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Would love Chelsea to win for two reasons: 1) John (Mr Chelsea) Terry would not have been involved and 2) it would deprive Spurs of CL footy... that said I hate Chelsea so Bayern winning wouldn't be the end of the world. Although... it would mean that über cunt Robben collected a winner's medal so I guess I'm indifferent.

Either way, not a bad match for Di Matteo to finish on.

I want Bayern to win, if for no other reason than I hated the way that they played against Barca.
Also, seeing Ashley Cole win would never be a good thing.

Tell me how they should of played against barca?

Exactly. As much as a dislike Chelsea, I think they deserve applauding for beating the one trick ponies with 10 men. What should they do? Stand back and let Barca stroke the ball and around while whooping at Messi's skill?

Didn't say they shouldn't have done it. 
Just that I hated watching it - probably because I was starting from the viewpoint of wanting Barca to win th competition.
Wasn't expecting others to agree with me - just how I feel about it.

I can't see how Chelsea can win this game.  Bayern playing at home is a big advantage.

Can't see Chelsea winning with key players missing. Bayern's attacking threat will be too much for them with Robben, Ribery and co.

Why all the hate for Ashley Cole? Best England Left-back of his generation and up there if not the best in the world and has been for the best part of a decade, don't get the hate for him.

I've had a soft spot for Bayern since my days living in Germany as a kid (lived nowhere near Munich, if soft spots had glory hunting then this would be it - they were on telly a lot).

I think I want Chelsea to win though.

Also,

I think I want West Ham United to win.
I think I want Hibernian to win (I know there are Jambos on here but my Edinburgh family are green, so there).
I think I want Seattle Sounders to beat Vancouver Whitecaps

He's a bit of a cunt though isn't he? In fact he is a massive cunt.

Seconded

Oh and I hope Bayern dick em. Won't bother tuning in to find out

this game in particular has been giving me sleepless nights

I KNOW RIGHT!

Why? What's he done? Because he's had affairs you mean? The media seem to have it in for him.

Glory glory to the Hibees!

Fuck the Champs league and PO final

Not that bothered about the result but as an Englishman I always like to see our teams do well in Europe.  For this reason I hope Chelsea win.

Ashley cole must be gay, i mean who would cheat on cheryl cole ffs

I enjoyed the Barca games a lot and was delighted Chelsea beat them.


I find that tippy tappy style of football that Barcelona play quite tedious and was glad they got knocked out.

No-one thought Chelsea would get through and they did.
Not many think they have a chance tonight, but I hope they do it.

Maybe due to the less than adequate defence Bayern have

He's just a cunt tans

If she wasn't putting out then looking great aint gonna satisfy a mans needs is it? Cole is a massive cunt still anyway mind

Di Matteo is a prick

On the basis of what exactly?

Thinks Villa are a big club?

When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits.

his West Brom team were big bunch of cheats & diving cunts.

So they beat newcastle then

It's in the blood to oppose the Hun, but I really don't care much for Chelsea.

Glad I've got a dog running tonight so wont have to watch it.

in the cup with a couple of disgraceful penalties. Di Matteo said NUFC should not moan because (if you saw the fucking dives you'd understand, fucking cheat Dorrans) - then the next week his team  lost to a last minute joke of a pen & he moaned, over & over & over again.

Can't remember who had the last laugh though....

A manager backing his own team. What a cunt!!!!!

fancy your dog's chances?

it was more the hypocrisy of it all. Plus he clearly told his team to dive - the amount of pens they got that season

All mamagers are hypocrites. Goes with the territory

He's running in a Consolation Final at Tralee, but he is real slow from traps but runs on strong.

I sent one over to Swindon a couple of months ago who is being readied for a win next time up.

PM me if you are interested

D'ya like dags?

The last dog i backed was called Lucky Six.....it was a wide runner and liked trap 6,it was in the sixth race on this particular day so i decided to put sixty six pound on it.

It came 6th.

if chelsea won how would it mean robben winning, not having a dig, just dont understand, or is it me being a thick cunt :hmmm:

Just put a bet on.

5 quid stake on 3-2 Chelsea @ 40/1 wins 205 quid.

5 quid stake on Drogba to score first at 7/1 wins 40 quid.

