Philmycock Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 And the Bridge finally wakes up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjam Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Yay, gratz to all the English teams in the final - not as exciting as the past few nights but having all four finalists is and huge achievement. Just wondering why away goals still count as double in extra time though? Seems a little unfair to me that the away team gets essentially 30 mins extra of 2 for 1 - that far outweighs the benefit of the home team getting the extra time in their own stadium imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zag zig Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 13 minutes ago, 1of4 said: Chelsea's game into extra time. If it goes to pens, will that make the Germans favourites to go through and stopping the clean sweep of English clubs in the two Euro finals. Just noticed Chelsea have only one Englishmen on the pitch so as long as Barkley doesn't have to take a pen, they chould still win if it goes to pens History made, never happened before. Arguably English Premier league, despite its intense competitiveness, is the strongest league in the world and this goes some way to proving it - even if the top teams have too little home grown talent for many people’s liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Well, a couple of days ago I thought that English representation in European finals would amount to possibly one team at best. what do I know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JfR Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Going to be a good month of football to watch: Derby in the playoffs, all-English CL final, all-English EL final, then England in the Nations League finals. Out with a bang before the summer drought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexydadbod Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 On 07/05/2019 at 21:57, Ghost of Clough said: Spare a thought for @McLovin and @MuespachRam tonight Liverpool deserved that win for once. Actually wasn’t that fussed they won in the end after the antics of Suarez. The guy is a disgusting vile cheat. All 4 English teams deserve it. The premier league is the undisputed best league again like in the 2000s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 35 minutes ago, Zag zig said: History made, never happened before. Arguably English Premier league, despite its intense competitiveness, is the strongest league in the world and this goes some way to proving it - even if the top teams have too little home grown talent for many people’s liking. It’s probably because if it’s intense competitiveness. If you’re in the french league, where most weeks you’re playing pub teams, how does that prepare you for the big games. In the prem, there really aren’t many easy games at all, you’ve really got to fight for every point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexydadbod Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Premier league was the best before when Sir ALEx Ferguson, Mourinho, Wenger and Benitez were at their peaks. When they started to decline as managers or left the league, Spain started to take over as the best league for about 7 years when Guardiola, Mourinho and Simeone , were competing. Now the best managers are back in the premier league, like Guardiola, Pochettino and Klopp, we are seeing a shift in the premier league becoming the best league again. Still way off Spanish clubs’ consistency in Europe over a period of time, but it could be a start of dominance. Very, very impressive to see 4 English teams in two finals.These things always go in cycles. Italy was the best league in the late 80s 90s and early 2000s, then the premier league took over as the best from around 2004 till around 2011 from when Spain started to take over till 2018. No coincidence that the leagues improved when the best managers are there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 26 minutes ago, TigerTedd said: It’s probably because if it’s intense competitiveness. If you’re in the french league, where most weeks you’re playing pub teams, how does that prepare you for the big games. In the prem, there really aren’t many easy games at all, you’ve really got to fight for every point. Until the metamorphosis of the European Cup into the Champions League, countries had one (rarely two) representative in the main competition. There were quite a few occasions where the finalists in the UEFA Cup were from the same country. I think that there have been 7 prior occasions where 3 of the finalists came from the same country Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 All 4 European Finalists have lose to Wolves this season... Wolves defacto World Champs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 26 minutes ago, Srg said: All 4 European Finalists have lose to Wolves this season... Wolves defacto World Champs Liverpool beat Wolves 2-0 away, play them again this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Srg Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 5 minutes ago, David said: Liverpool beat Wolves 2-0 away, play them again this weekend FA Cup 3rd Round - 2-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Srg said: FA Cup 3rd Round - 2-1. Well there was that I guess, but if we work on a 2 leg game, they would have lost 3-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaaLocks Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Just wondering if the BBC intend to ask every fan that is going tonight how long their journey took and whether they have a ticket? There must actually be some other point of discussion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malagaram Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 Just seen in a local newspaper of a group who have hired a minibus to drive from Marbella to Madrid,it so happens that there was a leak in the toilet system and all there suitcases were covered in urine,made me laugh,I thought it was Scousers who liked to cover everyone else with their wee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWC1983 Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 On 09/05/2019 at 23:43, McLovin said: Premier league was the best before when Sir ALEx Ferguson, Mourinho, Wenger and Benitez were at their peaks. When they started to decline as managers or left the league, Spain started to take over as the best league for about 7 years when Guardiola, Mourinho and Simeone , were competing. Now the best managers are back in the premier league, like Guardiola, Pochettino and Klopp, we are seeing a shift in the premier league becoming the best league again. Still way off Spanish clubs’ consistency in Europe over a period of time, but it could be a start of dominance. Very, very impressive to see 4 English teams in two finals.These things always go in cycles. Italy was the best league in the late 80s 90s and early 2000s, then the premier league took over as the best from around 2004 till around 2011 from when Spain started to take over till 2018. No coincidence that the leagues improved when the best managers are there. Agree about the best managers = better success in Europe, but they tend to follow the £. The cycles you mention are all linked with money flowing into those leagues. The English clubs have massively under performed in the last 10 years, but look to be on the right track now. However, domestically, does it do anything for the English game? There was a report out last week that said below the Premier league the English game is in its worst state financially. I think the number of clubs in "distress" (a measure of clubs in serious financial trouble) had gone up from 4 to 6, a record high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 You would've thought the point of diminishing returns for money in football would've been reached and passed a while ago. are £1bn footballers better than £100m footballers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 4 hours ago, BaaLocks said: Just wondering if the BBC intend to ask every fan that is going tonight how long their journey took and whether they have a ticket? There must actually be some other point of discussion? Obviously not one Liverpool fan will be there without a ticket...surely...they wouldn’t would they not after the disasters that have happened to their honorable club that definitely 100% for sure wasn’t caused by thousands of fans being drunk and having no tickets.. come on you Spurs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronnieronalde Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 For anyone who isn't a BT Sport subscriber, they're showing the game live for free (I believe) on their youtube channel. Fair play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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