Football Daily - PSG thrash Inter for first Champions League

Episode Date: May 31, 2025

Steve Crossman is joined by Chris Sutton & correspondent John Murray. Also hear from French football expert & PSG supporter Julien Laurens. And catch up with Italian football journalist James Horncastle.00:30 The moment PSG won the Champions League 04:40 Julien Laurens: ‘My eyes are full of tears’ 08:35 The Luis Enrique story 10:25 James Horncastle: ‘This pain cuts deeper’ 16:05 Time for the trophy lift 22:40 Was it the Désiré Doué final? 24:50 Tifo honours Luis Enrique’s late daughter 25:45 Celebrations cut short by pitch invasion 29:40 What’s possible for this young PSG team? 33:15 Is Luis Enrique now among the greats? 34:45 John’s highlights from this season’s UCLBBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries next week: Tue 1800 Spain v England in Women’s Nations League, Sat 1700 Andorra v England in men’s World Cup Qualifying.

BBC Sounds music radio podcast. This is the Football Daily podcast with Steve Crossman. Harry Sandjerman are champions of Europe. Five nil winners over Inter Milan here in Munich at the Allianz Arena. A record victory in European finals and here is how it sounded with Chris Sutton and correspondent John Murray without any stoppage time needed as the referee put Inter out of their misery. And that is it! The referee says 90 minutes are enough. He's basically said to Inter you've taken enough punishment. Paris Saint-Germain have won the Champions League here in Munich.

All of those years of waiting. I think some PSG supporters wondered whether this day would ever come. Disappointment after disappointment after disappointment. Defeat in the final, in the Covid final, when none of the Paris Saint-Germain supporters could be there to witness it. But they are here tonight in their thousands, and they must not be able to believe what they have seen. 5-0. Luis Enrique is the man, he's brought the trophy, he's brought the big night.

And Inter have to accept that they were a distant second-best, losing in this final for the second time in three years, but tonight was PSG's night. Yep, and a perfect Harry Sunjaman this evening, what a performance, blew away a Wiley-Oll in the team. You know, he talked about the flair and the flamboyance, but this is a Paris Saint-Germain team who fight as well, went out of possession, and they suffocated Inter.

And let me just describe this, because Luis Enrique is leaving the celebrations now. And what celebrations? He's won the Champions League before, but he won it with Barcelona. This is the team that he built, and he is right at the front of this, in his black T-shirt, he's down there, all the players following him. He's like the Piper of Munich, and he's dancing and he's punching the air, the smile on his face. I think

probably everyone knows the agonies and the personal tragedy that he has come through. Well tonight is a night that he can really enjoy this because he is the architect. Qatar may have provided the money for this and eventually the ship has come in but they needed Luis Enrique to do it Chris. Yeah and guide them he has even in his wildest dreams I don't think he would have seen this dominance this evening this score line against an inter team who have been excellent in this competition but there's ways to win a football match there's ways to win a final and blimey that was one of them. They barely put a foot wrong in every area, every aspect of the team. They were

dominant and this is a young team, maybe this is just the start. Yep, in January we thought they might be going out of the competition all together but then they gave Manchester City a good hiding and just went on from there. They've rescued their Champions League season, they knocked out Liverpool, the number one seed, they knocked out Aston Villa, they knocked out Arsenal. And here in the final in Munich, well, they've knocked Inter out of the park. Paris Saint-Germain,, Inter nil is the extraordinary final score to this 2025 Champions League final. And Steve Crossman, like the rest of us,

is wondering how has that happened? Absolutely astonishing. For the first time since Benfica the first time since Ben Fika 1962, Eusebio et al, a team have scored five goals in the European Cup final. And it's Paris Saint-Germain. And John Murray asked the question as the PSG players celebrate on the far side in front of 70 or 80 riot police. There's no sign of any issues with the PSG fans beyond the obvious, beyond the flares that are going off behind the goal at the minute. He asked the question, if you were a PSG supporter, you could be forgiven for thinking this might not happen.

