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i'm supporting real madrid because they have more english players....a sad fact

oh come on, arsenal have some of the best traditions in english football

Come on you reds!

Im supporting them cos I hate Arsenal.

I have 2 quid on Arsenal though and accumulater with Madrid in it

arsenal haven't been an english team for ages, in fact i'd almost go as far to say that i hate them.  :D

I give up on you whits, I thought you were ok  :D

woodgate off

If walcott comes on it will be 1-1

Asher, If that pattison blokes asks arsenal are ok, don't want what happened to you at chesterfield to happen to me  :D

I would definitely go so far as to say I hate them, can't stand them. However I'm not too keen on Real Madrid either so I'm not too bothered who wins this one.

Would like to see an English team win the champions league again though.

As in sent off?!?! Keep me updated please, i'm at work

nah, hes never fit enough to get sent off, pulled his hammy

im supporting real madrid because ive been there

although the telly isnt on, i havnt checked the score and i dnt really care.

Got sent off on debut, after an OG, i believe 8)

Just like Ashley I fancy the Arse.

They just seem to have a more powerful, penetrating and agggressive look to them than any Spaniards side I've seen.  If they can pump the balls up to the back line they'll be close to penetrating.



Oh and Madrid to win the footy.


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Actually on a semi serious note I am having sneaky notion Arsenal may just come out of nowhere and make the final this year.    Bit like Liverpool last season the pressure is off in the Premiership and if a few of their senior players come good I’d fancy a couple of quid on them as outsiders.

ha ha you wanker

Whits - yeah prob best he only found out on sat I actually support arsenal, he went white!

Since when was Red and White more of a colour clash, than Yellow and White  :nuts:

I can highly recommend a visit the Bernabau - absolutely stunning stadium, great place to watch footy. Cheap flights from Bristol with EasyJet.

Fucking Bayern are winning  :evil:
My opinion of Bayern:
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Not bad from Terry...

Fully deserved lead aswell.

Beckham's fucking useless isn't he?That Madrid side is well past it-Zidane's gone Ronaldo's gone Carlos has gone and Beckham and Gravesen never fucking got there!What a performance by the Arse though-best display I've seen from an English team for years(inc all Liverpool's last season)

good win by arsenal. fully deserved. well done.

The Madrid side is all about making money, all them names may well be past it but I doubt the board care too much which is a shame

that's one of Hleb's better performance that i've seen him play.

a lot of expectation, there was talk of him going back to germany.

Beckham? Useless? :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

He was the one Madrid player that ever looked like scoring. He got the ball out wide and looked comfortable, and kept breaking through behind the defence. If he can come in off the wing like that for England I will be more than happy.

You poor misguided young man-just look at the stats regarding his pass completion tomorrow,I doubt he completed 40% of his attempted passes.He gives the ball away more often than any english player.You cant afford that at any level.And he couldn't finish a sandwich!

What a thoroughly deserved win for the Gooners.  Let's hope they don't live to regret not getting the second goal they so deserved.  I can see them 'doing a Liverpool' and winning the whole thing.

Henry has scored some great goals but that has to be in the top three or four.

Any English player?!?!

i'm desperately gutted they won... :(

Loved the way Terry bounced off the porky Ronaldo to score.

he was pretty poor really, didn't do much with the chances he had, didn't create a great deal by his standards.

arsenal were good, reyes in particular. but he fucked me off when he rolled back onto the pitch.

Beating Real Madrid is is easy enough. So overrated.

Watching the Arsenal goal again i noticed quite a few Arsenal fans jumping up and down going mental in the Home end, ace.  :D

I just hope Barca spank Chelsea tonight.  8)

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I said this to my old man a couple of months back,of course he's now dening the he every heard me say it :)
Well done the Arse,they deserved the win,it'll mean nothing of course if they don't finish them off at Highbury.It's only half time.

Well I meant England player!Obviously Gurney is worse.

again, why were arsenal in their away kit?

canny have the same colour shorts

hleb has been pretty good for arsenal so far, when he first came in he played like he'd been in the arsenal side for ages, easily adapting to their passing style.

then he got injured and he's just got full match fitness back, he looked good even when he was still getting it back. don't really agree that there was ever much expectation, he was only £4.4m or something and looks like he's worth much more than that to me, he quality.

Hleb looks like an excellent prospect. The ball appears to be glued to his foot when he plays.  I'm very pleased Arsenal won last night because they really do play the game the way it should be played and there is not a better to team to watch on their day. It had however, been looking like things were starting to go badly pear shaped for them.

Yes, I know it was not a vintage Real Madrid performance but that is not Arsenal's fault and you have to give some credit to Arsenal for not letting Real play. I suspect Wenger is quite correct in seeking to recruit young, hungry players when you see those players up against Real's 'Galacticos', many of whom are, frankly, past their best (Ronaldo, Santos etc).

