UCL 17/18 Knockout Rounds (Draw and Matches)

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So you’re saying a long distance between the beginning of the stands and the touch line is bad for watching soccer?

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Presuming you're referring to *our* current home, the pictures of Kiev make Yankee Stadium look like the crowd in the Bronx is practically on the field by comparison.
 
The Double Pivot has posted an hour-long preview of the match to their Patreon for their $3/month subscribers.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-game-one-18993826
But you’ll still have to suffer through the fact that there are no worse actual voices in all of pod land. Those guys need a vocal coach like nobody’s business. Also, to be “objective”, I find their Spurs bias to overly influence them, even though it is acknowledged. They literally talk Spurs every episode.

I like their writing. I don’t mind the analysis.

I would never pay to listen to people whose voices are so bad they actually physically hurt my ears.
 
I find their Spurs bias to overly influence them
That's specifically Caley's Spurs bias. Goodman is an Everton fan and has gone out of his way to avoid talking about them this season when possible. Honestly, I think most of the Spurs talk comes up because they're a good team doing well, for the most part. But sure, there's some homerism.

And yes, their production quality overall, still, is dire.
 
That's specifically Caley's Spurs bias. Goodman is an Everton fan and has gone out of his way to avoid talking about them this season when possible. Honestly, I think most of the Spurs talk comes up because they're a good team doing well, for the most part. But sure, there's some homerism.

And yes, their production quality overall, still, is dire.
Oh. So that’s why they hate Liverpool so much as to never seem to offer a legit, objective view of what LFC is doing. Beyond that, they just avoid discussing them unless it’s a loss to Spurs where they can regurgitate tired, inaccurate tropes about a team they hate.

They are fine. For free. They offer nothing worth paying for, imo.
 
So that’s why they hate Liverpool so much as to never seem to offer a legit, objective view of what LFC is doing.
...Huh. I feel like they love to talk about what Klopp is doing and why Liverpool is, in their estimation, a top-5 team in Europe, and fawn over James Milner, but maybe I hear things differently.

Anyway, I'll be at the Boot Room at the Irish-American Pub tomorrow in time to watch the Championship promotion final as an appetizer for the UCL final.
 
...Huh. I feel like they love to talk about what Klopp is doing and why Liverpool is, in their estimation, a top-5 team in Europe, and fawn over James Milner, but maybe I hear things differently.

Anyway, I'll be at the Boot Room at the Irish-American Pub tomorrow in time to watch the Championship promotion final as an appetizer for the UCL final.
No trip to Wales for you, huh?

If they have gone in depth on lfc, it must have been after they paywalled content.

Enjoy. It's game day for me already. I'm up and at them starting strong eating and drinking my way across Chianti.

Will settle down at a Scottish pub in Florence to watch the match. Apparently, Vlad Smicer is going to be there. He’s pals with the somm taking us around today. So fuck yeah. I’m pumped.
 
So heartbreaking to see Salah go off. Curious what Klopp will do at the half. Even after Lallana came on and they went sorta 4-4-2ish, every time Liverpool won a quick turnover they'd, by reflex, fire it up the right wing looking for a phantom Salah.
 
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Madrid came into the match with the obvious intent to injure Salah. They did so, and escaped without a card.

This final is tainted, regardless who wins. Why? Because no one has the balls to stand up against a team spending billions who breaks out league 1 tactics. It’s shameful.

I thought Madrid respected their badge. They don’t. They don’t even respect the game. Shithole of a club. Of course they claim 5 trophies in the comp they started that no one played in then.

F right off, you shit heads. You suck.
 
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They escaped without even a yellow to anyone. They obviously went out to injure Salah. The ref was complicit. Any win by Madrid is as illegitimate as the 5 they claim when no one played.

Total shit tactics. F off you pricks.
 
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Amazing 1st goal by Bale. Amazing goof by karius on the next one.