On the season finale of GoalLess... the guys discuss PSG's dismantling of Inter Milan in the Champions League final and whether or not Manchester United vs Tottenham was the worst European final of all time. Also, a look back at some of this season's best bits and our way too early 2025-26 predictions. Thanks for listening this season, see you all this fall! And always remember, of all the unimportant things in life, football is the most important! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened in the Champions League final?
In our last Goal List of the season, we have all the reaction to an emphatic Champions League final. The winners and losers in Europe this season will recap some of our favourite moments from the show and look ahead to what's in store for the beautiful game.
It's an absolute rollercoaster of emotions, Witty. For a final time this season, let's go.
Welcome to Goalist, the noisy cowbell players and football's rock band. Russell, good to see you again for one final time this season. We've been kind of chronicling this Champions League as it went all the way through, and it ends up with as one side of a final as we've ever seen.
Maybe the best performance we've ever seen in a Champions League final from a PSG team that has kind of been debated as both... Amazing and also kind of a triumph of sports washing. What did you make of it all as the final played out? PSG5 Inter nil.
Chapter 2: Was PSG's performance the best in Champions League history?
However they got to that team, the team they have is exceptional. And I noticed watching it, not only are they a team, but individually, they all win their battles. And this is a good Inter team. I kind of also sense that Luis Enrique... I don't know that, you know, it felt like the spirit was with him, you know, with the whole story with his daughter.
It just felt like we are winning and we are going to win emphatically. It, you know, it was wonderful. The only person that must have not enjoyed it was Mbappe. Do you know what I mean? I can imagine. I hope to God he wasn't wearing white jeans. Because I imagine there was food everywhere. He was flinging stuff. His neighbors must have been like, Jesus, Killian's really losing it.
But it was, they were fantastic. Hakimi was fantastic. Due, Vitinha, Jauneves, the Georgian that nobody can pronounce. Just, just unreal. Dembele, what a team. And it's that, it's like you've said, really, it's that team has come together since January. Yeah. And they're young. And yeah, they're going to take some stopping. And it was a great final. It was one sided.
But having watched the Europa League, which was like watching two alcoholic grandmothers fight in a car park. It's nice to see a truly brilliant team turn on the power, you know.
And the wild thing is, is that normally every big Champions League game, it's the reason why we love it. It's heavyweight teams coming up against each other and throwing punches at each other. It is so rare that we see games at this level where one team is so obviously better than the other. And it seems like they couldn't come to grips with PSG physically in turn.
They couldn't run enough distance. to get into space to then get into the places where they wanted to be to attack. And when they did get into attacking moments, like, oh my God, we got to do something here because if we don't, then they're going to get the ball back and they're going to have it for 90 more seconds. And God, what are we going to do when they have the ball for 90 more seconds?
And it was just sort of that level of panic. that you don't normally see from a team in a Champions League final. Normally you see Inter, a team that are so composed, can play in a variety of different ways, so overrun by this BFC team. And I do think it's kind of interesting the way that we got here, because you mentioned it's been basically since December, January.
Dembele gets moved from a wing position to a center forward position, although sort of nominally. They kind of moved to the old false nine system that Barcelona used to play back in the day, where anyone can kind of play anywhere. And it was kind of funny to listen to the commentary and they're kind of saying, oh, the right back is in a forward position. Can you believe it?
But you watch PSG enough and you sort of unwed yourself from convention. You're like, well, there are no positions. PSG have completely stretched any and all definition of what positions are. And that only comes from a group of players that all can defend, that all can control possession, that all can create chances and all can finish chances.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights of the season?
Chapter 4: Can Manchester United vs Tottenham be considered the worst European final?
Chapter 5: What are the implications of PSG winning the Champions League?
and oh it's going to come in January it'll come in March and like a whole other season has come and gone without us knowing anything so we'll get to our predictions at the end of what will happen in the future but I mean for the moment we have to treat Manchester City as if they're in next season's Champions League but we don't know with 100% certainty that that is going to happen but after that look on our retrospective on the season after the break we'll turn back the clock and relive some of our favorite moments from the show rather than from the season that's next
Thank you.
Welcome back to Goalless. Russell, the Goalless team have put together some of their favorite moments from this season. The Goalless team? Yeah. We've got a team of people that work on this podcast. Yeah, Max, to be fair, has been working on Overdrive for like an hour before the recording because producer Tim did not give him enough notice on these clips.
Exactly.
And so he's got to get grinding away through all the nonsense that we've talked for the last nine months to find the clips.
Tell the world what's going on. We've got a demonic Santa working that poor elf bastard. It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable what producer Tim has done to Max today. So let's wander down memory lane, starting with this moment from your pal, Russell, John Oliver, where we discuss how your mum sounds a lot like current Swindon town manager, Ian Holloway. No, you don't talk like Ian Holloway.
He does. My mum does. My mum does, and all of my cousins.
So for me, it's like watching one of my cousins go in. Like, fuck, see? Just, I mean, we're trying to get it up him and then they're fucking defending like that. Fuck me sideways. Anyways, nice to meet you. He's not exactly, his mom is basically Ian Holloway in a wig.
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