The association football 2009/10 thread...

[jellyheadrobertson]

Rooney is just a monster force this season. Hope he plays like this for England.

[Sammi_Curr]

He reminds me of Purpleidiot.

Playing up for Pompey 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfS8G8eVTJo

Playing up for Pompey 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKgkcYvH ... re=related

[MickeyG]

Rooney is just a monster force this season. Hope he plays like this for England.

He'll get injured before the world cup, you watch.

[MickeyG]

3-0 to the champions!

[Hellsinkey]

Good game, I hope they keep up next weekend.

[jellyheadrobertson]

Beckham out of World Cup

[Hellsinkey]

I don't know if he was ever really in, in the first place. News say he's coming here for operation.

[Sammi_Curr]

UEFA Champions League draw
Quarter-finals
1: Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) v FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA)
2: FC Bayern München (GER) v Manchester United FC (ENG)
3: Arsenal FC (ENG) v FC Barcelona (ESP, holders)
4: FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) v PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)


UEFA Europa League draw
Quarter-finals:
1: Fulham FC (ENG) v VfL Wolfsburg (GER)
2: Hamburger SV (GER) v R. Standard de Liège (BEL)
3: Valencia CF (ESP) v Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
4: SL Benfica (POR) v Liverpool FC (ENG)

[pieceofme]

UEFA Champions League draw
Quarter-finals
1: Olympique Lyonnais (FRA) v FC Girondins de Bordeaux (FRA)
2: FC Bayern München (GER) v Manchester United FC (ENG)
3: Arsenal FC (ENG) v FC Barcelona (ESP, holders)
4: FC Internazionale Milano (ITA) v PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS)


UEFA Europa League draw
Quarter-finals:
1: Fulham FC (ENG) v VfL Wolfsburg (GER)
2: Hamburger SV (GER) v R. Standard de Liège (BEL)
3: Valencia CF (ESP) v Club Atlético de Madrid (ESP)
4: SL Benfica (POR) v Liverpool FC (ENG)

I'm happy with this draw. Could be a United Barca final again!

Arsenal vs Barca should be a corker.

[Hellsinkey]

Bayern Munich or Manchester United v Lyon or Bordeaux

Internazionale or CSKA Moscow v Arsenal or Barcelona

Actually the quarterfinals look harder than the semifinals might be.


Hamburg or Standard Liege v Fulham or Wolfsburg

Valencia or Atletico Madrid v Benfica or Liverpool

Fulham would maybe even have a chance to get to the final, but not winning it.

[pieceofme]

Big game tomorrow. No doubt Liverpool will raise their games playing us.

[MickeyG]

Clash of the Titans today. Well, one titan and one team that last won the league 20 years ago.

[Rafal]

Big game tomorrow. No doubt Liverpool will raise their games playing us.

1:1 so far.

[Hellsinkey]

No doubt they will complain about the penalty. Mascherano still pulled Valencia's shirt when it mattered.

[MickeyG]

All in all a good win. Keeping above Chelsea and Arsenal will be tough from here on in. I think a win at home against Chelsea is a must, as I don't see them dropping too much elsewhere.

Spurs or Shitty City will have to royally fuck up now not to finish fourth. If Liverpool finish 5th, they will probably complain to Uefa that 5 times winners should be included in the CL every year to enhance to tournament.

[jellyheadrobertson]

All in all a good win. Keeping above Chelsea and Arsenal will be tough from here on in. I think a win at home against Chelsea is a must, as I don't see them dropping too much elsewhere.

Spurs or Shitty City will have to royally fuck up now not to finish fourth. If Liverpool finish 5th, they will probably complain to Uefa that 5 times winners should be included in the CL every year to enhance to tournament.

Liverpool might not even finish fifth or sixth !!!!! Based on Liverpool's play this year, they do not deserve any European competition
Today-penalty aside, I don't think we had a shot until the 90th minute, Man utd were the better side- end of.

A win or draw would have been nice but the loss is one step closer to getting rid of the idiot Benitez.

[MickeyG]

Chelsea surprisingly dropped points today so maybe my post above was premature.

If new money comes in, it wouldn't surprise me to see Rafa sacked at the end of the season. With new money, the Yanks might be able to afford to sack him. It might be worth cashing in on Stevie Me, too. He's not getting any younger and his value could plummet in another year.

[pieceofme]

All in all a good win. Keeping above Chelsea and Arsenal will be tough from here on in. I think a win at home against Chelsea is a must, as I don't see them dropping too much elsewhere.

Spurs or Shitty City will have to royally fuck up now not to finish fourth. If Liverpool finish 5th, they will probably complain to Uefa that 5 times winners should be included in the CL every year to enhance to tournament.

Good results today. Beating the scum and Chelsea dropping points.

[the_kid_from_kensington]

WOO HOO!!

Just managed to book my tickets and flights to see the mighty Arsenal take on Barcelona at the Camp Nou!!!!!

[pieceofme]

WOO HOO!!

Just managed to book my tickets and flights to see the mighty Arsenal take on Barcelona at the Camp Nou!!!!!

Nice.

[Hellsinkey]

What a fuck up in the end. I hope Rooney isn't injured and the away goal made a difference.

[MickeyG]

Never do anything easy, United. Interesting kit United played in. Reminded me of England.

[pieceofme]

Never do anything easy, United. Interesting kit United played in. Reminded me of England.

Probably why they lost the game in the end!

Still I hope Rooney's injury isn't too bad. I'm still relatively confident of winning the tie at Old Trafford.

[MickeyG]

2 - 4 weeks is what they are saying about Rooneys injury.

Season over!

[Hellsinkey]

I had a bad feeling about this game. Drogba was offside, but I admit ManU was poor, Nani and Macheda should have played for longer. They will have trouble with Munich I'm afraid.

[MickeyG]

Poor tactics from Ferguson, playing for a draw, at home, from the start.

[ryan76]

WOO HOO!!

Just managed to book my tickets and flights to see the mighty Arsenal take on Barcelona at the Camp Nou!!!!!

I hope Barca manage to score (at least) 10 goals, the ones they should have scored at the Emirates last week.

From a bitter, bitter Wolves fan.

[pieceofme]

Messi just destroyed Arsenal.

Never seen Arsenal outplayed as they have been against Barca.

Inter vs Barca could be a good one. Inter seem really solid so it will be interesting to see how they do against the flair of Barca.

[SLASH1976]

Messi is from another world

[CliffByford]

All this begs the question - why cannot he recreate his form for Argentina? Is it the players around him? The system that Maradona imposes on the side? Look at how Messi played tonight, then watch him in the national side. It's like two different players entirely.

Incidentally, QPR are still shit.