I'm thinking of ways to take this to the next level. It's easier when World Cup qualifiers are on. There's something to write about. Today's football highlight was West Ham's elimination from the Europa league by Astra Giurgiu. Who? Exactly. West Ham, from the richest league in the world beaten by a previously unheard of outside-of-Romania team from Romania. Except they were previously heard of in East London. They beat West Ham at the same stage last year. As I read on twitter today: "Trust West Ham to have a bogey team from Romania." So West Ham in their fancy new stadium have no European football to look forward to. But that's ok, their fans will say. They can now concentrate on qualifying for next year's Champions League. That's something that bemuses, and amuses, me about teams in most of the major European leagues. Every season they try to finish as high up the table as possible to qualify for Europe. They make it into the Europa League and then proceed to try their hardest to get eliminated as quickly as possible from it by fielding a team of subs so that they can concentrate on their domestic league, where they will probably qualify for the Europa League again.
With that thought of the day explained, I will go back to thinking of how I will make something more out of this. More Champions League rather then Europa; in it for the big prize rather than happy with what could have been.
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