Flappy strikes back

Yesterday evening was of course the biggest night of the year in terms of the Champions league football final in Moscow.
For the first time two English team that reach the final and battle it out for the cup with the big ears. Unfortunately due to some business commitments I didn’t manage to see the match but I was lucky when at the 90th minute the score was 1-1 and 30 minutes needed to be added to decide the winner. Chelsea was of course the ‘local’ favourite thanks to the cheque book of uncle Roman (800 million euro spent) and Man United the international favourite (and they only spent 100 million).

The English fighting spirit was definitely present, although the majority of the team is cover a multitude of countries. I don’t really favour any of the teams (Ajax is my team although I now tend to be shy about mentioning that) but ManU had a slight preference for me simple because of Flappy ! Who? Flappy van der Sar, the Dutch goal keeper of ManU and previous winner with …Ajax. This old windmill is capable of keeping the ball out of the goal just by waving his ears and he is a nice guy.

So I did place my bet prior to the match and I predicted 1-1, overtime and penalties and ManU as the final winner. I placed the huge amount of 5 euros on it and ordered a Panini cos diner was forgotten a bit. In a thrilling final where the rain was pouring down, the English supporters drank all the booze available on the Red Square, it looked like it would be heading to penalties and THAT would be the best time for Flappy to sign!

Indeed, Erwin Hiddink was not wrong and penalties were taken with ooooppss Ronaldo missing for ManU, pretty strange after having scored 41 goals this season but thanks for the additional excitement. Than Terry of Chelsea thought it was nice to slide before kicking and things were tied again. Now it is one after the other and the first person to miss will loose it all, what a poetic justice…

And and, FLAPPY managed to grab hold of the very simpatico (not) Anelka and It was all over ! Flappy strikes again and he will be happy to get hold of a trophy that has even bigger ears than his !