Champions League Final: Juventus V Real Madrid, in Cardiff

[Lord Camomile]

Wrong sort of football, lads.

 

[Gromit]

The Black Eyed Peas pre-game performance is dreadful.

I could have predicted that.
They are one of the worst live bands in the history of bands.
It's the studio trickery of Will.i.mam that made them a success. Not their ability to sing or play instruments.

 

[JimW]

Went for wrong YouTube link and had some bullshit VR view until I realised what was up

 

[Badgers]

Good opening for Juve

 

[Steel Icarus]

Really enjoying this. Some brilliant passing in very confined spaces, and Juve's back three are looking imperious
I won't even care if Real win because Zidane

 

[Lord Camomile]

Fucking hell, made it look easy.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Amazing goal.

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Here, you take it a sec... right, give it back... there y'go, 1-0"

 

[tommers]

Has Ronaldo had some work done? He's looking a bit like robbie rotten.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Phenomenal player. Just find it very hard to like him.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Phenomenal player. Just find it very hard to like him.

Exactly what I was thinking. You just can't argue with his record, not just the numbers but how he's gone about it. I don't go in for 'bests' because there's no point, but you could certainly argue he's


HOLY SHIT WHAT A GOAL!!!

 

[Lord Camomile]

I just whooped like a fucking monkey for that goal.

Fucking hell...

 

[tommers]

Fucking beautiful.

 

[JimW]

Fuck a duck

 

[tommers]

Buffon is a hammer, Buffon is a hammer, tra la la la, tra la la la

 

[Lord Camomile]

Exactly what I was thinking. You just can't argue with his record, not just the numbers but how he's gone about it. I don't go in for 'bests' because there's no point, but you could certainly argue he's


HOLY SHIT WHAT A GOAL!!!

*ahem*

I was gonna say Ronaldo seems to play a bigger part in his teams than Messi does, but maybe that's a reflection on the men rather than the teams?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Stunner! Game ON

 

[tommers]

"Dad, who's the world's most expensive player? It's going to be Messi or Ronaldo isn't it?"

"It's Paul Pogba son. £96million"

 

[Lord Camomile]

"Dad, who's the world's most expensive player? It's going to be Messi or Ronaldo isn't it?"

"It's Paul Pogba son. £96million"

Transfer fees are a reflection of the value of a particular player to a particular club at a particular time, not an objective measure of merit.

Stick that up yer magic money tree!

 

[Steel Icarus]

*ahem*

I was gonna say Ronaldo seems to play a bigger part in his teams than Messi does, but maybe that's a reflection on the men rather than the teams?

Ronaldo always has to be The Man. Displays the kind of "I know I'm great" strutting you see from top class sprinters, boxers and other individual sportsmen. Messi doesn't bother with all that, just part of the team always. Which is why I liked Zidane so much as a player.

 

[tommers]

Transfer fees are a reflection of the value of a particular player to a particular club at a particular time, not an objective measure of merit.

Stick that up yer magic money tree!

Jesus fucking christ.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Case in point: Man Utd win Champs League on pens against Chelsea. Every United player piles onto Giggs after he scored the winning pen, except Ronaldo, who laid on the floor near the centre circle making it all about him

 

[Lord Camomile]

Ronaldo always has to be The Man. Displays the kind of "I know I'm great" strutting you see from top class sprinters, boxers and other individual sportsmen. Messi doesn't bother with all that, just part of the team always. Which is why I liked Zidane so much as a player.

Yeah, certainly think that's true. What I was originally going to say was that Ronaldo seems to drag his teams through things more than Messi, but I'm possibly doing the Real team a disservice, particularly because I pay more attention to Barca and rate the likes of Neymar and Suarez over Bale and Benzema, which I thnk is probably unfair.

Basically, I'm talking utter shite

 

[Lord Camomile]

Jesus fucking christ.

Only on a Sunday.

 

[JimW]

Juve, same number of stars as Yeovil Town

 

[Cheesypoof]

watching it now!!!!

 

[editor]

Not a bad game, this.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Not a bad game, this.

With this and the FA Cup we've had it good lately.

Of course, Jose doesn't give a shite about any of that.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I don't think it did take a deflection. I think it bounced over the boot and just had shit loads of spin.

 

[Lord Camomile]

"The ball never touched the ground"
"Yeah, it was a Subbuteo goal, wasn't it"

Now, I never played much Subbuteo, but...