Champs League - HAIFA game

[XabisBadFoot]

Anyone know if the matches are on the box anywhere..??

[Cobs]

ITV1

[Gravy]

ITV1

 

The away leg as well?

[Cobs]

The away leg as well?

no idea

 

might be SKY or broadcasters might be waiting to see where it's being played first.

[owenthomas]

it'll be on somewhere (the away leg that is) - there's no way it won't be covered by someone, even if it's Channel 5..

[MosRay]

It's also being shown live on the offal (1st leg at present) for e-season ticket holders...

[Gomez]

UEFA have confirmed that Hapoel Tel-Aviv are not allowed to play their home tie in the wafer cup in Tel-Aviv.

Wafer

 

They have still not got their fingers out of the their collective ar*ses to let Liverpool know if we have to play their yet. You have to say we will rightly play in a neutral country, but why the hold up I don't know.

[adiman]

UEFA have confirmed that Hapoel Tel-Aviv are not allowed to play their home tie in the wafer cup in Tel-Aviv.

Wafer

 

They have still not got their fingers out of the their collective ar*ses to let Liverpool know if we have to play their yet. You have to say we will rightly play in a neutral country, but why the hold up I don't know.

 

 

Neutral venue confirmed but exact venue not yet

[Guest Scot James]

Neutral venue confirmed but exact venue not yet

 

Where have you seen that?

Edited August 7, 2006 by Scot James

[LeeRadford]

Neutral venue confirmed but exact venue not yet

 

Aye just said the same on Radio 1 news

 

UEFA will take a decision later on Monday regarding the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second-leg match between Maccabi Haifa FC and Liverpool FC, set for 23 August...

 

Looks like we will find out at some point today which venue.

 

Edit: Sorry the above quote was taken from http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UEFACup/n...sId=441758.html

Edited August 7, 2006 by LeeRadford

[adiman]

No news on venue until later in the week

 

uefa.com

[AE]

Beeb have confirmed with the header but no linked story yet (BBC Sport homepage)

[owenthomas]

"UEFA will take a decision later on Monday regarding the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second-leg match between Maccabi Haifa FC and Liverpool FC, set for 23 August... "

 

surely we're playing on Tuesday 22nd??.. we fkin better be!

[Benitez]

"UEFA will take a decision later on Monday regarding the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second-leg match between Maccabi Haifa FC and Liverpool FC, set for 23 August... "

 

surely we're playing on Tuesday 22nd??.. we fkin better be!

 

 

23rd according to WAFA.com

 

 

Mind you, that also says it kicks off at midnight

Edited August 7, 2006 by Benitez

[owenthomas]

they're wrong..

 

EDIT: on both counts!

Edited August 7, 2006 by owenthomas

[RafaShanks]

Beeb have confirmed with the header but no linked story yet (BBC Sport homepage)

 

Liverpool avoid match in Israel

 

Uefa has confirmed that Liverpool will play their Champions League third round qualifier away leg against Israeli side Maccabi Haifa at a neutral venue.

Uefa has switched the match because of Israel's conflict with Lebanon.

 

European football's governing body has already said Israel cannot host Uefa Cup second qualifying round games.

 

The game, which will take place on 22 or 23 August, could be played at Dynamo Kiev's stadium in Ukraine after the club's president gave permission.

 

Igor Surkis told The Times last week: "I was approached by people from the Israeli club and also Israel's ambassador in Ukraine, who asked if it was possible to play the game in Ukraine.

 

"I gave my provisional consent and said that security during the match would be guaranteed.

 

"The Ukrainian football federation have already been informed about our initial agreement as any final decision over the staging of the game must be taken by them and Uefa."

 

Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has said it is "totally unacceptable" to go to Israel, given the current security situation.

 

Uefa's decision to move Uefa Cup games will affect Hapoel Tel Aviv's home tie against NK Domzale of Slovenia on 8 August - now to be played in Holland.

 

And Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv's home match with Bulgaria's Lokomotiv Sofia on 10 August will be held in Slovakia.

 

The Israeli FA appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport but that was rejected.

 

Meanwhile, Uefa has confirmed that this week's two Uefa Cup second qualifying round first-leg games involving Israeli clubs have been rearranged for neutral venues.

 

Hapoel Tel-Aviv will play their home tie against NK Domzale of Slovenia in the Dutch city of Tilburg, while the match between Bnei Yehuda Tel-Aviv FC and PFC Lokomotiv Sofia will now be played in Senec, Slovakia.

 

Both games take place on Thursday.

 

Beitar Jerusalem's Uefa Cup second qualifying round clash on 24 August with Dinamo Bucharest may be affected.

 

International football returned to Israel in April 2004 after a 25-month ban because of the worsening security situation in the country.

 

Matches can only be played in the Tel Aviv area.

 

Between March 2002 and April 2004 Israeli clubs and teams were forced to play host to their opponents at a number of European venues, including Cyprus, Turkey, Italy and Bulgaria.

 

Beeb

 

I hope it's not the Ukraine!!!

[owenthomas]

The game, which will take place on 22 or 23 August..

seriously, i really hope it's the 22nd.. it must be?!.. i have booked that evening off.. ..we play this Wednesday, so our next game is, surely, played on the Tuesday - that's the way it works right??.. visa vis (!) Arsenal play Tuesday and as such will play their 2nd leg on Wednesday 23rd.. ffs, hope someone tells UEFA this is how it's supposed to be!!..

[Benitez]

seriously, i really hope it's the 22nd.. it must be?!.. i have booked that evening off.. ..we play this Wednesday, so our next game is, surely, played on the Tuesday - that's the way it works right??.. visa vis (!) Arsenal play Tuesday and as such will play their 2nd leg on Wednesday 23rd.. ffs, hope someone tells UEFA this is how it's supposed to be!!..

 

 

thats what I thought, but it says it's the 23rd on the BEEB an' all

[owenthomas]

then they're fkin wrong too.. oh man.. am s***ting it now! i won't be a happy chappy if this happens..

[Conchis]

Anyone one know if the game is being shown anywhere in Sydney? It'll be about 5am so i'm not holding out too much hope, but if anybody can be help i'll be chuffed.

[badtodabone]

i just hopee we are taking this match seriously as Macabee Haifa are no walkover they have some very fine players if i remember they won something like their first 20 odd matches last year and are by a long way the best team in Israel.

[mooks]

If Haifa were smart they would want the second leg played at Old Trafford.

 

Particularly if it's close after the first leg you can imagine hordes of Mancs becoming Maccabi Haifa supporters for the day.

 

Or some other smaller, hostile, English ground (like Millwall) if they would have trouble filling Old Trafford. Plus there's quite a few Jewish people in England who would (genuinely) support them. I remember a couple of years ago an Israeli basketball team played against the Raptors in Toronto and received boisterous support from the Jewish community.

 

I don't see what they have to gain by playing the second leg in the Ukraine.