[Football] On now: Champions League Live from Shropshire

[Nottseagull]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/48907811

I've only today discovered that Oswestry Town have merged with the New Saints from across the border, but still play in Oswestry. This means England has 5 clubs in the competition because the merged club is allowed to play in and represent the Welsh Premier League, even though English clubs who won the Welsh FA Cup were never allowed into the European CWC.
Anyway, they're up against Kosovo's finest and doing quite well so maybe we can help boost the online audience, which is even smaller than that at the match!

 

[Screaming J]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/48907811

I've only today discovered that Oswestry Town have merged with the New Saints from across the border, but still play in Oswestry. This means England has 5 clubs in the competition because the merged club is allowed to play in and represent the League of Wales, even though English clubs who won the Welsh FA Cup were never allowed into the European CWC.
Anyway, they're up against Kosovo's finest and doing quite well so maybe we can help boost the online audience, which is even smaller than that at the match!

Share same ground, but still separate clubs I think :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C._Oswestry_Town

 

[AmexRuislip]

Red Star Belgrade, how they have fallen, I remember them playing in the European Cup when I was a yoof.

 

[AZ Gull]

Share same ground, but still separate clubs I think :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C._Oswestry_Town

FC Oswestry Town is a different club to what was Oswestry Town, which hasn't existed since 2003.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Red Star Belgrade, how they have fallen, I remember them playing in the European Cup when I was a yoof.

Won it too

 

[Eeyore]

Winner plays København- which, I think, is Copenhagen.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Won it too

Those were halcyon days of football, when listening to games on the radio were priceless, compared to todays saturated coverage.

 

[Badger]

Looks like there's a SHOCK result on the cards. FK Sarajevo are currently losing 2-1 at home to plucky little MINNOWS Celtic.

 

[B-right-on]

Rangers thrashed semi-professional third best team in Gibraltar 0-4, but didn't score until 50th min in the Europa League.

Really? 3rd best team in Gibraltar qualifies for Europe?

 

[Nottseagull]

Looks like there's a SHOCK result on the cards. FK Sarajevo are currently losing 2-1 at home to plucky little MINNOWS Celtic.

TNS also play in green and white hoops and lead 2-1.
I'm glad that band packed it in, it was ruining the atmosphere. When I say 'band', I'm talking 18-piece complete with conductor!

 

[Mackenzie]

Well they blew that.

 

[GT49er]

Rangers thrashed semi-professional third best team in Gibraltar 0-4, but didn't score until 50th min in the Europa League.

Really? 3rd best team in Gibraltar qualifies for Europe?

Somebody better tell PB we're playing in the wrong league!

 

[atfc village]

Red Star Belgrade, how they have fallen, I remember them playing in the European Cup when I was a yoof.

Money and greed from the big boys.

 

[GT49er]

Red Star Belgrade, how they have fallen, I remember them playing in the European Cup when I was a yoof.

Ah, the footballing arm (or one of them) of the Red Army if I remember rightly. Doesn't apply any more - so, a bit like Chelsea when Abramovich takes his money back, I guess.

 

[The aloof gatekeeper]

I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

TNS also play in green and white hoops and lead 2-1.
I'm glad that band packed it in, it was ruining the atmosphere. When I say 'band', I'm talking 18-piece complete with conductor!
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Is that not our PP fairy, attending the toilets on the left?

 

[Horses Arse]

I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade!

Great lyric, among many

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[Munkfish]

Red Star Belgrade, how they have fallen, I remember them playing in the European Cup when I was a yoof.

Did they not beat Liverpool in the Champions league last season?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Total Network Solutions [TNS] of the Welsh league are a bit like Celtic in Scotland - they qualify for Champions league football every season pretty much unopposed, and have been doing so for years.
Our local Radio Shropshire love it as it gives them some footy to talk about before the season-proper gets underway.
TNS are usually out of Europe before we get to October mind.

 

[Nottseagull]

Ah, the footballing arm (or one of them) of the Red Army if I remember rightly. Doesn't apply any more - so, a bit like Chelsea when Abramovich takes his money back, I guess.

No, I think it was CSKA Moscow; the Red Army was that of the USSR. The Yugoslav army was non-aligned, e.g. it wasn't part of the Warsaw Pact.