All this “at least we got to a final” bullshit
Do you think the 1999 Bayern Munich side go round proudly telling people they were in the final when they lost to United
Daft scouse pricks, it means nothing, just more pain knowing you had a great chance and blew it
As many of us have said plenty of times, their run was easy as pie - the only top side they played was City, who had goals wrongly disallowed in both legs!
If they’d had Reals run to the final you’d say “fucking hell, they did well to get that far honestly”
But they didn’t and it was effectively Europa League standard until the final.