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Huh, Tomáš Souček is also from Havlíčkův Brod, just like Radim Zohorna. @Tomas

@Tomas give us a rundown

Havlickuv Brod = Havlicek's Ford (as "water passage")

Karel Havlicek Borovsky lived in that city. He was a poet/writer, and most importantly one of the faces of 19th Century Czech cultural/national resurrection (against Austria/Germany).

Even though it's a rather small city (~20,000), HB has a hockey team that has yo-yoed between CZE2 and CZE3 leagues. Some pretty good players grew up there (Holik brothers, Joe Vasicek, Radek Martinek, Vitek Vanecek, Zohorna brothers,...)

And it is also the hometown of West Ham United star Tomas Soucek...

[My hometown has quite similar size, and it's not very far from HB - but no athlete of any real importance ever grew up there...]

As already discussed in the Penguins thread:

UEFA’s new “Swiss model” for the Champions League is to change the format from a group of 32 clubs organized in eight groups of four to a group of 36 clubs in one large table. The clubs would be ranked by club coefficient and assigned a group of 10 matches against different opponents, five home and five away, with the top eight in the table advancing to the knock-out rounds.

A further five teams will be rotated in and out of the competition, based on performance, but the permanent members will include six Premier League clubs, three from La Liga, three from Italy's Serie A, two from the Bundesliga and one from France's Ligue 1.

Ban them all from their domestic leagues, please. **** them.

I understand why UEFA is against that.

But fans of the teams involved? We are talking about an activity (kicking a sphere into a rectangular area), that aside from its entertainment potential is completely and utterly ridiculous and useless.

Now, since this is entertainment activity - why not create a top-notch product (similarly to having a series of movies with the very best actors) that will entertain on a weekly basis? Protesting that is like claiming "every movie should have at most 3 good actors, the rest should be from a a local semi-amateur theater."

The point: I'll gladly watch multiple games that pair Juventus, Barcelona, Liverpool, Bayern, etc. against each other repeatedly, week after week, compared to watching PSV Eindhoven, Donetsk, Panathinaikos, Sporting Lisbon, Gent, Dynamo Zagreb, Celtic, or Slavia Prague...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... per-league