A Home For My Head

Title: The Kings of Heartbreak: 10 Brutal Champions League Nightmares Inflicted by Real Madrid Few teams in football history have embodied the phrase "inevitable" quite like Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League. Over the last decade, they have shattered dreams, crushed fairytales, and rewritten their own dynasty at the cost of many hopeful challengers. The Merengues have denied legends their crowning moments, stunned rising superpowers, and broken the spirits of those who dared to dream of European glory. As Peter Drury famously called them after Real Madrid’s miraculous comeback against Manchester City in 2022: “Real Madrid the team of drams” But in football, one team’s dreams often becomes another’s nightmare. Here are ten of the most brutal heartbreaks inflicted by Real Madrid, in chronological order: 1. Atletico Madrid’s Eternal Agony (2014 Final) Diego Simeone’s Atletico were moments away from a historic Champions League triumph, leading 1-0 deep into stoppage t...

Tuesday night in Liverpool, the atmosphere was electric, home team was charged up for once in a lifetime opportunity to make it to the champions league finals, even the away side Roma looked up for it for about 25 minutes. The home side, Liverpool were the once that took the game by scruff of it's neck and kept on shooting the dead opposition till the could, mercilessly. The Roma side who played a suicidal hugh line in defense to their credit also kept on trying and in the end got to goals for their labour which was by and large way more than they desreved. They could have been beaten by 10 goals but at the end they were 'just' beaten by 3 goals. The point is it was all were energetic, there was a sense of occasion about this semi final tie. The next day in Munich was quite the opposite, two European heavyweights battled it out there. One played good if not great by any stretch of imagination, that was Bayern Munich, the Other one just won. The victor here was my team,...

Cristiano Ronaldo just won the 'Fifa Best' award yesterday after scoring his least number of goals in a La Liga season i.e. one worse than his debut season with 'just' 25 goals, made his lowest no. of appearances in a La Liga season at just 29 matches, had just two goals in the champions league uptill the quaterfinals, & despite that he was the undisputed best of the 2016-17 season. The Best With Zinedine Zidane resting the Portugese legend on quite a few occations at the tail end of last season, he was in prime condition for the 'Big Matches', & boy oh boy did he performed in those matches. He was an absolute monster in the latter stages of the Champions League scoring a mind boggling, record breaking, & unparalleled 10 goals in the knockout rounds of the greatest club football competition. Man did he turn up for matches against Atletico, Bayern, & Juventus. It all started against the mighty Bayern at the Alianz Arena where the most pla...

On   23 May 2007 at the  Olympic Stadium ,  Athens , Greece, AC Milan were at the top of the European Club football that was more than ten years ago, when Carlo Ancelotti and his Milan side  lead by Kaka   exorcised  their demons by defeating Liverpool in second time of asking after so astonishingly losing to them in the 2005 Final blowing away what looked like an insurmountable 3-0 lead.  Anyway in 2007 they were the best again and Ancelotti & Milan looked like a match made in heaven until Chelsea came calling for Ancelotti, and eventually Kaka left to fulfill his dream to play for Madrid and Milan kept on declining year on year so much so that now Champions league qualification seems like a big task for them. Ancelotti meanwhile has kept on filling his trophy cabinet with Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid, & Bayern Munich but he has rarely looked at home like he did at MIlan for more then one season. He has become what i...