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You are here: Home / Sports / Champions League Final Open Thread

Champions League Final Open Thread

by Randinho|  May 25, 20132:29 pm| 61 Comments

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Yes, I know that I have been absent this season and have had zero posts for a long time. I offer no excuses other than being busy and a general indolence. Be that as it may, I plan to have open threads during the Confederations Cup next month.

Last year Mércia and I were in Bonn, Germany on a Saturday night last May and watched a table of six women at our restaurant cheering on Borussia Dortmund as they crushed Bayern Munich in the German Cup Final. As much as I dislike Bayern Munich and my heart pulls for Borussia Dortmund, my brain says Bayern Munich. Share your thoughts.

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  1. 1.

    SRW1

    May 25, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    What, there is another Championsleague Final? I thought Wolfsburg already beat Lyon last Thursday!

    Just kidding, that was the ladies. Dortmund after penalties.

  2. 2.

    Alison

    May 25, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    I kind of love games like this, where I don’t give a fuck who wins – takes the stress out of it, LOL

    My prediction though…Bayern 2-1 Dortmund.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    You’re back!! You’re back!! I’ve missed you, man!

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    May 25, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Bayern playing SICK futbol lately. This one aint gunna be close. 4-1 Bayern.

  5. 5.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Thanks!

  6. 6.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    May 25, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but I’m leaning towards Borussia Dortmund just because I’m still a little pissed that Bayern Munich choked last year against FUCK CHELSEA!

  7. 7.

    Yatsuno

    May 25, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    @Randinho: Come to my arms my beamish boy! Oh frabous day! Calloo! Callay!

    Oh and Bayerrn, but only because that state in Germany is amazing.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    May 25, 2013 at 2:47 pm

    Gus Fuckin Johnson is doing the soccer play by play? Whiskey Tuber Flagstick?

  9. 9.

    MikeJ

    May 25, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    As a Donald Westlake fan I have to cheer for the Dortmunders.

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 25, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    @Yatsuno: I love it when you chortle in your joy.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    @Yatsuno:
    Whie you were there, did you try that famous Bavarian restaurant speciality, Aus dem Fenster geworfen werden, mit ein paar sautierten Kartoffeln?

  12. 12.

    Occasional Reader

    May 25, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    Borussia fans outnumbered Bayern fans 10:1 in central London today. We’ve been colonised!

  13. 13.

    Yatsuno

    May 25, 2013 at 3:01 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Now why couldn’t I get service like that when I was there?

  14. 14.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 3:05 pm

    Dortmund is playing to win at the moment.

  15. 15.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    May 25, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    @Occasional Reader:

    And the letters on the backs of Borussia jerseys outnumber those on Bayern’s 20:1.

  16. 16.

    SRW1

    May 25, 2013 at 3:12 pm

    Getting animated.

  17. 17.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    May 25, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    BVB’s colors look like the Steelers, I am going for Bayern Munchen.

  18. 18.

    MikeJ

    May 25, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    On topic halftime read: How the English Fell In Love With German Football

  19. 19.

    Punchy

    May 25, 2013 at 3:34 pm

    Not sure I’ve seen a half end with zero injury time.

  20. 20.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    May 25, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    My mild liking of Schalke is overpowered by my devotion to FC Kaiserslautern. So go BVB go and fuck FC Bayern!

    As for ‘Lautern, dammit they just don’t make it easy for themselves. A chance at promotion back to the Bundesliga vs Hoffenheim and they shit the bed 1-3 in the first leg…and now need to have a massive win in the home leg.

    Too bad that North America didn’t take up the promotion/relegation system for their pro leagues. That’s when you find out how much of a fan you really are.

  21. 21.

    BGinCHI

    May 25, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    Randinho!! Good to read you. Hope all is well in your world. I miss the late night footie chatter.

    I’m recording it so am going to post and then check back later, but I really hope Dortmund win this. As a Bremen and Dortmund supporter (in that order) I loathe Bayern.

  22. 22.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 3:51 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl: What you said Kaiserslautern was where I fell in love with this game.

    Marco Reus is really rocking the TinTin look.

  23. 23.

    Punchy

    May 25, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    Gus Johnson has used the word “dispossess” about a 100 times already. Does he not have any other vocab to describe a possession change?

  24. 24.

    SRW1

    May 25, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    Schrott!

  25. 25.

    Face

    May 25, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    A lot of players flopping and falling. Its like a fake physical therapy clinic broke out on the pitch. BD players well aware what worms look like.

