Ryan Giggs will be catching up on Corrie: 2014/5 Champion's League

we weren't ready

p decent game so far btwn LFC and LUD, who may well be worth watching as a preference if their players retain the commitment shown to lollipops and silky first touches.

wtf can a mod fix this

deems I normally wdnt but ur standards I mean

it was a quick fix and I'm in bits from jet lag

BTW that modric pass

no the title's fine but my man the apostrophe

gah bloody phone

coutinho looks quite bad?

here's best version I've seen of that spurs alumni goal

https://vine.co/v/OWWWvDZlVTB

Just reading about Luka's pass made me want to weep.

ikr

being a foster home for gifted boys is all well and good but the current bunch make it feel more like an orphanage for broken transfer plans

both teams playing well and finishing/defending badly here obv as a neutral I'm enjoyin

man Balotelli is just such a red herring. he is perhaps the most self-centred and indolent player I've ever seen in my life, including a 34 year old David Ginola when he was put out to pasture at Villa. i find this very disappointing bcuz like a good disciple of the English footballing press I've always harboured hopes that he would kick on and become an unstoppable goal-machine centre forward, but that chances of that at this point seem to be minimal

lol stand by it

I think he's played the v misunderstood berbatovian focal point tonight, the movement hasn't quite clicked around him but he's occupied both centre halves and his touch and use of space is making things happen imo

o sterling sterling

have to say that's a deserved goal tho tbh

lol what a finish

Wouldn't deny that Balo has been useful tonight, but would argue (without wishing to sound like your common-or-garden "he should try harder!" English footy fan) that he could do a hell of a lot more for the team than he does as standard

also lol this game has gone crazy in the last 90 secs

nuts

team could do a lot more for him, looking at lallana and coutinho wasting pass and run opportunities around him all night tbh.

wait isn't there another CL thread?

Ludogorets have a very decent side.

Lol. Mitroglu got the decisive goal vs Atletico.

if so gbx I couldn't find it

Basle and Madrid highlights were fuckin crazy

Liverpool were ver ver lucky. I'm not sure if there was even contact for that peno. Ludogorets much better than I expected.

"Three at the back? Early in the sack." Van Gaal won't be on these '14-'15 UEFA Champions League nights thread

do what you will

mea culpa can a mod copy and paste and delete pls

no offence like but that other title sux

Could just edit the title of this one to say 'Europa'. Does Coronation Street go out on a Thursday these days?

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/17/article-2759104-216D53D000000578-326_636x427.jpg

So you guys just pushed aside the thread I already opened eh?

I must be killfiled by the entirety of ILF. Smdh

Boateng's scored a cracker 1-0 to Bayern and only a minute left. It's been a good game this.

Townsend you fucking child

Jesus this is a real low

nobody looks like a professional footballer its incredible

can't just can't believe paulinho and bentaleb are my midfield let me off this motherfucker

good game this

that marcelo goal

fitba

Weidenfeller

Oh man you can't beat a comedy slip from a centre back. This has been Quite Good so far.

Dortmund looking pretty waspish in possession and working hard but you can definitely see Juve getting more

Just too good.

career curtains performance from kompany tonight

Man City getting a right spanking here

Vidal is looking so shit tonight, gonna get himself sent off if he doesn't watch it, he just put in a vicious studs up tackle. Pirlo already gone off injured, things are looking grim for Juve. They seem to be trying to sit deep to prevent the lightning counters but dortmund are finding gaps everywhere

But then Juve take it up the other end and walk it in!!! Great low cross from pogba and morata scores! Lol so that's why they've been losing. One dude in the area, four to mark him and he gets an unchallenged tap-in

i couldve sworn bony's arse wasnt this mesmerising at swansea

2-0, Berbatov.

aargh @ Buffon.

Buffon has had a strange old game so far huh

Clearly not deliberate.

is that relevant?

ra y houghton just will not shut his stupid fucking mouth shut up ray houghton

assuming they see the ball hit the arm you could have 50 diff't refs look at that and they'd all disallow the goal

It is if you want to have referees enforce rules xp

Rules say it should have counted, but it was such a shit header that I can't disagree with the refs incorrect call

It wasn't hand to ball and his hands were not in an unnatural position.

agree with blandford, victory for football imo, glorious alba play deserved better

disallowed on aesthetics. xp

Jan Aage Fjortoft ‏@JanAageFjortoft 3 minutes ago
My dad, a referee, says: Neymar decision correct.
I respect my dad

no right foot messi they call him

Has he always had that sleeve tattoo? Awful look for him

that rakitic ball tho

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BzJCZEgCAAAyCSD.jpg

my man

on comes sexi feeb llorente

everyone stumblin'

That touch from pogba to llorente the first sign in this game that he is capable of being in full control of a football

otm, carlton pogba more like

another feeble shot from outside the area

Suarez will be steamed at not having a Champs League winning goal to his name

it was the winning goal

hating the denim. tarts.

y'know what I mean

did the ref actually even blow the final whistle?

I think the ref ducked out of it tbh.

juve will not have been happy with him tonight

"no-one's yet found a way to work Barcelona out"

poor old Chelsea don't get no respect

just felt like a good time to end this. xxp

the fuck is Depardieu doing there

this is awful

most tinkerish cl champions league winners ever

apropos of not much I get irrationally annoyed by the lowercase t in ter Stegen

Oof Vidal going for the hug from platini there and getting firmly friendzoned

allegri ambling up to get his losers medal is getting me hyped for attack on titan series 2

attack on titan very quickly devolves into boring, convoluted, political nonsense fyi

lol "100% JESUS"

100% RALPH MACCHIO

Michael Hann ‏@MichaelAHann 45 mins45 minutes ago

By invading the pitch, Bacelona have forced the abandonment of the game. It must be replayed. Justice for Juve.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CG2gunhWcAAv5LF.png

^ people who have figured out how to live

zlatan's let himself go

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CG4WeTlUIAAZqXZ.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/06/07/10/296B1B9D00000578-3114112-image-m-32_1433667921623.jpg

would watch this reality show

alves is such a horrible creep.

Does the new BT deal mean there'll be no free-to-air CL coverage next season?

Oh, apparently there'll be 12 matches on a new free channel.

the EU have really sorted this whole competition thing

Sky: not bitter

So we’ve just come to the end of another football season. But while the Premier League’s finest talent take a well-earned break, we at Sky Sports are moving straight into the drama of an Ashes summer. And we’re hard at work preparing for a new season where TV sport itself will be in the spotlight as the UEFA Champions League moves to BT after many years on Sky Sports and ITV.

We’re proud of the high standards that our production teams have set in the Champions League. While we have enjoyed bringing the competition to customers, there is no doubt that Sky Sports remains the unrivalled choice for sports fans. Not just next year, but for years to come.

In football, it’s the intense rivalry of our domestic competitions that matters most to customers. You only have to look at the viewing figures to see the evidence.

Over the last five seasons we have seen Champions League audiences fall 36%. Last season, we saw our lowest ever average match audience and not a single European game appeared in our top 40 football matches. Overall, Champions League accounts for just 2.5% of Sky Sports viewing, while the Premier League is seven times bigger.

Meanwhile, football fans continue to show an overwhelming preference for our Premier League coverage. Once again, 49 of the top 50 most watched Premier League matches were on Sky Sports last season.

The most I took that is that Sky have been really shit at marketing Champions League football these past 5 years.

the decline in viewing figures correlating neatly with the lack of english teams in the later stages of the champions league, also at its lowest ebb last year, because their core epl product is not very good in the grand scheme of things