Today's football.

toffeejack · May 17, 2014

tbf, deserves to win a title that goal

RFUS · May 17, 2014

Awful. So unlucky for Atletico. Such a loss for football that the usual suspects are going to keep their boring stranglehold.

rascal · May 17, 2014

No sympathy for them at all. They've squandered it.

Brennan · May 17, 2014

rascal said:
No sympathy for them at all. They've squandered it.

Bit harsh.

AussieToffee · May 17, 2014

unbelievable bad luck for A.Madrid

Fearthainn · May 17, 2014

rascal said:
No sympathy for them at all. They've squandered it.

Too right. If you can't even beat two teams who spend hundreds of millions more than you, if your small squad cannot cope with fighting for the title until the end with said teams and getting to the CL final, if your best player gets injured in the biggest game of your season, if you battle against very big odds and fail, you deserve everything you get.

teppic · May 17, 2014

Spanish football. The Kopites of the game.

toffeejack · May 17, 2014

rascal said:
No sympathy for them at all. They've squandered it.

this isn't liverpool we're talking about here. they lost that game vs levante, but the other two have faltered as well. they lost their best player at the wrong time of the season.

think simeone would have been wiser having costa from the bench for this game though, seeing as they only needed to draw.

rascal · May 17, 2014

Essentially this is their third chance to get the job done. Can't have sympathy for that, though I do enjoy telling kids that Santa doesn't exist so...

Brennan · May 17, 2014

Fearthainn said:
Too right. If you can't even beat two teams who spend hundreds of millions more than you, if your small squad cannot cope with fighting for the title until the end with said teams and getting to the CL final, if your best player gets injured in the biggest game of your season, if you battle against very big odds and fail, you deserve everything you get.

Spot on.

quasi modo · May 17, 2014

So close! Cracking effort from Villa.

toffeejack · May 17, 2014

barca lucky again

RFUS · May 17, 2014

Fearthainn said:
Too right. If you can't even beat two teams who spend hundreds of millions more than you, if your small squad cannot cope with fighting for the title until the end with said teams and getting to the CL final, if your best player gets injured in the biggest game of your season, if you battle against very big odds and fail, you deserve everything you get.

And their second best player too; Turan and Costa both off injured after 20 minutes.

Not to mention Barca being corrupt as hell and giving the Atletico fans 450 tickets out of over 90 000 so you can't even hear the away support.