Gareth Barry won't be on dis ting: Champions League and Europa League 09/10

We're a Big Club

Oh yes, sorry. Had briefly forgotten about Blanchflower. Memory like a sieve! Can't remember where I left my keys, the last film I saw at the pictures, league wins 49 years ago...

Quite alright. Carry on.

Hey, LondonILXors, suggest a good pub to watch the Champion's league final in.

The Friend At Hand is quite a reliable one with two well positioned big TVs

Thanks. That might just work.

I'm going to watch it in 3D. I am not in London though.

It's on Saturday, right?

What's the 3D experience like? I'm a relatively recent convert to streaming, and amazed at how much enjoyment is preserved when I can just see a pattern of dots moving about. Ramping up to HD or 3D seems unnecessary

I will be on Merseyside in the house I grew up in (which is increasingly empty as we gradually clear the place), watching it from the same sofa and on the same TV* as I saw the Porto-Bayern final of '87.

(* - it didn't need a set-top box to work back then)

3D is a bit odd, I've only seen adverts on it (some footage they show on rotation on Sky's 3D channel of boxing, tennis (pretty cool) and football). It's not like the OMG WAU of proper 3D IMAX stuff, it's more like watching a moving version of those wee viewmaster toys you used to get when you were a wean.

Amusingly, they are only carrying it in one pub in Paisley, which is mostly full of very old people. The landlord has been giving all his regulars goes of 3D glasses to entice punters in, and the general response is "it doesn't work", mostly because he's trialling it in a pub full of pished blokes who all have glass eyes and cataracts.

I'm mostly going to watch it on the telly just to see what an actual match looks like in it, tbh. It's kind of meh so far, but I can see the potential in it.

I didn't think the finals were on telly in those dark days. Pretty sure I remember being gutted that I could only find the one PSV won reported later on ceefax

Ah, PSV. Winning the top prize in Europe with five draws. Beat that, Rangers.

Yeah, post-Heysel, terrestrial coverage of Euro finals was pretty spotty (the English ban diminishing interest, I guess) but I can certainly remember the Steaua-Barce bore-draw, Milan winning 4-0 and Koeman's free-kick winner vs Sampdoria at Wembley.

Atletico's record this year was the equal of Rangers' until the final, amazingly

That 4-0 is still about the most jaw-dropping performance I've seen. There must've been a pick-up in interest post-1990 because I remember Waddle et al's efforts with Marseille being amazingly engrossing and glamorous - though I have no memory of Red Star at all, who were by all accounts pretty amazing themselves other than that final.

wow, fox is showing the CL final in the US. Regular fox, where I don't know if they have ever shown a football match before.

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I'm not expecting a classic tonight. I seriously rate Inter and suspect they'll overpower Bayern from early on. 3-0, and a bit like Jose's other final.

oh man if Fox give the final the futbolbot treatment I am going to lolllll

fuck this saturday bullshit

sorry yankees I appreciate this is probably better for yous

Atletico's record this year was the equal of Rangers' until the final, amazingly
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:19 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

atletico madrid winning is like rangers winning; wtf is this
― cozen, Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:13 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

way ahead of me

howard webb misses blatant handball in the box

Gabby Milito is a dude.

srs miss old school finisher strikers, should be more gabby militos.

11 behind the ball now?

srs miss old school finisher strikers

― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 22 May 2010 20:21 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

11 behind the ball now?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 22 May 2010 20:22 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

now?

it was only 10 before the goal

cant believe that the long ball punt up the park led to a goal in a champions league final.

milolto

game over

eh the game was over when the peado got suspended against lyon

lucio dribbling from his own area waaaaay into the opposition half is one of the great sights in football

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