Pardon me I am from the Balkans and here we call Europa League-LE(Liga Europa)
Which Balkan nation? Your name puts me in mind of Artmedia Bratislava that caned Celtic that time. :rofl:
Right. Honestly, I don't give a shit about the Europa League. I consider it a distraction from the 38 "cup finals" we play in the Premier League in an attempt to get back in the Champions League which is where the real passion and adrenaline rush is. The Europa League is a farce. Complete rubbish like Wigan, Birmingham and Milwall have represented English football in the UEFA Cup/Europa League over the last ten years (the latter being a second-tier team that didn't even win a domestic cup) and it's a joke that teams from the Champions League are allowed to drop down into it. If you get knocked out, you're fucking out in my book. So by that stage it's filled with teams that wanted to qualify for the Champions League the year before and just came up short, and teams that have given the Champions League a bash and failed. It's the Losers Cup. It's also horrifically bloated when you think there are 6 group stage games then 4 more bastard rounds before you even reach the final! What a toll that takes.
As for Spurs' performance - honestly with the relative lack of depth of our squad, we did OK. I thought beating Lyon and beating Inter were both great results and I didn't mind going out to Basel, they were the better team. Despite my tirade above, it's always nice to win something, but I'd only have gotten excited at that prospect if we'd gotten as close as the semi-final stage, which from very early on against Basel, we never looked remotely like doing.