Bit O' Footie

I know, I can't believe it either. How can the biggest match of the year be so painfully dull. It was like watching Bolton against the Bolton reserves at times. Possibly the dullest European match I've seen since the equally dull first leg of Bayern v Lyon. But somehow he did it. Jose "The Messiah" Mourinho performed that radical measure of parking the bus in front of the goal for 90 minutes. I'm sure they'll be a lot of hyperbole about how great of a coup it was and that but at the end of the day he did what 95% of us would do in Football Manager. Only in Football Manager you'd end up conceding the full quotient of 2 goals Barca needed at the end as opposed to the one they got. But Football Manager famously hates you as much as you love it. The cruel bitch it is. Barca's goal was good however, Pique turning and shooting with more nous than poor old Ibrahimovic showed in his rather stale outing. But, on the whole, Barca were poor and resorted too often to Arsenal-esque shooting from distance or aimless passing midway in Inter's half. That was when they got the chance to play of course. Inter were going down more often than a granny on the ice as they say. So now we're left with an Inter v Bayern final. Something no-one predicted. Or to be fair, probably wanted. Lets just hope Inter resist stroking faces and play without their entire team in their own penalty area and that Bayern are less shit than they probably will be. They won't be though. Inter will score two early goals and Robben will score a cracking consolation late on. Get that one down at Ladbrokes while the odds are still good.

Also, Fulham and Liverpool are both in action tomorrow. Good luck to the Londoners, as everyone else will be saying. We all want Fulham to win. World Cup aside seeing a teary Hodgson lift the Euro Mug would be the touching football moment of the year. Apart from Neville and Scholes' erotic interlude not long ago. Best not to dwell on that though. Liverpool will probably win as well. Either a 4-0 "not as good as the scoreline suggests" romp or a 2-0 "thanks to Stevie's Exorcist penalty dive" borefest. Either way, doubt anyone gives a shit about them.