Champions League Final

[harlands plater 16,974]

I like Klopp but he is a bit of an odd-ball. I was reading somewhere the other day about him and Kagawa spending 15 minutes in each others arms crying because Kagawa was leaving.

Just like Jock Wallace and Willie Johnston when Bud left for West Brom

[caseyjones 3,009]

In the same breath, you're forgetting Ribery's flying elbow smash.

Robben didn't deserve to score the winner, he'd been gash the ninety minutes.

Therefore, Robben deserved to score the winner for his perseverance and never say die attitude.

[King Jela 20,361]

Just like Jock Wallace and Willie Johnston when Bud left for West Brom

It doesn't make it any less gay because it's happened at Rangers.

[simplythebest 11,453]

I like Klopp but he is a bit of an odd-ball. I was reading somewhere the other day about him and Kagawa spending 15 minutes in each others arms crying because Kagawa was leaving.

Wonder if he'll be doing the same with Gotze and Lewandowski?

[Broxi 11,482]

In the same breath, you're forgetting Ribery's flying elbow smash.

Robben didn't deserve to score the winner, he'd been gash the ninety minutes.

"flying elbow smash"

He barely even touched him and it was not a full on swing. Lewandowski deliberately stamped on Boateng maliciously away from the ball. Ribery's was in a battle for the ball. A yellow card yes, but not a red IMO.

Robben was the most dangerous player on the park, he should have scored earlier but wasn't gash, combination of good saves and poor finishing but his goal was excellently taken.

I know people don't like him and I can understand why from him on the pitch but I think he comes across really well in interviews and stuff. If I could have chosen the player to score the winner tonight it would have been him without a doubt, he needed this.

[King Jela 20,361]

Wonder if he'll be doing the same with Gotze and Lewandowski?

I can definetely imagine crying, but not from Klopp and probably not for the same reason as Kagawa.

[keithgersbear 3,225]

Bayern have peaked now. Guardiola won't get the same type of effort or consistency out of them. I don't see them winning back to back. They will probably reach the quarters or semis but lose.

[KingAlly 23]

Ribery, Dante and Lewandoski all should have walked. Particularly Dante, the other two were debatable/out of the referees view. Watching Ribery and Robben lift that made me a little sick in the mouth.

[caseyjones 3,009]

Wonder if he'll be doing the same with Gotze and Lewandowski?

He said that he cried when he was told that Gotze was leaving.

[topgoalie 637]

Souness is a fucking terrible pundit. He's lucky that Jamie Redknapp sits next to him.

Jamie Redknapp is like his father,a pair of flanelling cnuts that come NOWHERE near what Souness has acheived in his football career,always state the obvoius unlike Souness...

[dalton 1,192]

Jupp Heynkes what a way to go out - he was sacked 8 days after he won the european cup

for Real Madrid - then he knew that Pep Guardiola was replacing him next season

yet he has won the budesliga with bayern at a canter 26 points clear signed off with big ears

the champions league trophy .

This guy didnt manage an english premiership team and never will - Sky Tv a kick in the b***s to the best league in the world.

[keithgersbear 3,225]

Souness thinks the game is still in the 1970s. The nonsense about Johnny foreigner too. Bayern paid a lot of money to put that team together and they weren't all German.

We live in a globalist world now, players abroad are bought much mow now than ever.

[topgoalie 637]

Jupp Heynkes what a way to go out - he was sacked 8 days after he won the european cup

for Real Madrid - then he knew that Pep Guardiola was replacing him next season

yet he has won the budesliga with bayern at a canter 26 points clear signed off with big ears

the champions league trophy .

This guy didnt manage an english premiership team and never will - Sky Tv a kick in the b***s to the best league in the world.

What a player as well,he was part of the teams that won the European Championship [Euro's now] and the World Cup,can that over-rated FOOTBALL person Mourinho say that????.A very humble and top class coach,because at the end of the day its the PLAYERS that win things not THE MANAGER....

[Thermopylae 15,286]

Jupp Heynkes what a way to go out - he was sacked 8 days after he won the european cup

for Real Madrid - then he knew that Pep Guardiola was replacing him next season

yet he has won the budesliga with bayern at a canter 26 points clear signed off with big ears

the champions league trophy .

This guy didnt manage an english premiership team and never will - Sky Tv a kick in the b***s to the best league in the world.

That's twice he's not been allowed to defend his European Cup

[ScottBF2 3,540]

I can't remember a better cup final, never mind Champions League final. Disappointed Dortmund didn't win it in the end, but over the whole tournament I don't think anyone can really begrudge Bayern the victory: the game was Dortmund's to lose.

Dortmund fans though: tremendous support, outsang Bayern all night - even after the whistle - and stayed behind to applaud the side.

[Kopter 310]

Some of the stick Robben got in this thread was hilarious. He'll be writing his right to reply letter to RM's General Sports section as we speak.

What a great game of football.

[simplythebest 11,453]

What a player as well,he was part of the teams that won the European Championship [Euro's now] and the World Cup,can that over-rated FOOTBALL person Mourinho say that????.A very humble and top class coach,because at the end of the day its the PLAYERS that win things not THE MANAGER....

Mourinho's playing career is utterly irrelevant to judging him as a coach.

[caseyjones 3,009]

Mourinho's playing career is utterly irrelevant to judging him as a coach.

Not if those making the comparisons have a particular outcome in mind.

[simplythebest 11,453]

Not if those making the comparisons have a particular outcome in mind.

Mourinho may not be everyone's cup of tea as a person but i find it staggering how people try and downplay his quality as a manager. His record at a relatively young age is up there with anything and even this Madrid spell where it hasn't really worked out he still won a league title.

[caseyjones 3,009]

Mourinho may not be everyone's cup of tea as a person but i find it staggering how people try and downplay his quality as a manager. His record at a relatively young age is up there with anything and even this Madrid spell where it hasn't really worked out he still won a league title.

Heynckes was the Borussia Monchengladbach manager in the UEFA Cup Final - in 1980. Mourinho was the Porto manager at the same stage - in 2003. They can compare their successes in 2036.

[Broxi 11,482]

Heynckes becomes the 3rd manager to win the Champions League with two different sides, along with Mourinho and Hitzfeld.

[caseyjones 3,009]

Heynckes becomes the 3rd manager to win the Champions League with two different sides, along with Mourinho and Hitzfeld.

Ernst Happel did it too - with Feyenoord and Hamburg.

[simplythebest 11,453]

Ernst Happel did it too - with Feyenoord and Hamburg.

History only begins when they began to call it the CL.

[Broxi 11,482]

My bad, saw the stat somewhere else.

[caseyjones 3,009]

My bad, saw the stat somewhere else.

Not your fault. As has been said already, there is a tendency for the media to airbrush things out of history.