Today’s Football 25/26 Season

[Saint Domingo]

Let’s hope Fulham knee cap a few on the weekend

 

[Nymzee]

You’ve got to be mad insecure to be worried about them scoring 2/3 without response.

 

[MikeH72]

ye like when they were 4 nil down or whatever it was v barca a few years back. Mango brain.

They were legitimately the joint best team in Europe with City back then and Barca were a shambles. It’s not the same is it.

 

[JLW]

So you would only have been happy with 5-0 basically?

No the way the game went 3-0 would of been sound as its a tough tough ask to overcome against them, but 2-0 for me is still dodgy.

 

[MikeH72]

You’ve got to be mad insecure to be worried about them scoring 2/3 without response.

Same lads that probably thought Luton and Ipswich were going on 10 game winning streaks.

 

[jackyboy]

Don't mind that result at all, means they'll have to go for it next week and go full strength. Going to be an interesting fortnight. Just hope they don't sack him before the derby

 

[Taifi gorm]

So VAR lad has been transitioned from a ref to the VAR room. Is that the Rudiger bite? How fitting for the orcs.

Carlos del Cerro Grande is a Spanish former elite referee (2011–2023) and FIFA official who has transitioned into a prominent, yet controversial, VAR official role in La Liga. He has faced intense scrutiny over VAR decisions, including alleged pressure to overturn goals and high-profile incidents involving FC Barcelona

Controversies: Known for incidents like the "giant foot" offside ruling against Lewandowski and controversial penalty decisions in Sevilla vs. Barça.

Allegations: Faced accusations of manipulating images from the VAR room

• Euro 2020: France vs. Germany (June 15, 2021): Refereed the group stage match at the Allianz Arena in Munich, where he faced scrutiny from the French press regarding decisions involving Antonio Rüdiger.
• UEFA Nations League: Germany vs. England (June 7, 2022): Acted as referee in the 1-1 draw in Munich, which featured a VAR check for a potential penalty

 

[MikeH72]

No the way the game went 3-0 would have been sound as it’s a tough tough ask to overcome against them, but 2-0 for me is still dodgy.

I’d have taken it if you offered it me at 7:30pm. So would you. If it finished 3-0 you’d be saying that’s dodgy and quoting the Barca game from about 8 years ago.

 

[Victus]

They were legitimately the joint best team in Europe with City back then and Barca were a shambles. It’s not the same is it.

ok write them off, hope PSG don't have your mentality.

 

[the golden visionary]

You’ve got to be mad insecure to be worried about them scoring 2/3 without response.

I dont get the mass panic. It doesnt really matter except the derby.

 

[MichaelEFC96]

Utterly corrupt. They've kept Liverpool in this as tie is over at 3 and they know it.

Liverpool were one of the best teams in Europe when they battered Barcelona at Anfield. The fact they got beat 3-0 at the Nou Camp was a bit of a robbery. They're not beating this PSG team 3-0. 2-0 and through on pens is half a chance.

Liverpool won’t come back, not a chance. Klopp’s Liverpool had something about them, this team don’t. PSG are too good collectively also, that Barca team just went through Messi who was marked out the game.

 

[Gallaeo]

Last season a much better RS outfit got battered in the same venue, should have been beaten out the gate. Won 0-1.

So a PSG team who are just as good, who play same way away from home are 3 goals better vs. A worse RS team.

Even ‘they’ surely can’t turn this around

 

[Everton1654]

The RS will have to go after them. PSG will hopefully eat them up on the break.

Absolute nightmare to commit against them with there front 3

 

[JLW]

I’d have taken it if you offered it me at 7:30pm. So would you. If it finished 3-0 you’d be saying that’s dodgy and quoting the Barca game from about 8 years ago.

I haven't quoted any Barca game! im just saying they have a longgggg history of getting big European results against the biggest European sides over decades.

This Liverpool team don't look like they have it in them but I have thought that before.
Of course 2-0 is decent scoreline but it could of and should of been better.

 

[Drico]

Bayern Munich have a stranglehold on the Bundesliga, they built their domestic advantage on CL millions and don't care about the rest.
Driving force with the other G14 or whatever they are called to close shop.

They built their advantage by selling Karl-Heinz Rummenigge for a then world record to Inter Milan in 1984, cleared all their debts, and signed Lothar Matthäus. They pioneered shirt sponsorship with Uli Hoeneß, ran the club better than every other German rival, and developed a stranglehold on the Bundesliga as a consequence without need for oligarchy, oil money, or tv broadcasting riches.

Rummenigge kept them out of the Super League - the only truly huge club to disapprove of that little venture.

As for not caring about the rest, it was Bayern who helped save 1860 Munich from insolvency when they couldn't pay for their share of the Allianz Arena, and provided interest-free loans to Dortmund when they went bust in the mid 2000s so that they could pay salaries

By the standards of European football, Bayern are very much the good guys. Saints? Not remotely. Arrogant? Absolutely. Iffy on taxes? That's Uli. Likes a Rolex? That's Kalle. But saints compared to the Abramovichs, Sir Jims, and the Spanish kleptocrats of the game.