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Oh boo hoo. The referee did favor us but this was nothing compared to that barca game. You only have your players to blame for being so brainless to give away a clear penalty and red card. Who asked maxi to open his big fat mouth and complain during the penalty? Go back to your forum if you have nothing useful to say. We're not invading your forum to gloat about our victory. Let us celebrate. Good luck for the future.

Kalou was especially hopeless today. I really don't understand how he even became a professional footballer. So brainless. Work rate is fine blah blah but footballing wise he is dreadful

Fuck yeah! Raul's goal was class. So happy he scored! Love the shhh sign to the benfica supporters too lol

Don't get me wrong - DELIGHTED that we're in the semis but that was really, really, really bad.

What an absolutely atrocious performance. JFC.

Performance has been dreadful so far. Can't get complacent. 1 goal changes EVERYTHING. Gives them momentum and makes us nervy. Need to get another goal.

lol. I actually crumbled to the ground when he slipped. I was already jumping up and down when he stepped up thinking there's no way he's not gonna score. and then when Anelka was standing there I knew he was going to miss so I had my finger on the "off" button on the remote and turned it off immediately afterwards to this day still haven't seen any of Utd's celebrations

I was so bloody nervous that I watched the last 5 minutes of that game in slow-motion LOL I slowed down my broadcast on the telly every time Barca had the ball in our half. Paused it for about a minute when Messi passed to Iniesta because I couldn't bear finding out what would happen. Then I played it

Same as Layla - I've got 2 accounts on this site. My current one is #3660 and my original one is #29!

Truly impossible to choose but I went for my original pick, LDN Blue Anyone would be a worthy winner though!

lol

Don't even want to think about that :o

LOL

No, that doesn't make sense. Because he was playing consistently before being dropped suddenly. It's understandable that he's not playing when Mikel is fit, but even when Mikel was injured, Romeu was nowhere to be seen. Something definitely going on behind the scenes. Either some ridiculous injury or what incometax posted.

Absolutely not. We should try to go as far as we can go. Getting to the semis means additional revenue earned and no way should we give that up. And who the hell knows, we might get an Ovrebo-type incompetent referee who'll gift us silly penalties and we might just sneak into the final just kidding. As Steve said we are capable of beating them, with the right tactics, preparation, work ethic, and obviously a hell of a lot of luck.

Absolutely. It's utterly disgraceful for anyone to blame AVB for Torres' own pathetic displays. If Torres truly believes that, he should take a good look at himself in the mirror.

David Luiz ‏ @DavidLuiz_4 I cut my hair today!

um.. what is the point of this thread?

I really don't think that it was a simple case of AVB not believing in him. If you think about how much pressure Andre was under, especially after the turn of the year, and when it was obvious that the senior players did not approve of him, them possibly doing things to undermine him, etc etc, imo he just did not have time to personally man-manage Torres. People easily forget that Andre showed complete faith in Torres at the start of the season. The first game of the season at Stoke - everyone thought Drogba would start. It would have been the easier option. But Andre made a clear statement that Torres was his man, that he would be the no.1 striker. And he played well in that game. Andre obviously did a lot of motivating before that game. I believe he started every single game until Swansea Then the pressure began to mount on AVB and Torres really did not help himself either, with the sending off against Swansea and some truly pathetic displays. RDM's job is simple. The majority of players are more relaxed now that Andre is gone and they are happy. He doesn't have to worry about them. He can focus on Torres. It's easy to blame AVB for every single thing that was wrong, but he was inexperienced and the pressure got to him. He couldn't handle it all at once.

He did not say that. He only used that comparison to talk about the enormous pressure on a striker when he doesn't score and live up to expectations

ohh! I just discovered that you can turn it off Click on the "prefs" icon

The shoutbox is really slowing the site down for me. I know you can minimize it, and I've done that, but it's still loads together with every page and causes the page to load a few inches below the first new post Is there any way to turn it off in the settings page itself, so it doesn't have to be there at all?

JT will get a long ban at the beginning of next season too. I think we need a RB rather than a CB. So that if Ivanovic has to play at CB, we don't have to rely on Bosingwa

yeah they're accurate I guess but it's not user-friendly at all. Their site is very slow for me (no idea why) and I don't like the way they have arranged their stats. Guess I'm being picky lol.

Anyone know a good site to get accurate stats? The FA site is useless lol. Would be nice to have one which had all of the important stats lined up next to each other. I used to visit one years back but have forgotten which site that was