Here are some of the stories featured on this week’s show
Good
- Sao Paolo win the Brazilian Championship for the second year in a row.
- Liverpool win 8-0 against a lamentable Besiktas video
Bad
- Is the Champions League quality really that good? No. Here are a few of the previous finals involving only domestic champions.
Real Madrid destroy Eintracht Frankfurt 7-3 in 1960
Celtic defeat Inter Milan 2-1 in 1967
George Best inspired Man Utd win in 1968 against Benfica
Cruyff inspired Ajax beat Inter in 1972
Liverpool beat Borussia Moenchengladbach in 1977
Nottingham Forest beat Malmo in 1979
Aston Villa beat Bayern Munich in 1982
Milan thrash Barcelona 4-0 in 1994
- Valencia lose at home to Rosenburg in the Champions League and are in disarray video
Ugly
- Benfica’s Agustin Binya’s awful tackle on Celtic’s Scott Brown. Look away if you are of a delicate nature. Video
- Stephen Ireland is back in the news after dropping his shorts to reveal his super pants! video
Here is a Champions league teaser for you. Since the competition allowed non-champion-teams to participate in 1995 how many Champions League winners have not been champions of their league the previous season?
Thanks Simon S for the question.
I agree that the European Cup with only league champions taking part was simply a much better competition. My favourite final was Roma – Liverpool 1981.