Teams (national or otherwise) to be despised: a cup?

[Greenlander]

I can't believe no one's nominated the England mens team.

Do it!

[Sporting]

I can't believe no one's nominated the England mens team.

Do it!

National trams were excluded.

[Gangster Octopus]

National trams were excluded.

I should hope so too...

[Greenlander]

National trams were excluded.

Missed the memo - sorry.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Just to be clear, there's only one vote per poster per club allowed, right? So all those who are venting by typing out the name of one club 3 or 4 times are just wasting their time with the repeat words, in terms of actual impact on the vote?

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Well done everyone for refraining from any "gone off the rails" type gags about that typo btw.

[Sporting]

Just to be clear, there's only one vote per poster per club allowed, right? So all those who are venting by typing out the name of one club 3 or 4 times are just wasting their time with the repeat words, in terms of actual impact on the vote?

Yes, only one vote per club per person.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

thanks Sporting for confiming.

[ad hoc]

Just to be clear, there's only one vote per poster per club allowed, right? So all those who are venting by typing out the name of one club 3 or 4 times are just wasting their time with the repeat words, in terms of actual impact on the vote?

You might call it "wasting time". I call it cathartic expressions of righteous fury.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

You might call it "wasting time". I call it cathartic expressions of righteous fury.

yeah, I get that. That's why I qualified it by "in terms of...."

Although of course, in the highly regrettable instances where the word typed out repeatedly is "Leeds", no hostile sentiment could be less righteous.

[Sporting]

Counting is under way but there's still time for late contributions to the appropriate threads. Deadline is midnight tomorrow.

[Sporting]

So, here are the scores of the first group stages. Basically, every club with 13 points or more has qualified, along with some third placed clubs with fewer. In group J Internazionale and Burnley got 10 points apiece, but both go through due to deference to the sensibilities of Snake Plissken, who must only hope his heroes don't come up against Citeh in the next stage.

All qualifiers in bold. I'll be working out the details of the next stage (66 clubs and not 60, due to not being arsed to arrange play-offs) during the course of the day as aan alternative to doing paid work.



A
Rangers 63
Basaksehir 27
Sheffield United 20
Fleetwood 31
Tranmere 5
Boston 25
Fulham 7
Middlesbrough 7
Slavia Prague 7
Hansa Rostock 11

B
Juventus 45
Monza 18
Stevenage 36
Forest Green 24
Watford 10
Bournemouth 10
Galatasaray 12
Napoli 1
Slovan Bratislava 4
Stockport 4

C
Man Utd 43
Puskas Akademia 17
Sunderland 13
Luton 29
Wimbledon 11
Bristol City 9
Gosport Borough 1
Northampton 7
Southampton 5
Monaco 12

D
Real Madrid 58
AFC Fylde 24
West Ham 41
Milan 22
Wolves 16
Bristol Rovers 14
Gothenburg 0
Norwich City 1
Spartak Moscow 6
Bromley 6

E
Barcelona 34
Airdrie 22
Wigan 13
Millwall 40
Zenit St Petersburg 26
Charlton 3
Grimsby 10
Oxford 5
St Pauli 2
LA Galaxy 12

F
Chelsea 51
Lazio 46
Wrexham 14
Nottingham Forest 7
FC U Craiova 1948 16
Chester 7
Hamburg 7
Parma 1
Sutton 1
Nuneaton 6

G
Leeds United 35
Liverpool 30
Blackburn 14
NY Red Bulls 21
Aberdeen 1
Chesterfield 12
Hereford 4
Partisan Belgrade 7
Swansea 9
Hartlepool 1

H
MK 58
Stoke City 18
Brentford 5
Connah’s Key Nomads 1
Ajax 5
Porto 5
Telford United 5
Hoffenheim 5
Blackpool 10
Arsenal de Sarandí 6


I
Birmingham City 18
TNS 21
Brighton 3
Preston NE 10
El Nasr 6
Coventry City 7
Hull City 9
PSV 2
Torquay 2
Kaiserslautern 3

J
Celtic 29
Arsenal 24
Burnley 10
QPR 2
Anderlecht 3
CSKA Moscow 7
Internationale 10
Reading 7
Valencia 1
Colwyn Bay 2


K
Sheffield Wednesday 17
Bolton 14
Bursapor 15
RB Bragantino 6
Dinamo Tiblisi 2
Ipswich 6
Zaragoza 1
Verona 13

L
Bayern 31
Boreham Wood 21
Cardiff City 37
RB Leipzig 34
Atlético Madrid 5
Dortmund 2
Magdeburg 0
Salford 31
Villarreal 1

M
Man City 41
Derby County 14
Crawley 35
Sparta Prague 4
Dynamo Kyiv 1
Eintracht Frankfurt 3
Man Utd Women 10
Sampdoria 1
WBA 6
Cork City 3


N
Newcastle 45
Leicester City 11
Crewe 22
Spurs 21
Bayer Leverkusen 4
FC United 5
Marseille 10
Schalke 04 3
Wycombe 5

O
PSG 41
Peterborough 12
Crvena Zvezda 10
Steaua 22
Beitar Jerusalem 27
Ferencvaros 7
Mechelen 1
Shaktar Donetsk 0
Werder Bremen 0


P
Livingston 31
Portsmouth 14
Everton 16
Swindon 8
Borussia Monchengladbach 2
Feyenoord 6
Metropolitan Police 28
Shrewsbury 7
Yeovil 7

[Patrick Thistle]

Good showing by Cardiff City out-qualifying Bayern

[elguapo4]

Gothenburg, Werder Bremen and Shaktar Donetsk all with zero, the people who nominated them must have thought that they're not so bad after all.

[Simon G]

Yeovil 7

I'll continue hating the bastards on my own then!!!

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Crikey, didn't expect the outfit in MK to fail to get top spot so far, even against competition from Rangers.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Crikey, didn't expect the outfit in MK to fail to get top spot so far, even against competition from Rangers.

Really? I did.

[Nesta]

Rank mediocrity has been the hallmark of their on pitch performance for 20 years now, figures that they wouldn't even top this table

[ChrisJ]

Thanks for doing this Sporting

I'd like to say we knew it would be a tough group to get out of, and we're proud to have finished above some big sides. There's no time to feel sorry for ourselves, we've got to get on and prepare for next week, get up the league and finish as high as we can. It's our bread and butter.

[Sporting]

Threads for the second group stage will be going up soon. 6 groups of 11 clubs, in each of which you can vote for up to 4. From each group 2 will qualify for the last 16 (none of this round of 16 nonsense) along with the runners-up with most points.

[beak]

It felt like we'd racked up more votes than that, but I still reckon that with a favourable draw we can make the dream a reality

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(with apologies to DG, undisputed king of MS Paint masterworks.)

[ale]

And if we do ultimately realise that dream nobody will attribute it to anything but achieved only through Saudi sportswashing.

[jdsx]

Christ, if I'd thought Galatasaray wouldn't have made it through to the next round I'd have bothered to vote...!

[Sporting]

Christ, if I'd thought Galatasaray wouldn't have made it through to the next round I'd have bothered to vote...!

I bet you were a non-voting remainer, too!

[Sporting]

Deadline for voting in the second group stages will be midnight tomorrow (Thursday/Friday).