First, Rogorn, thank you for a fantastic post. I actually bought the June issue of World Soccer and literally read every word cover-to-cover my 11-hour flight back from Italy to the US the other day. From that, I learned a lot of the things you explained, but wasn't quite able to figure out the structure of everything. So your post clarified a lot of question marks for me. I will say, I have direct German heritage from both sides of my family, so I've been following and rooting on Deutchland since the beginning of the Euro2008 (good year to do that, right? Ha).

MrWoodside, I'll definitely try to give Everton a watch at some point this season.

Badgerboy, no "trolling" here. All legitimate questions. Super-biased answers are as welcome to me as the unbiased as I'm still just trying to get a feel for the European professional game and its fans as a whole.

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