Gab Marcotti

Well, one's from London and very tall, who don't like this Champions League format.

No, come on.

I want to say this about it.

Behave.

Wherever you feel about it, those of us who are old, like me, will remember the old European Cup.

And you still get some people, it's like, oh, why don't you just make it a straight knockout competition, blah, blah, blah.

Weirdly, in some way, if you want to be cynical and take a step back,

You're saying, look, we've made this big old group stage so we can generate a ton of money, have big games, whet the appetite, keep everybody, keep the clubs happy.

And now, with the playoffs, we essentially have the old European Cup.

Yeah.

Right?

You had 32 teams in it.

Okay, here you have 24 because you had the intermediate rounds.

You still have that round, right?

And then it's a straight knockout.

So, you can kind of keep both the old-timers and the new-timers happy, right?

I agree.

I think what we need to tell, we need to tell Mark Ogden and James Olley that, oh no, actually, the Champions League starts in January.

Yes.

All right, enough Mourinho.