Real Madrid observations 21:46 - Apr 17 with 7472 views | NoDiddley | Ancelotti looks like a funeral director Modric looks like a crack addict & Tony Kroos has bags under his eyes bigger than Tesco’s. It’s what money & fame brings Come on the Citeh | ![](/images/avatars/2089.gif) | | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:00 - Apr 17 with 4586 views | stowmarketrange | Are they Preston in disguise?The ref didn’t want to hurry them up much did he? | ![](/images/avatars/4993.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:00 - Apr 17 with 4586 views | Landshark | Are Madrid always this negative? So much attacking talent and they are just parking the bus. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:07 - Apr 17 with 4554 views | Monkey_Roots | 70% possession for Citeh… | ![](/images/avatars/8119.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:10 - Apr 17 with 4546 views | perpignanR | Is Tony Kroos the most German looking German you’ve ever seen? | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:42 - Apr 17 with 4446 views | Monkey_Roots | Guardiola is like a spitting maniac. | ![](/images/avatars/8119.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 22:50 - Apr 17 with 4404 views | hubble | Citeh out. Terrible pens from Silva and Kovacic. Good to see Bellingham and Foden score though. | ![](/images/avatars/17111.gif) |
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Real Madrid observations on 23:00 - Apr 17 with 4338 views | daveB | Madrid are so good in this competition, just find a way to get through. Think it will be them v PSG in the final | ![](/images/avatars/1922.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 23:03 - Apr 17 with 4309 views | Ned_Kennedys | No Premier League (best league in the Universe) teams through to semi finals. Shame. | ![](/images/avatars/24226.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) | Login to get fewer ads
Real Madrid observations on 23:07 - Apr 17 with 4274 views | TomS | I thought the Madrid players played for each other as a collective unit. As per the last couple of seasons in the Champions League, they appeared to understand their limitations going forward and played to their strengths, being the ability to work together to soak up pressure. I thought it was a really impressive performance. | ![](/images/avatars/26116.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 23:15 - Apr 17 with 4262 views | ManinBlack | Perfect tactics by Madrid for the occasion. City have scored three goals in just about every Champions League game this season including doing it in Madrid. If they attacked City tonight then chances are City would score three again so parking the bus to deny them the space was sensible. Once Madrid got the early goal they could sit back. Had City got it Madrid would have had to come out and could have been picked off. It's all about winning at this stage, not pleasing the neutrals watching on TV and the Manchester public. | ![](/images/avatars/1986.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 23:16 - Apr 17 with 4260 views | DannyPaddox | Pep’s ageing into Michael Ironside Luca Modric looks like the original Pipkins Hartley Hare | ![](/images/avatars/17496.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 23:56 - Apr 17 with 4177 views | ManinBlack | I should add one pleasing aspect of both Premier League teams getting knocked out tonight is that it probably scuppers the prospect of 5 Premier league teams being in the Champions League. Bad enough finishing 4th to get in without fifth place also qualifying from the best league in the world according to Sky. | ![](/images/avatars/1986.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 05:56 - Apr 18 with 3982 views | Paddyhoops |
Real Madrid observations on 23:03 - Apr 17 by Ned_Kennedys | No Premier League (best league in the Universe) teams through to semi finals. Shame. |
Yeah. What a shame. Two German teams. In a leauge that has nowhere near the riches of the Premier league with Leverkuesen nailed on to win the Euro leauge. Money can’t buy you everything. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 06:03 - Apr 18 with 3968 views | Paddyhoops |
Real Madrid observations on 23:56 - Apr 17 by ManinBlack | I should add one pleasing aspect of both Premier League teams getting knocked out tonight is that it probably scuppers the prospect of 5 Premier league teams being in the Champions League. Bad enough finishing 4th to get in without fifth place also qualifying from the best league in the world according to Sky. |
Sky and all the media outlets banging on about the “tightest” premier leauge race in years. Absolute balls . We knew who was winning from day one and it wasn’t Liverpool or Arsenal. 50 million Philips and 100 million Grealish pretty much surplus to requirements and they still still win it. Listened to a discussion on 5 live the other day about the shock Liverpool and Arsenal defeats on Sunday . Pretty much not a word about the superb Palace and Villa performances. Dreadful. | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 07:26 - Apr 18 with 3819 views | Northernr |
Real Madrid observations on 23:03 - Apr 17 by Ned_Kennedys | No Premier League (best league in the Universe) teams through to semi finals. Shame. |
Might not get their precious fifth "Champions" League spot now. What a shame. Wnkers. | ![](/images/avatars/1005.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 07:50 - Apr 18 with 3734 views | daveB |
Real Madrid observations on 05:56 - Apr 18 by Paddyhoops | Yeah. What a shame. Two German teams. In a leauge that has nowhere near the riches of the Premier league with Leverkuesen nailed on to win the Euro leauge. Money can’t buy you everything. |
They did spend £100million on Kane, not as if they are skint | ![](/images/avatars/1922.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 07:55 - Apr 18 with 3711 views | nix |
Real Madrid observations on 06:03 - Apr 18 by Paddyhoops | Sky and all the media outlets banging on about the “tightest” premier leauge race in years. Absolute balls . We knew who was winning from day one and it wasn’t Liverpool or Arsenal. 50 million Philips and 100 million Grealish pretty much surplus to requirements and they still still win it. Listened to a discussion on 5 live the other day about the shock Liverpool and Arsenal defeats on Sunday . Pretty much not a word about the superb Palace and Villa performances. Dreadful. |
