Arron Duckling

Climbing the corporate ladder at Deloitte; Culé, soci and former blogger. All views are my own etc.

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An honour and a privilege. 672 thank you’s, 778 thank you’s - neither would even begin to express our gratitude.

D10S, GOAT… Leo Messi #GraciasLeo

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Must be tough for Ancelotti, needing a LW that might actually track back once or twice against the best RB in the world

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That’s the trouble with that team, their manager and many of the fans - an acceptance of inferiority that doesn’t need to exist.

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The best team of the best league couldn’t possibly have dared to play a more expansive style?

No wonder I need to go back and add quotation marks to that first sentence.

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On Flick and his comments today. It’s worth remembering he is German.

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@oluco_de

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@oluco_de

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PSG and Bayern have both conceded a similar amount this season to Barcelona.

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@kevvwill Oslo is an objectively cool place to visit, though as you say, for a final like this, perhaps a bit lacking in capacity and logistics. I debated it, until I saw the costs for flights from London were 3/4x what I usually like to pay for travelling to games in Barcelona

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Atrocious refereeing

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Both of these teams are hideously ineffective at any sort of attacking play.

Bayern / PSG -1 for the final

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Question for those who watch them more frequently - do Arsenal ever have any semblance of an attacking plan other than Getafe ball and Saka-dependencia?

Top of the table and in the semi finals, but I’d rather go without than support this.

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I can see why Atletico feel aggrieved by that decision, the QFs suggested you could bundle into the back of someone and get away with it

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@kevvwill A small mercy that we have been spared the fate that awaited Inter in last year’s final, because yeah, exactly what you’ve said.

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@AndersRokke97 Good point on the need for a holiday post WC, completely agreed on that and hope we keep that in mind. I also think the speculation about a lesser severity is just that - if anything, I think it’d be more likely he misses the start of the WC. The mention of it is weird though.

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The decision today? Absurd. Not just the decision itself, but the speed with which that decision was rendered - almost as if the conclusion was predetermined.

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The club should never have issued a formal complaint about the UCL refereeing, which wasn’t great but within interpretations of the game. They do however need to explore the right channels to raise legitimate concerns about the offside rulings we’ve encountered with one VAR ref