LOL NORWICH

I want them to go up obviously but the future is hard to call really. We need to go up for financial reasons but to be honest 4th bottom would be a real achievement in the Premiership what with having potentially little transfer funds. Mick has done a fantastic job getting a group of players together without spending much money an making them a decent team in a very poor division where no team has any consistency. It would be hard to see where we would get the points from to stay up, outside the obvious 6 points we'd get against Newcastle.

Dundee United will get relegated then lose a cup final all in the space of a week. :D That's gonna be a good week.

fuck, Real Madrid 4-2 Barcelona.

Top game though, still 6 points clear but really bad defending, Valdes was pretty poor too when called upon :(

I don't know how people can say Owen is shit.

Yeah, people go really overboard on the criticism of Owen, though it's quite annoying how he can be awesome for Madrid and then miss bagloads in England games.

could have done with leicester holding on against Brighton :-\

oh well, beating burnley 1-0 was all we needed and now we're climbing up the division. I reckon the mighty gills will be safe if we cand beat crewe next week

The Madrid-Barca game was pretty good to watch too. it'll be interesting to see how the season finishes now.

The Spurs Newcastle game was one of the worst games I've seen this season (and not just cos we lost and we played like 11 bags of shit)

The Real Barca game was some of the most sublime attacking footy that I've ever seen.

So it balanced out.

Samuel Eto'o's goal was pretty good, just from the amount of effort and pace he used.

Eto'o's possibly out for the season with that knee injury now, bollocks :'(

-edit- It's just been said that it's not as bad as first feared and he'll only be out for 10 days :love:

Stevie Gerrard is out of the Juve game :$:$:'(

He is also England's third top all time goalscorer. People are quick to forget that.

:-\

We're gonna lose anyway, we might as well have an excuse

That said, we play better WITHOUT him, guys like Biscan raise their games when Gerrard isn't around, and Xabi will be back as well.

the thing with Owen is, he is a really good player but then he can suffer from dry spells and everyone starts to doubt him. Then he'll go and score loads again. I guess my point is he is a good player but he needs more games at Madrid and more goal scoring consistency

Cheers MMM :cool::y:

:(
Stevie G
We're going to lose now. An unfit Xabi and Biscan in the middle. Why do injuries have to fuck us over.

Cisse's back in the squad though, should play some part according to Benitez ;)

DJBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIL

Anyone watch Dream Team on Sunday

Cisse = Ryan Naysmith

I'll put money on it

Trezeguet is out

1978
Wales win the Grand Slam in Rugby
The Pope Dies
Liverpool lose in the League Cup final to the eventual League Champions that year {Forest}
Liverpool win the European Cup

2005
Wales win the Grand Slam in Rugby
The Pope Dies
Liverpool lose in the League Cup final to the eventual League Champions that year {Chelsea}
Will Liverpool make it a clean sweep and win the European Cup?

I do hope 'Pool win it actually purely because they'll abuse Utd for years over it.

Fucking hell, every time they pull stats like that out you KNOW Liverpool are gonna lose

Mr Brightside Cactus Sid

I couldn't give a toss if they won it. Rather them than Chelsea actually.

Thats crazy shit and on one hand I do hope they win to shove it in Utd face but I doubt they'll beat juvi.

I hope it doesn't happen, but 6 months from a double broken leg? No way. There's gotta be something up.

Another goal for Chelsea when something should've been done about it, lucky deflection of Lucio, and looks like they are through.

Milan are 1 up against Inter, so they're through as well

Let's be fair Rob you don't exactly reflect the majority of Utd opinion very often :p

Come on Inter :(

3 defeats in a season and all to your major rivals would be gutting.

Actually its a typical United reaction, they hate whoever does better than them, hence the whole Arsenal/Man Utd thing escalating.

COME ON INTER I LOVE YOU

To be honest (and look at me standing up for Man U fans :eek: ) but its the same for everyone. A big reason why so many people hate Man U in the first place is because they are/were so succesful.

1-1 now in Bayern shades of offside but I'm happy cos it makes it more exciting.

And Bayern have to be the worst diving team I've ever seen - all over the place they are going down.

Pretty disgraceful scenes in the Inter/Milan game

Dida just got hit by a flare, and the goalmouth is full of them

Doesn't bode well for tomorrow :(

Seems that about 50 odd flares were thrown on the pitch and engulfed Dida's goal in smoke and he was hit.

Chelsea are through

Game at San Siro's been suspended for now

Just seen the flare hitting and he was remarkably lucky that it hit him on the shoulder. If I was Milan I would refuse to play on.

