ok, so i wasn't gonna write anything about the CL final, but a good friend keeps bugging me that I bailed with the coverage after my team (arsenal) lost... etc. ok, CL coverage has been ridiculous (more than the Super Bowl), but here are my modest observations of the game:

1) watching Messi when he doesn't have the ball is hilarious. he looks like he's taking a stroll through Union Square on a saturday morning. he might get up to a light jog, but most of the time, he's strolling. the comparisons of his header to a salmon is pretty funny too.

2) everybody and their mother is in line to bone Xavi + Iniesta, but I thought it was most telling that Rooney proclaimed Iniesta as the world's best player. my friend might kill me if i don't mention how Messi deserves credit for the midfielders' success, but i think that's a given.

3) watching Vidic get schooled was like watching the end of Rocky IV, but none of us were expecting it. i was disappointed that Vidic didn't drop any payback... a la his forearm shivers.

4) how ridiculously rat-boy was Ronaldo... all those cheapshots on Puyol aka He-Man? those confrontations showed us what class and class-less is all about. how you gonna mess with He-Man?

5) what about the shortest CL final team celebration ever. they bolted after the confetti explosion.

6) eto's heroin celebration?

7) next year, let's see the clash of the most beautiful... barca vs. arsenal... cesc and messi will have sex on the pitch.. no-homo.

ok, here's what my argentine friend has to say, he's about to explode:
"But I think an honest confession that Barca demonstrated some of the prettiest and most effective soccer that Premiership watchers have ever seen against their New York Yankees is out there a little. What is not out there is that the media - including your blog - have spent too much time overlooking every other league out there. The top 4 teams in England are bad ass. That is it. Many of the best - including THE BEST - players and teams are outside of "whiteboy" land. It's time to open your eyes.
Show me one media outlet that has said that about themself ????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

until transfers get heated up, over and out.