Last night makes me think that the rebuilding process is definitely under way. Hleb was excellent, the defence were rock solid, I liked the look of Emmanuel Eboue at right back and Lehmann (Of whom I am no great fan) did not put a foot wrong. I really hope they can hold on to Henry, I really do.

In case you were wondering, I have no connection with Arsenal. They are not my 'second team' (that's Braintree Town!) I just love football and the way Arsenal play is the epitome of how the game should be played. I would love them to 'do a Liverpool' and win the whole thing.

also remember that they've got kerry gilbert to come back at right back, he looks like a great talent.

teams like arsenal and man utd shouldn't be going through these "rebuilding" phases though, the squad should be managed effectively so that they're challenging every year. with the money in football nowadays and chelsea's position, a 'transition season' is quite dangerous.

arsenal would have been fine had they replaced vieira with a similarly experienced player, whilst man utd have had ruud/rio/keane problems.

If you put it that way it's easy isn't it?  

You lose a world class player who is the focal point of your team and you simply go out and replace him with another proven world class player and of course no other clubs will want to sign this player, the player concerned will only want to sign for your club and his agent wont be in the slightest bit interested in getting an auction going. (and Chelsea wont be waiting in the wings hoping to fuck things up)

Jeez, what's the problem!!!!!!!!!!!

You should pass your comments on to messrs Wenger and Ferguson who I am sure would be extremely grateful for your words of enlightenment 8)

As the great Homer Simpson once said, "by the way, that's sarcasm!"

I just hope Man United and Arsenal's rebuilding phases will backfire and see them drift into mid table, just to annoy their glory hunting fans.

says the chelsea "diehard"   :wink:

As long as Man United and Arsenal don't win anything I'm happy and if that means Chelsea win it so be it, hopefully it will be Spurs turn soon.  What would be great is if West Ham or Wigan finished above Arsenal this year. :D

Anyone but Chelsea or a German team to win please  :)

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: no he likes Spurs aswell.

Any English team bar Arsenal to win is what i hope for, as they may as well be a foreign club anyway.

In Europe I'd say not Man United or Arsenal or Real Madrid or Barcelona and ideally not an Italian team or Bayern Munich too. I wouldn't mind seeing Liverpool win it again.

Arsenal to win the CL and Spurs to finish 4th would be excellent.  :mrgreen:

Can't say you're wrong there. Ooh but so are Chelsea and Liverpool. On that basis there are no English teams left in the competition.

Chelsea have:

Cole
Lampard
Terry
Duff
SWP
Johnson

Man Utd have:

Richardson
Rooney
Smith
Brown
O'Shea
Fletcher
Neville
Ferdinand

Both of them use plenty of British talent, which means i prefer them to Arsenal.

Forgot about Man Utd tbh, they're probably the team that's most British. Chelsea have the players but never play more than 2 of them at once. Duff isn't British you spaz.

Liverpool have Crouchy, Carragher, Fowler, Gerrard etc. Arsenal are the worst for foreign players.

Oh yeah.  You get the picture though. Arsenal should have been fined the moment they had a completely foreign team.

I don't think Liverpool are much better than Arsenal tbh.

The thing that Arsenal are missing is an English back bone, Liverpool have Carragher & Gerrard, Chelsea have Lampard & Terry and even Spurs have got King & Carrick.

it was pretty obvious that fabrigas and flamini were going to be a bit lightweight for central midfield in the premiership for the first couple of seasons and thats been a big problem for them, bringing in a soon to retire player on a free for two seasons would have tided them over nicely. players as good as gravesen were going pretty cheap (and they could have coped with someone not as good as him) and if wenger had anticipated the impact of his departure a bit better they could be challenging for the premiership this season.

didn't wenger himself admit that his departure hurt the team more than he expected?

all of this being said with the benefit of hindsight, obviously.

I just think teams know how to play against Arsenal these days. The Premiership is tending towards a more defensive, controlled game.

Chelski down to 10 men... harsh mind

arsenal only did well as madrid attacked and gave them space. fuckers like chelsea, bolton etc know that arsenal need space to do they thang.

therefore real were either arrogant as fuck OR idiots

Get in there Barca!-Chelsea will be the death of English football.

Del Horno shouldn't have been sent off, as he was going for the ball and tried to stop himself once he went past it, disgusting overacting from Messi, pathetic diving cunt. :wink:

I think Chelsea would have won again if it wasn't for that given their second half performance with ten men but even with one more player Barcelona weren't much better than them, so Chelsea do still have a chance but Barcelona are probably favourites now with the away goals. Hopefully Barcelona will go out next round if they go through though.

never a sending off.

you do sound like a closet chelsea fan though bwb, are they your second team?

i cooked my dinner during part of the 2nd half but barca looked quality in patches. will be nice to see them on their own pitch, i'm sure chelski will give them a run for their money.

quality european football from this stage on, almost every match a blinder.

