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The tabloids are wank and cater to idiots, I don't expect any better from them. Can you link me to the Shreeves interview? I've heard he was a right twat today, especially with Ivanovic.

My bad, it didn't come out right. What I meant was that his performance at left back was unacceptable. I have nothing against the man, was delighted when he scored and always hope for the best from Torres, though I think we'll never see Torres c. 2008 again.

The Guardian was pretty good, in fairness BL. Even Sky were fair:

Well said, Ms. Layla :tophat:

Red Nev He's been England's Craig Foster since the 3-1 loss to Napoli For those who don't know of him, here is an article that barely exaggerates his feelings towards the Catalans: http://uncyclopedia....ki/Craig_Foster Edit: The Likes and Dislikes section of that is brilliant. I can confirm them as 100% true, as can any other Aussie.

What an amazing year it will be if we win both the finals and finish 4th, just unimaginable 4 months ago that any of the 3 were even remotely possible. Have that, Scousers.

Nah, Messi has only scored 24/33 penalties. He's not that great at them. Not shocking to see him miss, just bloody happy that it happened in this match!

Yellow cards can't be appealed anywhere, let alone the CL.

I'll not do that. I am a royal blue and I shall never take those goggles off. More seriously, like I said earlier, he has only let us down on the pitch twice in about a dozen years. Forget what he does off the pitch, he can sleep with everyone in England's wives as long as he keeps turning out top drawer performances.

Can I suggest that we add Victor Valdes to the poll? He took out Pique, thanks a lot Valdes!

I'd be delighted with Bayern. I'm pretty sure Kroos will have to be careful as well, LB. Lahm vs Ronaldo- he will dive and surely Lahm will get booked at some point. They are having heaps of internal problems- Ribery and Robben are at war with each other, and Toni Kroos is involved as well as he took the free kick that Ribery wanted to take (http://www.dailymail...time-scrap.html) and the vast array of talent they could be without for the final has me feeling very optimistic.

Gutted for Ramires and the rest of the lads that won't be playing. Terry won't get to make amends to the general public for Moscow (though we all remember just what a titan he was for 120 minutes) and that will hurt him, no doubt. Age, injuries, suspension- none of this will stop us. We are an irresistible juggernaut, and lets just hope that whoever we play in the final doesn't recognise that!

CHELSEA, CHELSEA, CHELS-EAAAA :blue scalf: What a day, what a day, I was absolutely dead after the game and slept until well after lunch time but nothing will take away from this! I'm taking the day off uni tomorrow to drink up I'm also proud to admit that Di Matteo/Newton's celebrations at the end very nearly, very nearly had me in tears. Moments later the gutted feeling that Australian football pundit and barely concealed Barcelona fan Craig Foster was emitting had me in tears of laughter.

I see BlueLion has resorted to cheating in a bid to stop me beating him to 30k posts by having a one-post-per-8-seconds rule.

He's one of the many Napoli fans

He's one of the many Napoli fans

I nearly smashed a light when Ramires scored!

Apart from the goal, Torres was dog shit. Lost the ball a couple of times, could have cost us the match. Well taken finish though.

Respect to Barcelona and their fans in particular though. They took the defeat graciously and the singing of Cant El Barca after the final whistle with such passion despite the loss was exceptional.

Also, we have absolutely 0 chance of getting this card rescinded. Thiago Motta was sent off for what shouldn't even have been a foul in 2010 and yet he still missed out. Mind you, he did have a meltdown some 30 seconds after seeing red, IIRC he choked Busquets and that may have influenced the decision.

Spot on, K. John is still our captain and one of our greatest players ever. He has only let us down twice on the pitch in his entire career and both times, we forgave him.

We have now gone 8 games without defeat against Barcelona. In the words of the famous African-American boxer Jack Johnson, "You're not world champion until you've beaten me". And instead of the "Great White Hope" we shall have the "Great UEFA Hope" in the final.

Parking won't work against Real, we'll have to pull off a smash-and-grab against them. Mourinho is much, much smarter and much more of a Machiavellian person than Guardiola, he will give up everything he holds dear in terms of a football philosophy to win. Bayern, we can play off the park no problems. Keep 60% possession and have like 20 shots. Half their team, especially vital players like Lahm and Kroos are on the verge of missing the final. Ribery and Robben apparently had a huge bust-up in training, with punches being thrown. Mario Gomez is just a shit Drogba, Luiz and Cahill can deal with him easily. Schweinsteiger has me a little bit worried, but given the extreme circumstances they're facing, it's a foregone conclusion for me if Bayern get into the final, UEFA may as well give us the trophy before the match.

And this is probably the greatest picture of all time, up there with the Soviet soldier lifting the flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945: Kalou and Drogba at right/left back

I hope this puts an end to all that 'Barcelona is the GOAT team' rubbish. If you can't break through something as simple as a packed defence, and with a 1 man advantage (which has happened twice) you're no better than average.