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@cornelius_blackfoot
Marky, was expecting you and the Chelsea brood to be in the Effra on Sunday, does that mean you'll be in there tonight?
And I'll tell you as I have done before, I'm a fan of football worldwide, and have a soft spot for many sides, an ever expanding list as I come into more contact with the history and legends of clubs.
And for this match, I'll be supporting El Pupas, against Mourinho's anti football. Not saying Atletico are glorious exponents of expansive attacking football, but I love their underdog status in La Liga, the fact that in the year that their most successful manager Luis Aragones died that they might do the Liga and Champions League double. That Diego Simeone who was a mainstay of the team that won La Liga in 96/97 now manages this team on the verge of the double, that Kun Aguero scored some crackers for them, that Diego Forlan rehabilitated his career and reputation at Villareal first but most notably there, after the english press had written him off as shite.
And that if they do make the final it will be a chance for them to take on their city rivals which will make it super tasty, and Simeone will get the chance to do his version of this speech from Aragones.
In the dressing room before the 1992 Copa del Rey final against Real Madrid, Aragonés picked up a bottle of Coke. "If you don't win today, I'll stick this up my arse," he shouted. "You've got to do them. This is the moment you've been waiting for: Real Madrid and at the Bernabéu. They've been sticking it up our arses for so long, now it's our chance to stick it up theirs." He pointed at the tactics board and said: "See this? Well this is irrelevant. What matters is you. Forget tactics, it's Real Madrid. Get out there and stick it up their arses!" They did, too.