The Football.....

[dellzeqq]

No, Liverpool beat them 2-1 over there (I was at that one, me) and had the rich-man's plaything not been captained by one of the most reprehensible forms of life ever to have crawled out from under a rock, they may have seen fit to play a slightly different way. If he hadn't insulted the Americans in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 and wasn't a sickening racist and an arrogant my-shoot-don't-stink bully on and off the pitch, and maybe if his mother (so legend has it) been overly fond of a certain Liverpudlian delicacy, he wouldn't be as despised as he is. But you come out with the fact of his sending off as though it were some unfathomable capriciousness of the referee! That having occurred, they had no option but to 'park the bus' so 'ignorance' is emanating from one of us here, I think.

feeling a little aggrieved?

the ten men of Chelsea played a wonderfully intelligent game. I doubt whether Liverpool would have had the ability to do the same, and, moreover, whether they would have had the smarts to try. As for Terry - he is what he is. On the field he's brave to the point of foolishness (remember the diving header off the line in South Africa) and the Chelsea fans love him for it. And, if you're looking for angels, you'll have to look a lot further than the thug caught on video punching out a DJ in Southport.

Apropos of nothing at all, I'm impressed by Gerrard's advisers. Welcoming the appointment of Hodgson so publicly is exactly the right move to make

 

[dellzeqq]

yup fair play to the geordie maggots. they wanted it more then us tonight.

you still have the chance to take that last place in the Champion's League.

If Chelsea win the CL, do they have to go through the itty-bitty stages in next year's competition?

 

[PaulB]

feeling a little aggrieved?

the ten men of Chelsea played a wonderfully intelligent game. I doubt whether Liverpool would have had the ability to do the same, and, moreover, whether they would have had the smarts to try. As for Terry - he is what he is. On the field he's brave to the point of foolishness (remember the diving header off the line in South Africa) and the Chelsea fans love him for it. And, if you're looking for angels, you'll have to look a lot further than the thug caught on video punching out a DJ in Southport.

Apropos of nothing at all, I'm impressed by Gerrard's advisers. Welcoming the appointment of Hodgson so publicly is exactly the right move to make

Aggrieved at what, exactly? All those magnificent European cups won by all those famous London teams? Come back when you've won a single one. Doubtless you're giddy at the prospect of the looooooong drought ending? Having won five, I suspect a Liverpool team would have known EXACTLY what to do. Maybe not the present one, but we've had MANY famous victories against clubs as big if not bigger than the Catalans at all stages of that, and the UEFA competition over many many years. But to compare John Terry with Steven Gerrard is taking struggling too far. Steven Gerrard punched NO DJ and was, as you'll recall but conveniently forget, found not guilty so you don't have many legs to stand on on that one.

Apropos of nothing else, Terry compounded his assault by lying to the commentator who asked him about it by completely denying he did anything wrong but had to backpedal furiously and laughably when it was pointed out the whole thing was seen by the watching millions. And 'brave'? That's a good 'un!

 

[Archie_tect]

There won't be much work done by supporters of Newcastle this morning. Still living the dream!

 

[User482]

Aggrieved at what, exactly? All those magnificent European cups won by all those famous London teams? Come back when you've won a single one. Doubtless you're giddy at the prospect of the looooooong drought ending? Having won five, I suspect a Liverpool team would have known EXACTLY what to do. Maybe not the present one, but we've had MANY famous victories against clubs as big if not bigger than the Catalans at all stages of that, and the UEFA competition over many many years. But to compare John Terry with Steven Gerrard is taking struggling too far. Steven Gerrard punched NO DJ and was, as you'll recall but conveniently forget, found not guilty so you don't have many legs to stand on on that one.

Apropos of nothing else, Terry compounded his assault by lying to the commentator who asked him about it by completely denying he did anything wrong but had to backpedal furiously and laughably when it was pointed out the whole thing was seen by the watching millions. And 'brave'? That's a good 'un!

A post quite transparently prompted by the frustration that your once great team is now mid-table mediocrity. If you're going to slag off other teams' players, it would be better if yours hadn't been home to thugs, drunks and racists, otherwise it just looks like hypocrisy.

