My team plays Chelsea but I won't make the trip to London. However, I'd love to catch the Basel-v-City match at St. Jakob but suspect getting tickets will be virtually impossible for anything under 300 CHF
If I'm correct, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea and Celtic all rubbed their hands and licked their lips in not too distant past CL campaigns at the prospect of playing and easily knocking Basel out (in one of these seasons, the great Mohamed Salah of Liverpool, was a Basel player).
Although all the above were stronger on paper, they were all unceremoniously and embarrassingly knocked out by Basel. I'm backing "our local team", the underdog, again, so much more fun when one wins against the odds, and it's not like they havnae done it lately neither.
Liverpool in magnificent form this evening against Porto. Glad for Mané. It'll be a hard decision which game to watch on the return legs: Liverpool - Porto or Real Madrid - Paris SG? An excellent problem, if you're not a Porto fan...
Well, prawn sandwiches are delicious it‘s true, but my seratonin is linked to LFC hammering in the goals and winter can be cruel, so I take my kicks where I find them. The return leg will be an interesting game.
Funny how silent my local Kilburn pub went at the sight of the total annihilation of Man City by Basel the other day! Anyway, I'll be the Zurich fan club representative of Shrewsbury Town at the final of a much more important, not to mention interesting, competition: the Checkatrade EFL Final at Wembley on 8 April, Shrewsbury Town v Lincoln City.
Gearing myself up for Liverpool v Man C. As a Liverpool-leaning fence-sitter, I should be able to enjoy a fast and open game without health-damaging side-effects. I'll go for a draw or City win for the first leg: Even with Salah, Liverpool have fewer options in attack than City. And Liverpool's defense is ever so slightly less dodgy than that of City. Whatever the result, it's only the preamble to Sunday's real humdinger, Shrewsbury Town v Lincoln City at Wembley.