Maybe just maybe the teams containing some of Europe’s best players must have lost to teams of even better players.
Seriously this is typical English exceptionalism that we get in football. There is something to be said for expanding the group stage to 24 or 32 but the Telegraph wouldn’t have written this if Manchester United and Arsenal hadn’t been knocked out in the qualifiers.
Hopefully UEFA will stick to their guns and privilege league champions over the high finishers of the richer leagues.
Maybe just maybe the teams containing some of Europe’s best players must have lost to teams of even better players.
Seriously this is typical English exceptionalism that we get in football. There is something to be said for expanding the group stage to 24 or 32 but the Telegraph wouldn’t have written this if Manchester United and Arsenal hadn’t been knocked out in the qualifiers.
Hopefully UEFA will stick to their guns and privilege league champions over the high finishers of the richer leagues.