Couldn't agree more. Everyone goes on about how they dominate games with their 80% possession but Chelsea, and to a lesser extent Milan, showed that it ain't worth shit if you can't actually score enough goals to win. Plus, Barca's defence is an absolute joke for the "best club team ever".

No you're quite right, I think I missed out the part about hating Chelsea but well spotted.

:)

So does anyone actually think Chelsea winning will get Di Matteo the job?

No

Common sense wont prevail

Couldn't give much of a fuck for either team. I'd normally want the English team to win but Chelsea are hardly English. Give me Town away at Accy any day over this.

I don't particularly favour either team, I'm just going to enjoy it as a neutral.

Personally, how the final is played at the home of one of the finalists is a joke. It should've been taken away from Munich as soon as they reached the final. I know cities bid to host it, but UEFA should put a proviso in saying that that if the host club reaches the final, the final goes to an alternative venue. I think most 'experts' say that the 'home' venue gives Munich the advantage....which shouldn't happen.

I still find it amazing that the Millennium Stadium has still yet to host a CL or Europa Cup final.

You could argue that Chelsea's spending power gives them more of an advantage than any home ground issues

This.

Wouldn't mind it going all the way to penalties, just for some excitement.

And the Germans losing one at last...

good luck with your dogs, whats the dog running at tralee called?

Good point though i doubt England would have a star on there shirts if it hadn't been played in England in 66.

Bayern for me.  I like German football and detest John Terry.  The prospect of that self obsessed git coming on at the end to lift the trophy makes my support lie entirely behind Munich.

Shame really, because I quite like Frank Lampard.

I'm not talking about World Cup/European Championships where the whole tournament takes place in one/two countries. The CL final is a one off, where the tournament takes place all around Europe. If they want the final still in Germany, move it to somewhere like Dortmund, but not in one of the finalists home ground.

I hope, if Chelsea win it, Terry lets Lampard collect the trophy on his own. After what Terry did in Barca, they were on their way out...and then he said he didn't mean it...Cock !!!

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I am guessing Call Missouri from trap 3 as it is slow away ;)


Oh and Soviet Lightning to win the big one! ;D

Good to see both teams in their home strips.

We're going to watch Wednesday's edition of Lewis instead

Gomez is having a mare

If the rest of it is this dull I hope it doesn't go to Extra Time

Bayern are nothing special. Chelsea just need to be a bit more positive second half and they'll win this.

Chelsea are inviting munich into there penalty area to often now can see a goal very soon second half.

Dodnt realose hertab was there

The flip side to it being played at bayern is you can hear the home fans getting more restless.

Still 0-0 then, sounds exciting

Chelsea are going to nick this again, aren't they, just like they did vs Barcelona.  Would be the 'wrong' result in so many different ways - but I want it to happen just to see what they then do with Di Matteo.  How exactly do you sack the stand in manager who has just turned around the Villas Boas fuck up and delivered the Champions League trophy?

ashley cole has stopped two certain goals this second half. commentators aint credited him enough. world class

Great bit of directing, Bayern score then zoom right in on some miserable looking Chelsea fans.

just got done on the back post. ouch

Cech has had a shocker for that

7 mins left, 1-0 down.
Maybe now Chelsea will actually try & score

I think its funny.

Cunts.

Zoom in on the same Chelsea fans this time going mental :D Football eh

Drogba!!!!!!

Look what happens when you try & score.

Wonder if Bayern are thinking of Barcelona 99 now?

of course it is, a certian mr rick rose owns it......

ooops. Drogba what were you thinking.

Great save Cech

Fuck me this is destined to be Chelsea's.

Not a fan of his but he has been my mom this game, saved Chelsea so many times!

Gary Cahill has also looked very good.Torres looks a different player,

Is it time for Torres to score yet?

Penalties.

To quote Gary Neville "Written in the stars."

Well done Chelsea.

Brilliant. Nice one Chelsea.

Nice to see Germans missing penalties

Not sure how they pulled that out the bag, but fair play.  The first and last time I've willed Drogba to score!

Ditto for Cole!

Fucking joke they let that cunt lift the cup

Also the way people were hugging him at the end like he'd been playing and instrumental in what had just happened.  They got through to the final without him and he had nothing to do with tonight. 

Dont know what the score is with him.  Seems untouchable at chelsea, untouchable at england.  But surely hes a cunt?

