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This week saw the European Cups reach the last 8 stage. The Conference league was heralded as a way of giving more nations, more chance of European football.
Has this materialised in the final 8?

2 strong Dutch teams, both with European pedigree, 1 from France, England and Italy.
Norway, Greece and Czech Rep make up the nations involved.

Credit to the last 3 although the Greeks and the Czechs used to regular have teams in at least the group stages of CL. The Norweigan team probably the only one ploughing a new furrow.

Factor is the CL and EL representation and you get:
England 5
Spain 4
Germany 3
Portugal 2
Italy 2
France 2
Netherlands 2
Scotland, Norway, Czech Rep and Greece 1

Only 2 countries east of Germany, only 1 from Scandanavia
Only 4 nations represented in CL QFs

Not sure how the Albanian crowd will get too excited about the Conf League final.

Any competition that sees Mourinho well and truly embarrassed 6-1 at the Aspmyra Stadion is automatically an excellent idea in my book