It's been going on for years. Even during matches the commentators prioritise the favoured teams. Even when they're losing the other team is barely mentioned. It's all about what Chelsea or Man U need to do to get back into the match, not why the other team are winning. I barely watch the Prem these days as it does my head in. It's becoming like Formula 1 except instead of which team having the best car, it's which team has spent the most money. That and the fact they are allowed to hoover up all the best youngsters and then loan them out to the teams that should have had a chance to develop them is killing football across the divisions. | ![](/images/avatars/16746.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 07:55 - Apr 18 with 3716 views | traininvain |
Real Madrid observations on 07:50 - Apr 18 by daveB | They did spend £100million on Kane, not as if they are skint |
Still a fraction of what City have ‘officially’ spent and we’ll probably never know how much they have actually spent including all the back handers and bungs. | ![](/images/avatars/8501.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 08:34 - Apr 18 with 3664 views | slmrstid |
Real Madrid observations on 07:55 - Apr 18 by nix | It's been going on for years. Even during matches the commentators prioritise the favoured teams. Even when they're losing the other team is barely mentioned. It's all about what Chelsea or Man U need to do to get back into the match, not why the other team are winning. I barely watch the Prem these days as it does my head in. It's becoming like Formula 1 except instead of which team having the best car, it's which team has spent the most money. That and the fact they are allowed to hoover up all the best youngsters and then loan them out to the teams that should have had a chance to develop them is killing football across the divisions. |
To be honest in Formula 1 having the best car normally means you've spent the most money as well, even if you've spent more than you legally should (cough, allegedly, Red Bull etc...) | ![](/images/avatars/20196.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 08:54 - Apr 18 with 3602 views | TheChef | I wanted City to win because I hate Real. But then why should I care about a bunch of billionaire footballers? Sky and TNT probably crying into their cornflakes this morning. Fck em all. | ![](/images/avatars/2559.gif) |
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Real Madrid observations on 09:11 - Apr 18 with 3533 views | johnhoop |
Real Madrid observations on 07:55 - Apr 18 by nix | It's been going on for years. Even during matches the commentators prioritise the favoured teams. Even when they're losing the other team is barely mentioned. It's all about what Chelsea or Man U need to do to get back into the match, not why the other team are winning. I barely watch the Prem these days as it does my head in. It's becoming like Formula 1 except instead of which team having the best car, it's which team has spent the most money. That and the fact they are allowed to hoover up all the best youngsters and then loan them out to the teams that should have had a chance to develop them is killing football across the divisions. |
The abuse of the Academy system is absolutely sickening. Am I right in thinking that the Non-Premiership clubs were forced into agreeing to it under the threat of having their share of the TV money taken away? | ![](/images/avatars/0.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 09:53 - Apr 18 with 3466 views | traininvain | Does this make City the trillion dirham bottle jobs? (Shamelessly stolen from the Guardian comments section) | ![](/images/avatars/8501.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 10:15 - Apr 18 with 3393 views | GaryBannister86 |
Real Madrid observations on 06:03 - Apr 18 by Paddyhoops | Sky and all the media outlets banging on about the “tightest” premier leauge race in years. Absolute balls . We knew who was winning from day one and it wasn’t Liverpool or Arsenal. 50 million Philips and 100 million Grealish pretty much surplus to requirements and they still still win it. Listened to a discussion on 5 live the other day about the shock Liverpool and Arsenal defeats on Sunday . Pretty much not a word about the superb Palace and Villa performances. Dreadful. |
The media has always been the same, even pre-Sky. When we won 4-1 at Old Trafford the "expert" was Dennis Law, and he barely mentioned QPR. It was all about the pitch, the wind, the rain, voodoo bad luck...... Or Match of the Day about 3 matches into Ferdinand's move to Newcastle. "He's really improved since the move". Or Darren Peacock a few matches into Newcastle career - suddenly MOTD asking why he wasn't being considered for England. Hilarious, frustrating, 'twas ever thus. | ![](/images/avatars/30181.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
Real Madrid observations on 10:16 - Apr 18 with 3391 views | CamberleyR |
Real Madrid observations on 22:10 - Apr 17 by perpignanR | Is Tony Kroos the most German looking German you’ve ever seen? |
No, this guy is. | ![](/images/avatars/1250.gif) |
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Real Madrid observations on 11:02 - Apr 18 with 3267 views | daveB |
Real Madrid observations on 07:55 - Apr 18 by traininvain | Still a fraction of what City have ‘officially’ spent and we’ll probably never know how much they have actually spent including all the back handers and bungs. |
yeah true but it's no underdog story with Madrid beating them, they are all as bad as each other Quite like City as a team, really good to watch and love the manager but obviously those charges against them are not good, Also thought a really weird atmosphere, was almost silent at times for a game as big as that which they were dominating | ![](/images/avatars/1922.gif) | | ![](/images/icons/ignore-user.png) |
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