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Post by themanfromatlantis on Jun 11, 2023 8:36:50 GMT 1
I think it’s fair to say that they split opinion on here, much like Newcastle will in yrs to come…
Let’s not forget that it is these ‘top’ teams, with a fair few overseas players, who have fine tuned the art of theatrics and conning the supporters out of one third of the game time on the pitch etc.
Modern football can be really entertaining when played fairly, the speed, the talent of the players etc. But it’s all tainted by what I have to assume are the tactics that are coached into these players now, the cynical late tackle, the shirt pull, the rolling around injured to break up play etc. Not for me really, but I have to accept that’s what I’m going to get when I sit down to watch a game of football.
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Post by Porrohman on Jun 11, 2023 8:45:50 GMT 1
Oh dear, English commentators wanting an English team to win. What a set of bastards 🙄 They were terrible. Patronisingly biased , it’s treating spectators with distane , we can see their biased views it’s embarrassing, irrelevant of which country they are from , you should be able to be professional enough to commentate on a game without being so dam obviously in favour of one of the teams , otherwise get someone else. I bet the Italian commentary team were absolutely unbiased on their broadcast.
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Post by Floyds on Jun 11, 2023 8:51:14 GMT 1
I watched on RTE, and the commentators were less than complimentary about Man City. Although perhaps that's bias the other way...
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Post by Porrohman on Jun 11, 2023 8:53:23 GMT 1
It’s easy to say money won it. But why are Utd so shite then. Spent the same amount if not more. No doubt you need a lot of money to compete at the top but city haven’t spent that much more to create the gap that they have. Close game tonight though Oh do you reckon , the FFP rules are being ripped apart by the best lawyers in the world covering how rotten this game as become. I believe in time their trophies will be wiped from the record books. Plastic united too many of them and unfortunately this one is run by one of the richest countries in the world. FFP is there to protect the old guard. UEFA only want Madrid, Barca, Man U, Liverpool, Bayern etc to be successful. They don't want upstarts with money like City, PSG and, in the future Newcastle, upsetting the apple cart. Gary Neville said on the last Monday Night Match "if you've got the money and want to spend it, then do".
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Post by Porrohman on Jun 11, 2023 9:00:10 GMT 1
Never seen so many plastics at a CL final. At one point it showed a group in the crowd and it was a case of spot the English fan. How the clubs supporters have changed at city in the last 15 years. Just another plastic club, can fuck off to the super league for me. Good luck to them, I can’t think of a stadium in football with what would be a worse view of the action than any seat in that horrible ground must have given. Looked like if the town ground had the subs benches across the river and the nearest fans sitting in B&Q….utterly bizarre. A lad I know went there when Liverpool won in 2005, he said the stadium was a 4 hour coach ride from Istanbul
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Post by turbo2 on Jun 11, 2023 9:04:32 GMT 1
I watched on RTE, and the commentators were less than complimentary about Man City. Although perhaps that's bias the other way... Well on RTE they’d either be UTD or Liverpool fans so not surprised
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Post by turbo2 on Jun 11, 2023 9:07:08 GMT 1
Good luck to them, I can’t think of a stadium in football with what would be a worse view of the action than any seat in that horrible ground must have given. Looked like if the town ground had the subs benches across the river and the nearest fans sitting in B&Q….utterly bizarre. A lad I know went there when Liverpool won in 2005, he said the stadium was a 4 hour coach ride from Istanbul Lol. He caught the wrong bus then. It is a shocking location though. No idea why is gets finals. Other than a load of brown envelopes being handed about. It makes West Ham’s ground look good
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 9:11:38 GMT 1
I watched on RTE, and the commentators were less than complimentary about Man City. Although perhaps that's bias the other way... I watched the women’s euros final on RTE last year and it was embarrassing the ante English narrative from the Oirish.
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Post by Porrohman on Jun 11, 2023 9:19:36 GMT 1
A lad I know went there when Liverpool won in 2005, he said the stadium was a 4 hour coach ride from Istanbul Lol. He caught the wrong bus then. It is a shocking location though. No idea why is gets finals. Other than a load of brown envelopes being handed about. It makes West Ham’s ground look good I think he meant 4 hrs from the airport, he flew in watched the game and flew back.
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Post by themanfromatlantis on Jun 11, 2023 9:20:20 GMT 1
A lad I know went there when Liverpool won in 2005, he said the stadium was a 4 hour coach ride from Istanbul Lol. He caught the wrong bus then. It is a shocking location though. No idea why is gets finals. Other than a load of brown envelopes being handed about. It makes West Ham’s ground look good Kenmargra have been operating in Turkey since 2001… 😉
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Post by Terrier Ramone on Jun 11, 2023 9:26:42 GMT 1
Why wasn't there a "don't care" option to vote for? Genuine question, why did you open a thread on the subject of the Champions League final if you had no interest in it?
