Rennes against Boys: the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2020/2021 thread

Well, Romanians are not the real victims of racism but there's a scale, an on one end there is a referee who may or may not intended something despicable and on the other there's Erdogan, the Qatari owners, the French political class, all with well worked racistographies that are crying foul. When they are painting the Romanian as some backwards non-cosmopolitan redneck who can't possibly save himself from being decent, it rings as hollow and it rings as racism. I support the players decisions to walk off the pitch, but anything above that is hypocrisy, and I'm sad the players won't protest that.

Erdogan in particular can go get stuffed, but our community dgaf about racism unless it targets us specifically, so while I have no doubt that some Westerners are using this as an excuse to continue dumping on Romanians in general, there is also no question to my mind that the majority of Romanians are utterly unable and/or unwilling to question their own prejudices. France, for all its flaws, is still a less racist nation than Romania in 2020.

yeah well the most racist comments I've heard in Montreal have all come from Romanians.

Colour me surprised… Navigating this shit among other Romanians (and Eastern Europeans in general tbh) is a fucking nightmare at the best of times. It makes me empathize with Americans whose relatives have succumbed to the Great Trumpist Plague of 2016 and for which no surefire vaccine has been found so far. It's also an involuntary masterclass in rhetorical persuasion for me to the extent that simply going 'you're racist!' makes them even more entrenched in their position, whereas a modicum of dialogue and proper contextualization does go a long way with some people, which is about as much as we can ask for, I'm afraid.

The 'funny' thing, too, is that on the scale of Romanian racism, Colțescu's actions rank quite low. He even self-policed his tone by saying 'ăla negru' (the one who is black) instead of the sadly more common 'negru ăla' (that black one, which sounds more contemptuous in Romanian without quite entering n-word territory tbf) so unconsciously he must have known that language matters.

The plot thickens. Romanian media is reporting that one of the Turkish officials (presumably) yelled something to the effect of 'in my country, Romanians are gypsies. I can't say "gypsies"'. Yet you just fucking did?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqIEVX8G9Y

Anyway, fuck everything about this incident.

Poch effect in full swing.

Mbappe hattrick, 1-4 PSG.

probs not the best idea rushing pique back

Sevilla hadn’t conceded in seven games prior to tonight and are 3-1 down at home to Dortmund in the first half. Terrible defending and Haaland is lethal.

the thought of haaland at man city is terrifying, the thought of him at man utd agonising. he looks too big and too awkward and almost lumbering and then he suddenly darts off behind the last defender like you've x6'd the DVR and KABOOM!!!

Moves like special effects, its crazy

Porto bossing their match against Juve.

Thanks var

Absolute corker from Giroud

Wowwwww

Ten man for an hour porto are putting juve out

Oh no they aren't

Unbelievable

Goal 113'

Goal 115'

Wait juve need another cos away goal

Bullshit obv as it penalises second leg home team

Surely a pen

119' to juve VAR

Prob not

Three mins added time in extra time, all juve

Always a happy day when Juve lose.

Anthony Taylor ruining a potentially interesting match in Paris.

Anthony Taylor ineptitude is now making it more interesting.

Ref and var uninterested in Chelsea fouls here

(However light the contact, two fouls, one def in box one close)

How on earth is that a red

Ref is a joke tbh

PSG look like they can score at will vs Bayern.

Bayern playing incredibly well now, still losing

well, me posting did the trick

cannot like psg somehow

Fucking Chelsea though, ugh.

if the first-leg winners all prevail we are faced with a situation where man city might be the least evil club left in it

and that is worrying

best half of football I've seen this season. terrific stuff.

Absolutely

And city back brilliantly this half

Keeper should always track that ball for me, if someone gets a touch its still better than watching a lob go in from thirty yards

Oh the state of that wall holy shit

Cunts tackle, red all day and lucky if gundogan not badly hurt

If city played with a forward theyd have three more

You can take the Poch out of Tottenham, but you can't take etc etc

Cant argue that

Great fuckin match that but mbappe took the night off

They should have made the guy lying down stand in the wall imo.

Ex-@ManUtd manager Sir Alex Ferguson visited the PSG team hotel on this morning. The Lowry Hotel is currently only hosting the PSG squad, with no other guests currently staying there due to coronavirus restrictions.

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lol

Neymar is a greedy shit and its costing his team here

Could be a very good week in Europe for those disgraceful ESL teams everyone is so disgusted by.

Impeccable counter

It would be good if that kind of thing wasnt a red card imo

lol

These cunts are like children it’s hilarious

Orange all day trevor