Goalkeeper With Nice Style

Friday, July 8, 2011

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Inter goalkeeper Julio Cesar dives for the ball as Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick strikes the outside of the post. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty ImagesPreamble Hello. Most football matches are about 22-28 men, a clown who had his head flushed down the toilet at school and is now in possession of a whistle, and a pig's bladder with a logo daubed across it. But tonight's European Cup match between Internazionale and Manchester United is all about the two men on the touchline hiding behind faux-Matalan coats, and especially Jose Mourinho. The bogeyman is back, and he has given huge intrigue to a game that - given how useless Inter have been in Europe for so long - would seem relatively routine for United were anybody else the manager.