Chelsea v Arsenal 13:30 Sunday 20th January SS1

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-articl...arsenal-latest

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

Why rightly so? Borussia Dortmund would've qualified for the Champions League by being league champions and outperformed Bayern Munich in that competition on the back of it. It doesn't seem fair that's forgotten about, especially when you've always maintained the Champions League should be mainly for the league winners.

I meant it changing with regards to 'as it stands' - in the current system there is about a point seperating third, fourth and fifth. I don't know how you'll work out the point system either to be honest, it's going to be extremely complicated. Like I already said, you can't use UEFA's current ranking on that, for obvious reasons.

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Why? Because they're not Champions of their country, in the old days of the European cup only the winners of the league qualified and that was perfectly fair.

Just because Dortmund had won the title the season before last it doesn't mean they should be seeded higher, Bayern would be champions of Germany and thus would be a top seed automatically (providing Germany was one of the 4 countries that performed best in Europe the season before).

I'd go back to the European cup format personally, but that's not going to happen.

Poldi and Oxocube are out from illness, we're unchanged from the team that played against Citeh.

Kos. :rose:

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Coquelin, Wilshere, Diaby, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud

Arsenal team: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Coquelin, Wilshere, Diaby, Cazorla, Walcott, Giroud

Torres starts for Chelsea and not Ba. :lol:

Subs: Mannone, Koscielny, Jenkinson, Santos, Frimpong, Ramsey, Arshavin

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

Poldi and Oxocube are out from illness, we're unchanged from the team that played against Citeh.

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AKA snowed in and too busy making snowmen.

Ok we're not unchanged then. BBC. :doh:

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Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...

Ok we're not unchanged then. BBC. :doh:

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Unchanged from Swansealona I guess they meant.