The Champions League Final : Real Madrid versus Liverpool

So it’s the finale for European Football tomorrow, and whatever the result, it’ll be something of a coup for Southampton. There will be a record number of former players on display, some we developed on our own, some we gambled on and won with by buying from poorer quality leagues.

Especially if Bale plays, like.

Who do you want to win, Sotonians?

    1. Liverpool
    1. Whoever’s better on the night
    1. Real Madrid

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I’m going for Athletico Mince with Peter Beardsley scoring the winner in extra time…call me an old romantic if you like but I love an underdog. :lou_lol:

The mostly ex-Southampton side should just edge it…

My boy gets christened tomorrow (the issue of God, being hypocritical and conforming isn’t lost upon me so fire away) and I’ve Irish over who surprise surprise are Liverpool fans, southerners who are Liverpool fans, I’m dreading it as I know they’ll win and be chirping all day long tomorrow.

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Annoying.

The last time scousehampton were in the final I was in an Irish pub in London.

It was a superb game of football to watch and a memorable night.

Equally, a win keeps the English coefficient fraud number higher so we keep URL spots.

But as every bar here will be full of plastics and beer will be £8 to £10 a pint and it is 10:45 kick off…

I vote for an early night so don’t give a shit

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Oh an World Choice? There is more then one airport in Ukraine you chancers

Bale hat-trick, Lovren at fault for every goal :lou_smiley:

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Christening is a good excuse for a piss up, so enjoy(drown the hypocrisy :lou_smiley:).

As for the dippers, don’t worry, they’ll bottle it(they bought a bunch of hairdressers remember).

I shall be drinking gin and watching a film.

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Turncoat.

Traitor.

Wtf?

Not Rum?

I may finish off with a couple of those.

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Ronaldo to totally mug off The Dutch prick

I live 100 yards down the road from the Melwood entrance, for the past couple of weeks there have been hordes of Liverpool supporters outside cluttering up the road. Standing on wheelie bins looking over the wall watching them train. Chinese, Korean, Scandis, all covered in Liverpool colours, not a scouse accent to be heard. Nat Clyne stopped outside my front garden in his Bentley waiting for the traffic to move when i was mowing the lawn. You could just about see his head poking up above the steering wheel. I gave him a loud “up the Saints”, which to be fair he acknowledged with a smile and a thumbs up. Unlike that cunt Lallana who ignored my war cry when he was signing autographs outside the entrance the other day.

Hope the christening goes well.

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Gotta say, Kiev doesn’t look a very good venue for a final.

Shitloads of flights cancelled, tickets rendered useless. Probably given to Ukraine as a pressie in the year Russia is hosting the World Cup.

For fuck’s sake, don’t let them have it again.

Totally do not buy that bullshit about landing slots for the cancelled scouse flights.

Kiev alone has 3 international airports. Equally they could have routed to Lviv OK so it owuld be a 6 hour coach transfer but they would have got the fans to the match.

Kiev is served by a total of three airports: Borispil International Airport, Kyiv Zhulyany Airport and Gostomel Airport. Borispil serves the vast majority of international flights, with Zhulyany (also confusingly called simply Kyiv/Kiev International Airport) serving mainly domestic and short-haul destinations. Gostomel is a cargo airport.

Borispil International Airport

Lying almost thirty kilometres east of Kiev, Borispil (alternative spellings include Boryspil and Borispol) carries the vast amount of international passengers to the capital - around 2.5 million at last count. In fact the airport is full to capacity and plans are afoot for two new terminals, hopefully to be completed in time for Euro 2012.

Currently Terminal A serves mainly destinations within Ukraine, such as Lviv, Odessa, Donetsk and Simferopol, where from Terminal B you can catch flights to almost any capital city in Europe and many further afield such as New York. The Ukrainian airline, Aerosvit is by far the largest carrier and they can whisk you off everywhere from Tallinn to Tel Aviv. Other major airlines flying to Borispol include BA, LOT and KLM.

Inside the airport you will find everything you need to help pass the time waiting for your flight. Restaurants, cafes, bars and shops are all on hand as is a tourist information point, bureaux d’exchanges and first aid point. If however you’re arriving at the airport and are keen to get out of there as soon as possible then look for the Atass shuttle buses which leave for Kiev’s central train station every 20 minutes or so. Journey time is about an hour and tickets are 30Hr. The cost of a taxi meanwhile depends mostly on the (dis)honesty of your driver… Whatever they offer you halve it and bargain hard.

Kyiv Zhulyany International Airport

Known as alternatively Zhulyany Airport, Kiev International Airport and Kyiv International Airport (Kiev and Kyiv are interchangeable names for the city), this transport node was once the main landing and departure point for travellers to the capital. The construction of Boryspil in 1959 however saw the important of the airport wane in throughout the '60s and beyond. Today a handful of smallfry airlines will get you around the Ukraine, such as Crimea Air who fly to Simferopol. If you’re travelling domestically you will find Zhulyany just 8km south-west of Kiev’s city centre. Get there by trolleybus no. 9, from either Independence Square or the Main Train Station, or take a taxi for what should be no more than 60Hr.

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Equally plenty of seats available out of here we are reachable by Pegasus airways cheaply or if you really wanted to make the trip via Wizz Air and Ryan Air for 97 quid return as I am doing this week.

5 local mates who are scouse fans sorted tickets Tuesday night, flew out of here yesterday morning at 6am. They also have booked accomodation at a decent rate.

Basically it is a great venue, but not if you are on benefits :lou_eyes_to_sky:

What a load of old shite. Tickets were bought for both the game, the travel and accommodation. If fans can’t get to the venue, it’s not a good fucking venue.

They could have got to the venue.

Just the suits filled up every landing slot for their private jets :lou_lol:

I’d like them both to lose. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’s a very likely outcome, so I’ll settle for either of the following:

  1. A dull, stultifying nil-nil draw (after extra time). Liverpool go 2-0 up in the shootout, only for Lallana and van Dijk to fluff their kicks most horribly, allowing Real to draw level. Into sudden death, and with Real 9-8 up it all comes down to Lovren. You can guess the rest.

  2. A shitty, boring match is won by Liverpool in the dying seconds of extra time. As they line up to collect their medals and the trophy, an agitated UEFA apparatchik forces his way into the posh box, frantically waving a piece of paper in the style of Neville Chamberlain. He hands the paper to Angel Maria Villar, who reads it and calls for a microphone. He proceeds to announce that, owing to previously unnoticed irregularities in the transfer of a Liverpool player, that player is ineligible for the Champions’ League competition, and so the trophy is not awarded to either team. The name of the player in question? Three guesses.

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