DESOLATION ROAD
With the romantic underdog tale of a plucky autocratic nation state’s eye-wateringly expensive, relentless, often hilarious but ultimately successful pursuit of Bigger Cup glory after 14 years of trying being covered at great length elsewhere on Big Website, it behoves Football Daily – a publication more readily associated with abject failure – to sift through the wreckage of Inter’s dismal effort to give PSG anything resembling a game in Munich. A team that less than six weeks ago fancied their chances of winning a league, cup and Bigger Cup treble has just finished the season empty-handed and, while all available evidence suggests there is every chance they would have lost against the gegenpressing dervishes from Paris even if they’d given a good account of themselves, so dismal was the effort of Simone Inzaghi’s senior citizens that they found themselves on the wrong end of the biggest hiding ever meted out to any finalist in the competition’s history.
