that shoulda been it!
I have no chip in the game for either Liverpool or Spurs beyond them being English clubs
but at this stage last night my nerves were shredded knowing a goal would put Barca through
- and tonight I'm cool as you like knowing a goal for Spurs does the same.
It's a wonderful thing having nothing but hope
FWIW that's the shittest time wasting short corner ever......
OHHHHH FFS!!!!!!!!
hahahahahahaa
shittin'ell
so Liverpool held the greatest comeback in history for about a day
Jeeez. Words fail me!
Scenes
Football. ****in' hell
the final's gonny be shite now after that those 2 games! 😆
Blimey, I turned off the commentary at 90+5...
Liverpool: "We're the comeback kings..!"
Spurs: "Hold my beer.."
I wouldn't want to be trying to put a 30min highlights programme of the 2 semi finals together. Wow just wow.
Blimey! Is Spurs name on the trophy? They were all but out during the group stage! VAR saved them v City! And they were out tonight at half time!
0-0 final and penalties? 😂
Given the way the footy is shaping up this week, I wonder if Sunday might be one of those insane ends to the season that goes down to literally the last kick, complete with Martin Tyler commentary?
Spurs fan here and it's been new bike day too. What a time to be alive.
Personally I was hoping for an Ajax-Barca final 🙁
I’m hoping Spurs go 2 down in the first 10 mins in the final - bound to win it 4-2 then!
But what if Liverpool go 3 down in the first half?
8-8 at full time and penalties after 4 or 5 comebacks?
It’s going to be nil nil, isn’t it?
moooo hahahahaahaaha! COYS!!!!
I want to consign my 84, shelf, me , milk crte to stand on, memory to hisory....pleaseeee!!!!!!
I went to bed early and missed the action! Fair play.
Should make it interesting at work -loooooads of spurs here!
Pochettino keeps on referring to "final chapter" , maybe he's off to United after all?
&hoping neilnevill's hangover is not too bad. ha.
hadn't twigged but we have two sides in the box seat in the Europa semis tonight as well. Could have all four sides in the finals, which would be amazing.
(is there such a thing as the box seat anymore where football's concerned. Any sense of prediction went in the sea some time ago)
That was all-round just a bit crazy wasn't it.... I really thought they were dead and buried after the first half, but then no, comeback time LOL. Most entertaining stuff. Look forward to the final now... (Well, after we get past the last league game on Sunday)
bleuurghhh. blink...blink.....errr what happened to my head?
Pochettino keeps on referring to “final chapter” , maybe he’s off to United after all?
I reckon he's said to Levy - I'm here until I win the Champions League or you sack me...
If Spurs win, he'll be off to manage Argentina if Scaloni fails at the Copa America...
Poch is going nowhere
Did you see the interview were he said he was off .... he couldn't kept the smirk off his face.
It was straight out of the Mourinho play book... take the pressure off the players by making the build up about the manager ... classic
Well thats what Im hoping.
I'm coming around to that "horrid" green strip
COYS
Looks like the Premier League is quite strong at the moment.
Oh my word Chelski & Le Arse - a London derby in the final.....& it’s played ****in’ where???
Sarri has to be the luckiest manager in the PL. Played awful all season & somehow ended up with CL football & a Euro final.....
😶
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48214483
Interesting write up on the current flights/hotels etc in Madrid. If tickets come up, i think me and my boy will be in the Mondeo and sleeping in a layby rest area on the motorway on the way back. But at £500 a pop for tickets, i'm not really sure i want them to come up !
Fly to Barcelona or Malaga and get the train. I’ve got zero chance of getting tickets, but that’s what i’d Be doing.
If they came up, i'd be driving from home in Berks, tunnel and car to Spain. It's a jaunt, but i'd live. But even that is going to be £1500 for me and my lad. So part of me is hoping we don't get an option !
We drove down to Madrid for the 1980 final. Pretty much non stop with a quick kip in the odd lay by for my dad. I was very young but still a good memory.
drive to Liverpool and watch it in a fanzone? I'm sure there'll be one for those that can't make the trip (note re ticket availability and price as above)
On that point - I know why UEFA want to stage in neutral venues, and allocate tickets to sponsors and locals as well as the teams, but Baku? Really? When it's a fair bet that it'll be W.EU teams in the finals. OK, 4xEPL is an anomaly but you'd predict the finalists to come from Germany, Italy, France, Spain or England really wouldn't you? Maybe Holland but I wouldn't have expected it (Ajax have been wonderful but remember they had to qualify for the tournament proper, they've punched way above their supposed weight)
On that point – I know why UEFA want to stage in neutral venues, and allocate tickets to sponsors and locals as well as the teams, but Baku? Really? When it’s a fair bet that it’ll be W.EU teams in the finals. OK, 4xEPL is an anomaly but you’d predict the finalists to come from Germany, Italy, France, Spain or England really wouldn’t you?
It's the least they can do, given the fact that both competitions so heavily favour teams from the big 5 countries. It's ridiculous that the likes of Ajax and Celtic have to play qualifying rounds, despite winning their respective leagues.
Favour teams ? By that you mean having more of the better teams in the competition ? Lets be honest, having an extra team from Azerbaijan or Moldova etc isn't exactly going to bring a lot to the spectacle of the game if you have to remove someone like a Spanish/English/French team etc is it ?
Sure it will be great for the particular team on the day.. but to then see them drubbed by the big sides isn't really helping the profile much ? We as fans want to see good matches.
Of course you want to see good games, but should the Dutch champions really have to qualify? I mean really?. Should be called the elite league, not the champions league.
Well i'd expect after a better showing this year, they may not have to next time. But until this season the dutch sides have done nothing to justify an instant qualification, like Celtic. Until they beat some teams, why do they deserve an instant qually ? It's a rankings based things based upon previous performances of that league/tier.
What have Liverpool or Spurs done to deserve instant qualification then? Be in the right place at the right time is the answer. 🙂
Well, apart from Liverpool being in the Champions league final the year before ? Not all English clubs get instant qualification. Liverpool in 2017/18 had to beat Hoffenheim in the pre-qualification stages before going through to the Champions League proper. The other teams are based upon the PRemier Leagues performances over previous seasons, with Man Utd, City, Arsenal, Chelsea etc regularly making the Semis or indeed winning the CL.
should the Dutch champions really have to qualify?
Possibly not and I take your point on the 'Champions' league - but seedings are based on the performances of the nation's teams in the competition previously (Ajax went out to Nice pre group stages in 2017, got humped by ten men of Rostov in 2016) and also the national team itself (which is misleading seeing as most teams are hardly representative of the nation itself nowadays, but FWIW they've not qualified for the Euros or WC since 2014)
I'd love it to go back to the national champions plus the holders of the trophy but think of the money in matchday and TV sponsorship they'd be passing up....I think I've spotted the problem!
It’s ridiculous that the likes of Ajax and Celtic have to play qualifying rounds, despite winning their respective leagues.
Winning their respective leagues? All Celtic have to do is turn up. If Celtic were playing in England they'd be mid-table in the Championship, just above Brentford.
I'd extend it the other way and have PSG qualify too 😉
Well, apart from Liverpool being in the Champions league final the year before ?
Qualification is based on last season Weeksy, not previous glories.
Aye, spot on Jon, all about cash and brown envelopes. To think, if it did return to the old format, the UEFA cup would be the bigger competition than the European cup!
If Celtic were in the playing in England they’d be mid-table in the Championship, just above Brentford
Utter nonsense! You're just bitter cos the old lady of Manchester is creaking like one of Rooneys gilfs these days! 🙂
