After Monday’s Champions League screw-up, has anything embodied the absurdity of modern football better than a UEFA draw? Then again, the serious suits fail to see the funny side!
Be sure to remember this tummy tickler in case the red wine takes hold before crackers are pulled over Christmas dinner.
Joke: how many painfully earnest men dressed in dark suits does it take to unscrew 16 balls without a balls-up?
Answer: Manchester United. No, Manchester City. No, Pedro Pinto.
Monday’s Champions League draw descended into a farce and had to be re-done later on
The Champions League draw descended into chaos after Man United were drawn twice
Right. What’s gone on here? Ah yes, must be a technical problem with the software. Let’s try that again.
Over recent years, has anything embodied the absurdity of modern football better than a UEFA draw? An utterly bland bit of bureaucracy treated with the seriousness and sincerity of a Cold War summit.
Yes, that made Monday’s confusion all the more funny. But over in Nyon (the ‘home of European football’) it was unlikely to convince UEFA to chill out, wasn’t it?
Instead, brows were furiously furrowed come take two and a rudimentary error required the kind of cover-up usually reserved for festive gatherings in No 10 (allegedly).
Giorgio Marchetti intervened to say that Man United could not be drawn against Villarreal
BT Sport’s stream of the initial draw appeared to have disappeared by the time UEFA hype man Giorgio Marchetti returned to his podium, where he blamed those external service providers, and then uttered those dreaded nine words: ‘This may mean that the draw takes slightly longer.’
Just hold your hands…
Source : dailymail
