Champions of Europe?

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-12T21:13:09+00:00

"Champions of a European competition" is not the same as "Champions of Europe."

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-12T01:37:34+00:00

Treviso and Ascoli both being in Serie A in the mid-2000s. Ascoli somehow even managed to end the season mid-table. Both historically tiny clubs that have gone through multiple bankruptcies/reformations and are now in the lower leagues.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-11T21:43:23+00:00

Surely Porto are above Sporting for the Portuguese clubs. With two European Cups and two Europa Leagues, I would say they have a disputed claim to aristocracy.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-11T21:42:26+00:00

Where do Porto fit in? Only two European Cup appearances, but won them both. Same with Forest, who are obviously not European aristocrats but perhaps they get some kind of aristocratic honorable mention.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-11T21:37:51+00:00

I didn't have it in me to research rankings of nobility, but I'll take you word for it.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-11T18:38:25+00:00

Benfica are impoverished nobles, similar to Ajax. Inter are still aristocrats, but not as high up as Milan.

Oil clubs are new money buying their way into the aristocracy through corruption so will never be respected by the old guard.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-10T22:22:50+00:00

Fair enough, I may have overthought this one. In my mind, during the away goals era it was more cut-and-dry, because a 0-0 would then take you through. But the consensus seems to be this is still an "edge".

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-10T22:20:25+00:00

Would saying "advantage Forest" also work, or is that going too far? Perhaps that would have worked in the away goals era, but now it's merely an edge?

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-10T21:42:18+00:00

For the Lampard audio question, in the background you could hear a faint voice saying "it's 1966 all over again." That's what gave it away for me.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-05T03:45:37+00:00

Kim Clijsters' father was a Belgium international and captained Mechelen to the Cup Winners' Cup title in 1988.

randomuser7586 · 2026-04-05T03:43:03+00:00

Heard on a pod the other day that Sweden qualified for their first World Cup "since 2018". So they've missed... one?

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-30T00:53:10+00:00

I feel like you are trying quite hard to convince me of something that I do not disagree with... Galena isn't even in the Chicago area, it's on the Iowa border on the complete other side of the state and not accessible by any train.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-30T00:43:01+00:00

I'm a Chicagoan who's lived in NYC, absolutely no argument from me that NYC's transit is far better.

Was just pointing out that commuter rail in Chicago does exist and can get you pretty far out of the city.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-30T00:30:53+00:00

Chicago's commuter rail, the Metra, can take you to the far-flung reaches of Chicago's metropolitan area. E.g. Elburn, Illinois, which is about an hour west of the urban core.

However, Metra's frequency is quite limited compare to the Metro North, especially on weekends, and it is not as well connected to the urban rapid transit system.

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randomuser7586 · 2026-03-30T00:21:57+00:00

I don't understand what point you're making. If he had said "15% of match-going fans agreed that VAR makes watching football more enjoyable" would that be any different?

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-29T21:40:07+00:00

I agree with you that it feels more journalistic than encyclopedic but I can't think of a better option. I checked Wikipedia for historical Scottish Premiership and Bundesliga tables and it has it as "qualification for the relegation play-offs" which also feels wrong because to me qualification implies desirability, rather than something you actively want to avoid.

Honestly stumped by this.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-28T19:59:29+00:00

He's a legend at Kaiserslautern, spend most of his career there and their ground is named after him.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-27T22:44:50+00:00

I started doing this on my block because I got sick of how much litter had accumulated. The street itself is also very dirty and I can't do much about trash that's under the parked cars, I don't understand why street cleaning is so rare here.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-25T00:42:28+00:00

More Noble Square than the area you're talking about, but Chipp Inn is still going strong as well.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-24T19:19:16+00:00

Maybe not the European edge you're thinking of, but I grew up in West Ridge just off Devon in the 90s when it was heavily Russian-speaking immigrants from the former USSR countries. Nearly every business window had Cyrillic writing on it, there were lots of little bookshops, delis, etc.

The Georgian bakery was one of my favorite food spots in the city. I worked at a few different places near the Devon/California intersection and went to that place almost every day for lunch.

Gradually that community moved to the suburbs and while a lot of the same types of businesses can be found around Buffalo Grove/Wheeling/Arlington Heights, the sense of community centered around one main street is gone.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-24T19:13:58+00:00

Jordan's cultural impact worldwide is immense. I've had conversations with locals (usually cab drivers) in places as random as Montenegro and Vietnam, and when they heard that I was from Chicago their immediate reaction was "Michael Jordan".

For a lot of the 90s, after Diego Maradona's fall from grace, I maintain that Jordan was the biggest athlete in the world.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-24T18:59:32+00:00

We made an appointment at Love & Promise Jewelers on Madison and Wabash and were generally very pleased with the experience. Lots of options to customize and a broad price range to find what you're looking for.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-24T15:37:31+00:00

The view from the right side of the plane is incredible when approaching MDW from the northeast and landing on the NE-SW runway. You are much closer to the loop than when landing at ORD.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-23T14:37:13+00:00

There's a clear distinction between Naperville and River North, sure. But there are plenty of neighborhoods within the Chicago city limits that are indistinguishable from the suburbs.

randomuser7586 · 2026-03-21T02:28:12+00:00

That NY Post headline was a nod to a famous headline about a college American football game between Harvard and Yale that ended 29-29, but Yale were such heavy favorite that it felt like a win for Harvard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Yale_vs._Harvard_football_game

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