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Old 05-11-2004, 03:02 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by El Capitano Gatisto
The earlier rounds were the equivalent of preliminary rounds now i.e. full of shit. Bear in mind that the idea of bringing in 2nd, 2rd and 4th placed teams from top European countries is a recent one, so the tournament was alot weaker back then, overall, with fewer teams.

Leeds happened to be abysmal that season, too, nearly getting relegated from the Premier League, never mind being absolutely shite against Rangers in the Champions League. So basically you had alot of poor teams, along with Barcelona and AC Milan, and Barcelona are the biggest underachievers of all time in terms of Europe.

I remembered the groups being bigger for some reason. Maybe it just seemed like alot of matches to be on tv when I was 11 and didn't have Sky. I remember Rangers being one minute away from
Come on now. That's like saying the previous European Cup's don't mean what they do now because it was all knock out stages. You can't use teams underachiving as an excuse either. AC Milan actually won the thing (being that Marseille were stripped of it and it was total politics that Rangers never got to the final).
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