Quotei meant international players!!....Originally Posted by deadman
but it was robben and geremi who blew it ... or reina saved if you wish.
and both started with 4 englishmen
i meant international players!!....
There's the right way, the wrong way.... and the Max Power way!! :-D
Wtf d'you want? a 15-man brawl and 6 red cards, or something??
There were 21 shots in the match last night, it was a tense end-to-end show from first to last minute between two evenly matched sides, (over the tie). You had balls hitting the woodwork, goals wrongly given offside, missed sitters from 4 yards, the drama of penos, and people still whinge about how boring it was.
Obviously most here never watched Switzerland-Ukraine at the WC last summer, the worst game in history.
I agree, except the whole context of the game still made it compelling - to me anyway.
In terms of finesse you'd swear the two managers were Joe Kinnear and Jack Charlton. Long ball after long ball after long ball. Ashley Cole has been turned into an automaton, hurling the ball diagonally 45 yards to Drogba avery time he gets the ball, without exception. Even players with a bit of skill like Joe Cole couldn't retain the ball for more than a moment.
That said, Liverpool decided that was how to take Chelsea on. They can vary their game to an extent. Chelsea can't & they're being found out.
what are our options fellow reds any ideas agencies such as gerry mahon travel etc lookin at 2500 depending on red****es result 2nite
I'm sure the agencies are lining up to rip you off as we speek.
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All of this has happened before. All of it will happen again.
Yes because Chelseas only penalty was scored by an England international , that really backs up your point there.
Anyone else see Robben shake his head when Mourinho asked him to take a peno and then eventually give in. Surely you put up your best peno takers first so why keep Drogba back?
Even Terry was going down like Drogba as if he had been shot.
Looks like we might have a Champions League Final without a Champion
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Anyone else going to the final?? my decision is pending on tonights result, but have tickets so will probably go at this stage. Aer lingus have kindly put on a flight on the wed back thurs, will only set you back €900!!
This is England
The primitive football served up by Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield was an appalling advert for the English game.
Rob SmythMay 1, 2007 10:01 PM
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of mixing colours knows that, when you put red and blue together, you get purple, but there was nothing deep about the match between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield tonight. While it was inevitably infused with the highest drama, it was lowest-common-denominator football and, to reverse a cliché, a shocking advert for the English game. This is England.
It was perversely just that such a cowardly, risk-free game should be decided by penalties, and hugely ironic that a contest between two erudite, thoughtful managers should be so staggeringly witless. If it was a boxing match it would have been stopped because it was too boring. The freedom of trade in football over the last 15 years has, theoretically, homogenised club sides and stripped them of their national identity, yet this was as excruciatingly English as fish and chips and weekend punch-ups, full of primitive football and barely suppressed illwill. The ball was given more air than a load of wet washing, and football's soul was certainly hung out to dry. Indeed, the match could have been taken from any episode of Match of the Day in the late 80s. Who says retro is cool?
Liverpool pride themselves on the pass-and-move traditions developed in the Boot Room, yet this was more like kick-and-chase developed in the Hoof Room. The intellect of their goal - for which, perversely, the ball barely left the floor - could not absolve the gibberish that sandwiched it. The end may well justify the means; that depends on the individual's view of the balance between success and glory. But it is hard to legitimately argue that it was an edifying spectacle. How must Ronaldinho, Francesco Totti, Lionel Messi and their fellow fantasistas have felt watching 19 pragmatistas (the cheeky-chappy class of Joe Cole makes him a worthy exception) serve up this fare? It was like showing an episode of EastEnders at the Cannes Film Festival.
Liverpool were always likely to bomb Chelsea, given the success of the tactic in the league game between the sides in January, and it was notable that there were only two, relatively minor, changes from that side: Boudewijn Zenden for Fabio Aurelio and Javier Mascherano for Xabi Alonso. But the omission of an aesthete like Alonso spoke volumes about the contest ahead, as did Chelsea's transparent plan to blag a 0-0 draw. In the end, Liverpool were able to lean on their most reliable matchwinner: penalties. With their record in shootouts - 10 wins in 11 now - they will probably become the first team to win a league title on penalties.
In amongst the mediocrity there were, inevitably, some wonderful demonstrations of the human spirit: Michael Essien, asked to play out of position at centre-half again, was majestic, Steven Gerrard's all-action heroism enabled him to wipe the floor with Frank Lampard once more, Jamie Carragher and John Terry put their backs against the wall and valiantly took whatever hits were coming, and Claude Makelele reminded us why his name will forever define a position.
Yet the football remained loveless, full of sour faces and dour tactics. It is, of course, hard to enjoy playing under this pressure - gravity always wins - but the likes of Ronaldinho manage to show their teeth from time to time. The only teeth on show here were those being pulled by unfortunate neutrals. It all evoked the famous headline after the dire draw between Ireland and England at Italia 90: 'No Football Please, We're British'. While there was glory and spoils for the victors, anyone with a knowledge of football knows that this rudimentary nonsense is spoiling the game.
In Trap we trust
Well done Liverpool. They deserved it. We didn't create anything half decent til the last few minutes. I honestly thought we were lucky to get to penos cos it was a very tight call for Kuyt's goal that wasn't and, had it been given, I wouldn't have complained.
Good luck Liverpool and if it's Man U in the final, Liverpool will have another fan, at least for one night.
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excellent sypnopsis
That was so boring i was looking foward to desperate housewives
Liverpool in the final again , there going to win it as well .....Lock up your waiters the pool are coming to town .
Eh? British?
In any event, there were two foreign coaches and a handful of Brits on the field last night. So that phase isn't even correct for last night's game.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Thats why he says it evoked. Althought football has become an international game last nights game was a through back to the 80s. I said to my mates after the 1st leg it was like watching Watford V Wimbledon circa 1986.
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There are two ways of playing football, the winning way and the losing way. And we won last night. You can play pretty football all you like, but that doesn't win trophies. Ask Arsenal.
Now all I need is a shagging ticket..........
Would be great to see a repeat of the 05 Final.
very gracious frank fair play
This is something I'll never understand about national team types. They obsess about British football to the exclusion of their own (and other) leagues, support a team entirely composed of players schooled in the British football tradition (the majority of whom, in the case of Italia 90, were born and raised in Britain), who learned their football, play their football and eventually coach football in Britain, and yet whenever the not unreasonable inference that this makes them, in effect, a British team is drawn, they bristle with indignation. If they want Irish football to have a separate and indigenous character, they have a very funny way of going about it.
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I enjoyed the sight of the rattled Mourinho, that alone must be worth something.
I love a rip roaring penalty shoot out (when it's not my team involved).
Tension was always going to play a big part of this game, which was going to effect the quality of the game.
Some of Chelsea's long ball play was quite good, some huge punts, sublimely brought to foot by Drogba, whilst being surrounded.
The game didn't compare to lesser teams lumping it because of their limitations.
Is it my bias or is Finnan thee Liverpool player that plays the game like the Liverpool of old?
Do they ever measure the distance that Kuyt covers?
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