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Offline BC Villain

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1740 on: May 06, 2021, 09:11:55 PM »
Snobbish Chelsea fans claiming Villa Park is too small to stage it.

Villa Park is bigger than Stamford Bridge... .

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1741 on: May 06, 2021, 09:49:53 PM »
UEFA require a 60,000 minimum capacity for the stadium hosting the Champions League final so holding it at VP was a non-starter.

Presumably doesn't apply if only 8000 fans can actually attend? Just have it on one of the pitches in Aston Park

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1742 on: May 06, 2021, 10:14:23 PM »
Fucking great idea to hold an all English final in a foreign country during a pandemic.  I heard Adrian Durham saying this type of thinking is backwards thinking, yes, guilty as charged but why not promise the Istanbul stadium a final next season, when the pandemic is done?

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1743 on: May 06, 2021, 10:16:46 PM »
UEFA require a 60,000 minimum capacity for the stadium hosting the Champions League final so holding it at VP was a non-starter.

Presumably doesn't apply if only 8000 fans can actually attend? Just have it on one of the pitches in Aston Park

I'm pretty sure UEFA care more about how impressive it looks on TV than whether the ground is physically large enough to hold the fans in attendance.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1744 on: May 06, 2021, 10:40:09 PM »
I doubt they'd give a shit.

Though if it is held in England I could see it being held at Wembley as everything else seems to be, even despite the advantage that gives London teams. Though I confess I haven't been arsed to check if it clashes with playoff weekend (always much more interesting than the European finals).

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1745 on: May 06, 2021, 11:17:44 PM »
If the final is moved, there’s no way it should be held in the U.K.
That would just be asking for trouble.


Get Edvard to arrange a pitch and play it up there.

Any place that's prone to flooding gets my vote.

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1746 on: May 06, 2021, 11:52:32 PM »
I doubt they'd give a shit.

Though if it is held in England I could see it being held at Wembley as everything else seems to be, even despite the advantage that gives London teams. Though I confess I haven't been arsed to check if it clashes with playoff weekend (always much more interesting than the European finals).

Think it does clash with the Play Offs.  On a purely selfish note, I'd love VP to stage it, as it would then surely be in a small number of club grounds that have staged finals of the top and secondary European club competitions, as well as Euro and World Cup games.
« Last Edit: May 06, 2021, 11:58:06 PM by tomd2103 »

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1747 on: May 06, 2021, 11:56:03 PM »
Ah, OK ta. Villa Park most obvious venue if they decide it has to be hosted in the UK then (I don't think Millennium Stadium is open at the moment).

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1748 on: May 07, 2021, 12:07:10 AM »
Ah, OK ta. Villa Park most obvious venue if they decide it has to be hosted in the UK then (I don't think Millennium Stadium is open at the moment).

Don't think they clash every year, but seem to recall listening to one on the way back from Wembley after one of the Play Off finals.  Think it was the Fulham one and it was the game where Liverpool's keeper had a howler against Madrid. 

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1749 on: May 07, 2021, 02:11:41 AM »
Snobbish Chelsea fans claiming Villa Park is too small to stage it.

Villa Park is bigger than Stamford Bridge... .

Stamford Bridge is also an absolute shithole rammed with wankers.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1750 on: May 07, 2021, 03:22:40 AM »
UEFA require a 60,000 minimum capacity for the stadium hosting the Champions League final so holding it at VP was a non-starter.

Presumably doesn't apply if only 8000 fans can actually attend? Just have it on one of the pitches in Aston Park

I'm pretty sure UEFA care more about how impressive it looks on TV than whether the ground is physically large enough to hold the fans in attendance.
No other ground is more impressive than Villa Park.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1751 on: May 07, 2021, 05:54:38 AM »
Snobbish Chelsea fans claiming Villa Park is too small to stage it.

Villa Park is bigger than Stamford Bridge... .

Stamford Bridge is also an absolute shithole rammed with wankers.
well said.
No atmosphere whatsoever.

Offline Axl Rose

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1752 on: May 07, 2021, 06:56:50 AM »
Snobbish Chelsea fans claiming Villa Park is too small to stage it.

Villa Park is bigger than Stamford Bridge... .

Stamford Bridge is also an absolute shithole rammed with wankers.
well said.
No atmosphere whatsoever.


I know mate, good god. With that shitty hotel stuck on the stand. Rubbish.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1753 on: May 07, 2021, 08:53:57 AM »
Snobbish Chelsea fans claiming Villa Park is too small to stage it.

Villa Park is bigger than Stamford Bridge... .

Stamford Bridge is also an absolute shithole rammed with wankers.

Christ, you should have seen it before they redeveloped it.

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Re: Champions League restructuring
« Reply #1754 on: May 07, 2021, 10:31:55 AM »
As much as I hate Chelsea, I actually thought Stamford Bridge was quite a nice ground.

Much better than Anfield and I find Old Trafford pretty dull.

 


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