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[Politics] Champions League - Round of 16



crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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Draw was made by Angela Merkel and Bradley Walsh:

Benfica v Real Madrid

Villarreal v Manchester City

Atletico Madrid v Bayern Munich

Red Bull Salzburg v Liverpool

Inter Milan v Ajax

Sporting Lisbon v Juventus

Chelsea v Lille

PSG v Manchester United

:ohmy:
 


Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
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Not without a little controversy, after they stuffed the draw up.

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hart's shirt

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Jul 8, 2003
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"Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the draw for the UEFA Champions League Round of 16."

They wouldn't have had this problem with an Omsung.
 




crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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Such a shame as there were some really good ties to look forward to and by and large a very good draw for our English sides.
 


Titanic

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Jul 5, 2003
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Champions League draw to be redone

The Champions League draw has been declared void and will be "entirely redone" at 14:00 GMT.

Uefa's statement: "Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the draw for the Uefa Champions League Round of 16.

"As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET (14:00 GMT)."

Sports are not being well-served by their administrators :nono:
 










amexer

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Aug 8, 2011
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Know wonder i have lost interest in European football until semis. Only 16 teams and still seeded a farce. What on earth is wrong with a free draw. Just imagine in our FA cup Liverpool etc seeded until quarters .Would be the death of competition
 






lawros left foot

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KZNSeagull

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Champions League draw to be redone

The Champions League draw has been declared void and will be "entirely redone" at 14:00 GMT.

Uefa's statement: "Following a technical problem with the software of an external service provider that instructs the officials as to which teams are eligible to play each other, a material error occurred in the draw for the Uefa Champions League Round of 16.

"As a result of this, the draw has been declared void and will be entirely redone at 1500 CET (14:00 GMT)."

Sports are not being well-served by their administrators :nono:

Why on earth do they need software to tell them which teams can play against each other? What's wrong with a piece of paper? I wonder how much the contract for his software was worth? Tosspots, the lot of them.
 




crodonilson

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Jan 17, 2005
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:dunky:
 




Pavilionaire

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Jul 7, 2003
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Why on earth do they need software to tell them which teams can play against each other? What's wrong with a piece of paper? I wonder how much the contract for his software was worth? Tosspots, the lot of them.


Instead of this cup and it's complicated draw why don't they just put the best 16 teams in a League?
 








mejonaNO12 aka riskit

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Dec 4, 2003
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The whole draw was a bit odd. For something apparently reliant on a computer system it still relied on Geoff from accounts to walk over to each bowl and manually pick a ball out the Simon told him was eligable for that opponent (ie not from the same group or country) and put them in another bowl in front of Phil to swish around a bit and pick out.

Completely open to a cock up and also (not that this is the suggestion), VERY easy to fix as the drawer can clearly just see which ball came from which bowl and make sure he picks that one out.

Also....as it was going along I'm pretty sure there was a way that two English teams could have been left as the last 2 teams....when they are not allowed to play each other. Would that make the whole draw void?

The whole situation seems to be that Man Utd were wrongly put forward as a potential opponent for (i think) villereal. They were drawn and the drawmaster then said (oh, they cant play each other as they were from the same group). So they picked out another team, which was man city. They then stood there for 2 mins as the Computer said No (clearly drawing Man Utd out first confused it).

All bizarre.
 
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