Means an awful amount of league games have to be played on a sunday.
And this is bad because...?
Spurs and United couldn't get out of it quick enough this season
Must explain why United reached the last 16, and are going to win the EPL title despite that.
Aside: I wonder if Falcao will be top scorer in the EL two seasons running? He needs 3 from the semi-final and final to overtake Huntelaar (Shalke has been eliminated).
Falcao looked lethal in it last season. I was surprised he didn't go to a bigger club.
Porto to Atletico Madrid is a step up, surely.
It is, yeah. I mean I'm surprised a bigger club than Atletico didn't come in for him. He seemed like seriously hot property at the time.
As for this whole "it's not good to play Thursday because then we have to play Sunday" craic - to me this is just a fairly new gripe. A flavour of the month for people to complain about because they hear other people saying it. Not aiming that towards Stanley, as he's given a legitimate reason for not favouring it, but I don't recall many people complaining about it in the past. In the mid to late 90s we were always in the UEFA Cup. The games have always been played on Thursdays. Why has it become such a fashionable issue in the last year or so? Maybe we've just been spoiled too much by having regular CL football for 8 or 9 years.
I think it's more important to the club to be in the Europa League than to have no European football at all. It may be no Champions League, but I'm sure there are certain players who'd prefer to come to a team playing Europa League football than a team not playing in Europe at all.
