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I could intervene in principle, but not on the specific instance. While technically it may have been a penalty, I wouldn't expect to see a penalty given for the challenge on Pogba very often - particularly in a final, where referees are generally more reluctant to really get involved in the game.

Goals change games Possibly the truest of the vast array of footballing cliches.

Since when is being enormously intelligent not a significent strength?

I'm struggling to make sense of all the rumours just now and I'm not quite seeing how everything fits into Juve having a good, balanced attack. Mandzukic is a good player and would probably do okay in Juve's current system, though not as well as he would do playing in a system that provided...

Yeah, but he's the sort of prick you want on your team. Like Lichtsteiner. :agree:

Yup. And Bayern and Atletico play such radically different styles of football that I can't see the value in comparing centre-forwards.

Not even with Vidal as trequartista?

Yes.

Always hard to judge between different leagues, though.

Guardiola probably wants to partner Darmian with Lahm in central midfield.

Yeah, because of the position of the Barca players, Buffon had a very limited space in which to push the ball safe. If he'd tried to get less of a touch on the ball in order to put it behind for a corner, he would have been risking not getting enough of a touch to stop the shot. It's one of...

I quite like play-offs between teams in different leagues to determine promotion/relegation (as there is in Germany or Scotland) as you feel there is some justice in establishing who the better team is through doing that. In the case of what happens in England and Italy, there has already been...

If you are going to have play-offs, I quite like the advantage being given to Bologna (or the higher placed teams). But if you really want fairness, then you don't have play-offs and simply promote the three teams who finished highest in the league. In this case, that would have meant...

Was on a golf outing and some pillock had booked the bus back for 9 o'clock instead of after the game.

They certainly look big when compared to the other two promoted clubs: Carpi and Frosinone.

I think they could do well if Sarri actually gets a balanced team to work with. He set his Empoli team up very well and if you add Napoli's attacking quality, you've got a pretty good side. Need a keeper, a pertner for Albiol and a good all-round central midfielder to have a chance to go for...

Awesome. Been practicing much in preparation?

No surprise there. Was golfing on Saturday in winds upwards of 50mph. Can't remember the last time I'd played in a strong enough wind that I was actually being knocked off balance mid-swing at times. Anyway, I put on a masterclass of wind golf as I controlled the trajectory of the shots to...

Only saw the first hour of this live, but seen highlights since. Decent effort by Juve and with a few breaks here and there they might have won the game. It was certainly an impressive display of resilience to recover from conceding the early goal. That would've sunk many teams and resulted...

So, was Saturday's disappointment taken in reasonable fashion around here or are Juve back to being shit?