Julian Moron, that just happened. I still can't really believe it, Steve. I won't lie, my eyes are so full of tears still but this is probably the greatest performance I've seen from A-Team ever and this is my team in the Champions League final with my sons in the stands. It's a day that I never thought I would see really after all the pains and all those years, 40 years, 40 years I was waiting for this and now it's here and it's just exceptional and I never thought that the game could be so good and could go all like that and all the stress and everything but they've done it, they're a

wonderful team and Luis Enrique is a wonderful coach and they deserve it all but it's just an exceptional night. I've just seen Steve, Luis Enrique tearing his shirt off, just like Dua did when he scored the goal. And you don't see many 55-year-old managers tearing their shirts off, whatever happens. If I was doing the Ironman's that he was doing, I might, I might, but I'm not. Goodness me, I mean, you spoke to him, Jules, in the week.

You said to Luis Henrique, what would it mean to Paris for this to happen? And he gave you a look, which kind of said, well, you tell me, so you tell us. I think it means everything to the city and to those fans and to the club. And they've been chasing here for so long, even back in the 90s with David Gennola and George Weah,

and the fans have always been there. And then here the Qatari arrived with their money and they tried, as we explained earlier, by splashing money at it, trying to almost buy this trophy here, the Holy Grail. And then for them to change direction, invest in youth, still spending money, of course, but going for something that looks more like a team than ever before and doing it on that first year really with the youngest team in the competition. And the football that they played, it's not just the age, it's just the football that they played.

John was mentioning the team that they beat along the way since they turned that game around against Manchester City in January and They were just outstanding. They play football the right way. That's what people like them They are likeable now because the football is great. Everything they do is great Luis Enrique put his top back on then and then was thrown up in the air by all of the Paris Saint-Germain players In a big ring and eventually they caught him and put him down on the floor. That's a great point, Jules, what you say there about actually he's made, he's made,

they've made PSG likeable. You know, because people generally, I think it's fair to say, don't like the clubs, the new clubs don't like the clubs that have taken the petrol money. But you know what he's done has definitely changed the perspective on that club. Yeah, I agree. I mean, for a long time people were saying this is a plastic club almost, it's not a very old club per se because they merged and they were formed in 1970 from two clubs in Paris already, but still it's not the same history as Inter Milan

or as Real Madrid or Barcelona. I get that. And because they were spending that money trying to assemble the team with great players, because they thought this is how we can win the Champions League, people didn't like them. And I can completely understand it. And also they were not, they didn't look like a team either.

They didn't have the mentality of a team. Everything that this team has was not there for the last 14 years pretty much, or not all of it. And now they've done it. That Gixxo that we mentioned before the game, all those little pieces, some bigger than others, even Kraskelja, who by the way, we land the season with a Serie A medal, a Ligue 1 medal,

a French Cup medal and a Champions League medal. This is the last piece of that jigsaw that arrived in January, but all those pieces fitted together and Rizan Riquet, 10 years on, his daughter passed away. She's not here with us tonight, but she was there 10 years ago, Sana. And 10 years on, he wins another treble. Only the second manager in history to do that with with Pep and is the Munich magic again for the fifth time. A first time winner is crowned here. It's just special. Jules. I think it's really telling that only now are the cameras starting to focus on other players like Donna Rummer, like Douay, like Hakeem Iqbal, and Kavira Tskhalia, because this just

feel like the Luis Enrique story by a distance. I'm not even sure it's close. When I saw him 10 days ago, I said to him, I know you're not going to agree with me. But this is the Luis Enrique project for me. And he smiled, and he said, you know. and I know exactly what he was going to say, because it's not him. We mentioned before Nasser Al Khalaifi,

the president who's been there since day one, Luis Campos, that we see on the page, the sporting director, who went to get patched out at untracked Frankfurt that maybe not many people had heard of before. And John Neves at Benfica at 19, that maybe not many other people have heard before, or Desiree Dwey even. It's not just Louis-Henriquet,

but Louis-Henriquet is the architect. He is the one who drew the plans, drew the style and the philosophy, who put all of that together for them to be incredible with the ball, very good without the ball, balanced and structured and clever and with technical ability and with the right fitness too, just perfect. And the way he changed with Mandembele, what he did with Douay, you can look at every single

player on the pitch tonight, he's improved them this season from where they were back in August to the 31st of May, they've all become better. Thanks to Luis Enrique. Meanwhile, James Horncastle, as we look away to the right-hand side of the pitch, the interplayers, goodness me, they're all so still. They were down on their knees and down on the floor, and there were tears. Now they are standing in the center circle like statues.

