Football is Brilliant

in #sport5 years ago

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I was looking forward all week to watching Tottenham take on Manchester City in the champions league quarter final last night. I am a big Tottenham fan and I this is the furthest we have reached in the champions league.
The blame of me supporting Tottenham lies solely on my father. He is hitting the big 80 this year and we always watch matches together. He gets a bit jittery before the big games. This being our biggest game in decades , he was very nervous indeed.
So lets paint the picture. We won the first leg 1- nil so all Tottenham had to do was keep a clean sheet.
Against a Manchester City team so talented I was very nervous myself. So nervous that we needed a drink to be able to watch it so we went down to the local pub.

We met our cousin who is also a Spurs supporter so we watched on as the game started hoping that Spurs would kill the game early on a stifle Manchester City.
3 minutes in they scored. Raheem Steirling.
Ah for feck sake. This was not looking good at all.
A couple of minutes later we scored. Song. Great goal. They we scored again. Game over. 2-1 up. City needed 2 to get through. On the 22nd minute they scored again to make it 2-2 Marco Silva with a deflection. So technically we would still go through.
We got to half time and took a breath. The father went up and got something stronger.We had 45 more minutes to hold out.
2nd half started and shock horror they went ahead again. This game was mad. End to end. We were now losing 3-2. 3-3 on aggregate. Then Aguero buried a ball and they went up 4-2. Disaster! We were never coming back from this. Until Spurs got a corner and Llorente equalized to make it 4-3. We had the away goal so we were going through.
Ten minutes to hold out. Heart attacks everywhere. Just hold out. 3 minutes to go. My father couldn't watch. Erickson lost the ball and Ageuro crossed it in to Steirling who put the ball in the ball of the net.
Never in my whole life was I so deflated. The wind was taken right out of me while the whole pub looked at us in amusement because we were gone....

Wait the ref is calling for VAR. He looks at the video and sees there was a city player offside. He disallows the goal. We jump around the pub hugging random strangers.

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Put on the pints. We are staying here

Never had I went from being so low to being on top of the world. I'm heading to Amsterdam for the semi final!!

I am absolutely dying of a hangover today!!It was worth it . Football is brilliant!!

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That was a ridiculous game. It had everything I wanted to see in a football match. That VAR in the last minute was mental. I almost feel sorry for city except they have been winning a lot lately. They can have the league.

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Ah city will be fine . They will win the other 3 😀😀😀

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Hey, @blanchy.

Sounds like it was a very exciting game. Now, I'm not sure if I followed you but it sounds like the game ended 4-3 in favor of City? But because of an away goal, you get to go on to Amsterdam?

I'm never going to understand football I'm afraid. :)

Congratulations, though. Sounds like it's been a long time coming, and I'm happy for you and your father. The best of luck with the rest of the matches, too. :)

Correct @glenalbrethsen , the away goals counted so we went through. 😀😀.

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Yeah!! Great Spurs & great match! Show time!!

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It was a truly great game, the only disappointment for me was not watching it live and already knowing the result by the time I did see it. What drama!

Liverpool Vs Spurs Champions League final maybe?

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