Champions League Schadenfreude Open Thread

Hull City 2, Birmingham City 1.

What the fuck do you expect?

What a week to be alive.

It may not be true in the Premier League or Serie A, but it is good to know that in Europe there is still a place where real football clubs can win. Real football clubs who are treated as such and not as expensive playthings or ATMs. Real football clubs who have to worry about things like budgets and can’t just go and buy whatever player they want. Real football clubs with real fans who cheer for them because they love them not because they are guaranteed to win almost every night. Real football clubs with real fans who get on their feet and turn their stadiums into cauldrons of noise. Tonight is about them, specifically Napoli and there wonderful eccentric genius Walter Mazzari and the fabulous team he’s helped build and Basel a wonderful young team with one of the greatest home atmospheres in Europe.
But lets fact it football is about the impossible. And Basel eliminating Manchester United was supposed to be impossible. CSKA Moscow winning at Inter Milan and going from fourth to second is supposed to be impossible. Lyon qualifying over Ajax by overturning a 7-goal deficit. That’s what makes nights like this so fantastic.
To some it up to Manchester United, Manchester City and Birmingham City I say: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA HAHA HAHA HEH!