Weird experience watching Real v PSG last night

[Luis Anaconda]

I concur but then 2 of the 3 you have named are stellar talents the world does not often see and who we are fortunate to have seen in the flesh, as such.

Ronaldo is not bad either. Boom boom.

I suspect the Brazilian is permanently playing with a chip on his shoulder, he is not the acclaimed world number 1 that the above duo have argued over for years, his move to PSG was I suspect the result of pure greed and bad professional advice and he really needs to deliver the WC this summer to be viewed in his homeland in the same way as the many fabulous talents that have gone before him

Personally speaking I would rather have a Kevin de Bruyne strutting his stuff in N5 instead of Neymar Jnr, I haven’t watched him once this season and came away with anything resembling dislike and quite often it is simply awe.

I concur with all of that. Of all the players on show last night there are a few I would have before him. Including Modric and Kroos

[World's End Stella]

I concur with all of that. Of all the players on show last night there are a few I would have before him. Including Modric and Kroos

Kroos also guilty of an embarrassing dive trying to win a pen, I think.

[SWv2]

Kroos also guilty of an embarrassing dive trying to win a pen, I think.

Foreigners you see.

Unlike Alli who uses cunning.

I hate that wee **** and I don't often hate footballers. Last one was Stephen Hunt.

[Luis Anaconda]

Foreigners you see.

Unlike Alli who uses cunning.

I hate that wee **** and I don't often hate footballers. Last one was Stephen Hunt.

I was reading Hunt's column in the Irish Independent a couple of weeks back - it was actually quite good. Not a big fan of Mourinho.

**** all the same

[SWv2]

I was reading Hunt's column in the Irish Independent a couple of weeks back - it was actually quite good. Not a big fan of Mourinho.

**** all the same

I wouldn't read it. Ken Early is the only Irish columnist I may go out of my way to seek down his work.

On a seperate but similar issue I was stood on Tuesday morning in the coffee shop queue right next to Mr E Dunphy. I was tempted to engage him in some light CL based banter but I fear I may just have had to call him a **** thus ruining the ambience and setting the day off on a bad foot.

[Luis Anaconda]

I wouldn't read it. Ken Early is the only Irish columnist I may go out of my way to seek down his work.

On a seperate but similar issue I was stood on Tuesday morning in the coffee shop queue right next to Mr E Dunphy. I was tempted to engage him in some light CL based banter but I fear I may just have had to call him a **** thus ruining the ambience and setting the day off on a bad foot.

You should have just tapped him on the shoulder and reminded him Liam Brady is the greatest footballer Ireland has ever produced and walked out

[SWv2]

You should have just tapped him on the shoulder and reminded him Liam Brady is the greatest footballer Ireland has ever produced and walked out

Guess who he is talking about here.

""That was one moment but if you were to put together, as we often did on RTE before games, his showreel. It's wonderful. Wonderful precision in his passing. Wonderful support for his teammates on the ball. He was a fabulous players and I think the crowd loved him because he was reminiscent of a different era. He was a street footballer.

"He had the same kind of skillset as Lionel Messi. I'm not suggesting he was as good as Lionel Messi but the same skillset. A little wriggle of the hips and he'd lost you.

"He was a joy to watch and I can only imagine a joy to play with as well."