TorontoChelsea

400 Euros from Canada? The flight alone will be more than that and that's not including hotel, food, and tickets. If you wanted to see a couple of gamee (say Spurs and Sunderland at home April 6 and 14th) you're talking about $2,000 just the flight and hotels. You add in food, other transportation, touring, and tickets, and you're talking about $3K for a week and that's without being extravagant .

As @the only place to be put it in another thread, if you don't like the atmosphere, you can always buy tickets and go. It was a cold Thursday night in a crappy tournament against an uninteresting opposition. The tournament was vastly more important for Bucharest who have no hope in hell of ever winning the CL again but for us, we won the best club trophy in the world last year and we're expected to get excited by a glorified Intertoto Cup?

Lazio is 6th in Seria A and Rubin Kazan is 6th in Russia. Chelsea and Spurs are both better. Benfica is a decent club for sure, but not a top side. We could lose to anyone but there isn't a team we should lose to but that's the nature of the Europa League. Spurs would be the worst for me because it would make us play a very strong lineup because of our rivalry and we'd all hate to lose to them.

Happy to win because of those annoying fans who were on here, but I still hate this tournament. Look at the 8 teams left, which team would be a major accomplishment to beat? The two best teams left in the tournament are Chelsea and Spurs so even if we do well, we're just beating teams we should be beating anyway. I'd rather win it than not, but not if the cost is going to be playing a regular starting XI. Mata easy MOTM to me. Hazard and Cole were excellent as well and Cech and Torres put in good games but...Mata had a goal and 2 assists. We won 3-1 and Mata was involved in every goal. No other player was involved in more than 1 goal and neither Cole nor Hazard were involved in scoring at all and the game is about results.

I chose Modric but not because of his experience in the EPL but because he has shown that he can be an excellent player in it.

Well, we're through but at the cost of almost all our starters playing a full game. It might not matter, but it might.

Oh Fernando...there goes his confidence again.

Penalty!

Ha! Announcer just called Hazard a "Frenchman".

Torres!!!!

Cole is having a great game.

The Captain!!!

Chelsea need 2 more now.

Mata!

http://www.kakibara.com/watch/live/stream/online/free/tv/video/channel/feed/link/broadcast/vivo/gratis/p2p/diretta/1/541771/march-14-2013/chelsea-vs-steaua-bucharest.html

Spurs look like they're going through now anyway.

Stupid Spurs game going into extra time means that Chelsea game is not on TV.

William Gallas is one of the worst defenders in the Premier League now. In their game against us, his incompetence helped us on three goals. He really has no business playing at this level. I'm hoping Spurs have to go 120 minutes to tire them out and then lose...If anything, this game might get Bale player of the year as it proves how valuable he is.

I don't remember who won the Europa League beyond last year. In 10 years, the competition won't exist. Our not making the top-4 would have drastic and perhaps long-term consequences for Chelsea.

The wrong lineup. Top-4 must be the priority and this is a normal starting XI which means that we're going to be playing a worse team against West Ham. Yes, we should be able to beat West Ham at home with a lesser side but we should also be able to do the same with Bucharest.

I guess the top-4 finish is less important than the Europa League to Rafa. This is a regular starting XI 3 days before we face West Ham.

http://deadspin.com/watch-an-italian-tv-presenter-lose-his-mind-over-milan-453520575?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews Now this is someone going out of their mind when Milan misses a great chance and then Barca scores. Just incredible.

It's made up and it makes no sense. Just paying the teams would cost 4.2B pounds never mind actually putting the tournament on... What's the point for Qatar? And for teams? Top players are already playing 50-60 games a year. There's no room for more playing time. A 24-team league means 46 games for every team which is an entire new season. Where is the time for that even? I don't know how anyone ever took this nonsense seriously.

Ivanovic was the best crossing RB in the Premier league last season with a 30% success rate. (Zabaleta was 13%) No fullbacks hit crosses with regularity that forwards can get as their crosses are from further away and usually at difficult angles. .

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