Europa/Champions League Final Tonight

It's been a brilliant tournament with some great games just a shame the final was so terrible. Football can be awful but the highs far exceed any other sport.

Quoted from Hagrid

Good Job it was the CL Final then. Bit obsessed arent you

The exact opposite. Something I don't like that makes me mardy I avoid. Otherwise I'd just be forcing myself to watch it, moan like feck and irritate people.

Agree though, the qualifiers were something else for excitement, but the final a little too guarded and not at all like the lead up games. Would have liked to have seen Ajax and their young teams take on how to play the final.

Quoted from Grim74

Watched the game last night and not for the first time I thought god this game of football is so overrated, when you think of all the build up and all the money spent by the fans and for what a total bore fest.

Maybe it’s an age thing as up until my early 30s  the game of football was the bees knees the beautiful game and all that, but the reality is most games are boring especially if you follow a poor lower division club. I’ve just watched the boxing this morning and it just blows football out of the water for entertainment value, I didn’t see the undercards but the reports I’ve read are all saying brilliant fights.

I have much the same opinion about the game. Thinking about it, the reason for me at any rate is the lack of connection I feel with the club and the players on the pitch. It is in part an age thing. In younger days I knew some of the players personally especially local lads like Jimmy Fell. Ron Cockerill was our weekly Man From The Pru. We would see people like Brian Clifton when we were playing tennis at Ross on Weelsby Road. Quite a few players still lived in club houses in Cleethorpes or had bought their club house. We would see the players training in Weelsby Woods or running on the sands. It is a lot harder to get that community connection today when contracts are short, players commute and don't move here ...... to that extent I sympathise with the problem the club has in finding artificial ways to get younger people especially to relate to it in the way we naturally could.

As a Liverpool fan (I know, how can I call myself a Town fan when I also follow Liverpool? (Ans. Because I always have)) I loved it. Sure the game was dull and Liverpool hardly got out of 2nd gear (never really needed to, did they), but it was tense to the very end and the celebrations at the end were just reward for a brilliant season.

I hope that Liverpool can build on this success and push on again next season, hopefully finally winning a Premier League title. If next season is as exciting as this one was, it will be wonderful. I can't wait. I'm pretty lucky, except for the domestic cups and (sadly) the FL, I get every game live and (thankfully) recordable. And the football this year has been, at times, mesmerising and the drama brilliant. As an EPL fan, the new season cannot start soon enough.

Quoted from Hagrid

Dreadful Game. Bring on Love Island on Monday😖😖😖

Was the scantily clad woman who came on the pitch staking a claim to be a contestant on Love Island...  

Quoted from CairnsMariner

As a Liverpool fan (I know, how can I call myself a Town fan when I also follow Liverpool? (Ans. Because I always have)

Thought this made an interesting read.....

https://staceywest.net/2019/06.....ol-spurs-supporters/

The early penalty just killed the game as a spectacle unfortunately.

It was fairly obvious that as soon as Liverpool were in front then they would play more defensively having such a solid defence as they do.

Had the game stayed nil nil for longer or had Spurs scored first the game would have been a far better spectacle than it was.