If you speak about that very year you have no idea what suffering means. It means to be in your local stadium and watch a game on big screen. It means, that your team hits the post twice and is playing clearly the better football. It means, that two minutes to go the score is 1:0 for your team. It means a corner. It means, that some idiot can't clear the ball and it means 1:1. It means watching the replay again and again just to realize, that the last "replay" actually is the 1:2. It means, that you don't even bother for the free beer anounced. It means, that some people in a bar suddenly got their champagne they just ordered three minutes ago and don't feel like drinking it anymore. This means suffering

But it means as well that 2 years later you win sometimes as well. And actually that's the joy of football.

It's suffering and as supporters of big clubs we get this "joy" not that often.

Have you ever heard about, how Bayern won the championship with a goal in the 95th minute of the last game in the season?

watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4KCIjtCPwo

it's in german, but I'll give you the background:

Bayern had to draw in the last game and Schalke needed a victory. Schalke won and Bayern got a goal against them in the 89th minute (minute 0:48 in the video). People in Gelsenkirchen (the city Schalke comes from) ran on the pitch and some reporters in the stadium told the Schalke manager and players (1:32), that the game in Hamburg was over. Schalke supporters were celebrating their first championship after 45 years.

Then the big screen in the stadium goes on with the Bayern-game. All the Schalke-supporters look up and see a free-kick for Bayern. They see how Anderson shots a goal (1:56) and they loose the championship. So I know how a ManUtd-supporter must have felt 1999

At the end of the video it says, that Schalke won the Cup one week later and Bayern won the Champions League four days later.

I have always wondered how a Bayern fan had felt that moment. Now I guess I know it!
Oh, and I think I do know that to suffer means :P
I mean, I'll be 17 this November, yet I saw:

-Juventus - Manchester 2-3
-Juventus - Milan
-Juventus in the Serie B

And this season is easily the worst.

But yeah, I even saw the "5 Maggio": Udinese - Juventus 0-2 and Lazio - Inter 4-2. So awesome!

We won today, at last. Boca 2 - Arsenal 1. Last place is unlikely now. And Huracán beat River 4-0!!!! I swear, they'll become champions at this rate, they're playing some of the most beautiful football I've seen, they attack and attack. Jogo Bonito at its finest. I hope they win the league, it's great when a team priorizes attack over defense.

If anyone here is interested in watching jogo bonito, watch the Huracan matches, you won't be disappointed

I'll have to Youtube Huracan!
It's such a shame Sky Italy doesn't have the rights for the Argentinian League.

Its a damn shame that I have to pay 40 extra Canadian dollars a month to watch some decent football.

Setanta, Gol Tv and Fox soccer Channel. You guys in Europe must get your leagues free.

Barca lost Mallorca!

Hleb is terrible, he needs to leave.

Eto'o cannot finish....

Bojan is gettign better

Pedro is a waste of time.

Barca lost Mallorca!

Hleb is terrible, he needs to leave.

Eto'o cannot finish....

Bojan is gettign better

Pedro is a waste of time.

Nah, we have to pay as well. I think it's two games per season in free-tv, the rest is pay-tv. But we still get gameday-summaries with all of the games in free-tv.

And yeah there's a thing called internet as well

As a canadian how do you feel about Owen "Injury Himself" Hargreaves (I still can't believe, that ManUtd. payed 25 million € for him) not playing for Canada, but for England?

Off course you do. I was just screwing around

You asked me before, how I saw the manipulation scandal in Italy. My italian is based solely on my average latin and french knowledge, so I just get half of the sense, if I read an italian newspaper. But from what I understood and read in German about it, my standpoint was, that this whole thing kind of went the Italian way. First you tell three teams will have to go down, then two and at the end, I was surprised, that at least Juve went down for that. Moggi, as an official man of the club should have know better. It's hard for the tifosi, but in the end it's a small piece of justice. That he didn't get sued was more to some laws Berlusconi-styles than anything else. Actually a bigger shame was what actually happened with Milan - they even played CL the next year (if I remember that right).

We had one case of manipulation in Germany in the last years and the referee actually went to jail after that. Even after that there were lots of improvements by laws and the Liga and it shouldn't happen that easily again. Do you think, that to manipulate a game got harder in Italy since the Moggi-affair?

It also means that when you do that, in Tokyo, with a goal scored in the 109th minute after a mess in the box, when your rival had played an hour with one player less and was so close to reach the penalties, someone will hate you and your team a lot

And we got our revenge two years later too, this time against Milan. That's the joy of football, I agree