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Villa had only one good chance in the 1st half, "raverse" shot skimmed Czech's post. In the second half it was through give away balls, as the defense had departed. Apart of the refereeing issue it was a failure of the front men plus of course we would n't settle for the one point. I 've seen this many times. West Ham, the capital cup match against Sunderland, WBA and others. I won't count Everton because they played well.

Chelsea 0.5 - Drogba Saray 0

It was the night of the long knives. City given two points at Hull (Hart's penalty). CFC robbed three.

Torres was one of the great strikers of the last ten years. His presence in CFC now is justified only on budget cosiderations. Schurrle is good for Salonika-Patras when he plays like that. Germans are known to,maintain their cool in the penalty box and score goals - he does n't, Mou took Torres off and sent Schurle in. What else to do ?

I was about to write the same thing. Not much in the penalty area for Chelsea and certainly not tonight (despite the pressure). The referee was a Villa player though.

The disallowed goal decided it in the end.

Willian had no business to do that. Torres did not come to the match.

CFC 1.70 at the bookies - on the low side for drawn first half.

accidental-ineffectual, you don't give anything, in any position in the field

It's going to be the siege of Marsah Matruh second half, 3-0.

that was never handballing. it's not a penalty against a defender and it's not a disallowed goal for the attacker either.

What's the criterion should two teams finish level ?

2-0 against no defense.

Penalty to Hull is not given. Clear case - you don't dive in open goal chance !!!

City down to 10 men. Siege of Troy.

Tottenham was drifting in the bookies yesterday a little before kick off. From 2.30 to 2.55. Why ? They also had it greyed for a while. You could see the prices changing but the submit button was disable. Peculiar.

I put some money on Basel against the Austrians - 0-0. Those entertainers beat us twice ??? Then to even things up, I backed Spurts. Now I expect the police.

Athens - Greece

Firstrow pops thousands of ads, but if you install adbloc + malwarebytes it works smooth. It has a buffer of course (20-30 seconds). I can understand the associations wanting to block it. It's a question of revenue that needs to be resolved but as long as it's there, we take advantage ... What I don't understand is why the horse racing broadcasts are being blocked (and in the case of horse racing, the ban is quite effective too !). Horse racing stands to gain by allowing free broadcasts rather than the opposite. Greek historic radio commentator Giannakakos was a distant cousin of our family. His brother was a high court judge and the man himself was an ardent supporter of Panathinaikos. When I was very small boy we did not have any type of betting -only the so called fleet lottery every Christmans- but on the occasion of a derby match he told me "it's full house and if we had Marakana stadium here it was going to be 200,000 inside - 200,000 left out". So it's the fans that make up football's lot. In the case of horse racing though it's not. It's the betting revenue and so the industry's real interest is to make broadcasting free.

Chelsea appears to have always had a strong contingent of foreign supporters. I don't know why. In my case it was because Chelsea's system always combined the elements of speed and stamina - well nearly always that is. The typical English teams used to compete who will kick the ball higher into the air (and only the historic Liverpool imho was doing that to effect). At the same the typical Latin teams used to compete in slow motion football. Also Chelsea happened to be the stars when live broadcasting was first introduced in my country. Of course I 've been to the bridge several times. Most people support the same team as their dad did. So in GR I support my dad's team AEK of Athens, I think but I 'm not sure we played a friendly once. There was certainly a friendly between CFC and Panathinaikos and the cl clash CFC - Olympiakos Piraeus 5 years ago (0-0 in Piraeus, 3-0 in London). Ah and Chelsea - Aris Salonika in 1970.

Milan went down 4-1. Atletico I think could not afford complacency, so Milan went down despite their early efforts. Kaka missed a good chance in the 1-1 (headed high) then Atletico scored a fluke to make it 2-1. I saw just a little of Bayern v. Arsenal and Arsenal were under siege. I believe the German champions did not exert themselves and they did n't have to. I don't see anything of interest tomorrow either. Maybe Europa league on Thursday, There was Cheltenham also today. Now that needs some long hours of studying. Last year I was very good.

Ch. league 11/03, 18/03 We have four low priced favourites today. Atletico should win. PSG, Bayern, Barcelona look suspect. May fall asleep - some 2-2 draws. Next week Real and Borussia are non events. CFC has to win (or it's 1453 in England this time). In MU-Olympiakos it looks to me like the 3+ MU needs to qualify is a possibility. It's 7/4 though - daylight robbery of a price. Oly lost 3-0 to Panathinaikos, then 2-1 to PAOK in Salonika yesterday and their striker Olaitan fell down with heart problem (medicins ???). * 7/4 is 2.75 in decimal notation.If you dutch the 3-0, 4-1, 4-0, 5-0, 5-1 it works out as 3.84 effectively. So you bet for MU to qualify inside the 90 minutes. Well, you might include the 6-0, 6-1 also if you like. The possibility of 2-0 and extra time makes it 7-4 ? - too low.

Nacho Scoco in Sunderland. Great player. After Hull missed the penalty, I feel Sunderland will win this.

I saw Villa in their match against Everton at Goodison. Although went 1-0 up they looked losers all the way - final result 2-1 to Everton. Chelsea's form peaked in the match against City (1-0, could have been 3-0). I don't believe in the "cushion theory" because City are well equipped to handle their three matches in hand. In case we finish level who wins the title ? What is the criterion ?

you think champions league is a write off ?