Suits are trying to market this as South America’s Champions League… Fortunately it’s still fucking bonkers and great to watch with very little resemblance to the slick UEFA ‘product’ 
. Class goals, retro fouls, sendings off.
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What a player this guy was, one of the greatest ever and one of the most underrated, so elegant, skilful and graceful, poetry in motion when he was on it.
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His brother was a bit of a player too 
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Yeah he could play a bit too 
An absolute don, there used to be a 45 minute compilation of just his passing with an ambient soundtrack on YouTube, used to watch it to fall asleep after a heavy one
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A wonderful player - one of the ‘ones who got away’ for Liverpool…
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Would have loved to have seen him play over here but as an MUFC fan I can’t say i’m gutted he didn’t end up at anfield 
He did alright though, Juve, Barca, Real and Ajax…
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he certainly did.
we didn’t do too badly either to be fair 
That’s true
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With each goal Chelsea scored against our 9-man Spurs team last night, the home crowd just grew louder and louder… Never known an atmosphere like it, the fans bouncing off into the night like the victors… Gawd bless yer Ange, it won’t be boring.
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Mad game
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It looks like Ange is having the same effect on Spurs that Jurgen had when he joined us. He’s just lifted the whole club and brought the fans together. Great manager and very likeable as well 
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Liked his quote on refs, manager’s need to get off their backs. It’s only making things worse.
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I think that’s the whole issue, there’s this weird veil of infallability surrounding referees. Like their cops or something. Also, they have just been awful this season and VAR makes it worse.
Surprised Arteta hasn’t been charged for his comments yet. Which, fair enough, isn’t the answer either but something needs to happen.
I’ve always thought that it doesn’t quite add up when you have refs who look like blokes in their 40s from the local pub (though Jon Moss has retired) lining up next to 20 something year olds in the peak of their physical powers, who train twice a day and are made to study the game like never before. Surely the refereeing should match the ambitions of quality and performance the PL is all about as the “best league in the world.”
I’ve gone full Richard Keys here.
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Chelsea were woeful. If you had just sat back for 20 minutes instead of that suicidal high line, I’m convinced you would have won the game at the end.
Football in the US is going through quite an exciting time at the grassroots level. There is very little chance of any of the teams that are popping up getting anywhere as the MLS is a closed shop and the leagues below them the NSL and the USL following suit. It truly is shooting yourself in the foot. However, where I live a league has started that runs for 3 months and the teams have little to no ambition of going anywhere but still pull in 3000/4000 people. The one that I invested in - which, as my wife points out regularly, is idiotic as there are literally 3 other teams in the league that I drive past to get to games ticked all the boxes for me. They are very pro-union, pro-working class, pro-sustainability (they have bought land to plant trees in to offset their bus trips for the team around the region) but they don’t go as far as Forest Green and go all vegan food. They work very closely with the local businesses and truly do offer a welcoming environment that is something that teams higher up the pyramid can only dream of. It’s great to see something that was an idea in a pub come to life. Plus it means I regularly get to go to Burlington, VT and there are worse places to go.
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Loving the kit too… actually tempted to get a home shirt.
A team we can all get behind.
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The pink training kit sells like hotcakes.
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Watching PSG v Newcastle here in the Champions League.
Never knew the tune of “Porque Te Vas” by Jeanette is a football chant now 
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