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Champions League Final Open Thread

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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

    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

    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.

  6. 6.

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

    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!

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    Yatsuno

    @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.

  12. 12.

    Occasional Reader

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

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    Thor Heyerdahl

    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

    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.

  23. 23.

    Punchy

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

  25. 25.

    Face

    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

    @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.

  36. 36.

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

    @Randinho:

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

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    The prophet Nostradumbass

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

  46. 46.

    Leeds man

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

  48. 48.

    Randinho

    @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.

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    Tripod

    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.

  59. 59.

    Origuy

    @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.

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