CL Last 16 vs Barcelona (feb. 24 & mar. 18)

[Cambridge Blue]

Re: CL Last 16 vs Barcelona

Flights and hotel booked.Hope i can get a couple of tickets whilst in Barcelona.
Are spare tickets normally available?

 

[Bottomless_Sailor]

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The only team I wanted to avoid was Real Madrid. Barcelona have a brilliant front 3, but behind that they're very average compared to previous seasons.

 

[jonmcity]

Re: CL Last 16 vs Barcelona

Flights and hotel booked.Hope i can get a couple of tickets whilst in Barcelona.
Are spare tickets normally available?

Yes you can buy of the old guys around the ground or on a ticket exchange if you can not get in the City end.

 

[sam-caddick]

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At least the kids haven't been shafted. MCFC v Schalke. It'll make Cheesy happy!!

Actually they sort of have! Schalke were by far the best second place team, they only finished behind Chelsea on goal difference.

I agree.

Shalke have one of the best academy teams in the competition and lost out to eventual winners, Barcelona, 1-0, in last seasons semi final.

They also knocked Chelsea out in last seasons quarter finals.

One of the toughest games possible in my opinion.

 

[PSmyth07]

This will piss Platini and UEFA off, even more. :-)

“It is unbelievable. We don’t need to come (to the draw) because every time it is the same,” former Barcelona player and Director of Football Begiristain told Sky Sports News HQ.

Haha......serious quote?

Yeah, he also mentioned playing Bayern and CSKA again.

 

[aka blue jambo]

£75 return from Edinburgh ... had to be done

 

[carlos tevez is a blue]

Last seasons trip to Barcelona was a let down, shite view of the match and a lot of fucking stairs. Will watch it in the pub.

 

[blueinsa]

Re: CL Last 16 vs Barcelona

At least the kids haven't been shafted. MCFC v Schalke. It'll make Cheesy happy!!

Actually they sort of have! Schalke were by far the best second place team, they only finished behind Chelsea on goal difference.

I agree.

Shalke have one of the best academy teams in the competition and lost out to eventual winners, Barcelona, 1-0, in last seasons semi final.

They also knocked Chelsea out in last seasons quarter finals.

One of the toughest games possible in my opinion.

No surprise there then.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

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Didn't they just remove the Chelsea balls from the other pots?

That's the most likely explanation which means that they can easily see which is which. And if they can see that then it must be easy to fix.

Doesn't work that that.

They have two bowls out of which the pairings are made. The first bowl A is the runners up bowl, out of which the 1st team is drawn. The second bowl - let's say Bowl B - is then made up there and then with the required balls representing the possible opponents.

So for the 1st draw, all possibilities are in play. When they prepare Bowl B for the 2nd match, they don't put in the group winner that was already drawn in round 1, so there's 1 less ball in Bowl B for the 2nd draw. For the 3rd draw, there's 2 less balls etc. Finally with the last draw, only 1 ball is put into bowl B.

So it all works and all seems above board. The issue however is that we can't actually see what teams are in each ball, so it would be possible (somehow) for bowl B to continue say 7 balls, all with the same team name inside.

This explanations sounds plausible. Is there video footage of the draw ? I only heard it in the radio.

 

[Blue Mist]

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booked from birmingham, fly out tuesday fly back thursday afternoon with Ryanair, £87. get on it blues

Bastard ! I saw that price but by the time the 6 of us got organised it was £107. see you on the plane.