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Quote Originally Posted by TheHeathens View Post
Where the f*ck have you been!? You lost our little avatar and forum name bet - have you been hiding away from the punishment?

can't see how you can change your forum name but i did change my avatar as you can see.a reminder of when villa joined that elite group of four english teams to have reached the pinacle of club football and became champions of europe.a time when you actually had to be champions of your own league just to be in it.
Let's have a look at the mighty European Champions that you beat on your run to the cup:

Valur (who?)
Dynamo Berlin (on away goals)
Dynamo Kiev
Anderlecht
Bayern Munich

IMO, the current format is harder to win. Look at the knockout stages from when Liverpool won it in 2005:

Bayer Leverkusen
Juventus
Chelsea
Milan

Only one less knockout round as well. Don't get me wrong; what you and Forest did was a great achievement but let's not pretend it was harder to win then just because you had to win your domestic league to be in it.