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Post by 3Pipe on Jun 11, 2023 9:32:45 GMT 1
Well on RTE they’d either be UTD or Liverpool fans so not surprised Liam Brady or Johnny Giles certainly weren't when I used to watch footy on RTE back in the 90s.
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Post by turbo2 on Jun 11, 2023 9:49:04 GMT 1
Well on RTE they’d either be UTD or Liverpool fans so not surprised Liam Brady or Johnny Giles certainly weren't when I used to watch footy on RTE back in the 90s. Were Brady and Giles commentating?? Never watched it myself. My reply might have been slightly tongue in cheek but they do call Utd vs Liverpool the Ryanair derby
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Post by workshyfop on Jun 11, 2023 10:05:37 GMT 1
I don’t mind City winning as I know a few old fans from that way and it must’ve been torture when United were winning everything. Above all else though, they boil a lot of piss from (plastic) fans of other clubs I hate! They old guard hate the upstarts. First Chelsea, now City and next Newcastle. The FFP has only become a thing since they started losing their grip. It’s not as if Man U and Liverpool haven’t chucked loads of money at it. This brings me nicely on to Pep … Spending money doesn’t guarantee success. You have to buy the right players and get them to play together. People said after he’d managed Barcelona and Bayern, that he wouldn’t be able to do that in England. Well, he has. Three titles on the bounce culminating in the treble. Same way people wrote Haaland off after the Charity Shield and said he wouldn’t be “playing against farmers every week” in the Premier League and would struggle. Pep has changed the way we play football (for better and sometimes worse) with his coaching. I can’t understand people arguing otherwise.
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Post by 3Pipe on Jun 11, 2023 10:16:13 GMT 1
Liam Brady or Johnny Giles certainly weren't when I used to watch footy on RTE back in the 90s. Were Brady and Giles commentating?? Never watched it myself. My reply might have been slightly tongue in cheek but they do call Utd vs Liverpool the Ryanair derby Pundits. Commentator was George Hamilton. A complete and utter clown but no bias, except towards Ireland obviously.
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Post by Champers on Jun 11, 2023 10:38:31 GMT 1
Some hilariously bitter comments on here. Certainly not hard to work out who has United or Liverpool down as their second team.
Congratulations to Manchester City.
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Post by sabailand on Jun 11, 2023 11:06:56 GMT 1
Not a good final that I predicted with an Italian club in it but city shaded it. Is it me, I just think Grealish is a slightly better RVP I dont think anyone would say Grealish isnt a decent player, but 100 million good, nah.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jun 11, 2023 11:20:36 GMT 1
In the Warehouee tonight in Hudds, full of supposed city fans. What a load of shit Same with Town. Amount that came out of the woodwork when we got to the PL. I very much doubt town fans were piling out of pubs in random cities like Manchester all over the country.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jun 11, 2023 11:22:19 GMT 1
They were terrible. Patronisingly biased , it’s treating spectators with distane , we can see their biased views it’s embarrassing, irrelevant of which country they are from , you should be able to be professional enough to commentate on a game without being so dam obviously in favour of one of the teams , otherwise get someone else. I bet the Italian commentary team were absolutely unbiased on their broadcast. Don’t know don’t care, biased shit on bt by 2 former players hard to listen to. Football commentary needs to be neutral end of conversation for me.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jun 11, 2023 11:24:58 GMT 1
Some hilariously bitter comments on here. Certainly not hard to work out who has United or Liverpool down as their second team. Congratulations to Manchester City. Couldn’t be further from the truth . Cannot stand the big 6 ? All despicable plastic clubs , with between them millions of plastic fans . Only ever one club for me UTT.
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Post by midge on Jun 11, 2023 11:31:56 GMT 1
Some hilariously bitter comments on here. Certainly not hard to work out who has United or Liverpool down as their second team. Congratulations to Manchester City. That'll be the Man U fans who's club is just about to be taken over by Qatar!!
