Europa League 2014/15

[Lineker]

Legia fans had this displayed at their playoff match last night:

Ooh, and my favourite Sky Sports girl. Who's the other fella? "Thank you for these informations"...

Olivia Godfrey, yeh?

[Lineker]

Group C it is!

[Colly]

Legia fans had this displayed at their playoff match last night:

Ooh, and my favourite Sky Sports girl. Who's the other fella? "Thank you for these informations"...

Olivia Godfrey, yeh?

No idea, Baldy keeps calling her Kate.

[Lineker]

I'm guessing that it likely isn't Olivia Godfrey then!

Besiktas go into our group. Bollocks. Just missed out on Celtic too - they are in Group D with Red Bull Salzburg.

[FestiveJack]

I love that banner.

[Colly]

I'm struggling here. Why couldn't Standard Liege go in Spurs' group?

[Lineker]

I'm struggling here. Why couldn't Standard Liege go in Spurs' group?

Who knows.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

I'm struggling here. Why couldn't Standard Liege go in Spurs' group?

Who knows.

Because having Tottenham, Besiktas and Standard Liege together would just be mean.

[Colly]

But you wouldn't have got Besiktas if you'd got Liege. :/

[Lineker]

Partizan Belgrade also in our group. What a horrible couple of trips!

Everton into Group H with Lille and Wolfsburg. Group of Death?

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Probably better for Spurs fans not to go. Things are bad enough going in that direction as it is, without the Eastern European responses to what's going on in Gaza at the moment.

[Lineker]

Asteras Tripolis of Greece complete our group.

Meh.

[Lineker]

Krasnodar of Russia complete Everton's group.

[Jimmy]

Besiktas is going to be a horrible tie, especially in the middle of Premier League games.

[Lineker]

[Lineker]

Our trips to Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade and Asteras Tripolis will sum up to over 10,000 miles of travel. Everton will clock around 7,200 while Celtic meet Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and Romanians FC Astra - opponents which will require around 9,400 miles of travel.

So not looking forward to the Sunday games after those three away matches.

[EddieG]

To answer an earlier question, it was simply explained before the draw, and even the (Dutch) Eurosport commentator didn't get it as he said Feyenoord were in Group C.

Groups A-F and G-L will have their matches played at different times, mostly for TV rights, making sure both games can be shown, etc. So Feyenoord couldn't go into Group C because PSV were already in one of group A-F

[Colly]

Our trips to Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade and Asteras Tripolis will sum up to over 10,000 miles of travel. Everton will clock around 7,200 while Celtic meet Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and Romanians FC Astra - opponents which will require around 9,400 miles of travel.

So not looking forward to the Sunday games after those three away matches.

They aren't walking. :/

[Lineker]

The dates for the Europa League fixtures have been released. The games involving British sides are:

18 September: Partizan Belgrade v Tottenham, Red Bull Salzburg v Celtic, Everton v Wolfsburg.

2 October: Tottenham v Besiktas, Celtic v Dinamo Zagreb, Krasnodar v Everton.

23 October: Tottenham v Asteras Tripolis, Celtic v Astra Giurgiu, Lille v Everton.

6 November: Asteras Tripolis v Tottenham, Astra Giurgiu v Celtic, Everton v Lille

27 November: Tottenham v Partizan Belgrade, Celtic v Red Bull Salzburg, Wolfsburg v Everton.

11 December: Besiktas v Tottenham, Dinamo Zagreb v Celtic, Everton v Krasnodar.

We're at home at least twice, if not three times after our away trips, thankfully. And the opposition is, in theory, not too challenging (WBA, Stoke, and either Palace (home) or Swansea (away) depending on when the league fixtures are re-arranged for.

[Gazz]

Our trips to Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade and Asteras Tripolis will sum up to over 10,000 miles of travel. Everton will clock around 7,200 while Celtic meet Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb and Romanians FC Astra - opponents which will require around 9,400 miles of travel.

So not looking forward to the Sunday games after those three away matches.

They aren't walking. :/

Celtic are. Scotland hasn't got planes yet.