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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1r9dna_mourinho-press-conference-before-liverpool-match_sport Did the reporter really just say that "most neutrals think it would be nice if Liverpool win it because of Hillsborough."?!!! That's just...it's so....I don't even have the words to describe how stupid, annoying and disrespectful that is to the lives of the 96!

So, so sad to hear this. RIP. Thoughts with his family and friends.

Ha! The peace talks are the biggest joke since the UN sent the UNIFIL to "keep peace". It's just PR for Israel to create an image that they want peace and against violence, something to erase the images of the countless massacres from the memory of the average western citizen. The moment that they think it might actually lead to something, the back right out. It's not a matter of agreeing with the Palestinians. They can get the Palestinian "leaders" to agree to selling their own children, let alone land, for a night with Livni. They have always been corrupt and stupid. On any account, the Palestinian cause is no longer in the hands of the Palestinians themselves. The spearheads today are Iran and Hezboullah. There can be no agreements while neither can lose. No one ever agrees to peace willingly. Someone has to lose because peace must take the terms of the winner. You can't have fair and balanced peace!

MASSIVE boost if true. John Terry is the ultimate warrior, and more importantly, the ultimate leader.

There are thousands of Christian Palestinians in Lebanon still living in refugee camps just like the Muslim ones. There was never any differentiation between Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Funny thing about Shatila, the leader of the group that executed the massacre (yes, it was planned by Israel but it was executed by a Lebanese Christian extremist militia, the Israeli soldiers just stood at the entrance of the camp and lit it with flares), Samir Gaegae, is currently running for presidency in Lebanon and in the first vote got more than two times more votes from Muslim parliament members than Christian ones. Religious extremism is surprisingly flexible! Yes, the Muslims around the world have had to look up their "Muslim history" because they have the entire western media propaganda vilifying them. They have to prove, to themselves probably before others, that the religion and values that their parents raised them with is not as is being portrayed by the media. Same with black people in the middle of the last century in the USA who all learned their black history. Same with the Armenians I know here in Lebanon, to go back to the original point that started this conversation. They all know their Armenian history because they still feel like they are living in an unjust situation.

But those aren't just about Muslims unless you want to look at it that way. I can tell you of 1.5m Christians in Lebanon, about 3m in Syria (prewar, now probably less than 1m remain) and about 8m in Egypt are just as fucked off about the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Tens of thousands of Christians were thrown out of their houses in 1948 and thousands of Christians are persecuted in Palestine today. In Lebanon, for example, the resistance against Israel was initially made up from the secular left parties, mostly the Lebanese communist party. It was only till the late 80s that it became the "Islamic resistance". Even till this day, many of its military leaders are those that were the leaders of the secular resistance (like Moughniyye who was assassinated by the mosad in 2008 and Ayyach who they are trying to frame with the assassination of Al Hariri in 2005). Same in Palestine with secular Fateh, but now it's sectarian Hamas. Those issues that you mentioned make the jobs for those Sheikhs easier because there already is a great hostility and hatred towards the west in the middle east, but they are not the origin of Muslim extremism. The origin was Afghanistan and Chechnya in the late 70s and early 80s when the UK and the US thought it would be a good idea to use something in Islam called Jihad to turn the Muslim inhabitants against the Soviet union.

Maybe we can plead innocent by reason of insanity!

Yeah, the biggest number of foreigners fighting in Syria from a western country is by far from the UK, followed by Germany and the US. It's not about who they are going to kill and blow up in Syria, it's about the fact that every single one of those Muslim extremists is a walking suicide bomber when he returns to his country. And the ones that stay in those armed groups in the middle east are just as dangerous. They've gained something very powerful and invaluable in war and that cannot be imitated: fighting experience. But the solution cannot be taking their passports away. This is the price the UK is paying for endorsing and funding the sheikhs who preach for Jihad and extremism and giving them British citizenships back in the 80s. That is the route of all the Muslim extremism in the world right now, a few hundred sheikhs in some of the poorest areas in the world, paid to preach their version of "Jihad" against whatever bugs their funders.

Maybe in another 100 years. Wonder if he'll ever apologize for his role in the current continuing genocide in Syria. Worst part is that that fucker would probably do it to his own people if him staying in charge depends on it. We saw glimpses of it in Takasim already. You have absolutely no idea of the dirty role that Erdogan and the Turks are playing in the middle east right now in the name of Sunnis and Islam. But they aren't the US or the UK, they are a part of this middle east and it most likely come back to bite them in the ass.

99 years since the Armenian genocide. How can any of the leaders of the "free world" talk of freedom, democracy or human values while this crime still goes unpunished till this day?!

Nonsense. We have one of the best medical staff in professional sports. Probably the best thing AVB did for the club.

Maybe not in this particular pic But yeah, definitely, Ballack would have had a lot of females crushing on him.

Full highlights if anyone is interested: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1r1fqn_chelsea-u21s-v-arsenal-highlights_sport If I'm not mistaken, this is the match that guaranteed we finish the regular season on top of the U21 table (and obviously we qualify for the play-offs). That's really remarkable considering that all our best U21 players are out on loans!

Of course he has. He can refuse to agree personal terms with them and the deal would be off. Likewise, the club can refuse any offers below 30m. It depends on the relation between the club and the player (and largely on how long left he has on his contract).

Of course not, but there will be other offers around the 20m mark and the player will of course has some saying in what offer gets accepted.

Yeah sometimes their website is not updated. I always as their Twitter account, they always answer.

I don't follow transfer rumors too much so I have no idea who has or has not made a bid for him, I'm just saying that united would be perfect for him. And if like I read on the past page here a deal with united is close then he would actually be choosing united even if there aren't any other offers on the table atm because he knows and we all know that if he stalls to the summer there will be loads of other offers for him.

They also say he's yet to train.

Honestly, I can't blame him for choosing united. It's his best option, imo, and I'm not talking about the money. He'll be a nailed on starter and start almost every game. The pressure is much lower with no title challenge or CL, but it would still be a massive upgrade on Southampton. We're forgetting that he's still a kid and he can still develop and gain consistency and experience...etc. I think even if he goes to united this summer, we might still see him in a Chelsea shirt in a few years time.

"Major doubt" for Liverpool according to Physioroom. I would have liked him to get 15-20 minutes off the bench.

Never really thought about it. I guess Paulo was the most handsome in our squad.

Playing under Jose can make him the best striker in the world. That can't happen in Paris. Surely that's got to be a huge motive for him.

I'll feel much better if it is Proenca who's officiating. We always get amazing results with him. Wouldn't mind that Turkish ref either.

I am too. I'd give us a chance against anyone in the world at the bridge. That said, I do think you always need a few things to go your way to win a CL semifinal.

Thanks. I get that a lot!