Because they didn't want to feel this way again. That was the entire point of getting back here. Hakan Celanoglu there, midfield player, said yesterday that it was a second chance. I think they all realized that it was also the last chance. And I think that's why the tears are the same as in Istanbul. The pain is the same, but it's different.

It cuts deeper. And I think for, you know, Jules was talking about how this Paris Saint-Germain team at the youngest average age in this competition. When you've got Francesco Achebius, 36, when you've got Jan Sommar, who's around the same age, you've got six or seven core guys in that inter-team who are in their 30s.

Yet they appreciate that they might not get back here. It took an awful lot to return to the Champions League final after two years ago. Jules mentioned how PSG had done it in getting here. Inter, I think, felt that after knocking out Bayern, after knocking out Barcelona, they could beat anyone, but PSG were too much for them tonight. And I also wonder as well if they were too keenly aware that this was their last chance and that that had some psychological impact on them tonight.

Do you think there will be a little regret there as the Champions League trophy, the European Cup, is now brought out to that plinth and in a moment they're gonna have to walk past it, James, with their runners-up medals. Yeah, I mean, Jules, we're just saying that Javier Pastore bring out the trophy. Javier Pastore was the first player signed by Nassar Galafi as the guy who started this project. He was like, we don't want to sign Messi, they did later sign Messi, we want the new Messi, and Pastore was supposed to be that, and instead we've maybe seen what?

Desiree Douay, and yeah, these guys are the new Messi. Yeah, and I guess it's a good symbol that Javier is here, and we see Dembele and Nassar Al-Khalifi with a massive hug on the stage before the referee go and collect the medal. It's a little bit of all of that because this history tonight and Chris, I have time when I said the game is not over yet, surely looked at me with his big eyes and I knew exactly what I was thinking.

The PhD have been there before. PhD is the remontada away at Barcelona after winning the first leg 4-0 losing 6-1. PhD is the defeat against Manchester United at the Parc des Princes and the Olegonar Solskjaer. We've been here before. Their hearts have been broken so many times. But finally to get past that final hurdle and to make it and to finally win this trophy and also for French football in general. This is great. I know the Farmer's League nickname that it has, how people see it or people don't even watch it.

Sometimes I get that. But it was 32 years since Marseille won the only champion league that French football had ever won here in Munich down the road at the Olympic Stadium. And I think really it was long due for French football to get another one. Lewis Enrique is still going absolutely crazy. He's part of a big guard of honor that's been formed ever thus in big finals. The Paris Saint-Germain players standing on either side and applauding as the interplayers in their yellow shirts go walking through them. Lautaro Martinez is right at the head of the queue there, and he shakes hands with Nasser Al-Khalifi, the PSG owner.

Acherbi is next to him as well, and now they begin to get those runners-up medals. And this, I always think, is just a heartbreaking moment because they are three, four, five metres from the European Cup, James, and a lot of them know that's as close as they will ever get. It is, and they were talking about this being the only thing that they were missing to be fulfilled in their careers.

Because as a group, and they are a really good group of lads, you know, in terms of the team spirit, the team ethic that they've got, in terms of, you know, all being great friends wanting to go that extra yard for each other. Yeah, this was all that they were missing. You know, they've won the league, they've won the cup, they've won the Super Cup, they've been to a Europa League final, they've been to a Champions League final, they just wanted to lift that trophy. And again, as was the case two years ago, they have to stand and stare as someone else is dancing, someone else is singing, as Julian Nerons is jumping up and down in the press

stand. And they know that, yeah, leaving aside what winning this trophy would have done for Inter, just consider their last week losing the title on the final day of the season. That's the second time that's happened to Inter in the last three years. Losing the Champions League for the second time in three years in the final. Yes, it was very curious to hear some of the journalistic questioning yesterday to say, Nicolo Barella, you've lost a lot in your career, haven't you? They have. You know, they've won a lot, but they've lost a lot.

And it's just part of sport. That's what we love about it. Lewis Enrique has just given the biggest hug to Nasser Al-Khalifi. He's walked past the European Cup and he's rubbing his hands together. John Murray, it's almost time. Well what they're supposed to do here is they're supposed to receive their medals, give their thank yous and then go and stand on a stage over to the right. They cannot leave that trophy alone. Luis Enrique, who was the first man up who walked through all of the PSG players who slapped him on the back. He actually stood

behind the plinth, behind the trophy, which has the red and blue ribbons on it, clapped his hands together and the other players just joined him there and only now actually have they begun to move away and very soon we will have that moment and what a fitting man it is for PSG to lift the trophy here. Marquinhos who is waiting at the end of the line to do just that and that exchange as well between the PSG president, Nasser al-Khalifi, the smiles, the unadulterated joy and now it's Marquinhos. Marquinhos and now it's Marquinhos. Marquinhos steps up there onto the blue stage, and there's the hug between the captain and the president together.