Mourinho was moaning about the Barca players diving etc but isnt this the same bloke who managed the Porto side that cheated their way to a Uefa Cup Final win with Porto against Celtic a few years back?, oh dear Jose failed to remember that one.  :-))(

well i don't think it was a sending off. it was just a badly timed tackle, which was over reacted by both players.

barca did look qualiy, but chelsea were backing off them too much at times, letting them play too much.

Barca could of (and should of) had at least a couple more. The hand-ball by Geremi was blatent, and the rugby tackle by Terry on Messi (who was awesome) was a penalty too. He just charged through him and then fell onto the ball.

The red-card was deserved I thought, as Del Horno could well have been booked 10 seconds earlier when Messi made him look a fool for the 10th time, then he deliberatley bodychecked him, and then he rolled around pretending to be injured to avoid the red (like Essien v Bolton).

Chelsea did very well when down to 10 men, and Gudjohnsen was awesome. But I think Mourinho got it worng by going all out in the second half. He looked like a tit in the post match interviews as well.  was watching with Italian commentary so don't know how biased Andy Gray was, but I reckon Chelsea got off lightly against a better team and are still in the tie. It could well have been all over by now.

Mourinho is unbelievable. He was moaning about Messi rolling around on the ground when there was nothing wrong with him but defended Robben for doing the same thing against Liverpool.

That sort of bullshit sickens me.

I personally think both players should have been booked for being poncy dago fucking drama queens.

OST couldn't agree more, Mourinho's let himself down here.

- Porto v Celtic UEFA Cup final, Porto win after players diving all over the place for 120mins.

- Robben v Liverpool a couple of weeks ago

- Look at Del Horno rolling all over the place at the same time as Messi was doing it.

Mourinho's been on the other end of this sort of thing before (ie diving and getting away with it) and should be man enough to take the rough with the smooth.  His reaction shows what a bad loser he really is.  How he's going on about UEFA banning Messi is beyond me.

Spot on!, 2 Yellows make a Red in my book.

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The first 'tackle' wasn't given as a foul, and perhaps influenced the ref for the second one, though the clip doesn't show the hack at Messi just before the body-check, and the consequent rolling around on the floorby Del Horno...

Red card for me. Should have gone for the first one.

I don't think the first one should have been given as a foul either, he's going for the ball and he gets it, nothing wrong with that. Again, the second time he's going for the ball and can't stop himself hitting Messi, a booking would've been fine.

Here's the Arsenal goal:


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You're taking the piss, right? You just missed out the  :wink: at the end.

Not at all, he shouldn't have been sent off.

He didnt even go for the ball ffs!, and then rolled around like a cunt knowing full well he was in the shit for what he just did.

But you think there was nothing wrong with the first challenge, which would bring a yellow card 999 times out of a thousand and didn't on this occasion because the referee clearly suffered some kind of seizure at the crucial moment? There was NOTHING wrong with it???????????

You are clearly in denial for some reason and need help my friend.

If Messi's studs had caught in the turf more, he'd have had his leg snapped.  It was disgusting. Second challenge was just clumsy, and worthy of a yellow.

I can only assume you're talking about another challenge entirely.

it was a yellow card at the most.

the challenge was a collision of bodies, not a raised boot or owt.

you bunch of girls.

wait til i get my hands to refereeing, it'll be a revolution.

That's what I was thinking. They were tough challenges but that's part of football and the cheat Messi deserves to be involved in a few. He's just lucky he doesn't have to play against me. :twisted:

My boss at work went and said it was a fantastic stadium. Although she thought it was strange to go up an escalator and not walk up stairs; and they also had bar heaters in the roof to warm the fans.

She also doesn't like heights and was about 7 rows from the top so it took her a little while to get used to how high she was.

every team at that level dives, chelsea included. it really fucks me off when the man utd and arsenal fans around here see reyes/drogba/ronaldo diving and lay into him for being a cheat, when their players do the same and they laugh it off. mugs the lot.

they weren't tough challenges.

I think every team in The Premiership has got one or two players that like the odd dive. :evil:

THATS WHAT I WAS SAYING

I KNOW YOU WERE. :twisted:

But Messi didn't dive....


He was clattered into by Del Horno.

He rolled around as if shot, but so did Del Horno. I don't think the ref was influenced in his decision by either player rolling...

Weren't Arsenal shockingly bad against Blackburn, lucky to get away with such a slim defeat. That's the Arsenal I like to see. Much more entertaining than usual.

it's the norm in the premiership to have a few diving players.  :D

I bet you were glad the mighty Chelsea won.  :)

as opposed to beating real madrid perhaps?

dude your team lost to barca and arsenal lost to blackburn. it happens. just means chelsea hopefully won't win something this year and arsenal are a tiny step closer to it

My team didn't lose to Barca.