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Cannot wait to see the bus tour.
UEFA Champions League Final Man City v Inter Milan ** spoilers ** [Saturday 10th June 2023 @ 8pm]
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Cannot wait to see the bus tour.
Far too much hyperbole around this City team. Yes they are good and have a great squad to compete over a season....but they haven't been sweeping all before them like some footballing gods like the press would have you believe.
Arsenal bottled the league, and the FA and CL finals were narrow wins.
The rest of Europe might as well give up and stop playing if you believe all the gushing, it's a bit much.
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Van Basten rages at bizarre Champions League final opening ceremony — The Sun
FOOTBALL legend Marco van Basten slammed the Champions League final pre-match show.
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Anyone else completely agree with him?
No, No they didn’t. Arsenal were an under dog to get the CL let alone finish runners up! The squad just isn’t big enough. They far exceeded expectation and should be applauded.
The finals narrow wins, the FA cup there was only going to be one winner. That wasn’t even a penalty.
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Yup, turned that off until the players came out.
Van Basten rages at bizarre Champions League final opening ceremony — The Sun
FOOTBALL legend Marco van Basten slammed the Champions League final pre-match show.
Anyone else completely agree with him?
Sure do it earlier in the day, why not, but right before kick off you should be building up the to the match.
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That is just bizarre
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Why can’t people just enjoy the moment? Why the need to stare motionless at it through a phone screen ffs.
I mean they really did, I didnt think so at the time but to win 12 points from 27 whilst going 2 up in games at the business end of the season when it matters the most is bottling it.Van Basten rages at bizarre Champions League final opening ceremony — The Sun
FOOTBALL legend Marco van Basten slammed the Champions League final pre-match show.
Anyone else completely agree with him?
No, No they didn’t. Arsenal were an under dog to get the CL let alone finish runners up! The squad just isn’t big enough. They far exceeded expectation and should be applauded.
The finals narrow wins, the FA cup there was only going to be one winner. That wasn’t even a penalty.
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In danger of crumbling at some point in the near future as well I hear.
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They 100% bottled it, 8 point lead on two occasions in the league and losing is bottling.
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They shouldn’t have even been in that position!
If it was the other way around, 12 from their opening 9 games then went on an amazing run to get CL and finish clear second place. It’d be seen as absolutely monumental! I’m on the thinking that they just used all their momentum/energy and everything they had in order to lead for so long but just didn’t have enough in the end. Like a marathon race where some bloke who isn’t fancied to win or even get a podium just goes **** it and sprints from the get go but by the time the finish line is in sight he’s absolutely gassed and the much fitter stronger runners are catching up with him and are right behind him with much more in the tank.
Irrelevant, they were. They were top for 248 days and had a 8 point lead at one point...they bottled it.
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Your squad argument is correct. It’s no coincidence that our form dropped off when we lost by far and away our best defender and one of the best in the league in Saliba, and replaced him with an absolute walking disaster in Holding.
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It is both possible to not be expected to win at the start of the season and to also bottle it from a lead
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The irony of Liverpool fans accusing others of bottling the league 
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Whoa there, expectations cannot change and you can’t bottle something unless you were always expected to win it.
How anyone can argue that Arsenal didn’t bottle the title is beyond me.
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I mean, that’s not wrong! Inter had the much better chances. Unfortunately they fell to the chief donkey. Either that or he blocked them.
Anyone that doesn't win anything these days is classed as bottling it. Just another over used meme.
When City took over from Arsenal, Arsenal had only lost an amount of games that would normally pre-City have won the league, 5 and only drawn one game more. In the same way Liverpool didn't bottle any of their loses. The standard is just so very high. Sometimes you play your best and it's just not good enough or cannot be maintained week in week out with your squad.
When City took over from Arsenal, Arsenal had only lost an amount of games that would normally pre-City have won the league, 5 and only drawn one game more. In the same way Liverpool didn't bottle any of their loses. The standard is just so very high. Sometimes you play your best and it's just not good enough or cannot be maintained week in week out with your squad.