Champions League 2007/2008 Knockout phase

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All childish bickering deleted. I might have deleted some valid posts along the way but it's all your own fault for making so much nonsense.

Ataturk, rival fans are welcomed here but consider yourself officially warned.
 

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Drogba's celebration was so facking amazing. Does anyone have a video of it that also shows the Lpool bench?
 

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For the first time in the Uefa CHampions Leauge history, the final match will be the "Kiss My Ass" match. The loser has to put its head into the winner's ass hole and the winner has to KISS MY ASS!!
 

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Expect a lot of action on ebay, concerning the tickets for Moscow final from Liverpool loosers.

I will always apriciate what they did in 2005, but I so much hate teams, who focus on 10 games in a season, and then when they win the whole thing, think they are THE best mother****ers.

Just like Pool did, just like Bilan did last year. That is ****ed up.

I was so waiting for the day, when it will backfire. Milan is almost there, too bad Pool isn't there also, as they will be 4'th in a league, but at least the didn't reach the final, and are loosers again.

CL, is 33% quality, 33% luck, 33% of the match-day form. How luck was crucial to Pool and Bilan campaign we all know. Now after all those years, the coin has turned.
 

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Now wouldn’t it be ironic to see the west London tea, lifting the C.L trophy in the same season that Mourinho left them!? ;)

Which then lead us to what Marcotti argued in his article that one wonders whether there is such abyss between Grant and Mourinho (or any other top coaches around) in terms of managerial ability.
 

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To place the final in moscow is really the most stupid thing you can do.

It takes about 3 weeks to get a visa to even get into russia... Ofc you could have applied for before the semi's, but then if your team lost, you would have wasted money to get the Visa...

Just when you thought those geniuses at UEFA couldnt get any dumber they pulled a Cl final is moscos out of their asses.

Brilliant...:wallbang:
 

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Chelsea had the same core of players for sometime now.JT,Lampard,Cech,Carvalho,Dorgba etc.

They look like a group of hard ass champions which proves that Top Coaches are often over hyped or is Avram Grant really a Top Class Coach himself.

Avram Grant had so less time for coaching preparation so it is difficult to imagine that he could have put his own methods to practise.So in Chelsea's case its the attitude of the players that must have carried them through than any Top Class strategy from Avram Grant.

Which then lead us to what Marcotti argued in his article that one wonders whether there is such abyss between Grant and Mourinho (or any other top coaches around) in terms of managerial ability.

Can you post the link of the article if it is in English?
 

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Chelsea had the same core of players for sometime now.JT,Lampard,Cech,Carvalho,Dorgba etc.

They look like a group of hard ass champions which proves that Top Coaches are often over hyped or is Avram Grant really a Top Class Coach himself.

Avram Grant had so less time for coaching preparation so it is difficult to imagine that he could have put his own methods to practise.So in Chelsea's case its the attitude of the players that must have carried them through than any Top Class strategy from Avram Grant.



Can you post the link of the article if it is in English?
I agree that when Grant became in charge a solid platform was in place due to Mourinho. However it still makes you wonder how much of an influence a coach has on its players? After all not only is Chelsea doing fine in Europe but they could also clinch the EPL title as well.
We all know that winning the C.L has as much to do with having a great tactician as it has to do with luck and facing the right team at the right moment. That said Grants team is also doing well domestically and IMO winning the top 4 European leagues are usually if not always a more of a stern test than winning the C.L.

Therefore it kind of makes you wonder whether at times sufficient cash and the right scouting team is enough to win you big trophies or whether you necessary require to add that so called top tactician in the pot as well!?

After all pro-Mancini people could argue that seeing that he has won us back to back domestic titles – our failure in Europe in the past (specially this season) could be due to lady luck deserting us. Hence we should stick to him. Anyway, I’m going off topic now ;)

Here is the link btw which I posted in the Mourinho thread few days ago.
 

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It reminds me of when Madrid won the champions league in 97, they did not won thanks to heykens, they wont hanks to Capello who build the team in only 1 year, Chelsea can do the same, Mourinho made Chelsea the best team in the world 3 years ago and the most regular team from 2004 to 2008, Grant is doing fine anyway and also Ten Cate helps, since he leaved Barcelona in summer of 2006 they are in trouble.
 

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What a game...Congrats to Chelseas :)
...And football fans.

Liverpool players were diving all over the pitch it was dispicable.Someone has got to rub that in Rafa's face.Rossetti was great in seeing it but i thought he was too lenient at times and should have given some yellow cards for the dives especially.Also for the continuous fouling..
 

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Alex, it was 1998. Just stating it before someone else corrects you :)
 

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Defo the best result for football with Chelsea going through and the scouse bastards going out! They are a disgrace to football with their fans, their cheating and their crap style of football!

Here's hoping Chelsea beat the Manc tossers in the Final.
Should be some few days troublewise in Moscow and the match will be kicking off at 10.45pm local time there. There will be alot of English going home battered and bruised after their dealings with the Russian police and the Russian people in general
 
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I've banned Ataturk5 for a week.

And you guys, you know who you are, stop acting like a child by responding to him too ffs. Responding to personal insults is just equally stupid.

