I remember there were quite a few :haha:'s to be had in 2009 but I guess that was before Barcelona became very, very heavily disliked.
I remember there were quite a few :haha:'s to be had in 2009 but I guess that was before Barcelona became very, very heavily disliked.
I still want Barca to win tbh.
Same here, just have a feeling that united will sneak it
Not too bothered who wins because I'll just laugh at the losers.
2-1 Barcelona IMHO.
There have been rumours Messi and Guardiola have had a falling out. :lol:
This is the first game I'll ever watch where I honestly can't decide who I'd rather see lose. Either Barca lose, showing that cheating and diving doesn't give you glory but that comes with the United fans/media going on and on. If United lose, it's our big rivals defeated in their own country, but then we have to put up with the Barca wankfest.
Barca wankfest will be easy to avoid in this country, a United one will not.
Couldn't agree more!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Wengerbabies
Lesser of two evils, Come on Barca!!! Spank those wanky mancs!!! 3-0 would be nice.
It is impossible to avoid a Barca wankfest in this country. I don't 'want' either of those teams to win, but if I was being waterboarded into giving an answer, I'd probably go with United.
Impossible, maybe. But certainly easier plus it will be a more short lived wankfest.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
Going to be watching this from a pub in Matlock Bath. Being a place on the map, it will bound to be crawling with United fairweather glory-hunting Cazzies..
And Barcelona ones too no doubt and by that I mean Liverpool supporters. :ninja:
Plenty of 05/06 shirts in mothballs around Seven Sisters Road...Quote:
Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
They probably got usage last season. This season too although maybe not seeing as they were actually in the competition.
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Originally Posted by GB.
I agree with a lot of this.Quote:
There is a thin line between love and hate.
I hate what football has become. I loathe its ugliness, arrogance and avarice.
There is a special place in the seventh circle of Hell for its charlatans and its petty criminals.
And yet . .
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I love what football can be. I recognise its beauty, its *purity as the people’s game.
There is a special place in everyday life for its heroes, and even its heretics.
Saturday’s Champions League Final straddles that thin dividing line.
It is sullied by the naked greed of UEFA.
They ignore online touts charging £12,000 plus a £2160 booking fee for two together in Wembley’s top tier.
Manchester United, *redefined as an investment vehicle for the Glazers, are slaves to the Yankee dollar.
Barcelona sold their soul, *compromised basic beliefs, by accepting *billions of *Qatari Riyal.
They are rival corporations seeking new markets.
Barcelona are making a *strategic push into China and the United States. They have satellite centres in Egypt, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, and Peru
United will break the £100m barrier in annual commercial income, despite Asia’s *counterfeit economy.
More than 2.5million MUFC credit cards featuring Park *Ji-Sung are used in Korea alone. But each club has the power of dreams.
Maybe, just maybe, their meeting will represent everything that is good about the game.
Each has its living legends, men who embody the *traditions of what, in more *innocent times, was known as the European Cup.
Sir Bobby Charlton has the unforced dignity of an old *soldier.
His sacrifice is unspoken, uniquely powerful. His tears at Wembley in 1968 are *United’s holy water. Johann Cruyff won the European Cup three times for Ajax as a *player.
He managed Barcelona’s Dream Team at Wembley in 1992.
His legacy is a total *footballer’s sense of style, *captured by his two word team talk on that fabled night: “Enjoy it”.
This final will be shaped by tribal elders, leaders who build for the future with one eye on the past.
Sir Alex Ferguson has learned the lessons of defeat in Rome two years ago. Europe is a definitive challenge, and some suspect he will only *retire happily after equalling, or exceeding, the three *European Cups won by Bob Paisley.
Pep Guardiola is a different character, but no less *intelligent, or driven.
He is a symbol of continuity and commitment to *Barcelona’s ideals, but he is an Anglophile who may yet *occupy the manger’s office at Old Trafford.
