This is a shite tie ? I think your standards are too high.
City getting knocked out was an all timer for the books. To say it was good for the last few minutes is downplaying it incredibly. Thought it was a good year.
This is exactly why it's shite.
Other teams do their best playing at the highest level producing sometimes boring, sometimes entertaining and sometimes amazing games.
But in the end it's all a waste of time because the trophy probably goes to some financial dopers no one cares about.
Real Madrid had 2 good games in the 2021/22 CL, PSG and the final few minutes of the City game. Otherwise, the CL was shite that year.
Liverpool trounced Villareal in the SF, City breezed by Sporting and had an incredibly dull QF against Athletico, Munich hammered Salzburg and then lost to a very poor Villareal in quite a boring 2 legs. If thats a good CL to you, fair enough, I thought it was incredibly boring. 2020/21 was the same, teams just winning comfortably.
This year has undoubtly been class. United in the group stage were fun to watch and the games in the knockout have been great.
it was crap last year because Napoli and benfica and Bruges , looked good in the group stage but then just died away.
Crap the last couple of years? Sure the year before had real’s route to glory coming back to win vs PSG, Chelsea and city. It was great. Final was crap but if that’s a crap year then I dunno.
I was listening to last weeks podcast today by accident, Eoin opens with "Spanish teams are back" after wins for barca and Atletico.
The CL has been shite for the past few years. What Miguel said was right and it had been a relatively drab affair up to that point this year. There have been a few crackers after that interview.
In some defence of Miguel, the pairings have been absolutely perfect for individual games in this round, with each of the most evenly matched teams drawn together - with a different draw we could've very easily ended up with far more one-sided ties. Ultimately, the issue is that one whole side of the draw don't have much of a hope of winning the thing. Whoever of City and Madrid go forward (probably City, realistically) will be heavy enough faves.
kinda enjoyed that football chat, more so than the last one of those they did - wrong time for it though. A Monday pod should be covering what happened over the weekend.
A dual screen set-up a must rather than a luxury tomorrow night watch the competition Miguel gave the last rights to.
Listening to the first Tactical Nazi segment and poor Jon McKenzie is doing a great job explaining what these buzzwords even mean, they should get that lad on more often to talk about the real stuff, too.
They shouldn't have the quarters on at the same time, great games though
Another cracking night of Champions League knockout matches...
I thought it was interesting enough. I guess ye all are nazis and I'm not.
It might've worked better if they did it during the off season, but right in the middle of the title race was a bit of a waste. The first one was good for a change. This was terribly boring.
What made it worse for me, was that after the results in the PL at the weekend, I was looking forward to Mondays pod. Got a few minutes at the start, and that shite for the rest was doubly disappointing.
Just to add balance to the recent comments, which I read before listening to the podcast - so I went in fearing the worst - I kind of enjoyed their chat. I agree that 2 weeks in a row philosophising about football tactics is enough, but you can't just keep talking about the personalities involved in football 52 weeks of the year.
Christ that was awful yesterday. I've never heard someone speak so much but say so little.
Ken needs to stop indulging this rubbish, its almost as if he just wants to impress Jonathan Wilson by showing off his 'in-depth' tactical chat.
Yeah, yesterday was bad stuff.
I'm usually a big fan of these deep dives but my god the second half of yesterday's football show was absolute bollox.
Its John Fallon. It means nothing unless Dan McDonnell or Syned say it.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41375113.html
Uh oh spaghetti-oh
One of the dullest football shows I can remember, since last discussion on posisitionism that is. Astonishing they still ran with it considering the quite interesting weekend it was in the PL, Bundesliga and with the FAI shambles growing even more. I dunno, the lads just seem to be going through the motions the last month or two and seem tone deaf on what the average subscriber wants to hear from them after a weekend of football. I've had enough of discussing XG, VAR, Twitter/X, posisitionism etc to last me a lifetime at this stage.
Christ on a bike…that was an awful episode. I tried "getting it" until I realised (too late) that there was nothing to get.
You’d like to take a victory lap for shooting fish in a barrel? Who didn’t call the FAI a shambles???
I’d like to take this opportunity to do my victory lap for calling what a complete shambles the FAI still is
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There, I’ve done it. Now back to Manager Search 2023-2024, featuring CEO Search 2024 as the supporting act.
That was a load of ****.
Amen
Awful stuff altogether. Particularly when there was interesting results from the weekend they should've spoken about in more detail instead
I listened to the entirety of the previous discussion but this one was too much, I lasted about ten minutes before giving up
I really, really, really hope they never speak about posisitionism or relationism ever again
Yeah, that baseball comment was just lazy from that guy on talking about the gambling in North America…it has been on the upswing again…
"The total attendance of 70,747,365 in 2023 was a gain of over 6 million fans from 2022, when total attendance was 64,556,658. That's a 9.6% increase in total attendance for MLB games." I believe TV viewing numbers are up too since the rules changes to make the game a bit faster