He slaps him on the back, he cuddles him, and Marquinhos now moves over to the UEFA president, Alexander Ceparin, and has that medal put around his neck. Marquinhos, the number five, 12 years at the club, captain for five years. He thought this day might never come. They all thought this day might never come. But here it is, on the last day of May 2025,

it finally comes to pass for Paris Saint-Germain as Marquinhos walks the trophy across and raises it above his head to signify that Paris Saint-Germain are champions of Europe, dominant in France for so long. With of that Qatar riches they were in danger of going out of this competition in January but here they are now at the end of May with the trophy in their hands and in Munich we have Paris Saint-Germain as first-time winners only the second French club to win it, both here in Munich. Marseille held that position for so many years but now Paris Saint-Germain can say they have won the European Cup and the scenes of celebration in front of the stage.

Behind them on the arch it says PSG winners, and that is precisely what they are. Gold ticker tape all over the place, Champions League theme playing, and big French smiles everywhere you look. Chris Sutton, there goes that glass ceiling. Chris Sutton, there goes that glass ceiling. Yeah, absolutely, you know, it's what happens next. I mean, astonishing performance in the final, but talk about, you know, earning the right, the hard yards, the three English sides which they beat

and how they had to show that resilience to get here. But then to perform as they did do with that confidence, that class, that belief, that energy. And as I say, this could go on for many a season. There's an English club who will be looking at this PSG team and thinking, blimey, if they stay together, they could even strengthen, then they they're gonna take some beating. Well everyone is having a go on the trophy and there's Luis Enrique and now he's on the shoulders of his players hoisting the trophy above his head with the red and the blue ribbons. He's been here before, he's seen it all before and yet still he's looking through watery the the game. I'm just looking at the game. I'm just looking

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not only with Inter, but you know, he was part of that Italy team that beat England in the European Championships. He has been on the other side of nights like this, but, you know, that is of no consolation for Barella, who is, you know, one of the senior players, you know, not only for Inter Inter but for his country as well. And someone who, as with Alessandro Bastoni, Federico Di Marco, these players are good

enough to play with some of the other top sides in the world. They could play in the Premier League, they could play with some of the big clubs in Spain. But for those three, there's nothing bigger for them than playing with and winning with Inter. And so it means that nights like tonight hurt all the harder. I'm just staring up at the roof of the Allianz Arena, where there is that great, imprinted Beckenbauer 5 shirt just staring back down at the pitch the the pitch through the line of riot police who thankfully have been very, very much unnecessary over the course of the 20 minutes or so since the full time whistle. And now they hold the

trophy aloft right in front of their fans. There are knee slides, arms in aeroplane formation, heads in hands, people on the floor, people on the shoulders of teammates, wonderful images for everybody associated with Paris Saint-Germain. Chris, it's almost difficult to know which individual to pick out first, but this sort of feels like the Desiree-Douay final, doesn't it? Well, it does because, you know because once he'd made his mark, the first goal, his composure for the first goal, I can't tell you how impressive that was.

19-year-old, clever movement all night to drift across from the right to the left. And then my eyes would have lit up in that situation. That would have been all about me, Steve, trying to finish it myself. He didn't compose himself. Realized Hakemi was in a much better position and just laid it on a plate for him. That was 1-0. He got the second via a deflection. But all evening he had that magic moment, didn't he, in the second half. A lovely little

twirl and flick. A player full of confidence, full of it, tucked his second goal away, PSG's third away with real composure. What a player he looks. You've got Kravatskelje on the other side who's a talent. Dembele's work great, what he brought for the team, the way he kept peeling off the in the centre halves into little pockets of space, getting things, linking the play-up. Vettinia in the midfield just making them tick, controlling the game. You've talked about the leadership at the back. I mean there weren't any weak links and for a team so young to show that composure, that belief, the way that they steamed away there to celebrate in front of the fans, I mean they are a fit, energetic team and you can't see anybody stopping them really.

