Football 2020 - Rooney returns

[BlodwynPig]

How long ago was it that they said "THE GERMANS ARE HERE" as the Spanish domination of the cup ended...well ITS HERE FOR REALZ NOW

[EOLAN]

Imagine you're Messi stood on the halfway line watching this going on

It's how he wants them to play isn't it.

[buttgammon]

You'd swear this was people playing FIFA rather than actual football.

[BlodwynPig]

You'd swear this was people playing FIFA rather than actual football.

Copacabana all over again

[Inspector Norse]

It's how he wants them to play isn't it.

Yeah, but he must be wondering how they went from Dani Alves and Xavi to Nelson Semedo and Sergi Roberto in just five years.

[Inspector Norse]

Isn't the whole idea of ter Stegen that he's good at playing the ball out with his feet? He looks like an England cricketer trying to talk to a girl over the age of consent.

[buttgammon]

Copacabana all over again

It did occur to me, and the Irish commentators have said the same.

Isn't the whole idea of ter Stegen that he's good at playing the ball out with his feet? He looks like an England cricketer trying to talk to a girl over the age of consent.

Interesting to compare Neuer's ability at sweeping up outside the box as we saw once or twice. Definitely a more suave figure.

[DrGreggles]

Check out the big assists on that lad!

[DrGreggles]

First set to Bayern

[Inspector Norse]

Quique Setien there, look of a man who just wants to get on with uploading his CV to Manpower

[chveik]

oh dear

[DrGreggles]

7 (S-E-V-E-N)!

[imitationleather]

I'm sat in an East Yorkshire caravan loving this.

[king_tubby]

8.

[DrGreggles]

WE WANT 10! WE WANT 10!

I mean, it was a joke...

[DrGreggles]

"I'd 8-2 be a Barca fan..."

Fuck off, Twitter!

[Inspector Norse]

My sister's boyfriend is from Barcelona, might send him a message to see how he's doing

[Inspector Norse]

Someone's already edited Wikipedia to make it say Setien is the "former" manager of Barcelona.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Guillem Balague

Spanish football journalist on BBC Radio 5 Live

It is the consequence of many years of decay. Nobody has been intelligent enough to identify what is happening.

It's embarrassing. Barcelona changed football. That heritage has been thrown in the bin.

Barcelona is so political and the players run the show.

I feel this deserves an alt-right cry laugh emoji

Won't do so out of good taste

[DrGreggles]

Of course, Guillem Balague is an Espanyol fan and finds this all fucking hilarious.

[mjwilson]

Man City (though they have Lyon to get past first) will be looking at these two defences and spunking their pants

[Inspector Norse]

Yeah something might be coming out the other end too after watching Bayern's attack.

I do have a soft spot for Barcelona because my sister lives there and I like the place, and that team of a decade ago was genuinely one of the greatest football has seen - there are at least two complete demolitions of Real Madrid that will stick in the mind forever - but the club itself is an arrogant and aimless mess now; something like this has been coming.
With the Messi-Xavi-Iniesta-Busquets group they had a once-in-a-lifetime jackpot from their own academy, but their approach to transition has been baffling and they've been clinging on to their "elite" status for some time. Pique, Alba and Busquets are past it, the midfield is a mess with no creativity, and they keep spending £100m+ on players that don't fit. And that's not to mention the likes of Semedo and Lenglet who are shown up as jokers whenever they face a real football team rather than the Spanish equivalent of West Ham.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Clearly not anywhere near their peak now, but even then the Barca game was about winning fouls by diving, doping then vultures preying on bent refs and fear. They had loads of weak links but the idea was new. The depth of their fake overcelebrations and self-aggrandizing was easy new territory.

A cancer, a great side in the same way smallpox was a great pox. The fall can't be far or deep enough.

[Wonderful Butternut]

I should find this funny, but now I'm just fuming over the Athletico game. Liverpool would piss what's left in the competition.

[sevendaughters]

bet it's going mental on the Newell's Old Boys fan forum.

[JarrowMonkey]

Can anyone tell me why Paul Merson calls a throw in a 'throw on'?

[bgmnts]

Coutinho reluctantly scoring two against his current club in an embarrassing drubbing is quite funny.

[DrGreggles]

Coutinho reluctantly scoring two against his current club in an embarrassing drubbing is quite funny.

2 goals and an assist in 15 minutes in a big CL game?
Barca must be very pleased with their record signing.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Can anyone tell me why Paul Merson calls a throw in a 'throw on'?

Sub-par intelligence levels.

[BlodwynPig]

I should find this funny, but now I'm just fuming over the Athletico game. Liverpool would piss what's left in the competition.

DEAL WITH IT

LOOOOOSERS*