Where would you rank last night in terms of disappointments?

The way it unfolded on the night was pretty sickening, but not in the top ten of shiteness i'd say. When Madrid scored their first, you just knew they'd get in again and so it was. I thought we'd settle down and show a bit more brains but the home crowd was mental and it gave Madrid the edge. The reffing was questionable to say the least but we should have sealed it while we were on top.

The bigger picture is that we're one of the best teams around and while we should all be gutted about the result the other night, we will win the CL soon, irrespective of how we feel about it. There have been times in my 30 odd years as a blue where you think we've hit rock bottom, either with terrible results and performances, or the general running of the club. And having the rags winning nearly everything at the time didn't help. Weds night definitely wasn't rock bottom. We should have done better and questions must be asked, but we're still ace.
 
Because of the way it happened it’s the worst I’ve felt since we were bought I think.

The players wanted it so much and some won’t get another chance.
 
its a Barm said:
If you think it was bad loosing a chumps league semi then just imagine loosing the league in the next 2 weeks for me 10 times worse, the pain of loosing any of the next 4 will be tough to handle
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This. What the aftermath of Wednesday has made me realise is that for whatever reason I just don't care about the CL in the way I do about the league. I was over the semi-final before i went to bed, that won't be the case if the worse happens in the league.

The CL is a bit like caviar in that it's all very fancy and aspirational but if i was given the choice of a world without caviar or one without bacon butties it's not even a consideration. The league will always be my bacon butty (or if i'm feeling fancy, bacon barm :-) ).
 
Cobwebcat said:
Because of the way it happened it’s the worst I’ve felt since we were bought I think.

The players wanted it so much and some won’t get another chance.
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I feel sorry for Bernardo and maybe Gundogan but the rest of them, nah, fuck off.

If they want it that much they shouldn’t act like complete brain dead half arsed amateur fuckwits every single year in this competition.

Including the bloke in the dugout.
 
disappointed but not the end of the world. Far more things in the world that are causing more challenging. I've learnt to live with the highs and lows and try to keep a balanced mind. Whereas my 13 year old son .......
 
It was the shock which hit hardest, but nowhere near Spurs QF.
The football loss which hurt me most was actually Sunderland 73 - but I was only 8.

However, the biggest disappointment, and one which made me actually question my loyalty, was the initial decision to join the Super League. Nothing on a football pitch came even close.
But as we know, there’s always hope!
 
Think the biggest difference for me was whilst almost all the other games mentioned thus far in the thread left me feeling angry, the overwhelming emotion this time was shock
 
It's not so much losing a Semi-Final because that's going to happen when you're regularly in the latter stages of the tournament, it's more the way it happened. To be two goals up with a few minutes left and to throw it away is hard to take especially when we should've been three or four goals in front going in to that second leg.

I think the most disappointing thing for me though is that for the past five seasons we've arguably been the best team in Europe for at least three of those but have no CL trophy to truly represent what a consistently high level we've been playing at during that period.
 
I'm not far off over things already, am mainly just desperate for the Newcastle game so we can start putting things right and get the league won.

Spent the last few days picking faults in all our players, I want to now see how great they all are again.
 
I don't give a fuck now. It doesn't seem like a C/L final anyway when you play another English team, that's what I thought when we were playing Chelsea last season
 
Given how much I hate this contrived competition which is run by a corrupt organisation that does everything in its power to get the favoured few to the latter stages, not a lot.

UEFA remind of when I was a kid back in the 70's when me and my mates would all be different teams and play knock out tournaments, be it with long distance shots or penalties.

I was genuinely more upset losing to Wet Sham in the Carabo cup.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
Given how much I hate this contrived competition which is run by a corrupt organisation that does everything in its power to get the favoured few to the latter stages, not a lot.

UEFA remind of when I was a kid back in the 70's when me and my mates would all be different teams and play knock out tournaments, be it with long distance shots or penalties.

I was genuinely more upset losing to Wet Sham in the Carabo cup.
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Seriously? I’m the opposite. I personally couldn’t give a toss what team we play in the carabou cup. The FA cup similar. I love those big European nights. A QF v Athletico, a semi final against Real Madrid. Tension, drama, excitement. Certainly beats winning a semi final 9-0 or whatever it was against Burton Albion. Even with a loss it was such a dramatic game. These are the nights that are remembered,
 
Millwallawayveteran1988 said:
Seriously? I’m the opposite. I personally couldn’t give a toss what team we play in the carabou cup. The FA cup similar. I love those big European nights. A QF v Athletico, a semi final against Real Madrid. Tension, drama, excitement. Certainly beats winning a semi final 9-0 or whatever it was against Burton Albion. Even with a loss it was such a dramatic game. These are the nights that are remembered,
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I would genuinely feel the same way if UEFA wasn't so bent _ just wait until our neighbours finish ninth but still get an entry due to a random set of figures that will put them in that spot.

I obviously accept you have a view and to accept that its not the same as mine. Happy to agree to disagree, it's an argument I wouldn't waste my time on.
 
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