Winter
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Just watched Liverpool v bayern 0-0. Not a bad game but nothing champion about it. Lyon 0-0 Barca as well. It's not long ago id have been really excited to watch such a mouth watering tie, these days I can barely be bothered. Since 4 clubs automatically qualify from the big leagues, the anticipation of watching clubs who've achieved nothing to be in the 'champions league 'just isn't there anymore. It's a joke of a competition by name, with clubs like spurs (no offence intended) who haven't been champions of anything for a decade or more getting a bye into the group stages for failing to win anything ,whilst former winners Celtic, Red Star, Steaua Bucharest etc are jetting off to Asia before the season starts just to get the chance of a play off . The sense of achievement that comes with being in the champions league has been lost and the tournament diluted. Id reckon most of us could name the majority of quarter finalists for the next five years its so slanted. Who knows ? Perhaps in ten years time rather than say Manchester city v Salzburg we will instead be calling it Etihad v Red Bull or Emirates v Irn Bru (assuming Celtic/the Scottish champions, have actually managed to beat every countries national champions between Scotland and Azerbaijan over 2 legs first) we might actually qualify for the play offs round. The games a bogey and my ma said ive to take my ba' with me when I'm going hame.