We all want Real Madrid to win

I play football on Wednesday lunchtimes and I'm known as Costacurta. Because of my name, not my talent, though I am an ageing, slightly out of his depth sex symbol central defender.

erm, the second one was way more animated
...and Inter's kickboxin' Mat-tvoju!-erazzi should've been sent away, huh, like twice!

Man, I'd forgotten how great Italy vs Holland in Euro 2000 was until I was reminded of it here. De Boer (which one was it again)'s first penalty in the shootout is one of my all time favourite Italian football match memories. Heather Mills could have hit that better.

'I want the Italians to win - they're magnificent defensively and are a true team of all the virtues of football, not just pretty pretty fannydanglers' (or words to that effect).

Sometime later when France have resorted to massive hoofs up the pitch in English stylee:

'I like the way France are playing. I might change my mind...'

Spent most of this morning on the blower to Sir Gary Nelson...

Real should buy some defenders. I just knew Figo would miss that penalty. Had to keep screaming "shut up" when Venison kept saying that Montero should be sent off, didn't mention the Real players making "book him" motions, which I thought was a bookable offence. Poor old Nedved.

(now if only a big iron bird carrying La Lakers would drop from the sky...)

Reports of Serie A's death have been greatly exaggerated...

i think i understand where those words're coming from, and i even sort of agree with the emotion behind those words, b-b-but - it's not the players who are to be accused of "wanking", methinks, the *Real Wanker* is rather that chap with his fat wallet who believes he can buy up any players he'd fancy and thus make the 'greatest team', obv.

1) Football is great because teams like Real Madrid don't win all the time. It's brilliantly uncertain at it's best.

2) Madrid lost cos Davids was magnificent, as were the Juventus midfield. Roy Keane = the reason why Man Yoo went out. He's past it big stylee on a European level.

There were two minutes left... plus five more minutes of additional time. Kill or die. Raúl pulled all his weapons but missed it in the 94th minute. The tenth cup will have to wait.

Rough words!

Next year Fido and ZZ are 32 and chubby Ronnie is not cut out for the daily grind. Hell show up in big games but won't carry the team week in week out. Juve are awesome all around.

And Fucking play Rivaldo Morons!

Also, you could tell Figo was about to miss that penalty from the way he bottled it seconds before kicking.

felt sorry for nedved (sp?).

How many times have you seen a player try and dummy a penalty and fuck it up?

The final Juve goal was sublime. Some great football by Juve throughout actually, obviously the end of the first half in particular. My Del Piero jibes certainly came back to haunt me. I did think it was a foul by Nedved though.

The thing is, Juve weren't piss-poor against United. They didn't play well at home, but at Old Trafford they were pretty impressive. Considering they had half a team out injured they were unlucky to lose (even if United were still better over the two 'legs').

Weirdly enough Juventus actually impressed me more losing to United than Madrid did beating us. You could see the real quality there in the squad, and the solidity. Whereas Madrid, stunning going forward, always looked beatable as I said further up-thread (even if Utd never looked like doing it over the 2 legs).

Which is why the morning after Madrid beat Utd 3-1, and before Juve's first quarter final, I got 8-1 on Juve to win the trophy. OK, Milan still to go, but one of my better recent gambling judgements. (We'll forget about the each-way bet on Ajax placed at the same time.)

Perez said no decision on the coach's future would be taken until an emergency meeting on Monday.

"Everything will be decided at Monday's meeting at the Bernabeu," Perez told the Efe news agency.

Real lost 1-0 at Espanyol on Saturday as their indifferent form continued.

That defeat came hot on the heels of Wednesday's Champions League 3-0 drubbing at Bayer Leverkusen which drew fierce criticism in Spain.

The 49-year-old Camacho has only been in the post since taking over from Carlos Queiroz in May.

He was fired after the nine-times European champions could only reach the last eight of the Champions League last season and finished fourth in La Liga.

Camacho was a stalwart with Real as a player, making more than 400 appearances between 1973-89 and winning nine Spanish league titles, three Spanish Cups and two Uefa Cups.

He won 81 caps for Spain and played in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups.

He is currently in his second stint as coach at Real, where he lasted just three weeks in the summer of 1998 before resigning over a disagreement with former chairman Lorenzo Sanz.

Camacho then went on to coach the Spanish national side for four years, after which he returned to the Bernabeu via a short stint with Portugal's Benfica.

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/football/europe/3671372.stm

Published: 2004/09/19 22:13:33 GMT

© BBC MMIV

Probably that Real's business plan is faulty.

when the revolution comes, i want the bernabeu bombed to rubble

Wayne Parnell ✔ @WayneParnell
HALA MADRID. VAMOS!!!!

^^^this guy is now on a dark, dark list

people who support real madrid are the worst savages in the world

http://tryingtoohard.org/

my DN before the bump was a fucking lost classic obv