I don't support Chelsea, and care little for Abramovich or Terry, but the defeat of Barcelona was an outstanding achievement. Liverpool wouldn't have come close.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The roller coaster ride that is supporting the toon goes on. As does my love/hate relationship with football.

Apparently the Aged P got highly agitated last evening, whooping and hollering he was. "Howay bonny lads, howay, get in man! etc., etc.." in deepest west wales.

 

[PaulB]

A post quite transparently prompted by the frustration that your once great team is now mid-table mediocrity. If you're going to slag off other teams' players, it would be better if yours hadn't been home to thugs, drunks and racists, otherwise it just looks like hypocrisy.

I don't support Chelsea, and care little for Abramovich or Terry, but the defeat of Barcelona was an outstanding achievement. Liverpool wouldn't have come close.

A post quite transparently prompted by the need to cling to the coat-tails of possible success to bask in the vicarious glory of an achievement not yet felt. But it has by me, personally, in the actual stadium of its occurrence many times and that tends to tide me over. I don't need constant feeding of glory, I'd burst so a few fallow years are welcome. As you are to it.

 

[User482]

A post quite transparently prompted by the need to cling to the coat-tails of possible success to bask in the vicarious glory of an achievement not yet felt. But it has by me, personally, in the actual stadium of its occurrence many times and that tends to tide me over. I don't need constant feeding of glory, I'd burst so a few fallow years are welcome. As you are to it.

Yes, that your fallow years are welcome is well-evidenced by your general tone of bitterness, and childish, myopic sniping at others' success. Everyone is convinced, I'm sure.

 

[PaulB]

Yes, that your fallow years are welcome is well-evidenced by your general tone of bitterness, and childish, myopic sniping at others' success. Everyone is convinced, I'm sure.

You'd like it to be. I'm not in the slightest bit 'bitter' and I gave up 'myopic' sniping at others' 'success' many years ago. Maybe you will, one day?

 

[User482]

You'd like it to be. I'm not in the slightest bit 'bitter' and I gave up 'myopic' sniping at others' 'success' many years ago. Maybe you will, one day?

Yes, I'm completely convinced. There's no sniping or bitterness is your posts, none at all. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[PaulB]

Yes, I'm completely convinced. There's no sniping or bitterness is your posts, none at all. Thanks for clearing that up.

Whoo, that's one colossal inferiority complex there. I'd keep that under wraps if I were you.

 

[User482]

Whoo, that's one colossal inferiority complex there. I'd keep that under wraps if I were you.

If I were a supporter of a mediocre team of drunks, thugs and racists, I'd not be inclined to cast so many stones in Chelsea's direction. It's a pity that you feel the need to compensate for your deficiencies by doing so, but I suppose you can't help yourself.

 

[GilesM]

I was in Madrid with a few friends at the weekend, and I had pleasure of watching Real Madrid play live, very impressive stadium, a good match to watch, and I like the way Real Madrid play, but Spanish football will never be called fast and/or exciting, and has there ever been a player more lazy than Ronaldo, he has flashes of pure genuis, but seems to spend most of his time walking very slowly back from an offside position, when the play is at the other end of the pitch, we came to th conclusion he was hungover. Great day out and well worth the experience if you're ever over there.

 

[User169]

If I were a supporter of a mediocre team of drunks, thugs and racists, I'd not be inclined to cast so many stones in Chelsea's direction. It's a pity that you feel the need to compensate for your deficiencies by doing so, but I suppose you can't help yourself.

What wrong with drunks exactly?

 

[mangaman]

A post quite transparently prompted by the need to cling to the coat-tails of possible success to bask in the vicarious glory of an achievement not yet felt. But it has by me, personally, in the actual stadium of its occurrence many times and that tends to tide me over. I don't need constant feeding of glory, I'd burst so a few fallow years are welcome. As you are to it.

Well as a neutral who never even expects to see my team play Barcelona, and old enough to remember all of Liverpool´s European Cups I´m not coming with any chips on shoulders.

I was delighted 3 years ago sitting in the freezing cold watch us eke out a 1-0 win at Wycombe.

But from where I sit, Chelsea played a great 2 legs against Barcalona - Liverpool are currently a mid table side.

Err - that´s it really