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which is happening just away to our left-hand side. So there is a Paris Saint-Germain tifo that has been unveiled to the left, and normally it's the kind of thing that they would only do pre-match, but they've obviously brought another one with them the the he saw it. I mean what emotions for him. Just watching here, we've got a little bit of a concerning situation because a number of the Paris Saint-Germain fans who are in the stands have now actually gone over the Hortense and all of the players and I can see the European club Silva glinting away over on the far side because that's where all of the players are and many, many supporters. We've now got hundreds and hundreds of them who are going and joining in with this.

You know, I'm sure it's all going to be good natured, but even so, I think in an ideal world, you would keep the fans in the crowd so everyone would be able to witness this. But more and more of them all at the same time are coming onto the field together. And I think the security forces down there that you've mentioned, which is quite surprising to see actually that we've got helmeted security people all in a line who are just next to it and are just trying to contain this. And actually I think the team, the squad, the Paris Saint-Germain squad now have been advised and persuaded and asked

to move out of that area and away from that stand. So we now have that line of police, I presume they're police, certainly security personnel with these helmets, these black helmets and visors on who are standing in a line across the penalty area and holding back the supporters. It's quite obvious who the supporters are because they're either in white shirts or they're bare-shirted, whereas the squad now, the PSG squad, have moved away out of that area. Yeah, and I mean, it was only about two minutes before that happened that I was just saying that the police who were out there

hadn't at that stage been needed, and now all of a sudden there are absolutely hundreds and hundreds of fans on the pitch now, and they've sort of it's almost like those being there have then convinced others that it's a good idea to go on and that the goal is actually being moved back and forward now by PSG fans under the weight of them. There are people hanging off the inside of the goal net as well. And now I can see that there's a real rush happening on the far side. Uh

have supporters back into the stands and that line of police is still long and straight, but all of a sudden maybe like 20% 15% of them have now disappeared back into the stands and hopefully they can get that the the fans have been waiting for the fans to come back. The fans, the 10% of them have now disappeared back into the stands, and hopefully they can

get that the support is off the pitch as quickly as possible. But there is still quite a lot on there. Meanwhile, looking to my right, the Paris Saint-Germain players at all have now moved themselves all the way over to the area in front of the tunnel, and they're being ringed by the final. It's been. It's been

turned by stewards in pink bibs, actually, so there are still some celebrations going on on there, but it does have a feel of the celebrations having been curtailed for the time being. And in fact, I think they are heading down the tunnel.

Yeah, well, not normally. I mean, what time is it? 17 minutes past the hour? Normally at least through till about 40 minutes after a final, you would have players still celebrating on the pitch in front of supporters, but looks like that's not been possible. We can see shots from inside the tunnel here where the PSG players are dancing down the tunnel now heading toward the dressing room where there will be

party number two or five or six parties. And now we can actually see the goal has been cleared now and is still standing and the net is hanging down there now clearly and we can see the base of both posts. So this security operation does appear to have been successful in moving everyone first off the pitch and then back into the stands. Yeah, and I think it's probably a little telling that you may just have heard some Paris Saint-Germain

fans chanting again. It does look like it's almost totally cleared now, fingers crossed, and just switch it back to the football, I think, then. Chris Sutton, and the question I was going to ask, I think, before all of this happened is, goodness me, you look at this Paris Saint-Germain team now, what is possible for them? They're so young.

Yep. You know, the age profile in the team, you mentioned Dewey, Kravatskelje, Vettino, Neves, Ruiz is getting on a little bit, but still sort of in his prime. Paco, 23, Hakemi. You know, he feels like he's been around forever, doesn't he? He's only 26, Nuno Mendes, the left back. So, yeah, I mean, it's where they go from here, really. But you think with Luis Enrique at the helm,

this is a team who are just at the start of their evolution, really. The most impressive thing in all, for me, with this PSG team, is their work ethic. They're brilliant on the ball. They have great technicians in the team. But this is the team. The difference is, under Lewis Enriki, this is a team who are prepared to run, who are prepared to do the hard yards. They put the graft in and that's why they were a success tonight because they never let Inter play. There wasn't any moment in the game where Inter had control or got a foothold. And we spoke about Inter's experience in their nous and talked about them being streetwise.

