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I'll be rooting for Dortmund in the final.

Jurgen Klopp is a mad genius, and what he was able to accomplish with a club with meager financial means is amazing. He brought them back from the dead when he started. I love the collective spirit of that team.

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Looking back now, as disappointing as our UCL performance was this year, it looks a bit more understandable now that we see the quality of the group we were in. It contained Juventus, who are well and away the best team in Italy, and only got knocked out by Bayern (in a much more respectable way than the infamous Barcelona did).

Shakhtar is obviously the best in the Ukraine but also were only knocked out by what is a verryy good Dortmund team (who they managed to tie in one leg). That factored in with the fact that Chelsea was within 2 points of Juve and only lost out on away goals to Shaktar meant that Chelsea only narrowly managed to slip out of that very stacked group. Put us in any other group (except probably dortmunds) and I'm sure we would have advanced and could have definitely beat a celtic/galatasaray, etc. type team.

Obviously this is very speculative and no excuse for the fact that we should have done better in our group, but I think now it seems even sillier that Roman so hastily sacked RDM. (To again reiterate, I wasn't impressed with Chelsea's performance, just think it wasn't quite as dreadful as it seemed at the time.)

Makes me wonder how differently the season would have played out had we just closed out that first Juventus game (advanced in UCL, RDM not sacked.....) :ermm:

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Without Chelsea's European success of last 2 seasons, Germany would be above England in coefficient ranking at start of next season

I know, but who gives a shit. As long as there are 4 CL places. Everyone knows, the EPL is the best league in the world and that won't change due to that pathetic ranking system. Still I'd like FA&shit giving english teams a better chance internationally by omitting that superfluous carling cup& replay system in the Fa Cup so English teams do not have so many more games than anyone else. This is also a problem for the NT.

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