Both finalists are more than a club, mes que un club, to *borrow the Catalan statement of intent. Their players are taught to understand who they are playing for, and why it matters.
Carles Puyol, a captain with a social conscience, *responds with the intensity of a freedom fighter.
Eric Abidal’s remarkable recovery from cancer *surgery has made him a folk hero.
Ryan Giggs is similarly cherished, because his *career mirrors United’s *recent development.
Youthful promise *carefully nurtured. Substantial achievement sustained *cleverly.
There is unforced respect between the teams, which should protect us from the shameful excesses of Barca’s semi final win over Real *Madrid.
Xavi, the footballers’ *footballer, hails Paul Scholes as a role model.
Lionel Messi sees a little of himself in Wayne Rooney.
I have only the vaguest memories of Wembley in 1968, watched, as a family on a boxy black and white TV.
Charlton seemed so old.
Sir Matt Busby reminded me of my Grandad.
A moment, frozen in time, acquired more meaning when I learned about *Munich and the ghosts who will be a spectral presence on Saturday.
Since love is blind, I can’t wait.
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tbh I don't really care who wins as long as the good name of football is continued :unsure:
Hoping for a Man Utd win here
Now there's a shock. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Thats if i had to choose a winner.
Ideally il watch the match and laugh at the losers.
Win/win tbh
Its a Hungarian ref :popcorn:
I hope Utd win... I hate the barca cunts
Mmm. If you lived in England and had to put up with Manc twats puffing their stupid chests out then you may feel differently.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
Come on Barca :scarf:
Didn't realize you struck out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
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Originally Posted by FakeYank
Probably wouldve felt like you if I lived in England but here in the US, there are tons of Hispanic cocks who will go Visca Barca at the drop of a hat. They are annoying cunts who probably dont even know why they are supporting Barca.. they just know that a couple of their football knowing friends support Barca and they want to support the best team in the world!Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters (TPFKA WWTL@WHL)
As for Utd fans, I dislike them but at least their club doesnt mess with our players minds every summer. Have their ugly players say how they want to shag our captain and make gentle yet passionate love to him! Well, fuck them!
Those cocks at Ramblas! I still havent forgotten my stolen wallet! :fury:Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
I got a pity fuck from one of the Swiss chicks I was with though.. so :whistle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...-itv-skysports
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Champions League final: Do you watch it on ITV or Sky Sports?
It's not just Manchester United v Barcelona - it's also the smooth and capable Adrian Chiles against the Brylcreemed 1950s bus conductor Jeff Stelling
Build-up
ITV
A pared back 45 minutes. Likely to feature Adrian Chiles doing "funnies" over stadium footage of old/fat/yawning/vulnerable people. Also strolling-ex-pro-with-a-radio-mic interludes where men in suits shout phrases like "this atmosphere - it's absolutely first rate" while people in the crowd do V-signs behind them.
Sky
The full hour and a half. Will feature at least three high-end indie band-soundtracked action montages and a bit where a smartly-dressed reporter wanders around the Camp Nou looking sombre while Catalan guitar music jangles in the background. Plus standard "meandering face-painted fans" ad break segments featuring capering children and a middle aged man in a jester's hat who really should know better by now.
In the studio
ITV
Anchored by the smooth and capable Chiles, successfully toning down his just-another-punter shtick in favour of asking pertinent questions and - a staple for any ITV frontman: witness late-career Bob Wilson – being good at not getting freaked out by the ad break. ITV might yet pull something left-field out of the punditry bag: the big ego manager; or the exquisitely groomed overseas star who appears to have (a) very little conversational English; (b) even less idea who Gareth Southgate is.
Sky
A late-running Jeff Stelling/Ed Chamberlin face-off has seen Stelling's expertise plus Brylcreemed-1950s-bus-conductor good looks triumph over Chamberlin's precocious junior stockbroker. Stelling will be joined by the thigh-chafing interjections of the strangely riveting Jamie Redknapp, Ray Wilkins telling people to stay on their feet in the mannered, soothing voice of an old-fashioned tea dance band-leader, and coming man Gary Neville, for whom this may be a defining moment around the strobe-lit coffee table.
