Brief idea of the day: The Uefa Trashbin
By: alessio | April 30th, 2008Someone on a Juve forum asked people to post comparisons between the success of La Liga, the EPL, and Serie A. Most people responded with UCL, Uefa cup, and Ballon d’Or records. (Serie A has marginally the best record) A lot of people brought up their ideas that the EPL is not nearly as competitive (within itself) as Serie A, and brought up giant-killers Cagliari, Livorno (Roma, Milan?) and other relegation-threatened squads compared to oh, say Derby County or Fulhamerica.
Which gave me the idea for an awesome tournament. The Uefa “oh my god, I can’t believe we made it” tournament, which would pit say 16th and 17th placed teams (that just avoided relegation) against their counterparts in foreign leagues. It could be in the summer, like the soon-to-be-discontinued Intertoto Cup, or during the season. Winning team gets a good chunk of the TV money (if it got any) and some prize money to do whatever they want, most likely buy a good player to try and keep them alive the next season.
How entertaining would that be? Sunderland v. Cagliari? The Toro v. Osasuna? If it actually brought a real reward, I think the teams would fight for it (especially if it didn’t conflict with league schedules) and it would be pretty damn entertaining. It would also be the only chance for some of these teams to play in Europe.
Yay mediocrity! (sorry royals fans)
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If thats the case, we should apply it to Cinderella teams like AlbinoLeffe. God knows with shear heart of the players, and you factor in the lack of supporters this team has (three supporters on away game?), they deserve a chance in UEFA more than anyone in Serie A. And they’ll be in Serie A next fall.
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It’d have to be the reserve teams, because most relegation battlers can’t afford to be in a European competition and still have a prayer of surviving.
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yeah, that’s why i wasn’t thinking a season-long battle alla champions league/uefa cup. far too taxing, it’d be unreasonable. maybe during the winter break (if the EPL institutes one) or in the summer. i dunno, just a funny thought.
on a side note, who do you think would win? if you took the two teams immediately above relegation…
Recreativo Huelva and Osasuana from La Liga
Empoli and the Toro from Serie A (weren’t both potentially aiming uefa cup this season…)
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I like the idea.
Right now? Osasuna. I think I’d put more money on Reggina or Livorno than Toro or Empoli, sadly.
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Dude, this is awesome. Just a 1 match knockout competition during the summer between the top 4 leagues 17th position teams. That would probably end up as Reading vs Osasuna and PSG vs Empoli
it the words of puppet jose: Its fantastic. Very nice.
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I’m with Chris – I think Osasuna would take it. I’d love to see a tournament like this. I’d watch it, though I doubt many others would.
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not only that we can also have the top two teams that have just been promoted from each of those leagues to make it a total of 16 teams one match knock out competition
Spain
Recreativo, Osasuna, Numancia and MalagaEngland
Bolton, Reading, West Brom and Stoke CityItaly
Torino, Empoli, Chievo and AlbinoLeffeFrance
Toulouse, Lens, Le Havre and NantesRecreativo v Nantes Nantes
Bolton v AlbinoLeffe AlbinoLeffe-
Torino v Stoke City Toro
Tolouse v Malaga Toulouse-
Osasuna v Chievo Osasuna-
Reading v Le Havre Reading
Empoli v West Brom West Brom
Lens v Numancia LensNantes v West Brom West Brom
AlbinoLeffe v Lens Lens-
Toro v Reading Toro-
Toulouse v Osasuna Osasuna-West Brom v Osasuna Osasuna-
Lens v Toro Toro-Final would be Toro v Osasuna and Osasuna would probably win it all.
-=matches i wouldn’t mind watching specially during the summer when there’s nothing on but transfer market
Imagine if it was Zaragoza instead of Recreativo or PSG for Lens or Reggina/Lazio for Empoli this competition might have a mix of historic teams like PSG, Bolton and Toro, Lazio and some that have been breaking the top side of their leagues in recent years such as Reading, Chievo and Osasuna, and several underachievers like Reggina and in some years we might get to see Portsmouth, Blackburn, Napoli, Genoa, Racing and Getafe
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This is so funny. I was thinking about this the other day.
I can picture it now. All the mid table teams scoring own goals of desperation to somehow forge there way into the competition.
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haha this is sadly a very goood idea! I mean its not fair that they will never get to experience a European competition. This is perfect!
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Well.. you could very well end up with Valencia, Zaragoza or Osasuna in those places. That would be very unfortunate for the other leagues. Exceptions need to be made for the teams who have underachieved terribly that season or something. Don’t let teams like Valencia or Lazio compete.. Valencia because they have got great players, and Lazio because.. well.. they’re just terrible.
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