We should have won that match by 3 or 4 goals easily. Bayern didn't show up and by the time they realised we weren't going to lay down they couldn't up the gears. Any half decent team would have knocked them out. We aren't a half decent team by any stretch. Then again, if the Germans were playing a decent team they probably wouldn't have been so complacent. The match was a bit like a mosquito biting a sleeping elephant. The insect got a few lumps in and then got squashed. But it was a moral victory apparently.

Had we won it I'd have been happy despite the truly dreadful performance and the embarrassing lack of quality at that level in most of our players. Not happy because we'd sneaked past Bayern on their off day because we can't forget how hopeless we were in the first leg, but because any sort of an achievement with a reward attached would be a first for this club after so many years. The hope would have been it could spur them on to regaining a shred of pride in the last few weeks of a such a dreadful season. As it is they couldn't manage it, no surprise at all considering they are total shit. Well paid though so it's not all bad news.

It will be interesting to see how Bayern recover from doing an impression of us, albeit with a bit of talent. Downturns like that can drain momentum. So it could turn out we have given them the footballing equivalent of malaria. Another victory without having to actually achieve anything.