Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Good man, Pat.

There's no point in us all moaning about the repetitive familiarity of the CL if we can't get a little tingle of interest in something different. Tomorrow night we are playing a side in their first European competition for 25 years. Apparently 20,000 heavily armed* Germans will be invading North London just to add to the fun.

We might even see Per Mertesacker play football again. Possibly a glimpse of the less-spotted Debuchy or the new Sammy Nelson.


*I may have made that bit up.
But surely we're just replacing one grindingly tedious and bloated European competition with another, lower-quality one? Hardly cause for celebration imo.