Anyways, Azz, I heard UEFA is working with Russia/EU to make sure that the visas will be issued in time. Let's see what kind of string they can pull, although as far as I know, Putin is one SOB who never backs down to anything. :lol:
 

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All childish bickering deleted. I might have deleted some valid posts along the way but it's all your own fault for making so much nonsense.

Ataturk, rival fans are welcomed here but consider yourself officially warned.

Did you have to delete it before i could read what it was about. Now i'm lost :cry: hahaha
 

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Grant is definetly doing amazing job this year, but the base was already there and that was Jose's base.

Most of all, I mean mentaly. He injected this winning mentality in them, and I think that was the key here. Everybody can get that impression by any interview made by Jose about Chelsea and his time over there.
 

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Heres some more gems from Eamon Dunphy:

On Luis Garcia:
'They (Liverpool) should put Garcia where he belongs - in the dustbin.'

On Djibril Cisse:
'here we have Cisse, right wing, attempts to put in a cross, BANG...hits the full back, again BANG hits the full back, BANG...off the full back again, and once more, BANG...smacks the full back again.... millions of euro and he can't clear the first man, I mean...what's he trying to do to the full back here, KILL him??'

On Harry Kewell:
'Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.'
'Fat and a clown. A fat clown for all to see.'

On Rio Ferdinand:
'Ferdinand is a clown. He was a liability for the first goal and he is always a liability. It was Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink against Rio Ferdinand of Barclays Bank.'
'a tramp'

On Fabio Cannavarro:
'If Rio Ferdinand is worth £100,000 a week, then this guy is worth £100 million...a day'

On Liam Brady (After Ireland lost a two goal lead against Holland in 1983):
'He is often looked on as a great player. He is nothing of the kind. His performance on Wednesday was a disgrace, a monument to conceit adorned with vanity and self-indulgence, rendered all the more objectional by the swagger of his gait. He was deemed by many observers to have had a splendid game.'

On Niall Quinn:
'I'm not gonna address the Niall Quinn agenda, Niall Quinn is a creep'
'The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa'

On Barcelona:
'After watching Watford against Manchester City last night that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful.'

On Garth Crooks and Sven Goran Eriksson:
'ha, ha, ha, that's the first time you'll see sex between 2 men live on the BBC'

During the coverage of Euro 2004:
'You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.'

On Christiano Ronaldo:
the way Ronaldo 'clicks his heels', is the 'most wicked thing in the game.' 'a simple *****' 'poof ball'

On Mick McCarthy:
'He's one of the biggest whingers in world football...he's a bloody eejit.'

On Kevin Kilbane:
'Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.'

On John Giles:
'Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.'

On Michael Carrick:
'Carrick was signed for Spurs a few years back for £3m. That's the level he is at. He is a nothing player. He is one-paced. He doesn't have the personality to always get on the ball like a United player should. '

Before the Liverpool v Real Betis game at Anfield when Roy Keane announced his retirement from football Bill O'Herlihy stated that in a column about Roy a journalist called him a thug. Dunphy started roaring at Bill asking him whose column it was. Bill replied it was on the back page of the Sunday Times. 'Look at it' he told Eamon. Eamon still pestered him asking who wrote it. Bill replied 'I can't remember his name'. Eamon continued saying:
'I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one'.

On about the Fergie v Strachen feud:
Eamon: 'Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid.
Bill: 'The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism'.
Eamon: 'Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill'.

On the stubborn climate which exists in the board room at Real Madrid:
'Bill, Bill... those directors over there are on another planet. They're on mushrooms or something...THEY'RE ON ACID BILL!!!'

On John Hartson:
'Bill, Hartson is not a 7million pound player....its a disgrace, a shambles! This is the state of football today Bill. I have a clip here of why Hartson is NOT a £7million player....roll it there Bill! (literally 1 second in to the clip) OKAY, HOLD IT THERE BILL!!! (draws a circle around Hartson's arse) Bill, that is NOT the arse of a £7million player
 

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I've banned Ataturk5 for a week.

And you guys, you know who you are, stop acting like a child by responding to him too ffs. Responding to personal insults is just equally stupid.

Anyways, Azz, I heard UEFA is working with Russia/EU to make sure that the visas will be issued in time. Let's see what kind of string they can pull, although as far as I know, Putin is one SOB who never backs down to anything. :lol:

yeah, well done han,hope it made you feel big banning me, sleep better did yer? you use the word "responding" to me! are you sure! "i" respond, i dont attack, as i said..other fans are welcome on here as long as they take all the crap and dont respond, isnt that the truth? did you ban irish? who starts all the trouble, or the studmeister shaz? nah didnt think so. well there you go ive got an opinion, so ban me for life wotever
 

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Why would you ban shazz??? hahaha

nah couldnt ban shaz the stud could we? i forgot its ok for shaz and the rest of the teachers pets on here to slate people, just me who cant give a bit of stick back when i get it isnt it? who gives a f##k anyway, you know what i detest? PEOPLE WHO CAN GIVE IT OUT BUT CANT TAKE IT, am i banned yet?
 
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