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Toon in the Europa League – A complete Geordie’s guide

June 20th, 2012 | 8 Comments |

Europa League trophy.
Plenty of space for this in the NUFC trophy cabinet!
Well, Newcastle United have finally made it into European competition for the first time since Glenn Roeder’s Intertoto dream team made it into the 2006/7 edition of the competition.

So, to mark this momentous occaision, this is NUFC Blog’s cut out and keep guide for Geordies with many interesting and informative facts about the competition, and of course, Newcastle United.

So here goes!

By the time the competitiom reaches it’s climax at Ajax’s “Amsterdam ArenA” (the last “A” has to be capitalised for some bizarre reason), a total of 193 teams from 53 countries will have taken part at some stage. Of these, only three will be English, Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United and Liverpool (in that order), unless, that is, one or more of the four English sides in the Champions League are dumped out at an earlier stage than would usually be expected, as the two Manchester teams were last season. There will be no places for English teams through the fair play league, and there is no more Intertoto Cup as there was in Roeder’s time, as that ceased in 2008. (more…)