I love how you snuck kuyt in there
I’m afraid I went into that home leg feeling far from confident.
Fergie had gotten a bit cynical in his approach to big games though not to the degree that he was in the previous year , Madrid were seemingly vulnerable in that tie especially with López in the goal but we didn't risk it too much, we had our away goal so even a 0_0 would've seen us through, but alas it wasn't meant to be.
I think you mean Rijkaard, you racist!Though its funny that your performance is mostly remembered for Gullit spitting out
While by no means perfect, Jose’s opening 18 months or so were a lot more enjoyable than I had been expecting them to be. It was the 0-0 draw at home to a very ordinary Southampton just after Christmas that suddenly made me realise we weren’t going anywhere. Sevilla just confirmed it. I was at Wembley for both the FA Cup semi and final; Alexis’ winner v Spurs provided a modicum of cheer but overall it felt pretty hopeless.
Agree with both. The Leverkusen one seemed
Is that the one where the ref send off Van Persie for finishing off an attack that was flagged offside or something?
never gets oldI actually just watched the bit back on youtube. One of the most ridiculous red cards of all time. Would they have? You won the first leg 2-1..
That was a fecking travesty, but Barcelona would have gone through regardless
I remember rushing home to watch the 2011 final. I was so disgusted at the end.
No, we drew 0-0 with Marseille in the first leg
Trinidad and Tobago, 2-0 loss.
It was 10 years ago last week. Hopefully the next 10 are a bit better!
Let’s fecking hope so !
On the other hand both of your wins were extremely lucky.
These two.2. vs Arsenal in 2005 (FA Cup final) - we absolutely battered them throughout that game and as the game was getting closer to the 120 minute mark, I was always worried it would go to penalties and end up losing
I was too young to remember Euro 96 when it happened, but when I watched highlights of the England-Spain QF a couple of years ago during lockdown, my first thought was that Spain were robbed and English were incredibly lucky to get through. A perfectly good goal disallowed plus numerous strong penalty appeals not given. At least Spain broke their June 22nd penalty shootout curse at Euro 2008.
It’s close for me, but that Chelsea game was worse. The worst!
I think we dominated 1999 final, I remember we hit the post twice. Though I admit we were not overwhelming favorite going into that 1999 final.
You were the better team most of the match. Our midfield was ropy that night. We seem to make a habit of that with Champions League finals.
I mean, i've heard apocryphal stories of Michels genius basically boiling down to getting battered by Happel's Feyenoord and going "that's it, from now on we play like them"
Man that United team was nothing special — aside from Rooney, I don’t know how they beat us. But if we had made it to the final, Barca would have absolutely sliced us apart. I’m sure of it. Carlo wasn’t really the type to park a bus, play pragmatic sure, but we would have been exposed eventually. Desperation and resilience got us through Barca the next year.
It was an absolutely horrible season despite finish 2nd (largely thanks to Cech).
Lahm's "we were the better team" interview after that was pure cringe.