Only John Terry could do that! The result tonight showed they can succeed without him! Tosser!

White power !

Cole and Cahill were immense tonight. Impressed with the centre backs managing so long on return from injury too! Undecided on the Tarry thing. Part of me agrees he's jumping into the limelight when others are more deserving. Another part of me thinks that if we'd won the League One play off and Greer had done the same thing then we'd have loved it.

Either way, congratulations to Chelsea!

It was a gallant effort by the 13 Chelsea men who played tonight.

tans aside (as he's a one man wrecking crew), I can't understand why people are so desperate to lament their achievement.

Fair play to them, Bayern were completely on top but they won it in so they don't care and an English side beat a German team on penalties? no way.

Also John Terry you cunt, you did nothing in that final, you nearly cost Chelsea agaisnt Barcalona and you were shit agaisnt Napoli stop celebrating like you've scored the last minute winner. Remember the likes of Scholes and Keane didn't want a medal in '99 because they thought they didn't deserve it.

Probably the wrost winners since Steau Bucharest. Chelsea were absolute dogshit. Its just typical of when a decent team plays a shit team - beware of set pieces - one corner in 90, one goal.
Terry is still a cunt - probably thinks he won it for them.

A bit a daylight robbery is good for the game as far as I'm concerned.

Chelsea clearly knew that they couldn't match Bayern on ability.

Chelsea Deserve it. 3-1 down at Napoli, 2-1 down against Barcelona. They've battled hard and defended gallantly for 3 games in a row now, with a squad shorn of many big players, and come out on top.

Aside from John Terry, they don't have any really dislikable players do they? Cole can't keep it in his pants and Drogba can be a bit pantomime, but both have been colossal in the final and the semi's. All credit to them. To say they don't deserve it is churlish and, frankly, wrong.

Terry gets to lift the Champions League trophy-the day football died.

Spot on Adje

Wonder if Terry will keep Di Matteo as his assistant next season?

Watching him then Abramovich lift the trophy was enough for me to fill a charity bag full of vomit, loathsome cunt

Oh dear, twitching crook Redknapp misses out on the England job AND the champions league as mighty spurs are bombed out in fourth.

I won't sleep tonight knowing that!

Good post. I agree entirely. Although I don't actually have any dislike for Terry.

I think Greers sending off was a tackle or attempt to get the ball which went horrendously wrong. Where as Terry deliberately kicked out at someone. Both violent conduct but not the same.

I dont know who actually made the decision to allow him to lift the trophy. If the players decided and agreed to let him do it - then fair enough.

I dont think Chelsea would have won with Terry in there tonight!!

Oh fuck they won it then

cannot stand John Terry, that is all

Bollocks.

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Looks more like stomach.

Happened to come across Paul Terry (johns brother) on Twitter last night who was saying how proud of his brother he was. I replyed saying why, he didn't play yet hes lapping it up. Woke up to a private message from him telling me to fuck off and that I'm a cunt. Didn't take me long to remind him about Dale Roberts suicide in said reply.

The family is absolute scum and the Germans should do a Terry Holocaust

Terry is he Chelsea team captain so had every right to lift the trophy

And had played his part in getting them to the final. Now I don't like the guy but if roles were reversed I'd be celebrating like a loon too.

Payback for Leeds Fans.

I seem to remember a certain Bayern Munich being played off the park in the European cup at the Parc Des Princes back in the early 70's under Don Revie only to be hit with two break away sucker punch goals.

Defending is as a legitimate skill as attacking, just less interesting to watch. At least there weren't Chelsea  players rolling around and time-wasting.

Plus it gives the Germans a new experience, losing on penalties.

I think o-Tans went OTT mentioning Roberts too.

The fact that Swindon Town fans are so passionate about hating Terry is tragic.

No it isn't.  What has being a Swindon fan got to do with thinking John Terry is a prick?

Melodrama on the TEF? No way!

That's not what I said, he may well be a vile prick and I understand why people dislike him. But a discussion about the CL Final in which he didn't play has turned into a discussion about John Terry lifting the trophy and that he shouldn't have a 'right' to do that. It'd be different if he was getting given Sports Personality of the Year but I just don't understand the massive outrage.