Tonight they looked anything but. I think, John, in commentary, did you say that Dewey was the third teenager to score in the European Cup final? It actually said Champions League final. OK, so before tonight we had two teenagers who'd scored in the final of the Champions League. We've doubled that number in one evening with PSG because more than half of their goals, Maillou and two from Douai, came from teenagers. I mean, to the rest of Europe, that's pretty ominous. the And you've heard us how many times we've been there this season and have said the Parc des Princes is the place to be. That's one of the best places to go and watch football.

So therefore it would follow that if you're doing things like winning the Champions League, it's one of the best places to play football as well. Everybody talks about the Premier League being the best league in the world. People can have a debate about that, but you think about our best teams, Liverpool, and the way that Liverpool got away with one in the Parc de France, and yet they had the maturity PSG to go to Anfield and beat them. It hasn't been an incredible Arsenal team this season, but they've still had enough about them, you think that they could have taken PSG's scalp. That didn't happen.

They are a brilliantly well-balanced team. And you're right, when you feel as a player like you're at the start of something and you're building something, that's an incredible feeling for these PSG players, an incredible position for them to be in. And you know tonight they thoroughly deserved it and it wasn't just winning, it was blowing into a way. Looks like now just to our left hand side to confirm that all of the Paris Saint-Germain supporters

that came onto the pitch are now off the pitch. I can see one more bare chested fan who's actually standing on that hoarding that the fans had to climb over to get back off the pitch. Final thoughts from you both around Luis Enrique. Let me do the stat. The sixth manager to win the Champions League with two different clubs, Carlo Ancelotti, Othmar Hitzfeldt, Joao Marinho and Pep Guardiola. And Pep Guardiola is the top of the table, and we've got the players felt your hankers. Jose Mourinho and pet Guardiola and pet Guardiola is the man of

course that he's so influenced by and so compared to. Do we have to now say that Louis Enrique is. Amongst the best coaches of his generation. I think that's probably the least we have to say, isn't it? Yeah, I think so in the way that he sets his team up, you know, and his work ethic and the way that he has built this PSG team.

And, you know, we speak about the money which that they have spent and, you know, what their aim was while spending the money. And they've taken a hell of a long time to get where they want to be. But Lewis Enrique is the guy that maybe the final piece in the jigsaw if you like, to actually get them there. Now it's about, you know, they are the team to beat, can they maintain it? But in terms of top European managers of all time, then he has to be in that category. And I think just a thought on what has been a new look Champions League this season,

which as you both know I'm still not absolutely sold on. You know I'm not sure it's as fair as it should be, certainly in the league phase. Knockout stage is probably as good as it's ever been because that's, you can't mess with that, a two-leg knockout scenario. But I mean some of the memories that we've had from this Champions League, I'm thinking Aston Villa Chris when we watched them beat Bayern Munich, that was an incredible night. Liverpool winning their first seven matches. Celtic finishing 21st and Manchester City 22nd in the table. Remember the group match Barcelona in Lisbon against Benfica on the wet night. That was an amazing game. I think the last night of it, the 30-16 group. I'm still having nightmares

about that. Mbappe's hat-trick in the Bernabeu against Manchester City, that was a memory. Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain and what happened in that tie. Rice, Rice, Baby of course, we can't forget that. You had the Villa comeback, didn't you, against PSG? Yeah, Inter Barca, one of the most amazing... Well, both of them, one of the most amazing ties we've ever seen. But in the end, I strongly feel that we've seen the team of this season emerge in the way that they've done and the way that they've done it to record a record margin of victory for a European final.

Only the third team to get five goals or more in a European Cup or Champions League final. And this is the 70th one of those. That banner before the match in amongst the PSG supporters said together we are invincible well they've not been invincible they've lost five matches in the Champions League this season but they are the champions there will be lots of complicated opinions about this new Champions League there will be people who look at this and say, hang on a second, the team that finished 15th in the league phase have just won the European Cup. There will be lots more who say PSG were the best team in the European Cup this season and they have won it.

Chris, John, thank you both very much indeed. Chris Sutton, correspondent John Murray, ticker tape everywhere on the pitch here at the Allianz Arena. Paris Saint-Germain have won the European Cup for the first time in their history. That is it for this episode of the Football Daily. On the next one, we will have day after reflections on this Champions League final, which PSG beat Inter Milan in by five goals to nil. As always thank you so much for listening.

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