#469

His hometown of Sweden!

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#470

He bought a church in the centre of town and converted it a couple of years ago*, yes. Plus he has or had a big house in the archipelago but Stockholm is hardly his hometown

*or rather, a company he owns did

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#471

Let’s not get bogged down in semantics, friend. The point is that all of us should come together and cross-partisan supporter lines to express sadness at one of the game’s greats being robbed of a wonderful occasion

#472

Agreed, plus the Europa final is at the place he did this

which is still mental to watch
Old Collymore on the commentary there tells it like it is

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#473

A Goal for all Sweden

#474

On the face of it it’s been such a shitty, non-event of a season - major squids (or Chelsea) winning all the major trophies, assuming Real old man Juve, and the dullest Man United side in living memory sweeping up all the minor nothing trophies.

Look beyond the silverware, though, and there have been some pretty impressive performances by clubs who had no right to be challenging. Maybe Leicester have skewed our perceptions of overachievement. Nice in France, Atalanta in Italy, Vitória Guimarães in Portugal, Sevilla and Eibar in Spain, Basaksehir in Turkey. Even Hoffenheim and Leipzig in Germany if you’re mature enough to judge them on their footballing merits.

We should talk more about these sides, and less about Ronaldo scoring an offside goal in every big game, or Man United playing a back seven.

#475

Joe Hart!

#476

*Rangers, Europa League 2008

#478

4 goals* for all Sweden

#479

Quite a trek from the home counties to Stockholm tbf

#480

Cup final ticket allocations are an absolute joke across the board.

#481

probably the exact same amount as the other team tbf.

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#482

Assuming that Ajax get the same, United fans will buy up the majority of the general sale tickets, the Swedes will be supporting Zlatan and the corporate prawn sandwich wankers will probably be cheering us on too, so I wouldn’t worry.

#483

Aye this is the thing. The allocation is awful in the first place. Most of my mates went for tickets for the general sale release and took the potential hit. I’m now resigned to the fact that I won’t be joining them.

#484

What were the odds in Manchester United drawing 1-1 last night?
Hopefully it won’t go to the last game, but I’m increasingly confident we can draw 1-1.

#485

We’ll be resting all our main players for the final, for sure. Unlikely to have anything left to play for after the Spurs game either. Think you can get at least a draw.

#486

A routine win then.

#487

Friends Arena is a bit shit to be honest - 50,000 max capacity for football matches which is pretty poor for a European final - plus that place has no fucking atmosphere at all, totally dead acoustically even with the roof on

gonna try and get a ticket though ofc

#488

It’s the Europa League, though, mate.

#489

Could it BE any less suitable for a european final

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