City Arsenal is the game of the week
Mueller lol
Spurs really hanging on at 1-0 down here, Milan just missed two absolute sitters
1-0 wouldnât be a bad result at all
A fucking has been
Grand conversion there from Muller
Lol muller skies it amd they can down and score
Mbappe carrying them on his back
Offside
A bollox is this offside
Ah here. Show the lines.
Ah fuck away. Thats a shambles
He was off by a gnatâs ballsack
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Thatâs a lovely post.
Looked offsiide all day long
Bayern are soft out when you get after them.
Psg butchering some amount of chances here
On another note, reading the bbc live thread here. Spurs are some coward of an outfit. Barely raised a boot in anger by the sounds of it. Why do they actually bother
Messi had a few yards head start there
The Champions League felt like a dying competition tonight.
Away goals gone. Like Fairytale Of New York shorn of its swear words, like Fawlty Towers without the gratuitously funny casual racism, like Dublin nightlife without the existence of a dingy shithole which opens at 3am and exclusively serves bottles of poor quality wine and fry ups.
RTEâs panel consisting of i) Pee Collins, ii) 39 year old man who looks and sounds like heâs 13, and iii) a nice inoffensive chap from Wexford. Gone forever are the must watch panels of old, the seniority of analysis of Giles, the gruff honest brokerism of Brady, the hyper hyena that was Dunphy, the steady, authoritative hand of OâHerlihy to guide it all.
UK television rights gone from ITV, gone from Sky, and given to the deathly dull BT, which I donât receive. I donât receive ITV either but thatâs a separate issue. Gone is Clive Tyldesley, gone are Gary Newbon and Gabriel Clarke, frozen out are the Sky panel of Keane, Neville and Carragher.
The absence of Atleti Woof! And Diego Simeone, who always brought an air of BIG MATCH needle.
The absence of Barcelona. Diet Messi playing on a circus team, doing a poorly attended, half hearted, brief damp squib of a farewell tour, instead of being at Nou Camp on magical nights with magical air, with the chance of one glorious last ride.
The absence of Ronaldo and his pout, the cunt.
The absence of the great anti-hero, King Luis Suarez, and his glorious toothy grin and his glorious poaching and his glorious street smarts.
The absence of Chiellini and Bonucci giving a defensive masterclass for Juventus.
The absence of Manchester United. It was funny for a while.
The idea of an Irish player competing in the knockout stages on merit in the rest of our lifetimes being as far fetched as the Irish Labour party winning 37 seats at the next election.
The steady downgrading of the Champions League theme music and the shit modern graphics accompanying the rare occasions we hear it.
The abolition of the âcup tiedâ rule. Meaning moneybags like Chelsea now donât even have to wait until the end of the season to asset strip players like Enzo Fernandez from Ye Olde Proper European Football Clubs⢠like Benfica.
VAR. VAR is shit.
The only hopes for this seasonâs competition are:
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Liverpool doing an Istanbul in Istanbul.
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Napoli. Occasionally a Proper European Football Club⢠manages to assemble a bloody exciting team for one year only before being ruthlessly asset stripped. Napoli 2023 follow in the tradition of Ajax 2019 and Dortmund 2013.
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That the tentative reawakening of Serie A might continue with the big Milan clubs reaching the quarter-finals or semi-finals.
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That Sergio Ramos will be pictured sitting in an executive box looking panicked as PSG near their exit from the competition.
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That Chelsea will go out in the Round of 16 and quickly go bust.
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That Guardiola and his team of expensively and fraudulently assembled cyborgs will be short circuited by yet another shiny doorknob, and Guardiola will do yet another Basil Fawlty smashing a tree branch on the bonnet of a car impression. To see Erling Braut Haalandâs face afterwards.
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That TV3 get any big games instead of RTE. FOAD McBennett.
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Lovely.