  26. 26.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    May 25, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl: That would be fun, especially if a New York team was relegated down. I am a more of a fan of football in the Americas(I am a fan of the Boca Juniors), was caught up when the US hosted the World Cup in 1994, especially when the Bay Area hosted the Brazilians.

  27. 27.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    May 25, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    Scheiße! Besser eine Schwester im Puff als ein Brüder als Bayernfan

  28. 28.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    Penalty!

  29. 29.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    Dante should have been sent off for a second yellow.

  30. 30.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    May 25, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    Dante! du Schwein!!!

  31. 31.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    May 25, 2013 at 4:12 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: That would be fun. NYC gets relegated while a rustbelt city (I’m thinking Erie or Scranton PA) got promoted.

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    May 25, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    What a save.

  33. 33.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    @Randinho:
    Yes he should, and it would have made for a really interesting second half.

  34. 34.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    Save of the year for Subotic! How I wish he played for the USA.

  35. 35.

    SRW1

    May 25, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    One of the goalies will be Man of the Match. Especially if Dortmund take it.

  36. 36.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    May 25, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    @Randinho:

    Agreed. Nani got a straight-up red card for something much less grievous.

  37. 37.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    Robben steals it for Bayern. Scheiße!

  38. 38.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:36 pm

    God I hate Arjen Robben. Now more than ever.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 4:41 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl:
    Bruder ohne umlaut.
    /Grammatikpolizist ;)

  40. 40.

    Capt. Seaweed

    May 25, 2013 at 4:42 pm

    I didn’t realise the World Diving Championship was this weekend.

  41. 41.

    Thor Heyerdahl

    May 25, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I saw the error, but FYWP had run out of time to edit.

    Ever wonder why Umlaut isn’t spelled with one?

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl:
    Hmm. Ümlaut? Umläut?

  43. 43.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    @Thor Heyerdahl: In Portuguese it’s called a trema. Funny, but it’s not used anymore.

  44. 44.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    May 25, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    So I see that Anegla “Austerity for thee, but not for me” Merkel was there.

  45. 45.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    FWIW, I don’t think I have seen Phillipe Lahm so invisible in a game before.

  46. 46.

    Leeds man

    May 25, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    Bloody Bayern. Bloody Robben. Tremendously gifted player, but all the grace of a grounded gibbon.

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 4:56 pm

    @Randinho:
    They do look alike, but a German umlaut works differently from a Romance-language trema.

  48. 48.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 5:18 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Oh, I know that, but they look completely identical. In any event it is used so rarely in Portuguese that the did away with it. In French they use it for words like naïve and The New Yorker uses it in words like coöperate; both cases to indicate that the two vowels are different syllables.

  49. 49.

    Yatsuno

    May 25, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    @Amir Khalid: It’s all about the vowels. :P

  50. 50.

    Haydnseek

    May 25, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    @MikeJ: For The Win!

  51. 51.

    Tripod

    May 25, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    Went out for a late lunch, and there were a couple of volk at the bar. One gave a loud YA VOL! when BVB scored. Alas, it was not to be.

    @Randinho:

    That whole thing…. Anyway, up until the Azteca game maybe, but Omar Gonzalez is a baller.

  52. 52.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 6:13 pm

    @Alison:
    Du hattest recht!

  53. 53.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 6:17 pm

    @Randinho:
    That’s just The New Yorker being eccentric. Nobody else uses umlauts like that in English.

  54. 54.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    @Amir Khalid:
    Not the umlaut, ninny, the trema.

  55. 55.

    Alison

    May 25, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    WOOHOO I’m psychic. :P

    Or, made a good and very reasonable guess, LOL.

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    May 25, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    I do, scrupulously.

    ETA: Cedillas, too.

  57. 57.

    kermit

    May 25, 2013 at 6:54 pm

    That was everything an endspiel should be.

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    May 25, 2013 at 7:04 pm

    I didn’t know this about Bayern München.

  59. 59.

    Origuy

    May 25, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    @Randinho:

    In French they use it for words like naïve and The New Yorker uses it in words like coöperate; both cases to indicate that the two vowels are different syllables.

    In English that’s called a diaeresis.

  60. 60.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Okay, now I hate them a little less.

  61. 61.

    Randinho

    May 25, 2013 at 10:34 pm

    @Origuy: Okay now a little history as to why The New Yorker does this.

    Of course if I feel the need for diaresis, I take Imodium AD.

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