If we field the same team as yesterday then why would it be a problem, we really could effectively play two matches at the same time.
No we can't. The senior players in that team need to go to Qatar as back up.
What a game that was - Took my girlfriend & her little brother for their first game so couldn't have written a better script myself!
Really hope we don't bin this competition off - In a perfect world we'd bin that World Club Cup off instead - glorified corporate exhibition matches played in a human rights abusing backwards hovel of a Country. I know it's not the most prestigious trophy but I'd take League Cup games under the lights and an opportunity for a Wembley trip over that sh*te anyday!
Obviously there's going to be financial benefits to playing in the World Club Cup as well as the issue of staying in the good books for the likes of FIFA (as corrupt and backwards as they are). Just devastating that it has to come at the expense of a competition which gives great experience to our fringe players and more importantly in my opinion, an opportunity for younger fans / families to get to games
That's effectively saying you don't want to win the European Cup. If you don't achieve that, then you don't have to worry about playing the WCC.
But we did win the European Cup, and therefore I want to win the World Club Cup to go with it. I don't care how backwards the host nation is, that's for someone else to bang their head over. We're a football team with a job to do there and hopefully it will be a successful job.
I want the League Cup also, there is no choice in my mind. For far too long, this club has prioritised this cup over that cup and won no cup. In 6 months time, I want us to be English, European, and World Champions, with the trophies in our cabinet, the medals in our pockets, and the badges on our shirts to show them off to the rest of the world. That's a perfect world to me.
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