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Post by sabailand on Jun 11, 2023 12:03:58 GMT 1
Some hilariously bitter comments on here. Certainly not hard to work out who has United or Liverpool down as their second team. Congratulations to Manchester City. Couldn’t be further from the truth . Cannot stand the big 6 ? All despicable plastic clubs , with between them millions of plastic fans . Only ever one club for me UTT. To be fair the big six all have rich histories and have been fairly well supported down the years, the archetypal plastic club for me is PSG, founded as recently as 1970 and had countless millions thrown at them but still find their holy grail (champions league) elusive, i think its dead funny every time they get knocked out.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jun 11, 2023 12:10:09 GMT 1
Couldn’t be further from the truth . Cannot stand the big 6 ? All despicable plastic clubs , with between them millions of plastic fans . Only ever one club for me UTT. To be fair the big six all have rich histories and have been fairly well supported down the years, the archetypal plastic club for me is PSG, founded as recently as 1970 and had countless millions thrown at them but still find their holy grail (champions league) elusive, i think its dead funny every time they get knocked out. Agreed 15 years ago. Social media and ticket prices have changed the landscape . Never ever been as plastic as it is now. Chelsea / Man Utd / Man City was so shocked at the amount of pictures being taken and overseas fans in the ground blew me away. Not contributing to the atmosphere in the slightest. Didn’t go to Spurs/Liverpool or arsenal but can’t imagine it being any different.
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Post by JG Mellor on Jun 11, 2023 12:19:12 GMT 1
In the Warehouee tonight in Hudds, full of supposed city fans. What a load of shit Totally agree , the biggest sign of an absolute sad bastard , a supposed fan who starts supporting the best team . My lad had a mate at school who supported 2 teams Real Madrid and Man City 😂 I can't stand plastic fans, but can understand why a young lad/lass would have their heads turned by guaranteed glory, rather than the hard hours put in watching a club like ours. It's what's in your heart at the end of the day. There are no rules.
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Post by Porrohman on Jun 11, 2023 12:53:40 GMT 1
Totally agree , the biggest sign of an absolute sad bastard , a supposed fan who starts supporting the best team . My lad had a mate at school who supported 2 teams Real Madrid and Man City 😂 I can't stand plastic fans, but can understand why a young lad/lass would have their heads turned by guaranteed glory, rather than the hard hours put in watching a club like ours. It's what's in your heart at the end of the day. There are no rules. It's why so many that grew up in the 90's and 2000's support Utd and why I hate all those glory hunting bastards that support the bin dippers because of the 70's and 80's
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Post by overtonterrierspirit on Jun 11, 2023 13:09:10 GMT 1
Totally agree , the biggest sign of an absolute sad bastard , a supposed fan who starts supporting the best team . My lad had a mate at school who supported 2 teams Real Madrid and Man City 😂 I can't stand plastic fans, but can understand why a young lad/lass would have their heads turned by guaranteed glory, rather than the hard hours put in watching a club like ours. It's what's in your heart at the end of the day. There are no rules. I console myself with the knowledge that these plastics will never experience the level of euphoria that we have . If their team starts to lose they just switch teams. Simples.
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Post by brighousebandbred on Jun 11, 2023 13:11:02 GMT 1
Totally agree , the biggest sign of an absolute sad bastard , a supposed fan who starts supporting the best team . My lad had a mate at school who supported 2 teams Real Madrid and Man City 😂 I can't stand plastic fans, but can understand why a young lad/lass would have their heads turned by guaranteed glory, rather than the hard hours put in watching a club like ours. It's what's in your heart at the end of the day. There are no rules. Yep fair enough. I
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Post by galpharm2400 on Jun 11, 2023 13:19:59 GMT 1
The Inter misses at the end were about right for a final where city didnt particularly deserve to win it. Lukaku putting/removing noughts on his transfer fee?? Inters approach is what city face on a regular basis so their lack of pace and urgency in going forward was disappointing. It was not a celebration of football, just winning is the only yardstick it seems. Glad it didnt go to extra time if im honest.
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Post by turbo2 on Jun 11, 2023 13:23:03 GMT 1
Some hilariously bitter comments on here. Certainly not hard to work out who has United or Liverpool down as their second team. Congratulations to Manchester City. That'll be the Man U fans who's club is just about to be taken over by Qatar!! Doesn’t count that. Cos for. It’s just not fair that citeh have gone miles ahead spending money at a less rate than Utd. They must be cheating. Ffs. Utd paid 80m for Maguire. 30 odd for Linderloft. LDP made them both look like champions players that they are
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Post by turbo2 on Jun 11, 2023 13:25:52 GMT 1
Totally agree , the biggest sign of an absolute sad bastard , a supposed fan who starts supporting the best team . My lad had a mate at school who supported 2 teams Real Madrid and Man City 😂 I can't stand plastic fans, but can understand why a young lad/lass would have their heads turned by guaranteed glory, rather than the hard hours put in watching a club like ours. It's what's in your heart at the end of the day. There are no rules. I know loads my age who are livarpool fans cos they were the best in the late 70s early 80s. Sad fuckers have never set foot inside anfield
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