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The real reason that the Cup Winners Cup went into decline, and was eventually £#%&!ed off, is that it had limited scope for expansion.
After the initial success of the Champions League, UEFA realised what they had on their hands. Their vision was to rake in money by making the European competitions bigger and better, and the way to do that was gradually involving more and more teams - ideally the biggest teams. They didn’t have that option with the Cup Winners Cup, so they very quickly realised that it wasn’t something they wanted to pursue in the long term. |
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City are just .. I'm not sure how to describe them. Parochial? Timid? For very grey family types? Very middle-england. Vapid. They're less supported than a Sunderland in Tier 3 of clubs, let alone the Tier 2 clubs like Newcastle, Everton, WHU etc. City belong in that Leicester City, Southampton type category. The nothingness of nothing. |
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Officially, the cwc followed the ec in terms of stature but everyone knew the uefa was harder to win because you had the 2nd and 3rd runners up, so, next best all over Europe after the champions. There was also at least one extra round of games to play in the uefa. Don’t recall any regular pattern of when matches were played, Tuesday/Wednesday because we didn’t have tv dictating the order.
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Wasn’t that just a type of qualification process for the UEFA cup for teams that had good disciplinary records from the previous seasons? |
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