The 2024/2025 European Competitions Thread

[harrybarracuda]

I assume you booked the digs for a few weeks time?

[hallelujah]

I assume you booked the digs for a few weeks time?

My pals who didn't go, and my best mate's son, - who stayed with me in Bilbao - have all booked from Manchester or Charleroi.

I'm struggling to get it off.

There is another game yet anyway.

[hallelujah]

I assume you booked the digs for a few weeks time?

digs were 2k a night for the final

[cyrille]

I see Arsenal’s YT moaning minnies are out in force.

[harrybarracuda]

I see Arsenal’s YT moaning minnies are out in force.

You should see the mailing list.

Fucking hell the AFTV mob hang over their keyboards every week just waiting to squeal.

[cyrille]

I was watching one this morning...some spam head apoplectic with rage.

They should try supporting Birmingham City.

[cyrille]

Or West Brom, for that matter.

[hallelujah]

Pics from before the game the other night. I've heard some rackets at games in my time, but that was maybe the loudest ever for me. The whole of the city seemed to be out in Bilbao shirts - it was a holiday anyway - and that noise in the ground was immense. Everybody was backing them, but they were as good as gold to us before and after. They stayed until the very end and backed the team 100%. I can't speak highly enough of the city and their fans.

Most places were closed after the game, but as one bar owner jokingly told me in excellent Yorkshire-tinged English "we would have stayed open if we had beaten you, you fucking bastards."

Found this place though and had a couple with this fella. He was telling me he lived in Seville these days but had a sister who was a Man United fan, so he was in his element. He was chatting away with my pal too;he spoke no English and my mate speaks no Spanish (not any of the United lads in shot by the way).

Left about 2 and got a taxi back to the hotel and was chatting away (in Spanish of course ) to the driver about what a wonderful place Bilbao was. He was at pains to tell me they don't get as much rain as they used to! I''m like, 'mate, you get far less than us whatever the year.'

That place had been hammered during the day. A fitting name for the bar too, given the noise they made!

[cyrille]

[hallelujah]

This about sums it up.



I've been all over watching United, but this was one of the best atmospheres I've ever seen. And they almost all stayed until the end too. Proper supporters who love the club.

They were fuming with the referee, but they can't have any complaints. We had no idea at the time what was going on from where we were sat, but having watched it back it was a clear penalty and, according to the rules of the game, a sending off. If he'd gone in with his feet and attempted to play the ball, it would have been a yellow.

[harrybarracuda]

this was one of the best atmospheres I've ever seen

Er..... OK.

[hallelujah]

Er..... OK.

Will Wednesday be the 5th or 6th failure in Europe at the semis?

Or am I overestimating you fucking nobodies?

Try harder, H.

[harrybarracuda]

Keep talking to yourself Hal. You're the only one that finds you interesting.

[hallelujah]

Keep talking to yourself Hal. You're the only one that finds you interesting.

The United thread is one of the top threads on TD with over 600,000 posts.

You have 500,000 of them.

[harrybarracuda]

The United thread is one of the top threads on TD with over 600,000 posts.

You have 500,000 of them.

Which is aboutr 1% of your obsessive "arsenal fred" then.

[harrybarracuda]

Barca 2-0 down at HT and they don't look as sharp as last week to be honest. The handbags have already been out.

The ref is taking none of the "rolling around when someone blows on you" shit either, which is nice.

[harrybarracuda]

All gone mental again in the second half.

Chances galore and it's 2-2!

[harrybarracuda]

Fucking hell, this is ridiculously entertaining.

[Joe 90]

Inter Milan are a decent value bet to win the competition

Called it!

[harrybarracuda]

Going to watch the highlights again.

The Inter goalkeeper won it for them. Some truly astonishing saves. MotM for me.

Added: In highlights form it's even more mental!

[harrybarracuda]

Not that my hopes were high to start with, but only UEFA could pick a ref guilty of taking a bribe to fix a match and put him in charge of a game with a Qatari team in it....

[Edmond]

I'm pretty sure FIFA could do that too.

[harrybarracuda]

I'm pretty sure FIFA could do that too.

They'd consider it compulsory though.

[cyrille]

Masters vs Apprentices in Paris.

[hallelujah]

Masters vs Apprentices in Paris.

That Lewis Skelly is having a tough old night so far.

You can keep him, H.