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[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

The best story football has written in ages. Little Rayo, Rayo fucking Vallecano, are in a European final.
https://t.co/RhkrpLI2Wp

[Jonay Amaro @AmaroJonay]

📸 Es la imagen de la noche. Don Óscar Trejo sacando la bufanda de El Puto Rayo a la afición rayista presente en Estrasburgo.

🇦🇷 Es el legado del padre de este grupo de futbolistas. Es un recorrido que ha MERECIDO LA PENA.

♥️ HONOR AL CHOCOTA, HONOR. ESTARÁS EN LEIPZIG #UECL

[Phil Kitromilides @PhilKitro]

No paro de llorar eh. Es muy fuerte esto. Pero muy fuerte. El puto Rayo. Increible.

[Sid Lowe @sidlowe]

Vallecas is pretty special

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

“At Rayo, players don’t live in a bubble. Before every game, you park your car on the street and walk through the supporters. You quickly realise it is different, with a sense of belonging and communion.”

Rayo Vallecano are perhaps Spain’s strangest football club. They only sell paper tickets. Rival clubs have made fun of outdated facilities at their ramshackle home stadium.

But there is also a special magic to the place, which has reached new heights during this season’s adventure to the Conference League semi-finals.

@dermotmcorrigan explains why fans have been camping out in the streets to secure their part in it.

https://t.co/JxXihF845P

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@FootballCliches "And Breathe".

[Graham Hunter @BumperGraham]

The single most incredible, unlikely, contradictory but likeable semi-finalist in 70 years of Uefa football: Rayo Vallecano ladies and gentlemen. For @ESPNFC
https://t.co/FIduYU60e4

[Phil Kitromilides @PhilKitro]

Rayo Vallecano are in a European semi final. They dont sell online tickets. The stadium often doesnt have running water in the toilets. The pitch is a joke. The club shop looks like a teenager's cupboard. Their training ground is in pieces. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE MIRACLE!!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@R_o_M Lol come on, Scott. They were 15 games in, 6 defeats and a goal difference of zero. Had barely played well in any. It was so obvious where it was trending and he like any other manager at any other top club in Europe would be under pressure at that point.

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@R_o_M @jamesdoran02 Glad you've come round from the reverse fixture! 😉

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@PhilKitro We are so bad 😔

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Man United reached 3 Champions League finals in 4 seasons by 2011 but have been an irrelevance in the competition in 13 seasons since. A club that set the standard for years but who have long since abandoned the pretence of having standards.

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@R_o_M Only 2 less wins than Liverpool!

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@Millar_Colin For sure. I did find the snap judgement on him hilarious, though.

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@R_o_M This is why his job is on the line.

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@R_o_M That's all fantastic Scott but the evidence of the eye test will give an indicator of who will be able to sustain it. 15 games in and a goal difference of zero says a lot.

[Matt @MattSB_7]

@UTD_DC @R_o_M Be good being 3 points behind the team in 1st, instead!