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I see the ratings are in part based on data from Transfermarkt. That site is a clown car.
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Nice to see an MLS team at #14..
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Spurs seem too high and too low.
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Top 80!!!!!!! #COYI @willeyeam
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Probably the worst crap I have ever seen to come up from 538.com . They randomly rank teams from meaningless leagues like Scotland (20th ranked league out of Europe), but omit everybody from, say, Ukraine (No. 9 in Europe, which features, say, Shakhtar Donetsk that regularly competes in the spring rounds of CL or EL), Czech Republic (No. 13; Slavia Prague just made it to QFs of EL by eliminating FC Sevilla) - buy yes, go ahead and rank powerhouses from China and effin Yeovil from League 2!Yinz ever see this from fivethirtyeight?
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/gl ... id=irpromo
It's the global club soccer rankings. It's interesting to scroll down and look once you get into the 100's
Anyway, the ranking that - somewhat - makes sense is the official UEFA Club Ranking. That's this one:
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/ue ... k2019.html
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UEFA set to recommend Man City UCL exclusion for rule breaking
https://en.as.com/en/2019/05/13/footbal ... 23015.html
https://en.as.com/en/2019/05/13/footbal ... 23015.html
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ChampionshipTop 80!!!!!!! #COYI @willeyeam
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Southampton is 84th in both, so.... I see no difference.Probably the worst crap I have ever seen to come up from 538.com . They randomly rank teams from meaningless leagues like Scotland (20th ranked league out of Europe), but omit everybody from, say, Ukraine (No. 9 in Europe, which features, say, Shakhtar Donetsk that regularly competes in the spring rounds of CL or EL), Czech Republic (No. 13; Slavia Prague just made it to QFs of EL by eliminating FC Sevilla) - buy yes, go ahead and rank powerhouses from China and effin Yeovil from League 2!Yinz ever see this from fivethirtyeight?
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/gl ... id=irpromo
It's the global club soccer rankings. It's interesting to scroll down and look once you get into the 100's
Anyway, the ranking that - somewhat - makes sense is the official UEFA Club Ranking. That's this one:
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/ue ... k2019.html
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They ought to be 1,000 after that performance Saturday.Better than Pompey... @Freddy Rumsen364, baby
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ouch
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pOmPeY aNd SaInTs WiLl Be In ThE sAmE dIvIsIoN...
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Looking forward to the Spurs buying someone for the first time in forever.
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I couldn't bear to watch.
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I watched it on ESPN+.
What a terrible performance.
What a terrible performance.
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Video: B+
Home Kit: D
Away Kit: A-
3rd Kit: B+
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Like.
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Charlton vs Doncaster is great entertainment.
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Charlton was super hot to end the season.
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That's rough for Doncaster.
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Pulisic to Chelsea. Cool
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I just watched the Bourdain episode on Armenia.
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Really feels like UEFA deserves this disaster.The Europa League final is the debacle that keeps on giving. After Arsenal confirmed that midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan would not be playing the final in Baku, Azerbaijan due to his Armenian heritage, reports are coming out that the stadium might be half-empty for what is ostensibly the second biggest European soccer match of the season.
First, a report by Sky Sports said that Arsenal and Chelsea are both sending back thousands of tickets to the final that they could not sell due to its remote location in far-Eastern Europe. Earlier the clubs had complained about the small allotment of tickets they received in the first place (only about 12,000 of the 68,700 capacity at the Baku Olympic Stadium were reserved for the involved teams’ fans). Since then, Arsenal and Chelsea have realized that not even 12,000 of their fans are interested in traveling 5,600 miles round-trip and paying the exorbitant hotel fees endemic to these kinds of events.
You can understand the lack of interest from London-based fans in traveling so far and spending so much money to watch the final of Europe’s JV tournament, the result of which really only matters to Arsenal. The more damning reports, though, are that sponsors are now looking to return tickets as well. The main reason most big soccer matches (and big sporting events in general, for that matter) make so few tickets available for the competing teams’ fans is that tournament sponsors get a large allotment as part of their deals. It’s why the European finals almost always have terrible atmospheres, and it’s another sign of the soulless avarice that animates soccer at the highest levels.
However, due to both the Europa League final’s remote location and concerns over the Azerbaijani government’s human rights violations towards Armenians (the reason Mkhitaryan is not playing in the final), these same sponsors are finding it hard to find enough people willing to make the trek to Baku.
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