Utd fans not caring if Liverpool won the European Cup though? Can't see that somehow.

Its crazy just watching its been abandoned. Inter :(

Game in Milan has been abandoned. Tried to restart it but the flares just kept coming.

:nono: @ Inter v Milan

AC go through now though. :cool:

Not seen the Inter game yet, i'll check out the highlights later.

Chelsea through, a bit lucky i suppose but overall it was deserved.

Also, Luton are up i believe.

I would like to clarify that this was said on the assumption that Shay Given would be playing. With Given pretty certain to miss the second leg i really doubt Newcastle can hold out as i don't really rate Harper :(

United supporter from London - If I don't then who does? ;)

Man U fans who are on TV crying about something come off like wankers anyway.

Never said that though. I said I'd rather them than Chelsea. Personally, I can't see past Milan.

Yeah but why the hell was he holding his head like it was on fire though.

WOW, inter fans going crazy lighting the goddamn field on fire. First time im ashamed to be a supporter of my team :(

http://tpww.net/forums/showthread.ph...355#post811355

fucking slutsssssssssssss

Munich left it way too late. Shame too, those 2 goals could have made it hell interesting if they'd been scored about 10 minutes earlier [/obvious]

Flares are magnificent in adding colour to games but it's disgraceful when they are thrown onto the field. Disgraceful by the Inter fans...the sad thing is those sorts of incidents happen regularly in Greece and other areas around Europe especially, with flares, bottles, seats etc being piffed on field and hitting or just missing players, officials etc. :nono:

Some pics I found (I haven't seen the incident yet but I will later today)

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/20...b__430x262.jpg

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...1347438497.jpg

http://cache.gettyimages.com/comp/52...57C85AE85A779B

Also in that bottom picture yianni posted, you can see 2 flares about to be launched [/obvious]

Gooner that arseblog.com thing is a load of shit regarding UEFA being harsher on English clubs than the rest. What about when Roma got the punishment of having 3 home matches behind closed doors after that incident with the coin hitting Frisk in the head on Matchday 1 of this season's Champions League?

If an English club's supporters chuck flares onto the pitch and hit a player like Inter's fans did they'd get the same sanctions. English clubs were banned from European competitions cos there were incidents in stadiums where cunts died as a result of English hooligans, like Heysel 1985. On that note, I hear there'll be a beef up in security for Juventus-Liverpool tomorrow cos some Juve supporters may feel like "revenge" for that terrible day 20 years ago.

Back to the flares, I thought they were banned fullstop in the Champions League?

Heysel wasn't entirely Liverpool fans' fault, though

:roll: Liverpool fans charged Juve fans

To be fair the idiots who stuck up a chicken wire "fence" should have had a bit more sense. In fact the game should probably have never been played there in the first place. Fact is, English hooliganism has died down compared to a few decades ago, the Italians appears to be on the rise and it might take a few deaths for something to be done about it.

And flares should be banned full stop from games, I don't understand what purpose they serve.

The "neutral" section was just asking for trouble.

Liverpool fans have never said that at the end of the day it wasn't the fault of a number of our fans who caused the deaths of 39 Juventus fans. It was our fault, and Liverpool FC have never shyed away from taking the blame.

Despite this, there were a number of contributing factors which resulted in the incidents, things which were not the fault of Liverpool and would possibly have saved the lives of those people.

The stadium was a complete shithole, it was falling apart. The fans were not segregated properly and the security officer did absolutely nothing to prevent a confrontation between the fans from happening. A lot of people forget that the Juventus fans were throwing things at the Liverpool fans, but of course, the end result is what always happens with hooligans..... its the proper fans who end up getting hurt.

Liverpool fans were responsible for what happened, but I am telling you right now, that if fans from 2 countries were put in an unsegregated area at the European Cup final, then another Heysel disaster would be very very possible

:wtf:

Dudek, Finnan, Hyppia, Carragher, Traore, Riise, Alonso, Biscan, Nunez, Garcia, Baros

Not a bad side at all

True now you are holding your hands up but to many Juventus fans its all a case of too little too late. I admit I've only watched football for 10 years or so but I can't remember anything from Liverpool about remembering Heysel (sp?) before they were drawn against each other this year. Since then its been like PR city (and rightfully so) but before that I don't remember much about the whole thing from Liverpool.

