Isn't this story from the Sun? If so, let's give it the respect it deserves.
However, I think we're all going in for a bit of blinkered thinking here, aren't we? At the beginning of the season, what would you have preferred - the 19th League title or our 6th European Cup? I know what my priority was, the league.
So although SAF's comments might smack of bitterness and a lack of class (AGAIN, IF TRUE) he's got a point - this final is gonna be fantastic, I'm frantically trying to get to Athens, without a ticket, and Istanbul is right up there with the greatest days of my life. But what we're getting excited about is the biggest consolation prize going for a champion club whose current team haven't been good enough to win the Premiership.