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EUROPA LEAGUE? I LOVE IT

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
13 July 2017

DAVE PAGE says the much-maligned competition deserves a break…

DAVE PAGE
THURSDAY nights, Channel 5! as the jibe used to go, until the changing of broadcast rights rendered the song redundant. The chant has even got its own Wikipedia page, which seems rather… odd.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that the Europa League, and the UEFA Cup before that, is on the whole not taken very seriously in this country, and for some fans merits mockery.
I’ve tried many times to understand and sympathise with such a mentality, but I honestly just can’t. It’s a Euro...

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