Chelsea v Barcelona
 

Did anyone see the match?

How good are Barcelona, great team and deserved to win.
I am English, and follow any British team against foriegn opposition. But last night is the 1st time I've watched a game that I actually wanted the opposition to score.

Arsenal done brilliant on tuesday at Madrid, and I cheered them on. But last night was different.

In truth, I don't particularly like Chelsea. But enough to see them outclassed against quality team?

Perhaps I'm just jealous of them, or is it something else?

What does anybody else think about this?

And just for the record, I think Del Horno should of be sent off, he had no intention of playing the ball. Just he man.

Life long Chelsea fan and Barcelona did not look unbeatable. The chosen one predicted the out come in the paper before it happened. Any other comment will just be biased.

You sound like a Man U fan - bitter.

Ziggi,
don't get me wrong. I have a few mates who are season ticket holders at Chelsea, and they are without doubt a superb team, so it's not a bitter thing. But having watched them recently, I'm not so sure.

There was an article in Private eye recently, showing 'the chosen one' slipping money to a man in dark glasses, saying "here's 10 thousand quid, go and find out why nobody likes us"

never watched it... to answer the question :

how good are Barcelona?

On their day (which is quite often) simply the best side in the world bar none. They have flair and attacking like no other side.

Exceptional.

Obviously from a personal perspective i was more than pleased with the result last night... :)

not a fan of chelsea, mourinho talks so much crap it makes me laugh.

on the radio before the game he was say cheating is part of the game and he's happy for his players to try it to get a decision in their favour by diving etc. if they get away with it fine but if they get booked then thats fine too.

then after the game he starts moaning that messi is a cheat, when del horno clearly fouled him.

the blokes priceless. and a to**er.

Messi did to chelsea what robben did to the Liverpool keeper a couple of weeks ago,play acting to get an opponent sent off.Tottally the wrong thing to do,but Jose can't go complaining when his own players do the same!

All footballers are a bunch of losers who can't stand up for more than 5 mins at a time.

Why the hero worship? Not quite risking life and limb by kicking each other in the shin are they.

How refs can be so useless is beyond me, and I've been a referee - a proper one.

Footballers give off the impression that they're all hard men, but if anyone goes near their alice band, they fall doen like they've been shot.

None of them play to their full ability coz they're paid so bloody much, and why should they bust themselves? If you were getting £100,000 a week regardless, would you try 100% every week?

The whole sport is a farce.

They should only pay them if the team win, and then no more than £10,000 a week.

Load of pants.

I do like Mourinho though, he brings a bit of colour to the game.

Agree with every word Dom said - I can't get into a game that consists of 22 multi-millionaires just poncing around.

good points raised there dom. ;)

Football is not life threatening but limb threatening is certainly is (Alan Smith just the other day).

I love Motorcycle sport much more than football but I loved football first. Just because a few ponces fall down dead whenever they are touched doesn't mean I hate football. It's just another level of cheating and should be exposed as such.

As for them not trying - i don't agree at all. Premiership football is that physical that not to try would be plain suicide for your career. That's why some of them resort to cheating - they are just not good enough at that level - or having a bad day.

Trouble is that the cheating is getting worse, and it's incredible on the continent!! Nobody does anything about it though, maybe thats the frustrating thing?

I'll be cheering on England this summer, and I do follow Leeds, but I get wound up watching games and the 'acting' and lack of effort - it's like playing golf!

Frustrating. Especially when these guys do have unbelievable talent.

They should watch some rugby matches and see how real hardmen react to a kick in the leg or a punch in the face. I'm no rugby fan, but you don't see those bloke crying or going down like a sack of ****.

It shouldn't be acceptable in 2006. If they wanna act - go to Hollywood.

[Edited on 23-2-2006 by domski]

im all for a bit of cheating,lets face it? if we won the world cup with a doddgy pen:saint:

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Dom ... you do come out with some priceless ones sometimes :P

I don't need to say it do I? :devil::P

Ah Leeds - I see why you are upset now Dom :D

Everyone knows that The Championship is where it's at :P

True ... and that's where Leeds will be staying. Reading, Sheffield Utd and Palace will be leaving though :D

At least we'll get to play Everton next season ;)

Now behave, or I'll knock you off AGAIN :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[Edited on 23-2-2006 by domski]

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