From Nick : ring any bells?
Barca & Athletico, you say.
Final day of the season, title decider between the two teams left standing. At home is the team who has been the dominant force of the era, a real powerhouse.
The challenger a big club that hasn’t won the league for almost twenty years.
Thinking about this, 25 years on makes me nostalgic as hell. That was truly one of the great nights in football.
I was eleven and watching the match in my room with my two younger brothers. When Michael Thomas scored I screamed so loud that my parents ran upstairs fearing that one of my brothers had fallen out of the window!
I am a big admirer of Barcelona, but really want Athletico to win. I can’t help but think of the parallels 25 years on, and the young but wily Simeone definitely shares the “anything is possible in football” mind-set that George Graham took us to Anfield with.
Final note, rumour has it there is a clause in Wenger’s stipulating that he must spend BIG. We can but hope
Myles says:
Mum and Dad should have known you wouldn’t allow your brother to fall out of the window.
But parents sometimes fear the worst. Because all kids do silly things at times and can end up in hospital.
A corporate lawyer like Ivan sometimes has to play a long game.
When it came to crunch time, and he knew Wenger 100% wants to stay at “the club of my life”, Ivan was, for once, in charge.
I hope it’s true. I hope Ivan said: Sign this or walk!
George knew he had a very strong defence in 1989, so he didn’t expect to concede a goal that night. David O’Leary said he told the players how the game was going to pan out but some didn’t believe him.
Everything George said and did were the words and actions of a manager who was expecting to win. He was an authoritative leader who generated confidence, a strict colonel who set the tone for his regiment.
I’d love to see Diego Simeone win 2-0 on Saturday.
Barcelona, with Luis Enrique in charge, might just be La Liga’s Invincibles next season. They identified four quality targets months ago.
Celta Vigo coach Luis Enrique MartÃnez GarcÃa, 44, played over 200 games for Barcelona and got 62 caps for Spain.
He wasn’t a great player but he was a good player.