Football (Soccer) Thread

[Valmy]

Fair enough. Which is why England, as a football nation team, sucks.

Hey!  Alot of the players on the Austin club are English!

Oh wait...

[Liep]

Hmm.. what a let down, a pity manchester got such an early goal and decided that was enough.

The Arsenal game didn't get interesting until about the 82nd minute when Bendtner came on, he did okay and would've scored if Diaby hadn't already seen himself on the scoreboard before taking his shot.

[Josephus]

Didn't watch the Arsenal game; but yeah the Man Utd game wasn't a barn-burner. [Though that was a good goal by Ronaldo]. Porto couldn't break down the Man Utd defence, and the few times they did, their finish let them down.

But that's OK, cause the Man Utd v. Arsenal game is another EPL Team v. EPL Team game

[katmai]

Chelsea is up 1-0 so far on barca

[clandestino]

Chelsea is up 1-0 so far on barca

Football needs Barça in the final. That's all.

[Cerr]

It's over now. Great late goal for Barca. Glad they'll be in the final. They have a better chance against United then Chelsea would have.

[Liep]

I've never been happier for Iniesta. And I was pretty excited for him to begin with. Football wins this game.

[Cerr]

Chelsea are really sore losers. Drogba was moaning at the ref at the end.

[Liep]

Chelsea are really sore losers. Drogba was moaning at the ref at the end.

Drogba is everything that is wrong with Chelsea. But Ballack came close when he attacked the referee after that shoulder parry by a Barca player. Come to think of it there are quite a few Chelsea players I would love to see disappear from professional football.

[Tamas]

What the flying fuck.

Chelsea DOMINATED Barcelona tactically for two games. They neutralized all the advantages the enemy had, and ruined all their plans - showing what a genius general Hiddink is.

Then comes this fucking joke of a referee who denies app. 3 penalties for Chelsea, and thus allows Barca to stay in the game and equalize with THEIR ONLY FUCKING SHOT WHICH WENT TO THE FUCKING GOAL'S GENERAL DIRECTION

A most undeserved qualification.

[clandestino]

yay.

Tamas:







:p

Edit: I haven't seen the game. the things you said might be true.

Personally, I don't care.

[Liep]

Edit: I haven't seen the game. the things you said might be true.

1 clear penalty (very odd that it wasn't called), 1 argueable, 1 where Drogba should've been carded for filming. 2 others that were just good defensing by Tauré.

[FunkMonk]

Bravo for Barca

[Neil]

Chelsea are really sore losers. Drogba was moaning at the ref at the end.

Maybe he should try diving again.  He was fucking ridiculous today.

At any rate, this is a big fuck you to bandwagoners and Eastern Europeans, which is good.  It'll be a shame that the best teams aren't playing in the final (Barca isn't in the EPL), but it's worth it to eject Chelsea.

[Liep]

It'll be a shame that the best teams aren't playing in the final

This makes no sense. This is the final everybody dreamt of before hand.