EUFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE - GANG UP AGAINST ENGLAND

The powers that be at UEFA have again succeeded in carrying out their diabolical plan to protect their sacred cows from early elimination from the Champions League and ensure that the eventual champions emerge from among these cows. For me, it’s sad that we football fans have failed to detect this fraud: each time the Champions League draws are made, we accept the outcome in the spirit of sportsmanship and just go ahead to enjoy the football. We never think of questioning the very identical draws that UEFA brings out every year. The grand design started about a decade ago when English clubs had a fearful domination of the Champions League; since then, England has fallen from the first to the third position on the UEFA Performance Index, and is expected to fall even further in the next couple of years, and end up with only 2 or 3 CL slots. When the draws of a competition keep bringing the same two opponents (out of a possible 28) for one club every year, then there’s obviously some doctoring going on. Every year in the last 6 years Arsenal have been grouped with either Bayern Munich or Barcelona(except once), and once through t o the knockout stage, their first opponent is again one of those two (again, with only one exception in 6 years). The statisticians will reel out the facts: “Arsenal have been knocked out at the Round of 16 stage every year in the last X years”, but they wont say that only two clubs have been responsible for their elimination. Had the law of averages been at work in those draws, Arsenal wouldn’t have accumulated that bad record. The scenario described above is curiously replicated in the case of another English club, Manchester City (Man City). With one or two exceptions, in the past 5 seasons, they’ve either had Barcelona as group opponents and then paired with Bayern at the Round of 16, or had Bayern as group opponents and then paired with Barca as soon as they escape the group stage. And in each case the outcome is always the same – Round of 16 elimination, by the same two teams that eliminated Arsenal! That cannot be down to mere ‘chance’ or ‘luck’. The theory is that Arsenal and Man City, seen as the most dangerous of the English contingent, are being targeted for early elimination. Why? Because (1)If a Messi-full Barca is not deployed against them early, they could go far in the competition and could eliminate any of the other sacred cows (Real Madrid, Juventus and PSG). (2) Early exit for England’s strongest teams will have a negative effect on England’s standing in the Europa Rankings, and that is what the rest of Europe has been praying for! Well, the draws have gone unchallenged, Arsenal have accepted their fate and are poised to face ‘mighty’ Barca in the Round of 16, Chelsea are stuck with the same opponent they’ve faced three years running, and Man City have a little bit of a reprieve this year(no Barca or Bayern on their path ). The die is cast. I know that “everyday is for the thief but one day is for the owner”. The perpetrators of this fraud have been having their way, but the God that defends the oppressed may well have decided that that ONE day for the owner will be NOW – 2016, and so intervene to ensure that Arsenal knocks out FC Barcelona from this year’s competition!