[Calderyon]

http://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/what-...31udm7plqljcdr

[Shaun]

Sounds complicated af and going to further ruin the match fitness of international players.

[Nicky91]

huh isn't that similar to a European championship

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Sounds complicated af and going to further ruin the match fitness of international players.

I think many nations will send second, third or even fourth rate players to this and save the stars for more important competitions.

[Alf]

We should never have got rid of the Home nations championships, which were a successful tournament for a hundred years (barring the two wars and one year for civil unrest in Northern Ireland) between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

[bitontheslide]

who on earth thought that lot up, it's a contrived mess. If it also means an end to friendlies in the proper sense, it removes the possibility of playing South American opposition other than in a competitive finals, or that's how it seems, but who knows with this shower of ****

[James]

^ I think they said before there's still going to be time for friendlies with, for example, South American teams.

In general I like the Nations League idea because I think friendly football matches are pointless.

There's a slightly weird twist though where one team from each of the four leagues will qualify for Euro 2020, which could result in a minnow team qualifying, or a team (maybe) trying to get relegated to a lower league to make qualification for the next Euros easier.

[James]

Originally Posted by Alf

We should never have got rid of the Home nations championships, which were a successful tournament for a hundred years (barring the two wars and one year for civil unrest in Northern Ireland) between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

They tried bringing a version of that back with the Nations Cup in 2011 - England didn't take part, but it wasn't very interesting.

[James]

The leagues and groups will be drawn from this.

[James]

Wales beat Republic of Ireland 4-1.

Nations League: Wales beat Republic of Ireland 4-1 in Ryan Giggs' first home game

Wales produced an exhibition of sparkling attacking football as they thrashed the Republic of Ireland in their Nations League opener to give manager Ryan Giggs a handsome victory in his first competitive match in charge.....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45351104

Scores -

Group A1

Germany 0
France 0

Group C3

Norway 2
Cyprus 0

Slovenia 1
Bulgaria 2

Group D1

Kazakhstan 0
Georgia 2

Latvia 0
Andorra 0

Group D4

Armenia 2
Liechtenstein 1

Gibraltar 0
FYR Macedonia 2

Group B1

Czech Republic 1
Ukraine 2

Group B4

Wales 4
Republic of Ireland 1

[James]

The groups.

[Mystic Mock]

I like the idea as it stops so many pointless friendly matches, and also makes the players get used to playing with each other more rather than having to quickly gel during a major knockout tournament when you've not played with each other before or on a regular basis.

[Nicky91]

another competition and another way for Uefa to make money better not call up our best players i think, to avoid risking any major injuries

[James]

Yesterday.

Group C4
Lithuania 0
Serbia 1

Romania 0
Montenegro 0

Group D3
Azerbaijan 0
Kosovo 0

Faroe Islands 3
Malta 1

Group A3
Italy 1
Poland 1

Group B2
Turkey 1
Russia 2

Group C1
Albania 1
Israel 0

Today.

Group C2
Finland 1
Hungary 0

Estonia 0
Greece 1

Group D2
Belarus 5
San Marino 0

Luxembourg 4
Moldova 0

Group A2
Switzerland 6
Iceland 0

Group A4
England 1
Spain 2

Group B3
Northern Ireland 1
Bosnia-Herzegovina 2

[Mystic Mock]

I can't believe that the Referee's were incompetent yet again during an England game.

The fair result was 2-2 but clearly the goalkeeper can fall on top of our striker and still get the free kick rather than letting us have our goal that we rightfully earned.

[James]

I'm watching Denmark - Wales on BBC S4C iPlayer live - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/s4c ... in Welsh.

[LeatherTrumpet]

great to see England continue their epic world cup form against decent teams

pub teams no problem

decent teams sh1te

Go Gareth

[James]

Originally Posted by James

I'm watching Denmark - Wales on BBC S4C iPlayer live - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/s4c ... in Welsh.

Denmark players came back from their strike to win 2-0, btw. S4C was like watching Scottish football on BBC Alba, heh.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

great to see England continue their epic world cup form against decent teams

pub teams no problem

decent teams sh1te

Go Gareth

Tbf we drawed with Spain, it's not England's fault that we keep getting bad Referee's during our matches.

[bitontheslide]

Not many teams can get a good result against the mighty Albania ... well done Scotland

[Nicky91]

this whole nations league isn't important anyway

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

this whole nations league isn't important anyway

the winners of each group automatically qualify so of course its important

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the winners of each group automatically qualify so of course its important

Faroe Islands to make their debut at european championships then



Netherlands has no chance against france and Germany lmao

[James]

Spain beat Croatia 6-0.

[James]

I've been enjoying this tournament.

Originally Posted by Calderyon

http://www.goal.com/en-ie/news/what-...31udm7plqljcdr

Finland are doing well, I've noticed.