What has he done to upset Swindon fans so much? Leon Clarke I can understand, Joey Beauchamp even more so but John Terry? Good grief, why give a fuck if he lifts a trophy he had a hand in winning?

On topic, I thought Chelsea played exactly how I thought they would - to their strengths. I thought they would sneak it

Just wish I'd had the balls to stick a bet on after Napoli.

Was some good defending by Chelsea last night and at least they tried to attack when they could in contrast to the Barca game where they just stuck 8 players along the back.
Bayern had plenty of opportunities to win it but just fluffed them, so have themselves to blame and can't really complain that were hard done by.

On sporting grounds, Terry should have lifted it and the Chelsea squad wanted him and Lampard to do it. No issues.

Laurent Blanc lifted a bigger trophy despite being suspended. No issues.

Anyway, up the English

Looking at the photo's it doesn't really matter that Terry went and lifted the trophy, Bosingwa blocked him in every photo. :D

Marry me.

Chelsea won it despite Terry not because of him

Everything was against Chelsea. Having the final at the 'home' of their opponents was a joke, as I've said previously, so it was always going to be a 'back to the walls' performance.Once Chelsea equalised late on, you just fancied them on to win. A minute before Bayern were awarded their pen, Chelsea should've had a pen themselves, so as far as I'm concerned justice was done. Also significant in my opinion, was the pictures of Schweinstiger not being able to watch the penalty as he was looking away in the other box with Neuer, who had to tell him to get up off his knees as they had missed the penalties.

Once the shoot-out was reached, the pressure was all on Bayern, as they were on their home patch, and most of Bavaria seemed to think they just had to turn up to win it, as well as the fact that Bayern had never lost a penalty shoot-out in Europe. When it got to 3-3, with one penalty each left, and Schweinstiger was going to take it, I knew he was going to miss. How can you take one yourself, when you cannot even watch one of your teammates take one earlier in the match? He missed, and Drogba sealed the victory. It was also noticeable that Robben never had the balls to take one in the shoot-out, but their goalkeeper did !!!

And UEFA, why all this farting about in the trophy presentation? Why don't they just get the captain up first to give them the trophy and then it can be passed down the line, like they do at Wembley? And in regards to the players picking up their medals, it should only be the players in the matchday squad and the manager picking up the medals on the day, with UEFA giving the club the remainder for the squad and the other staff members who are entitled to medals, after the game, otherwise, like last night, it seemed to go on forever.

AGree about Schweinstiger. Thought it was ridiculous what he did for their penatly. Chelsea could have exploited that by leaving a man up in the Bayern half, all alone, in an onside position. He should have been up the other end waiting for a rebound.

I have to agree with this, it was a total fucking shambles.   I much prefer the captain going up first getting the cup, and then as each player gets his medal he gets a chance to lift it too, ending up with the manager.

As for Terry lifting the trophy, personally I couldn't give a shit.
As for the who gets a medal stuff, I guess it depends on whether you think Bertrand (who played 60 mins of CL football all season), is more deserving than the club captain (even if he is a cunt) who missed out on the final (through being a cunt)

Did nobody else spot the lardy lady picking her nose and closely examining the contents, that was the highlight of the night for me.

Not sure its relevant whether you are a Swindon fan that dislikes John Terry, i guess those that dislike him do so for the (lack of) a person he is rather than his football allegiances. Always thought he was vastly overrated myself, wouldnt swap him for Macca in a million years.

Haha oh dear

Love how everyone is going mental over JT having his kit on and lifting the trophy. He was one of the main reasons that Chelsea got to the final (see 1st leg vs Barca plus the earlier rounds), he's Chelsea through and through and deserved to go up and celebrate.

People love to moan and call people cunts nowadays but let him have that, yes he was stupid against Barca in the 2nd leg but he deserved to be with his teammates at the end.

Ha

Everybody's jumping on the 'he deserved to lift the trophy' bandwagon'.

It's certainly not something I'll be losing sleep over but fuck him, he's a horrible cunt that is unfortunately a role model to so many youngsters. There ya go kids, look up to that odious wanker lifting the trophy. He deserves it.

David Cameron thinks he's a cunt too

To be fair the 'John Terry's a cunt' bandwagon is full aswell as getting tedious and boring.

On him being a 'role model' it should be the parents to teach kids how to act as human beings, Terry plays football, people choose to see him as a 'role model', he doesn't come out and say 'look at me, behave and act how I act kids'.

