i watched the first few minutes of the chelsea spurs FA match but had to switch to dortmund because i don't know crap about the FA cup teams lol

gladbach fouling a lot around the area and got a penalty against them already. now sahin looks like needs attention.

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oooh dortmund loses the ball cheaply and gladbach scores right before halftime

poor merino who came in for sahin is gonna get chewed up for it

Sounds like I'm missing a total classic semi final if a game. Gutting. Currently in the big smoke instead. Ah well there's always the disappointing final to watch...

speaking of classic, schmelzer scored a fantastic... own goal! (ouch)

then auba gets brought in, and a minute or two later he makes a run forward, cuts to the left, dribbles past the goalkeeper, and scores from a tight angle with a defender covering the bottom of said angle with a raised leg

a thing of beauty, that goal

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guerreiro hit the post earlier and the ball spun out the thing.

but THEN on a free kick into the area he lobbed it over the defense with a header and BLAM

go dortmund go! secure the 3rd place! it's worth fighting for it

It was great! It felt far more like a final than I reckon the actual one will.

Dembele's through ball for that goal was brilliant.

and he's only 19!

and pulisic?

man, this team. it's a little unripe still but such brilliant young talent.

Barcelona and Man Utd are both apparently going for Dembele this summer. Rumours of a £50m bid from MU.

oh man. that's bad news

I'll enjoy his season while he lasts

just turned on the teevee to see arsenal's goal!

the chants sound more exciting than the game looks. let's see...

More interesting than good. Two under fire managers playing for the only trophy they're in for. If ManC go out, Pep will have a lot of explaining to do why he replaced Aguero with Delph at 1-1 extra time and then went 2-1 down stright after.

So that's it. Man C out.

I hope Arsenal win the trophy just because, if he does leave, he'll at least go out on some kind of high.

I'm now gonna just sit back with a beer and listen to Man City fans on Talksport, ripping the shit out of Pep.

oh ha haha. my watching got interrupted and i missed the end

now i feel sorry for pep. first time ever maybe

Liverpool did him a massive favour today by losing, because if MC don't qualify for the CL that really will be considered a disaster. But even if they do, it still feels like they've gone backwards this season.

Whatever happens he deserves another season to turn things around but the big doubt for me is that he doesn't seem to be learning from his mistakes.

Also H8kurdt, what do you make of the stories that Rooney might be going back to Everton? Do you think it'll happen? Do you want him?

Just been in a bar here in Seville and met Eric fucking Cantona. I felt like I was gonna cry when I saw him. Incredible.

And yes the man looks as bad ass in real life as he does on the tv.

holy shit! what did you guys talk about?

What! Wait! Ah?

Photos or it never happened!

Id put the sneaky picture I took of him up, but this place is still on picture limits that were out of date 12 years ago.

I was gonna ask for a picture with him, but he seemed to be getting bothered but a few people in between songs (it was a side street flamenco bar at 2am). So I settled to just shake his hand and say thanks and that he was a massive player for me when I was a kid growing up. He just shook my hand back and nodded. That was all I needed.

One of the friends who I was with just didn't get it. I kept trying to tell him "it's Eric Cantona!" But that clearly didn't work.

What a conversation starter, "Did I ever tell you about the time I met Eric Cantona in a Flamenco bar?" Perfect!

2am is early in spain lol. good on you for not pissing him off though-- i wouldn't want to piss him off. i've seen footage!

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anyway for less relevant news, bayern got knocked out of the dfb pokal last week (i didn't see it, but dortmund beat them 3-2)

then dortmund today couldn't score vs cologne no matter how hard they tried so it ended 0-0, which keeps them clear behind rb leipzig and hoffenheim could overtake them if they win tomorrow. ouch

and now bayern is beating wolfsburg 3-0 at halftime which by the look of it will make them bundesliga champions at this point, or so i understand.

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aaaand bayern beats poor wolfsburg 6-0 and wins the title

weanwhile, wolfsburg left just above relegation fight, and luiz gustavo facing red card suspension next. ouch!

Great dive by Rashford granting Man U with a penalty converted by Rooney.
Ashley Young's got competition here.

Meanwhile the latest in the regularly updated series of 'sad Pep' photos ...



Watched the game. Man City were a joke. It looks now like Pep's just randomly picking formations in the hope one of them might work. Ironically, today, the most successful one was a 4-4-2 ... against Middlesbrough. And Sane's dive was all that stopped it being an even bigger embarrassment. Video replays can't come in quick enough for me.