Sabel79 Posted September 18, 2018 Report Posted September 18, 2018 Starting a Champions League thread mostly so I can complain about TNT's coverage of it. When it was announced that Turner had won the rights I was afraid things were going to go badly. Now, on day one I've gone from merely being afraid to full-on locked in a panic room as the monsters outside are close to breaking in. Steve Nash? Really? The whole setup is, if I'm generous, half-assed and embarrassing. Topping it off, the actual good game today won't be on TV (unless you pay for it via the nearly unusable Bleacher Report Live app, which I did because I have a problem). Instead of what should be an interesting Inter-Spurs game at 1, they'll lead off with Barcelona dropping 15 goals on PSV because that's a team one guy at Turner thinks he's heard of... I never thought I'd be pining for Fox... Anyway, Liverpool-PSG later looks tasty, and will actually be shown to people later, so looking forward to that...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted September 18, 2018 Report Posted September 18, 2018 Barca will win it all this year. Book it.
Sabel79 Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Posted September 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, N S said: Barca will win it all this year. Book it. Man City are actual favorites at 6/1, Barca are 13/2. After that it's Juve and PSG at 8/1, Real at 9/1, Bayern 10/1. Doesn't matter after that, it'll be one of these teams. Please not City or Barca...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted September 18, 2018 Report Posted September 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Sabel79 said: Man City are actual favorites at 6/1, Barca are 13/2. After that it's Juve and PSG at 8/1, Real at 9/1, Bayern 10/1. Doesn't matter after that, it'll be one of these teams. Please not City or Barca... Man C has done nothing in the recent CLs and I expect that to continue. Now that Juventus has CR7 they could be in line to do something.
Sabel79 Posted September 18, 2018 Author Report Posted September 18, 2018 Something tells me Guardiola has been given an edict by ownership to win the CL or else experience firsthand the human rights abuses he was hired to help gloss over. I’d expect them to go all out in Europe at the expense, somewhat, of the extent to which they care about the league. Still, happy to be wrong. I’d also be interested to see what Juve come with...
Sabres Fan in NS Posted September 22, 2018 Report Posted September 22, 2018 On 9/18/2018 at 2:05 PM, Sabel79 said: Something tells me Guardiola has been given an edict by ownership to win the CL or else experience firsthand the human rights abuses he was hired to help gloss over. I’d expect them to go all out in Europe at the expense, somewhat, of the extent to which they care about the league. Still, happy to be wrong. I’d also be interested to see what Juve come with... So, how is that working out so far? Man C is going to be Man C in CL ... again.
Sabel79 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Report Posted September 22, 2018 17 minutes ago, N S said: So, how is that working out so far? Man C is going to be Man C in CL ... again. Perhaps, but it's not worth seriously evaluating until February.
Sabres Fan in NS Posted September 22, 2018 Report Posted September 22, 2018 21 minutes ago, Sabel79 said: Perhaps, but it's not worth seriously evaluating until February. You are right. It is only one match in.
sabills Posted March 7, 2019 Report Posted March 7, 2019 17 hours ago, sodbuster said: Crazy couple of days in the CL. That PSG collapse. Wow.
Sabres Fan in NS Posted March 7, 2019 Report Posted March 7, 2019 My biggest issue with CL is that it is always the same sides in it year after year with few exceptions that are mostly just dumb luck.
Eleven Posted March 9, 2019 Report Posted March 9, 2019 On 3/7/2019 at 11:42 AM, sabills said: That PSG collapse. Wow. Against kids!
Sabel79 Posted March 15, 2019 Author Report Posted March 15, 2019 1 hour ago, sabills said: well, you had a good run, Spurs It’ll be interesting to see who gets beaten harder, Spuds or ManYoo. Preferably both. By double digits... 1
Sabel79 Posted April 9, 2019 Author Report Posted April 9, 2019 Quarterfinals starting now. Let’s see how Spurs manage to Spurs this all up... (please, god, make it funny). And as I’m typing, hilarious penalty given by VAR. which Aguero, of all people, misses. Ugh.
Sabres Fan in NS Posted April 9, 2019 Report Posted April 9, 2019 2 hours ago, Sabel79 said: Quarterfinals starting now. Let’s see how Spurs manage to Spurs this all up... (please, god, make it funny). And as I’m typing, hilarious penalty given by VAR. which Aguero, of all people, misses. Ugh. The Spurs did not Spurs it up today. Maybe on the next leg. Liverpool did OK too, eh?
Sabel79 Posted April 9, 2019 Author Report Posted April 9, 2019 18 minutes ago, New Scotland (NS) said: The Spurs did not Spurs it up today. Maybe on the next leg. Liverpool did OK too, eh? Let’s hope Guardiola’s need to take a team with a disgusting stockpile of talent and make it look like they were managed to the title doesn’t backfire, again, in the next leg. Liverpool should beat Porto. Meh.
Sabel79 Posted May 7, 2019 Author Report Posted May 7, 2019 Welp, fair play to Liverpool for turning that around (Vomits uncontrollably into nearby trash can).
Sabel79 Posted May 8, 2019 Author Report Posted May 8, 2019 2 hours ago, That Aud Smell said: UP THE REDS!!!! Just please, Sweet Zombie Jeebus, let Ajax pull this off...
Eleven Posted May 8, 2019 Report Posted May 8, 2019 That, yesterday, is their equivalent of the Bills comeback game as far as I'm concerned. 1
Sabel79 Posted May 9, 2019 Author Report Posted May 9, 2019 I’m going to have to root for Liverpool to win this. Gonna need to take a lot of showers afterwards...
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