Liverpool fans remember Heysel, they just don't make it that public because we are ashamed of what happened, this has been the perfect chance to publicly say that the Liverpool fans of 2005 are sorry for what happened. I'm not gonna have a go at the Juventus fans who turned their backs on everything, like the media did, because I can understand how, to some people, its completely unforgivable what happened.

So, 0-0 at half time. Zambrotta is destroying us down their left and Nunez has looked truly inept. Xabi ain't gonna last 90 minutes, and Baros is not trying as hard as he could.

Played well in defence, but I can't see it lasting 90 minutes.

It's a terrible game really, but if Liverpool go through then i won't mind.

Lyon are heading through aswell :cool:

why were they allowed to have flares? BADS SECURITY

only complete an utter assholes would let a bunhc of drunk fans inside a stadium witgh thousands of people inside, with flares. You could kill somebody with one. Sure I guess the look nice, but guns are nice, should every fan have a gun?

This is the most boring game I've ever seen.

Word on Baros he's been wank for a long while now.

In stoppage time - If Juve score it'l be a travesty.

I disgaree.....that was the greatest game of all time

:D :D :D :D :D :D

Hyppia and Alonso are gods

Nah nah nah nah nah

Ha Ha Haha Haha

:love: :love: :love: :love:

I disagree that was the most boring game of all time.

Don't be such a tool

It was an exciting game for Liverpool and Juventus fans

If you didn't care who won then you'd find it boring

I actually thought the second half was quite entertaining

Well done Liverpool, English side guaranteed in the final now :love:

Juventus were really worse than i'd have expected.

Lyon lost on pens to PSV :(

:cool:

Would like to add to those Baros comments. He is well and truly gash.

Obviously Chelski are gonna piss all over us, but its nice to beat a side like Juventus

Cisse's back :cool:

That's all that matters

Yeah and I'm not a Liverpool fan :|

Obviously you guys were more interested inherintly but to me it was boring as. Just like anyone who watched Spurs Newcastle would have found it boring.

Given your history of writing Liverpool off they're already into the final :D

Well if you're a Liverpool fan you're a fucking pathetic one because this is one of the best nights ever

You should have had your heart in your mouth and the relief of victory was like cumming in your belly button

Fuck Chelsea, I think we've got a good chance with Alonso, Gerrard and Cisse back

Not to mention they've only beat us slightly each time, without Cisse and injuring Alonso

Didn't expect that one have to say. Chelsea Milan final then more than likely and Milan to win it. I'd put a fortune on them over 2 legs against Chelsea but in the one off final who knows.

Oh yeah, didn't see this posted but Hitzlsperger has signed a pre-contract with Stuttgart

Looks like O'Leary will need that £20m more than ever :lol::lol::lol:

I'm a realist, we've got some good results so far, but its got to run out sometime, and hell, even if we did get to the final, I can't see us beating Milan.

packt up is a Newcastle fan as far as I know

Wasn't first choice anyway and apart from his admitidly vicious shot he never added much to the team.

No wonder he's disappointed about the match then

Probably wondering why Liverpool were passing instead of boxing each other

Frustrating that Liverpool are so shit in away games domestically when you see how they've done in Europe. They might not be in the title race if they had decent away form but 4th place would be sewn up.

I think it's disappointing Liverpool aren't hyped enough for domestic games

But I'm sure Rafa will have a clearout in the Summer, all we need is a forth place spot

Champions league is great but we're not good enough yet, least we can laugh at the mancs, if we win, amazing

Can you read I said I'm NOT a Liverpool fan.

Sorry I didn't realise I'd writen in code.

Pool eh?

Tougher than Juve, what a crap team they are. Lack incision, movement and definately a finisher (I don't even rate Trez.. he misses to many imo and is one lazy fucker)

Anyway I gotta get up at 7:30 am.. down to the Bridge to get me tickets for the match ^_^.

Exactly how many are in the Villa squad now? Assuming O'Leary is correct and it's the smallest in Premiership, before you start losing people on frees...

Very few 2 keepers 6 defenders 6 midfielders and 5 strikers 2 of which have no experience really and one of whom is Carlton Cole who is possibly the worst player I've ever seen for us

Wow, I had the sheakes for the whole game. Had to look away for most of the match.
I'm so proud of the team for the effort they put in. Hyppia was a rock tonight, man of the match for me.
Oh and all the Baros haters, look at the work effort he puts in. His finishing has been poor but he gives a 110 % each match. He runs his heart out and that's what matters.
Good to see Cisse and Alonso back.
Bring on Chelsea, underdogs again, revenge time.