Revamped Uefa Cup Is in a League of Its Own for Utter Lunacy ; Football Columnist
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IT was an intriguing, if anticlimatic, Champions League week that means a more exciting next few days as Chelsea and Barcelona, Arsenal and Manchester United square up again. Amid it all, though, does anyone recall the UEFA Cup semi-final scores? Thought not. For the record, Shakhtar Donetsk are favourites to be the Ukrainian representatives in the final after drawing 1-1 in Kiev against Dynamo, while Hamburg look like winning the north German derby after beating Werder Bremen 1-0 away. Wake up at the back.
In an attempt to stimulate what has become a bloated sideshow, UEFA are reorganising the subsidiary competition. Next season, it will become the Europa League and have a new logo. Oooh, swish. It threatens to make the tournament even more like La Grande Bouffe but without the same explosive outcome.See the full content of this document
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Revamped Uefa Cup Is in a League of Its Own for Utter Lunacy ; Football Columnist
For the past few weeks, Harry Redknapp at Tottenham and Roy Hodgson at Fulham have been fielding questions about reaching Europe next season. They h...
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