Well as I say, for me I cheer all english teams in europe, but I do understand that the majority of english football "fans" arent like that.
I like good football, more often than not I don't like watching Liverpool as Benitez has them playing incredibly dull football, though they put in a good showing now and then.
I see no English team as better than any team from any other country, I support Arsenal and like to keep an eye on Brentford, beyond that my loyalty is to good football.
I actually think a Pool vs Fulham game would be dull, I see it twice a season, a decent team that plays fair and decent football vs a team we don't often see and a matching we've not seen before offers FAR more interest to me in terms of football.
The only possible downside is if Athletico play incredibly badly as they are such an inconsistant side, sometimes playing nice fluid football and sometimes, usually away, unable to string to passes together.
Out of the teams to play yesterday I think we have the best possible final we could have got, Fulham have shown in the past 4 games in the quarters/semi that they aren't ever out of a game and can turn it around. I also think no manager in the world deserves it more than Hodgeson, one of the best managers in the world, one of the nicest, one of the fairest on one of the smaller budgets has a superb team. Plus, theres few funnier in an interview than Woy, though I do love to see Ranieri interviewed.
Does Mascherano have a documented case of tourettes or something, I can't think of another reason he gets away with so much mouthing off to a ref literally every single game, though that doesn't really explain his ability to foul anyone all game long with no punishment.
THinking about that, would Howard at Everton get a little leeway in the mouthing off at ref's situation considering he actually does have tourette's?
