Definitely one of the best Champions League finals in my lifetime. I was rooting for Dortmund and although Bayern did deserve just about overall, I wish we would have got extra time. It was just such a pulsating game.

Yeah, I was rooting for Dortmund, but when Robben put home the winner I was more disappointed about missing out on extra time than Dortmund's loss.

fecking hell, it was a decent game, but the best match ever? really? :/

By final standards it was pretty good. Balanced and exciting. Ribery's antics aside, I can't really complain about it.

I don't think anyone called it the best match ever. If they did, I wasn't agreeing with them. I was merely pointing out that it was an extremely exciting final and I was disappointed that that it ended with the enticing possibility of another 30 minutes.

Yes, it was. I thought it was Dortmund's name on the trophy after that.

Rats, was pulling for Watford

Same kinda. It would have been great for Chalobah to get some Premier League experience with Watford.

Anyone surprised the ref didn't book Dante for the foul that led to the PK?

Also, todays game is the most important game in terms of money for any single game: Crystal Palace just secured equiv of 120 million pounds.

it was incredibly good for sure. i was on a plane, but lucky enough to be on a jetblue flight. jetblue has cable TVs in each headrest. i was rooting for bayern, so after each goal i reflexively clapped really loudly on a totally silent plane, and pumped my fists in the air. it drew a lot of weird looks. the only person i could see watching it was a girl in front of me who was rooting for dortmund. she turned and glared at me when i clapped. there were so many exciting moments though that i couldn't help being pretty animated for the whole match. it was more fun than the time i watched a presidential debate on a jetblue flight when everyone else watched it too and you could discern political allegiances by when people clapped at responses or by if they were watching it on fox or msnbc. anywho, great match and jetblue rocks.

so glad watford didnt go up, would have set a horrible precedent. hopefully that loophole will be closed and no one can cheat the way they did this season again.

still staggered they didnt run away with this league though, if they had a half decent manager they no doubt wouldve done.

What is the way that they may have cheated their way into the league? Just wondering since I haven't heard anyone say this, and was curious. Is it with their parent club Udinese and the loan players they brought in? Thats the only thing I can see from just looking at their dealings over the past season.

the rules in england limit only the number of players allowed on loan and the fact someone can only own one club towards domestic teams. i think youre only allowed 2 players on loan from one team at any time and only 5 players in your matchday squad of 18, but this only applies to domestic loans.

watford and udinese are owned by the same person and essentially loaned watford their entire 2nd string without watford having to pay the wages (seeing as it was all the same owners money), i believe he also owns a 3rd club in a lower league in another country who were loaned udinese's 3rd string and they ended up running away with their division title.

there were times this season where watfords entire 11 on the pitch didnt belong to them.

im glad they didnt go up as it would set a precedent, that an owner from another country could own an english lower league, loan their entire 2nd team, which is well above the level of that division and then run away with the league and the owner could make a load of money out of the promotion.

hopefully that loophole will be tied up now and a limit will be put on the number of loanees a team can have from abroad and one team abroad, as well as domestic loans.

i dont have anything against watford and they only took advantage of a lapse in the rules the way any other team did, so i dont blame them, but im just glad they didnt go up, because it would just encourage other teams to do the same.

Okay, gotcha. I agree totally about that, and just didn't hear much about it.

Ah well season over and the double in the bag (should've been the treble). Bored already so roll on 16/17 July and the first Champions League qualifiers