The Munich Philharmonic penned this little aria for their boys heading to England for the grandest match of the year on Saturday. Bounding around Google has surfaced nothing in the way of an English translation for the lyrics, but it’s worth it simply to watch someone work ‘Heynckes’ into a song.
(It is entirely possible some of this was ’sampled’. Maybe…)
During this evening’s Copa del Rey final, won by Atletico Madrid in extra time at the Bernabeu (big win, that one), Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo were both sent off. The latter was unjustified, though Cristiano probably could’ve been sent off for kicking Juanfran off the ball earlier, and there’s no way to know what Jose actually said. But he does an incredibly angry, “Who? Me?”
The Ronaldo red then sparked a small brawl, which offers us a reminder: every cup final should be a derby.
This might be better than the Champions League final itself. Heineken decided to run a gag where if a guy could get his girl to go along with buying stadium seats for $1899, he would win tickets to the final in London. One man actually rose above the odds – and they were steep odds – and won the tickets.
But what they don’t tell us is whether or not they actually had to buy the seats at that price. Or buy the seats in general. Because that’s horrible.
[101gg]
The people who whip up these fancy second-tier finals (UEFA. They’re called UEFA.) concocted a nice little PR thingamajig by pairing one fan from Benfica and one fan from Chelsea with a top notch freestyler in a race through Amsterdam to the Arena. They would hope to determine a winner through various stuns and what-nots.
So if this is any indication, Chelsea will show up shockingly out of shape and Benfica will win.
Just days after the club granted a young boy with cancer his Make-A-Wish wish a friendly against the senior side, the fans of the Portland came up with a choreograph. Only it’s not your typical collective – this one was for gay tolerance, fresh on the heels of the spate (yes, two is a spate in this respect) of outings in professional sports.
Or maybe it was for rainbows. Because rainbows are pretty.
The Moldovan first division. An eighteen year-old kid named Radu Mitu making his professional debut. This happens.
It’s like watching a three-legged dog fall to the back of the pack as it tries to run a race. The wind took it. Just…the wind took it.
Hopefully Radu has a great sense of humor.
This is my first attempt at Live Bloggery, but hopefully it's slightly less challenging than rocket science for a tech-challenged person such as myself. JG is going to be doing our recap today, and hopefully Darren will stop by during the live blog as well. I think Brenton
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