cosmicway

Have the Turks stoned the scousers with hash ?

Fiorentina 2-0. Scousers a human drama - cannot cross into the other half against semi-amateur Turks - 1-0 down now. Gad !

Atletico start matches with Torres ! The man was brilliand in 2003, with Demi Nikolaidis as his partner as well, but now it's 2015. Nevertheless Leverkusen are clowns and I expect them to go down by a good 3-0 in the return leg.

Arsenal have been like that since anyone remembers. The new pitiful losers are City. MUTD are excused because they are below par. The Scousers are also definitely below par this season.

If you take CFC out EPL is gone. Once upon a time Pool was winning them all. When they failed to win a championship, Villa took the european cup easy. Those were lean years for Chelsea, but now there is no overall quality. City are mickey mouse champions. At least we won it in 2012 and last year it was "one bridge to far".

Those German fools will lose 5-1 in Madrid.

thrashed !

rien ne va plus for the gooners

City are useless. I wonder if we can do better against Barcelona.

ok then 6-0

Anything less than 3-0 is tantamount to defeat. What worries me is that PSG follows shortly afterwards and that's the game we oughta be approaching seriously. A possible second squad against Spurs is therefore an alternative to be considered.

Assuming there will always be the three men in black on the pitch -and it cannot become like water polo- then the requirement not to interrupt the flow of the game puts a limit on video technology. Thus after a false offside flag, you can't bring back the players and say "you stand here, you stand there, you begin your run from here". It's silly. Whenever the controversial situation is followed by dead time it's simple of course. The video ref either changes the initial decision or confirms it. When the video ref makes a real fast suggestion then situations like penalties not given but the ball being still in play, can also be put right. What will really happen is that the ref. listens to the video ref from the studio and we, the spectators, will observe nothing. But refereeing is going to be improved by an overall 80%. The associations are dragging their feet over it. (also radio journalists don't like it because the phone in programs will die and the advertising revenue). Look at this one, from 2011, ruled out as offside: Has become the inspiration of humour artists.

Burnley was one of the poorest sides that visited the Bridge this year, if not the poorest. One shot on target early in the second half - the deflection parried by Courtois. Then one more after the sending off (save by Courtois, corner kick - goal in the continuation). Chelsea's enemies were Atkinson - extremely poor finishing - Matic. Matic was a fool. Even if the other one kicked him in dead time and not during play he had no business to retaliate.

Diego Costa was clearly pushed. But they say the referee did not see the Burnley player using his arms. So it's not a pen when the attacker is in possession and the defender uses his elbow on him from behind to bring him down ! New theory.

Up until the red there was no opposition. But if you can't find the net, you are asking for it.

The ball punishes.

This joke with the refs must be ended nationwide, worldwide. We have videos all over the place plus mobile phones. The Hearst mystery goal of 1966 could n't possibly become a mystery in our time. All they have to do is decide about the hierarchy of decision making so mistakes are corrected and the flow of play is not interrupted.

Burnley could n't string two passes. It was getting dangerous as time passed - because they score a fluke and there is no time left - but I could n't figure what on earth they could do to come back. Matic solved that mystery.

The idea of falling back after the sending off and before the 1-1 was in itself disastrous.

In amateur league, Iceland, San Marino.

BS. You don't do that even if instead of making a vicious tackle he really wanted to kick you. Matic is a fool.

He was today. Plus the referee, Jack the ripper.

Just horrible. Matic is an idiot. Costa made a Torres of himself.

I liked Burnley against City. Came back from 2-0 down. In the last 3-4 minutes they were fools not to press for the 2-3 - they were gaining corner kicks and playing them short ! Granted their table position is abysmal.

Don't complain. Last year against Atletico, in the 0-0, we managed one shot with Luiz's free kick (the Luiz of PSG now). Against PSG again it was a crazy match and we lost 3-1. You can't complain. We do however have apart from PSG, four strong opponents lined up a against us, Real, Bayern, Barca, Atletico. I don't expect us to avoid less than two of them so bodies will start falling !