UEFA Europa Conference League - Alkmaar, Legia and Zrinjski

[LeeB]

The Championship was shit, it nearly destroyed the club. Only reason there's fond memories is because of the last few months. Before going on the 10 game run we'd won 10 of the first 34 league games.

That first season, spending a gazillion pounds to finish 13th whilst getting outplayed by teams put together with buttons.

And then the ignomy of having fans of theirs come on here telling us how football should be done.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Original NK Varteks went bankrupt.

Another team called NK Varazdin (Town they're from) took their place and there is also a separate club called Varteks that was founded by their fans.

[Russ aka Big Nose]

I'm in Athens with some mates from Thursday to Sunday. I'll audit the beer prices and product quality in as many bars as I can manage. #TakingOneForTheTeam

[Drummond]

I think I'm changing my mind on Europe, I now want the following three year plan:

23/24: Top 6 finish and WIN the FA Cup, qualifying for the Europa League
24/25: 5th and WIN the Europa League in Bilbao with Emery and his mates
25/26 Top 4, FA Cup WIN and 1/4 finals of the Champions League

That will do for starters..

Where's your ambition man?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I think I'm changing my mind on Europe, I now want the following three year plan:

23/24: Top 6 finish and WIN the FA Cup, qualifying for the Europa League
24/25: 5th and WIN the Europa League in Bilbao with Emery and his mates
25/26 Top 4, FA Cup WIN and 1/4 finals of the Champions League

That will do for starters..

Where's your ambition man?

I'm trying to keep it real man!

[aldridgeboy]

Isn't iit usually about now we find out there's a fair play award for a spot in the Europa, and England has the best disciplinary record in Europe this year?

So 8th place will get a European spot?

Or Something

[Lastfootstamper]

Doesn't it go to the best-behaved club? I've vague memories of lowly-placed clubs getting in that way.

[Drummond]

It stopped being a thing in 2016

[Lastfootstamper]

That explains the vagueness of the memories, then.

[ASHTONVILLA]

Not going to around for either of the last two games. In Netherlands this week and then heading to California for next couple of weeks.

Feel strangely calm, and do think we will make it somehow. Even if we don’t the future has nether looked brighter.

[olaftab]

And if only VAR had done it’s job Arsenal game would have ended 2-2.

Would it?
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Yes. Jorginho’s goal would have been disallowed.

[algy]

Totally agree. I don't care whether we play Oslo Boslo, Dynamo Crapo and Andulucian Averages - the 3rd competition is worth participation

Absolutely rob, in fact the more far flung and unheard of, the better. Would love an away trip to somewhere completely random in Estonia or similar.

Absoultely this, fucking Champions League is full of the same boring teams every year that we've seen a million times. I want to see us draw a team I've never heard of that were formed as a works team for the railways in some far flung ex-Soviet state.

I went to Prague for a week in 1995, and in some pubs the beer was 5p a pint. I lived like a king on about £20 for the week. Is there anywhere left still like that? If so, that's where I want to go.

When I went to Serbia around 2006, it was like a paradise for idiotic 20-somethings. Beautiful weather, beautiful people, beer was 60p a pint, fags 40p a pack, disco biscuits about a quid a pop ... great times.

[Brazilian Villain]

Feel strangely calm, and do think we will make it somehow. Even if we don’t the future has nether looked brighter.

That would be the trip to the coffee shop.

[aldridgeboy]

Prague has definitely gone more expensive. I’d been early 00’s and it was cheap ( £1-£2 a pint) but when I last went 2010 ish in one bar in the main square it was £10 a pint.

Bratislava was cheap, but they hated English stag do’s with an absolute passion.

[London Villan]

In 2001 i paid 48p for 4 decent lagers in Prague.