Thursday 7th December - Matchday (Group H)

[Stan 5,269]

Arsenal vs BATE
Red Star vs Koln

Arsenal guaranteed top spot.

Red Star and Koln both on 6 points so face battle to finish 2nd. 

[Smiley Culture 1,002]

Köln need a win tonight to secure knockout football but only have sixteen fit players available for the game. It would be a hell of a result tonight to get a win in Belgrade under those circumstances. 

[Stan 5,269]

Good goal by Debuchy, the most obvious of goalscorers. 

[Harvsky 2,363]

Is it true that thousands of season ticket holders haven't bothered turning up for a game they've paid for? 

[Stan 5,269]

13 minutes ago, Kitchen Sales said:

Is it true that thousands of season ticket holders haven't bothered turning up for a game they've paid for? 

yep. lowest ever attendance at The Emirates. Something like 30,000 there.

[Harvsky 2,363]

3 minutes ago, Stan said:

yep. lowest ever attendance at The Emirates. Something like 30,000 there.

Sums up the plight of the Arsenal fanbase up, too many upper management types from the city have season tickets. 

[Smiley Culture 1,002]

That's adventure of European Football done with for Koln, then. From an estimated 20,000 travelling to London to 5,300 in Belgrade having donated tickets to Serbian orphans (Koln fans bought packages of all three Red Star games and donated the other two to local orphans) and beating Arsenal and BATE Borisov in between, it's been a pleasure to follow this in person and watching games.