Football Daily | Inter and a Munich mauling that led to a one-man welcome home

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!With the romantic underdog tale of a plucky autocratic nation state’s eye-wateringly expensive, relentless, often hilarious but ultimately successful pursuit of Bigger Cup glory after 14 years of trying being covered at great length elsewhere on Big Website, it behoves Football Daily – a publication more readily associated with abject failure – to sift through the wreckage of Inter’s dismal effort to give PSG anything resembling a game in Munich. A team that less than six weeks ago fancied their chances of winning a league, cup and Bigger Cup treble has just finished the season empty-handed and, while all available evidence suggests there is every chance they would have lost against the gegenpressing dervishes from Paris even if they’d given a good account of themselves, so dismal was the effort of Simone Inzaghi’s senior citizens that they found themselves on the wrong end of the biggest hiding ever meted out to any finalist in the competition’s history.Everything came so quick. I was in year 10, playing League One. It was crazy. Very crazy” – Jordon Ibe, who is without a professional club, talks to Sam Dalling about overcoming tragedy, his turbulent time at Liverpool and how he wants to give his career one last push at the age of 29.Now that the football season is over following Qatar’s win in the Bigger Cup, or to use Rio Ferdinand’s words on co-commentary, ‘a win for football’ (or in everyone else’s words, ‘thank goodness Ferdinand is leaving TNT’), it’s time to check in on the development of Major League Soccerball. Ah, yes, still the same comedy-fest but with added playing out from the back …” – Noble Francis.Congratulations to PSG. They really threw the kitchen cinque at Inter” – Peter Oh.There is no truth to the rumours that PSG intend to play blindfolded in their Uefa Super Cup match. Nope” – Krishna Moorthy. Continue reading...

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