Quote: doc999 "
Imagine playing Real Madrid at home in the CL final 3 weeks before your season starts add in 21 hours extra travel and jet lag and you can kind of see why its not taken very seriously.
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so then you switch the champions league final to the last game of the season....I think that might work...
But guess what the Champions league wasn't the be all and end all of Soccer at one time. Winning the old first division was what mattered and the European competition wasn't taken that seriously at all for years.
And if I remember correctly English clubs were persuaded by the FA not to enter..... (sound familiar)
look at it now teams want to just compete in it and finishing in the top 4 in the league is almost as important as wining the league... do we want to get to that ... not really.
but surely we want the WCC challenge to be a big event.