Football is Life. Dortmund’s Yellow Wall.
Via @AmyLawrence71: Lovely graphic about #Giggs and how old his team-mates were when he made his debut from Italian TV (via @PIERPARDO)
The saddest thing you will ever see.
Mourinho shows the world just who scored the winning goal…
Lady Physio, is that you?
GFOP Paul Collins eagle-eyed the one and only at the 1:13 mark. He writes, “I noticed something appalling/titillating. It was our precious Lady Physio being attacked! Get your male parts off of her, Michael Essien!”
Via @mechinations. President Obama secures the soccer mom swing vote by watching the Champions League final.
The drama of the Real Madrid-Bayern penalty shoot-out as experienced by Chad Ochocinco. That bloke lives and dies with Real Madrid but still makes time amidst the drama to giggle at some toilet etiquette. (via Sam Alcarez)
Barcelona’s defeat was a shock to all. Devastating to some. Simply put, when Ray Hudson is not commentating, Barca don’t seem to know what to do. Ray’s thoughts on the symbolism of last night’s game are below.
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From: Hudson, Ray
Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: ARE YOU OK, RAY?
To: Bennett, Roger
The golden era has ended. But how grand and glorious it was.
This was Barça’s Triple Crown: Chelsea/Real Madrid/Chelsea. They lost every leg. They wound up as a mile and an eighth squad asked to run a mile and a quarter.
After the game I went to Joe McGinniss’s pub nearby, and he told me this, which, after 14 more pints I started to see his wisdom; “In mathematics, all deviations from the mean display a propensity to return to it. This is expressed by the following equation, in which s represents standard deviation.” Joe then chalked this up on the blackboard behind the bar…the truckers sat on either side of me gazed on…
Well, Rog, I’m going back to bed. I’ll watch the Manchester derby on Monday, and will marvel over how two teams that left Chelsea in their dust in the Premiership could have been so humiliated by European lesser lights, when Chelsea could legitimately outplay Barça over two legs.
Sadly yours,
Ray
Men In Blazers preoccupation with Arsene Wenger’s well-being continues. His ritual weekly letter to Arsenal fans is becoming evermore like a homesick summer camper’s letter home.
Dear Arsenal supporter,
Sunday’s derby was frustrating because I felt we played with the handbrake on, especially in the first half.
We still created four chances playing within ourselves but in the second half we had a go at Tottenham and got it back to 1-1. After that we didn’t push on enough and that allowed them to get back into the game.
We lack a little bit of confidence at the moment and we feel we just need to protect a result when we have one instead of going for it.
Tottenham’s first goal was also a source of frustration because I felt Van der Vaart handled the ball - and that would have been a second yellow card for him. However, I don’t agree with people who say he should have been booked for his celebration. When a player scores there has to be a spontaneous reaction.
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