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Boateng picked up a knock, but will still play, apparently. They could finish the game with no CB's...

We don't have the luxury of being able to worry about that, he is a City player.

Zonal Marking's 'final preview' article... http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/05/18/bayern-v-chelsea-tactics-champions-league-final-preview/

Juan Mata on the Battersea Power Station site.... "Spectacular, the biggest brick-built building in Europe, a symbol of London, the Pink Floyd cover..." http://www.guardian....a-bayern-munich

Lahm writes off Chelsea http://www1.skysport.../11095/7765111/

No, so we don't have to fly to Dubai in the middle of a season.. This way at least it's still pre-season and only two teams have to do it, and those sides will be the most marketable anyway.

A while ago.. the premier league were talking about having league games in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (in the middle of a season). Why not just make this the fixture we play abroad instead.

Why not think outside the box and have it abroad, sort of like an 'advert' for the Premier League. not too far though, Amsterdam Arena for example.

Justin_3d

It's hard to be pessimistic after the Barcelona tie, I'm sure the players will feel the same way. Analysing the game it seems pretty much everything is either 50/50 or 60/40 in Bayern’s favour. Anyone who thinks it's a full gone conclusion either way, has never seen a football match before.

Bayern are panicking, the president & manager have hit out at the club itself and now Drogba.

Well, well, well..... ............ - Frank Ribery http://www1.skysport.../11095/7762655/

Assume so, I'd prefer black tbh though. When we rip out the old ones, they should keep hold of Eva Carneiro's, and sell it in a charity auction. Preserve the butt print, and get her to sign it.

We will be getting leather bucket seating like United have.. Big improvement, considering our current dugout seats are those plastic folding cinema style deck chairs. Little improvements like this just give the club a more 'premium' image, and of course the extra revenue.

Yea, noticed that, must be a bug.. Keeps saying you posted 2 minutes ago, when it was a day ago etc.

Kez hasn't even been active, KieranVogel should have been nominated, fastest member to receive mod status since joining.

“If he pulls the plug on them you will be able to pick the club up for the price of a puzzle magazine from a news stand.” Not really, his comments were over dramatised & nonsensical. If I was to judge Bayern Munich from his comments alone, I would assume they were a joke of a club. Chelsea is on the road to self sufficiency, if it wasn't for manager pay-outs we would have achieved Kenyon's original target back in 09.

I'm still against football shirts being over cluttered, but yea.. it's somewhat discrete and doesn't really take the focus away. At the time, reaching a Champions League Final seemed impossible.

Can someone re-post that Avengers spoof image of Hulk, the "I have an army, we have a hulk" one?

That's a bit of an overreaction. 3 days to go yet, the dust is already settling from City's title win, and today Kenny was sacked. Overall the build up has been the same as any Champions league final.

Mentally, the Bayern players are in deep trouble if they fixate on how much the core of this Chelsea squad want this, after all the injustices.

Let's not overstate the home advantage, it's not exactly your typical run of the mill home game. It will be an alien atmosphere for Bayern, in more ways than one.

Somewhat surprised by that.. Nevertheless, clearly a man with principles, remember Steve Clarke was unemployed when he accepted the Liverpool job.