It's not the competition, the seedings, the clubs who started the G14...nowt to do with any of that...it's the way the games are infuriatingly refereed that makes me hate the competition. We gave 43 fouls away at El Camp Nou, FORTY-THREE! We can go three Premier League games and not give that many fouls away. The games are ref'd ridiculously. The games are stop-start-stop-start-stop all the time. There's too much diving, too much dropping to knees, too much feigning injury, too much of this wanting the ball kicked out when a player is down...it's not enjoyable to watch, it's just frustrating.The Fat el Hombre said:nijinsky's fetlocks said:Threads like this do make me laugh.
When we were shite, and in the old second division, we would have given a testicle to be dining at football's top table.
Now we are there, and good enough to mount a challenge, and folk are falling over themselves to rubbish the competition.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this is the trophy I now want more than anything, as to me being recognised as the best team in Europe trumps being seen as the best team in England.
Agreed mate. Not particularly this thread but there's been some serious mard arse comments on this forum about the champs league. If we were never to play in it again you can be pretty sure that all or almost all of our first team would want to leave, so yes it probably is really all that
"These are lasagnesgordondaviesmoustache said:I think people would appreciate it a lot more if they knew the words to the theme tune.
I'm more of a linguini kind of guy, myself.KippaxCitizen said:"These are lasagnesgordondaviesmoustache said:I think people would appreciate it a lot more if they knew the words to the theme tune.
LASAGNES"
You say that, but the games I watched without us in it didn't have anything like that sort of number in it. I thought Chelsea - PSG and Bayern - Rags were both fairly physical games. It's just Barcelona who get away with diving all over the place. They should get Suarez. He'd suit their style perfectly.KippaxCitizen said:It's not the competition, the seedings, the clubs who started the G14...nowt to do with any of that...it's the way the games are infuriatingly refereed that makes me hate the competition. We gave 43 fouls away at El Camp Nou, FORTY-THREE! We can go three Premier League games and not give that many fouls away. The games are ref'd ridiculously. The games are stop-start-stop-start-stop all the time. There's too much diving, too much dropping to knees, too much feigning injury, too much of this wanting the ball kicked out when a player is down...it's not enjoyable to watch, it's just frustrating.The Fat el Hombre said:nijinsky's fetlocks said:Threads like this do make me laugh.
When we were shite, and in the old second division, we would have given a testicle to be dining at football's top table.
Now we are there, and good enough to mount a challenge, and folk are falling over themselves to rubbish the competition.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this is the trophy I now want more than anything, as to me being recognised as the best team in Europe trumps being seen as the best team in England.
Agreed mate. Not particularly this thread but there's been some serious mard arse comments on this forum about the champs league. If we were never to play in it again you can be pretty sure that all or almost all of our first team would want to leave, so yes it probably is really all that
Dani Alvez and Busquets, I will hate those two cunts forever. They aren't footballers just two cheats who happen to be on a pitch where football is being played.I'm With Stupid said:You say that, but the games I watched without us in it didn't have anything like that sort of number in it. I thought Chelsea - PSG and Bayern - Rags were both fairly physical games. It's just Barcelona who get away with diving all over the place. They should get Suarez. He'd suit their style perfectly.KippaxCitizen said:It's not the competition, the seedings, the clubs who started the G14...nowt to do with any of that...it's the way the games are infuriatingly refereed that makes me hate the competition. We gave 43 fouls away at El Camp Nou, FORTY-THREE! We can go three Premier League games and not give that many fouls away. The games are ref'd ridiculously. The games are stop-start-stop-start-stop all the time. There's too much diving, too much dropping to knees, too much feigning injury, too much of this wanting the ball kicked out when a player is down...it's not enjoyable to watch, it's just frustrating.The Fat el Hombre said:Agreed mate. Not particularly this thread but there's been some serious mard arse comments on this forum about the champs league. If we were never to play in it again you can be pretty sure that all or almost all of our first team would want to leave, so yes it probably is really all that
tommybooth said:Lets win the fucker. Smelt the trophy down, and send it back to the French twat.
The best team didn't win it in 2008, however they did in 2007 (Ancelotti's Milan).KippaxCitizen said:The best team won it in 2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1996 1995 1994 and 1992.Neville Kneville said:Non champions frequently get top seeding.
The best team rarely wins it.