It’s that time again! When college and university common rooms fill with the next generation of football sophisticates, classes are skipped, work is dodged, browser screens showing illegal feeds are minimized as bosses walk by.
Champions League day.
Is it a bloated competition showcasing the worst, corporate elements of the modern ‘branded’ game, brought to you by Carlsberg? Probably. Is it the single driving source of Europe’s unsustainable transfer market, which has helped to fuel the same wage inflation that has wreaked havoc in less-protected lower leagues? Certainly.
Is it the greatest annual football competition in the world?
Without a doubt, and Borussia Dortmund remind us why they’re one of the few Championship-winning clubs that don’t make you feel dirty for supporting (even though they pinched Reus from Gladbach, the bastards).
Enjoy…
holy group of death batman. That is going to make for some fine footy
Can’t wait for today to come!
Go Charlie Browns!
This group is the real champions league; the three actual champions from Europe’s three best leagues, plus a pretty good Dutch team thrown into the mix.
The Champions League’s commercialism is not nearlly as crass as the domestic leagues these days. At least they haven’t sold the league’s naming rights to a bank like England and Spain. You also don’t have those annoying LED ad boards around the pitch
illegal feeds are the only way……….. unless you want to steal a sky tv box or something.