Football Daily | Inter?s grizzled mentality monsters refuse to lose in a Champions Le

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The best Big/Bigger Cup semi-final of all time? That?s the sort of recency bias-based chat that would normally have the Daily rounding up all the young football heads to watch Bayern v Red Star Belgrade on VHS over a cool glass of turnip juice. But Inter 4-3 Barcelona (aet, 7-6 on agg) really might be the one. In recent years, we?ve seen incredible comebacks (Liverpool v Bar?a), goals galore (Roma v Liverpool), dramatic late plot twists (Spurs v Ajax, Real Madrid v Manchester City). Still, nothing quite like this, a game where even the eye-watering, parenthesised final score doesn?t tell the whole story.
America will welcome the world. Everyone who wants to come here to enjoy, to have fun to celebrate the game, will be able to do that? ? Fifa head honcho Gianni Infantino trumpets the warm reception the USA USA USA will give fans during the 2026 World Cup at a White House taskforce gathering.
We want them to come, we want them to celebrate, we want them to watch the game. But when the time is up, they?ll have to go home. Otherwise they?ll have to talk to Secretary Noem? ? vice-president JD Vance isn?t quite so genial, while his boss reveals he had no idea Russia were banned from the tournament. Yikes!
OK, with a heavy heart, I?ll do it to save the other 1,056 Football Daily readers the effort but this is the last time I do the ?Watford have changed manager again, let?s all laugh at them? schtick, as it?s all very tedious now. But, for old times? sake, since the Pozzos took over Watford in June 2012, they have had a grand total of 23 managers including interims, but they?re all interims really, aren?t they? In which case, a doff of the cap to Tom Cleverley for lasting more than a year. The more shocking thing from the piece was finding out that Cleverley had played for England. Thir**** times apparently (presumably during the Hodgson debacle)? ? Noble Francis (and no others).
Re: JJ Zucal (yesterday?s Football Daily letters), I hail from a part of Sheffield where fights break out if you are offered Worcestershire sauce, and I can assure you that not only all the country, but half of Sheffield and the (evidently not bitter) Noble Francis don?t want Sheffield United in the Premier League. Heck, I bet even United don?t want United in the Premier, and they will soon demonstrate this by the most amusing tank yet in their playoff history. But if we are, ? la Inter Miami, just going to decide who plays in a competition, in the same way we can decide what the inhabitants of Arctic land masses actually want, can we have Bristol City? I lately realised my tolerance for Frank Lampard had only increased because I hadn?t heard about him for a while, and Bristol City are way more romantic. I think they can be trusted not to desperately overspend on ageing players in an effort to stay up and destroy their entire financial structure. What? Oh. (Admittedly, only works if you are very, very old, that joke)? ? Jon Millard.
Bagging a playoff place by finishing only 21 points behind the Blades is worthy of celebration. Certainly on a par with Leicester who scored an actual goal, for the first time since 8 December at the King Power. Celebrations were so wild, that the 20,000 of us there were credited as north of 31,000 by the Leicester number counters? ? Steve Roberts.
On a night of scary news elsewhere, that match (apart from minor sh!thousery) was a reminder of the finer things in life. Such as me, turning over to see my mate making a brief appearance in an ITV medical drama and missing two goals? ? Kev McCready.
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