And now Donnarumma goes bonkers after the final whistle. Don’t know what triggered him, but looked like he might get some trouble in the aftermath.
A real girlie move, and that in front of the president who asked the Juventus players in the Oval Office what they thought of women playing against them and wouldn’t it be unfair (to whom was not clear). I hope he was distracted or asleep by then, so late in the game, otherwise he might reach the wrong conclusions.
Oh, wait…
Damn! I closed that tab too early? The German commentators were getting on my nerves.
I followed the game the other way around from you, on the TV with sound muted, listening to music and browsing the Dope. Maybe that’s the better approach to watching over-hyped, blown-up football tournament finals?
(I saw there even was a Super Bowl like half time show, though I didn’t know any of the artists. And of course, Trump watched the game side by side with Infantino 
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Those Donnarumma to Chelsea rumors take on some additional excitement now…
Diego tried to organize an international player’s union, they should’ve listened to Him.
I’m happy because one of my favorite teams in the world won the tournament, my beloved “Anyone-but-PSG”.
I’m generally on the side of not-PSG, not-Real Madrid, and not-Chelsea, so this was a rough tournament for me.
That, and not-Bayern too. It was no fun.
CWC is definitely a third tier competition in my own list of favorites but there was apparently a very nice crowd on an unpleasantly hot afternoon.
I’m becoming increasingly concerned about fixture congestion. Grueling numbers of games have a serious downside (looking at all of you American-centric sports, too).
Copying a link from the neighboring thread about the trump adminstration’s continuing clusterfuck into the football thread, because the trophy handed to Chelsea was fake. The 47th president of the USA kept the original in the Oval Office because it shines so nicely, he couldn’t resist. And Mafiantino, of course, did not dare to oppose:
Truly a worthy successor of Sepp Blatter.
I dunno. I mean, he’s an oily, gladhanding shitheel, don’t get me wrong, but he’s going to have to suck up to trump through the World Cup, particularly because, with matches sprawling across Canada and Mexico, he’ll really need the orange infant to want it to succeed.
England beat Sweden today in the Women’s Euro tournament in a penalty shootout that featured…9 combined misses.
So… thirteen of the players on the field were married? 
A little more precisely, there were two misses (both by Sweden), one shot on frame but off the post, and six saves. A few of those shots saved could have been struck a little more forcefully.
England’s equalizing (er, equalising) goal was scored by Michelle Agyemang, which must be a common surname in Ghana as the U.S. has a striker also from there named Patrick Agyemang.
Spain v England in a couple of hours, who ya got? England has been pretty good in the late stages of their games, Spain has pretty balanced in its overall play.
Saw that tv viewership for the semifinals was up significantly from the last Euro.
It’s hard to bet against a Spanish team in a major tournament final.
And just as I type that, they score the opening goal.
And a very fine header by Russo for the equalizer.
England just barely hold on for penalties. A lot of their usual PK takers are subbed out though… plenty of pressure now.
England win after Spain miss 3 out of 4 penalties. Oof.
¡Mierda! 
England win on penalties? I didn’t know they were allowed to do that!