Not really a lottery when one side has pissed the game away twice across 120 minutes. Only going one way Not to mention the force of 5334688832 wendies sucking or blowing it in
West Ham players confronted AZ Alkmaar fans who appeared to attack an area in which friends and family were watching the teams' Europa Conference League semi-final second leg. Michail Antonio and Said Benrahma were among those to intervene in the clashes just moments after the Premier League team had reached the final. BBC commentator Alistair Bruce-Ball, who was inside the stadium, said he saw punches being thrown by the AZ fans. "These are awful scenes," he said. West Ham reached their first major European final since 1976 by defeating their Dutch opponents 1-0 on the night and 3-1 on aggregate. Former Hammers midfielder Joe Cole, who was part of the BT Sport team at the match, said what happened was "absurd". "Grown men attacking the West Ham fans," he said. "Players were trying to get involved to break it up. "AZ Alkmaar fans turning up wearing balaclavas throwing punches is ridiculous. There were families." BBC
No idea what the odds were for Wednesday to win 4-0, or the game to go to penalties, but I wish I’d be on it, it would have made the result somewhat better.
Closer to home (ask OLM's lad), former City player Neil Franklin was even banned from playing for several months in England in '50-'51 for having played professionally in Bogota, Columbia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Franklin
Well, I never expected SW to come back from that first-leg defeat, but credit to them for turning it around. Wouldn't it be awful if they had just put off the agony of losing in the final again?
I bet the lad whose videos posted of him ripping his ticket up is getting pelters.... and.... If Barnsley get through I can sill see ANOTHER Wembley defeat for them...