Thursday Night Is Failure Night: Europa League 2017/18

[Gangster Octopus]

Cologne fans care...

[HORN]

Nice title.

TWENTY THOUSAND of them? So circa 17000 looking for tickets?

[EIM]

Milan are quick out of the blocks. Three up already.

[Snake Plissken]

Atalanta vs Everton is currently live on BT Sport Freeview 115.

[Third rate Leszno]

Fuck me, Everton have imploded.

[Snake Plissken]

Everton 3-0 down before half time and deservedly so.

[EIM]

Everton are really, really bad. The defending for the third goal was desperate.

[Ray de Galles]

Clearly playing in their pajamas has had a soporific effect on Everton :

[Paul S]

Arsenal game delayed by an hour due to crowd congestion. Hopefully this doesn't get serious.

[Third rate Leszno]

Yeah, if you've a mass of 20,000 people outside and about 3000 among them have tickets, how do you separate them out and safely disperse the rest? There's going to be some serious rushing the turnstiles if they don't though.

[EIM]

Game off. Riot police moving in. According to Twitter, who have an excellent track record with the truth.

[Gerontophile]

Delayed by an hour.

[ursus arctos]

This strikes me as quite negligent by Arsenal

The German press have been full of stories about how many Koln fans were traveling for at least the last week, yet it seems as if the club were surprised at the turnout.

[Antepli Ejderha]

BT Sport have reported incidents of fighting and Koln fans buying tickets from touts for anywhere in the ground. It's going to take some sorting out this but I can't see them calling it off.

[Incandenza]

https://twitter.com/charles_watts/status/908406683696844805

[ursus arctos]

It's the perfect advert for Free Market Britain.

Well-heeled Arsenal supporters actually getting paid not to watch their team.

[EIM]

Ursus is right. Arsenal - and the police - have fucked this.

[Third rate Leszno]

Don't suppose for a minute that Arsenal will try to find out which of their fans have cashed in on demand and flogged their tickets to touts or away fans...

[Ray de Galles]

I was going to mention this afternoon about the Koln fans taking up the usual 6,000 empty seats at Ashburton Grove and more but it really has been borne out.

[Patrick Thistle]

Arsenal in 'people want to watch us' shock.

[Levin]

Hahaha

[Gerontophile]

That was some Colombian on Colombian action right there.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Fucking have that.

[Levin]

Is the white balance slightly off? Or are the lights at Arsenal very yellow? None of the reds look right.

Edit: Idiot. It's the windows 10 night light thing.

[Mumpo]

"The defender's Holding, the goalkeeper's Horn"

...is something that might be said tonight