cosmicway

You must include Madrid. When our grand-grand-grand-grandchildren become football fans, Madrid will still be there winning trophies. We can't tell a lie.

Can we hold on to the CL ? In 2013 everyone thought we could, but unexpectedly we failed against Inter Milan (Jose's revenge). In 2014 heroic effort without Peter Czech in the semi - we went out. Next we went out to Paris twice and to Bayern last year but we were not really that good to win it. Champions league is difficult for everybody but in the last ten years it was Real Madrid who managed to snatch four. Real managed to win those champions leagues with Cristiano of course and not with today's clowns. The rest is CFC 2, Bayern 2, Uefalona 2 and pool 1. This time we have a fairly young team and I think it's up to Abra to create a Chelsea era.

Initially I was most afraid of Bayern. After Bayern, Paris. When it became known that our opponent in the final is Pep and not Paris my worrying was minimal.

I don't think we were really favoured by the draws in the run up to the final, relative to City. The ones hard done by the draws were PSG and Bayern had they survived, but not City.

It was checked.

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One half of the trophy belongs to Olivier Giroud.

Chilwell will score the winner. Another two by Giroud, if he plays.

It cannot be denied that this City team is better than the City of previous years but they 're not going to find it easy. United who finished seven points are head of us were crap yesterday (the match was a second division affair) so the finishing positions in the league table don't tell the truth. Also they may be lucky or we may be lucky. This match is a black box really.

If it goes to extra time, should Kepa replace Mendy for the pens ?

United bottles. Third division teams.

City must be asphyxiated and forget their passing game - they should need to perform a litany in Notre Dame to proceed 20 yards. Up fronn I 'm less worried. Timo will escape and pass it to Pulisic.

Is n't Lukaku a case of Iguain - Pato now ?

Some players are getting old. There is no striker. If Werner and Kai will become strikers in the distant future is something I cannot tell, but they are not strikers now. If Werner is nonetheless useful with his fast runs, he is still no striker. Giroud is 34. The spectre of Mourinhos 2015 team haunts me. We won the league, we were expecting better, we got sh*t. We need to build a team this summer.

Now that the dust has settled, both matches were fixes. I know that people who make such scenarios are fools. In addition if you have a friend like that you should beat him up from morning till night - this is the advice I 've been giving you for years. But I am looking at the fait-accompli now, I 'm not making theories. Here is what happened: We fix a deal with the villagers for a 3-0 away win. We do that but some wise guy props up and says "hey, Leicester know of this like open book - why don't we do the other thing, home win here, away win there ? if we can get them to condenscend of course". Leicester having nothing to lose enter the deal, the ref also enters the deal and they all live happily ever after.

About VAR can they give penalties or they act only after the referee has made a request ?

What was in favour of Bayern was the home ground.

The referee was from the darkest lagoons. Other than that our finishing was problematic, as usual.

I don't think so. The time they played us for fun was three years ago, during Antonio years. The fielded a depleted squad and we won 3-0. Those last two matches they took serious enough.

We beat them twice the last month, though they were 50-50 affairs both matches. I don't see any difference if we don't play sh*te and if they don't have 14 players like today's Villa.

He shot wide from good positions two or three times.

The referee was caught by the police I hear.

Spurs, the pride of London. Up the a**hole.