That's not really the point.

And if you take on the responsibility of being captain of your club and country you should at least show a modicum of role model behavior.

True

He's fucked up and been punished for it.

In my opinion footballers should never be role models and if they are as a parent it's your responsibility to make sure your child realises that they are human beings and not perfect.

When he fucked around with that penalty, I turned to my wife as if to say 'What was all that about?'  Felt quite strongly that he deserved to miss.  I hadn't seen his reaction during Bayern's penalty in normal time but, hearing about it, he was obviously not in the right frame of mind.

Minutes later, though, I found myself feeling verty, very sorry for the guy.  He will always ne haunted by those few minutes.  You could see the reality dawning on him, second by second, after he missed.  Poor bastard.  You even have to wonder how that - and Bayern's all round disastrous finish to the season, that included a 5-2 drubbing in the final of the German Cup - will affect his game in the Euros.  He's a brilliant player that played an instrumental part in England's downfall 2 years ago.  Not fair.

There's a reason there's a 'John Terry's a cunt' bandwagon. The reason being that JohnTerry is a cunt.

Do you not think if Chelsea left a man up someone else would have covered or he wouldn't have been in his own penalty area?

I'm finding some of the reactions on here incredible.

After nearly 70 years of the same message, the 'Adolf Hitler was a mass-murdering psychopath' bandwagon is starting to get a little bit samey as well.

Maybe so. However, I don't know the guy so therefore I won't judge him on how the media portrays him.

Of course.

He's just misunderstood

That flies totally in the face of everything being a football fan is all about - how fucking dare you.

You're a perfect human being I see.

Meow

Getting a bit defensive about him aren't we?

Footballers maybe never should be role models, but they always will be just because of the exposure they receive via the media.

I actually wrote a good chunk about how bad a role model John Terry is, for one of my essays last term. (Just after the whole racisim "thing")

Kids will always look up to footballers as its what everyone wants to be.

I think it's pretty easy to at least try to be a decent one, i'm a role model for no one, but I don't go around shagging my mate's missus...

No, not at all.

All those kids are going to be lifting trophies now because of John Terry, it's a disgrace.

I don't know why people give a shit what footballers get up to in their private lives though.

It has nothing to do with what they do on the football pitch.

To be fair alot of what terry has done did have an effect on the pitch.

I take your point, I was just generalising the obsession we have with the private lives of footballers, whether it be John Terry, Ashley Cole etc.

I still think Capello got it wrong over the whole Wayne Bridge debacle, the FA just pandered to the media.

Do we really have an obsession with their private lives? You sure it's not the media that has the obsession? I couldn't give a rats arse about the so called stars

Its supply and demand people want to read it so they print it. Its very voyeuristic in that sense, people want to know what goes on behind closed doors. Personnaly i couldn't give a shit.

Me neither, the only paper we have is a Sunday one and that's only because she likes to read the gossip in bed for some strange reason

I think we do.

The amount of money that players earn these days plays a part aswell, people are jealous and jump on players back at the slightest thing. Sad really.

i like reading about the stuff players and celebs get up to, and i like reading the mail and the sun so there  :smugfu:

I'm no Chelsea fan, but if I was I think I'd be enjoying some of the press comment from Germany today.  They don't seem to be taking it well!   (German papers are describing Bayern's defeat as 'an accident' and 'a farce'.)

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I can't even read German and that amused me.

No! No! No!

Then something about pigs and shit.

And the paper, the Bild, is their equivalent of the Sun.

Although the article does seem to have gotten the score wrong

4-5??

1-1 + 3-4 on pens = 4-5. Not sure why they do it that way!

Translates roughly as:

'No! No! No! Schweinsteiger wastes his chance with penalty shoot-out! We mourn with Bayern!'

Not being a Sun reader I can hazard a guess at their headline:

'Take Zat Schweinhund - now go play hide the sausage!'

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/terry-dedicates-champions-league-win-to-himself-2012052127828

Re German newspapers, the local Munich daily "Tageszeitung" had a two-page spread last Saturday with the headline "10 things to do in Munich for the Chelsea fans before their defeat in the evening"   :)

BTW on the morning after the game I saw a Range Rover in Munich with a Chelsea flag hanging out of the window.
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