you should be skeptical of these changes, perhaps with good cause. |
| 2:08.5 | And that's what we're going to dig into in this episode, because the contest of the Champions League, as we know, is changing from the 24-25 season. |
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