Treble Incoming?

Just wanted to take a minute to congratulate Manchester City on their victory at Wembley over the weekend and their upcoming treble that they will rubber stamp with victory over Internationale Milano in Istanbul this coming Saturday evening. After all this is Man City and Inter finished a distant 3rd in Serie A this season, so there can only be one winner right?

Wrong, very wrong indeed.

When I hear other make the assumption I have stated above I am reminded of similar declarations I heard back in 2005 in the build up to another final in Istanbul.

On that occasion though it was the red side of Milan that was involved and back then the Italians were the ones destined to prevail over a plucky little team from the English North-West. We all know how that one turned out; it’s not called the Miracle of Istanbul for no reason.

When that happened, 18 years ago, the underdogs had beaten bitter domestic rivals in the semi-finals. This season that has happened again and with the final taking place at the Ataturk once again could we another miracle be in store??

Probably not, but in football as in life… it would be unwise to count the chickens before they hatch.