Commentary team
ITV
The excellent Clive Tyldesley, a man who can often be heard tenderly mourning the vanished ecstasy of "that wonderful night in Barcelona" like a spinster aunt who once knew the love of a Catalan servant boy. Tyldesley will be joined by Andy Townsend. To replicate the experience of an Andy Townsend co-commentary stint repeat the phrase "I'd just like to see united go at 'em Clive" and inhale deeply on a tube of Lynx Executive Hold hair gel.
Sky
Martin Tyler, master craftsman and even in the tensest moments an audio experience as soothing as syringing your ears with essence of late-night Radio 2 preserved in clover honey. Tyler is perhaps Sky's biggest draw for the game, although the chemistry with the similarly-cerebral Alan Smith has yet to reach peak Gray levels, where the alternation between scholarly musings and sudden manly barks recreated the precise structural formula of a classic loud-quiet-loud grunge-era guitar track.
Bias factor
ITV
Likely to maintain the traditional mild British bias of UK terrestrial TV. Tyldesley's swooning United-isms are now simply part of the show.
Sky
Surprisingly impartial, with Redknapp and Graeme Souness particularly prone to extended froths over displays of entirely alien European footballing traits – refined technique, self-expression on the ball, being able to pass properly etc.
Ace card
ITV
That reassuring air of Saturday night prime time, keeping you always just a hop away from a fame-hungry breakdancing halfwit or a provincial police drama series where nothing ever really happens. It's nights like these, Clive, that your Adrian Chileses are all about.
Sky
Souness, English football's best pundit. Passionate, incisive and always wincing with coiled rage. At his best when riled or under the mistaken belief his basic punditry manhood is somehow being impugned. Go on Jamie: have a pop at Souness.
The whole experience feels like
ITV
Having the most basic points of elite club football patiently explained to you by nice men in shiny shirts, one of whom keeps doing his squidgy loveable face and winking at your wife.
Sky
A gleaming intergalactic football symposium beamed back to earth from some future-civilisation built entirely around "great European nights" and the concept of "top, top, top payers Jeff".
Time and place
ITV
7pm ITV1
Sky
6pm Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports HD1
Barney Ronay :bow:
ITV if i watch in my room.
Sky if downstairs
Might just stick on the radio and play Pro and then change to the football when something happens
Don't really know who I want to win this game.
If ManUre didn't have their "passionate" following of glory-seekers, it would be the Salford lot.
Can't stand Barcelona but their football is exceptional. If, over 90 mins, Man Utd win, I can't help but think it'd be an injustice for football (but then, maybe ManUre will have deserved it, who knows...)
Strangely, at this time, Gooners are probably the most impartial fans going into this game!
I think I'll have Sky on. Their coverage does start at 6PM.
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Originally Posted by Kaiser
Sky for me, though I won't watch the build up.
Ok, I think I will actively prefer it if United won. I just don't feel any bitterness towards them anymore, well certainly not as much as in years gone by.
Barca on the other hand, well, where do you begin?
I'm indifferent between who wins. Barcelona are so much the superior side that it'd be a shame for footballing football for Man Utd to win. However although I echo Ernesto's views of the glory-seekers, the club itself is far less cuntish than Barcelona who are subhuman scum. Ok, so I'm not indifferent - slight preference for the mancs. Doubt I'll watch it in any case.
Know far more Utd fans than Barca ones so Barca to win plsthx.
Would prefer a Barca win.
The board seems split.
Should have made a poll. Would have been interesting
They keep saying this is now bigger than the Super Bowl (TV audience-wise) with a predicted audience of 100m I'm sure the Super Bowl gets between 200-300m viewers.