SHAMROCK ROVERS MADE history last night by becoming the first Irish side to make the Europa League group stages, and now they play Tottenham. Here’s how the draw worked out…
12.05 – We’re ready to go… First of all, here are the pots…
Pot 1
Tottenham Hotspur – PSV Eindhoven – Atlético Madrid – Sporting Lisbon – SC Braga – Schalke 04 – Dynamo Kyiv – Paris Saint-Germain – FC København – AZ Alkmaar – Anderlecht – FC Twente
Pot 2
Fulham – Besiktas – Hapoel Tel-Aviv – Metalist Kharkiv – Standard Liège – Rubin Kazan – Club Brugge – AEK Athens – Steaua Bucuresti – Udinese Calcio – Athletic Bilbao – Lazio
Pot 3
FC Salzburg – Maccabi Haifa – FC Zürich – Odense BK – Lokomotiv Moscow – PAOK – Birmingham City – Stoke City – Stade Rennes – Austria Wien – Rapid Bucuresti – Hannover 96
Pot 4
FC Vorskla Poltava – Wisla Kraków – FC Vaslui – FC Sion – Sturm Graz – Maccabi Tel-Aviv – Slovan Bratislava – Legia Warsaw – NK Maribor – AEK Larnaca – Malmö – Shamrock Rovers
12.15 – The are 48 clubs, with twelve groups of four to be drawn… The draw proper begins…
13.07 – Meanwhile, Tony Pulis brings Stoke to the Ukraine, Turkey and Israel, Birmingham get Braga, Bruges and NK Maribor, while the 2010 finalists Fulham take on FC Twente, Odense and Wisla Krakow…
13.09 – That’s all from us – it’s going to be an exciting campaign for the Hoops who, we might add, also play Rubin Kazan and PAOK of Greece. Time to start saving!






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