Posted on 05/31/2019 6:33:44 AM PDT by C19fan
With just over 24 hours to go until the Champions League final gets underway, tens of thousands of football fans have descended onto Madrid as they get ready to soak up the sun and drink the Spanish capital dry ahead of the biggest game of the season.
Liverpool and Tottenham will meet in the first all-English final in the tournament for 11 years and 100,000 supporters are expected to arrive in Madrid to watch the action unfold.
The influx has already started with a carnival atmosphere building nicely as the revellers pour into the country and settle in for what promises to be a memorable weekend.
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Except that the majority of their players are mercenaries from all over the world.
Yep. Got drunken riot written all over it. lol
For sure. Wellington didn’t have that many troops and they weren’t as thuggish or as drunk. I say Spain will be part of the UK when the “sporting events” are over. :-)
Come on you Spurs...
. . . the only place where the English are allowed to fight anymore is Sissy Soccer matches. OK, they call it football.
Damn forget about Wellington’s army. I wanted to say something not this many English in Madrid since....
Should be a boon for the budget airlines.
Imagine 100,000 “non violent soccer fans” moving thru the chunnel and down the roads to Madrid.
“I’ve read and heard that, for guys, the second brain lies between his legs, and that in many cases, it’s the primary brain.”
Exactly, there are no national teams anymore. The French team that won the world cup was mostly blacks. All sports team nowadays are looking more and more like “American” teams.
OOPS. I think I got the wrong quote in there!
Try this instead...
“Except that the majority of their players are mercenaries from all over the world.”
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