Hmm. Why is it that as fans the rhetoric is always that we should be in the champions league competing with the big boys, yet the mentality on display here is that we don't want to play anyone of a decent calibre for fear of getting beaten?
That we would rather avoid a good team and play the minnows of European football instead just so that we can progress further in the competition, is in itself the perfect indicator that we don't deserve to be in the champions league and we are truly at our level.
This mentality is tantamount to being the playground bully giving it large to kids a foot smaller than them, but runs away without a fight the moment a kid of a similar size looks them in the eye and says 'come on then'.
I understand that the prospect of progressing further in the competition is more likely to be achieved against teams at the level of our league one at best, but that in itself is not progression but in fact regression.
Of those teams listed that we could draw, I would only like Celtic or Lazio as both would be reminiscent of champions league football.
I wouldn't describe myself as sadomasochistic, but I want to have played against the best teams in the Europa league if we are indeed to go on and win it, so that there would actually be some substance to the achievement and give notice that the old pussy hole Arsenal is now dead and that this really is the new Arsenal.