May 27th

Disappointing result but congrats to Real. However the real story of the night was the site bar manager who had signs up advertising the match. I also spoke to him and he reassured me that he would stay open for the entire match....he locked the bar up at 7pm went home and never returned! We had to leg it to town, none of the first few bars had tv so I asked one barman where I would find a bar with a tv for the footy. He asked me who was with me and then said that he could get two more into his "special place". He took us down some steps to a cellar where I could hear music playing . I was half expecting to find John, Paul, George and Ringo in 60's leather gear but there on the wall in this tiny cellar was a tv and a handful of French guys. Good on the barman he kept coming back down to fill our glasses all through the match.