Lucky goal - not sure it crossed the line, but we’ll take it 
Just another 80 mins to hold out… 
Congrats Liverpool, but jeez, the fans are annoying. Passion over profit? WTF? You are acting like Liverpool is some poor squad! We are talking about Charlton beating Chelsea here.
The main difference between Chelsea and Arsenal, ManU, or Liverpool is instead of buying their teams over the last 5-10 years, they spent most of it in the last 2 years. Though it is fun to see the pot calling the kettle black ;).
Good to see this thread bumped up. I noticed in another thread that Owl had called it a day on the SD, and figured the football discussion would kind of follow him out the door 
Disappointed with the result tonight, but trying to look on the bright side. It’ll probably cause more pain and suffering to the RS when they get badly beaten by Milan, now that they are actually starting to believe in themselves.
I guarantee that the next three weeks will see an assortment of RS weasels declaring that they are no longer interested in the UEFA champions league allocation issue 
You’re way off on this one, SM, apart from RA being a thief, that is. Those fine red men who did the buisness tonight were assembled at a cost of 70 million net. The only difference between Chelsea and the RS is that one club bought the way to the title (shock, horror!!), the other bought their way to elevated mediocrity. Fans of real football?? Give it a rest son.
David Moores was peddling the RS round the far east earlier this season, and thought he had things sorted with the premier of Thailand :eek: . Amnesty international had to step in and straighten him out FFS.
Sentie’s irrational, romanticising side comes out to play occasionally, and I must say I enjoy watching his prejudices in full flow. The idea that LFC is supported solely by locally born, salt of the earth, working-class types is sentimentality gone mad. But the alternative - to say “yeah, our supporters are no different from anyone else’s, prone to anger, hatred, violence, bigotry” - constitutes a full-frontal assault on someone from the Liverpool area’s identity. More than that, it reminds them of the painful truth that they’re not special, just people.
FFREEDOOOOOMMMM!!!
Stitch that, you enormous cubic zirconium of a football club. I am serving up a cold, sour plate of defeat.
Lick it up, Mourinho, you whining self-important ass.
Grimace and swallow, Eidur Gudjonssen, you cheating, diving prick.
Have that, Frankie Lampard: may your own ankle now get broken as you did Xabi’s.
Savour it, Tiago: your blatant handball at Anfield on Boxing Day is a debt now paid.
Chew it, Didier Drogba, you £25M lump of incompetent petulance.
One more mouthful, Petr Cech, and be grateful you weren’t sent off.
Eat it up you fake fans of a fake club. Perhaps you might support Man United next year?
And finally, Roman Abramovich, you fat Russian plutocrat whose investment of a mere 2% of your wealth is the difference between success and outright bankruptcy in any other club than Chelsea (save perhaps for Man United and Real Madid), chow down, and swallow so much that you become sick and bored of this passing fancy and try another club instead, showing your loyalty for all to see. Let us see Stamford Bridge, like 1950’s Anfield, acheiving record 60,000 capacities even though the club are struggling in the second division.
DEMOCRACY 1 PLUTOCRACY 0
And the best thing was it wasn’t a goal.
Sweet.
If the FA want to enter a team whose CL progress will be an embarrassment to Merseyside, we’ll have to accept that absurdly stupid decision. But to gallantly lose to Milan in the final would be infinitely less painful than to that abomination of a club last night.
Christ, I’ve never cheered so hard for a team that wasn’t mine. Good result - even if Sentient is probably getting a wee bit carried away by it all.
Chelsea dropped what? 170 million on players since Roman strolled into town two years ago - hardly a fair comparison (even if you’re right about the Scousers spending habits).
False statistic old bean - its not just about the cost of the transfers, its about the cost of wages, fees, etc. Those ongoing costs are what limit teams when it comes to buying, selling and above all keeping players. Most clubs have to at least attempt to balance the books when it comes to things like that - Chelsea don’t.
You recorded a £100million+ loss last season and last time i checked your wage bill was clocking over 70% of actual earnings. You’d have been declared bankrupt if Roman hadn’t underwritten you with another “no strings” loan.
Look at us, for example, minimal transfer funds this season (due to the new stadium) and a squad of 20 first team players - 7 of whom are youngsters.
I don’t mean to subtract anything from the on-pitch performance of the club - you’ve been superb this season and beaten us, quite rightly, into second but to claim that the title was not bought in some way is just blind
Sky in their infinite wisdom aren’t showing the crucial and bound-to-be-tense Crystal Palace v Stains game this Saturday. Instead they’ve gone for the completely pointless Chelsea v Charlton and the hard-to-predict ManU v West Brom. Surely even neutrals are upset by this?
Does anyone know of some weird satellite channel that I might catch this on? Eurosport? Al-Jazeera?
:mad:
Damn Skippy - the top of the table is pretty much set now (baring us making some huge fuck up and letting Trafford United sneak second). The relegation zone is where the drama and entertainment is now - West Brom certainly gave us a run for our money on Monday. :eek:
Jest kidding. What a beating though! I reckon the blue boys have been on the bevy for the past three days, 7-0 is beyond the pale. It hardly matters now though.
Miraculous season for Everton. Hardly needs stating really, anyone who follows the game can appreciate the achievement of taking a team from seventeenth place to fourth, whilst selling your best player, twice! Our season was built on a brilliant first half up to christmas, we played a high energy, pressurising game that got results. After Gravesen left things got shakey, but never so bad as to go completely pear-shaped. and this was the key to hanging in there and qualifying for the CL. Mikael Arteta is an equally talented player to Gravesen, and he was pivotal in getting some crucial late season wins.
I see a lot of Everton fans talking about sticking it to all the journalists who picked us to go down. Whilst the majority of sports writers are indeed gutless pedlers of second hand opinion, I can’t argue with anyone who picked us for relegation at the start of the season. It was a bleak time at Everton, pretty much all the Blues I know were expecting a serious struggle. To turn this around is an amazing achievement.
I went to bed with the score at 6-0, expecting another, I must admit. It was that kind of display. The first three goals were poetry in motion - fast motion. When they let Edu take the (dodgy) penalty in his final home appearacne and when they kept setting up Bergkamp to score in what may be his last appearance at Highbury, I was reminded of United’d first Premeriership winning season in 1993, when Pallister was the only outfield player not to have scored during the season. They let him take a free kick and he duly obliged. Fairy-tale stuff.
Despite the end of term feeling, and Everton being a little under strength (they miss Cahill and Pistone’s a liability), the result showed the gulf in class between Arsenal and Chelsea and the rest.
I’m pleased Everton have got into the European Cup qualifiers, and I hope Moyes gets a bit of dosh to spend in the “close season”.
I’ll be cheering madly for Liverpool to overturn Milan. They will have the advantage of the extra man again, as I’m sure ten thousand mad Scousers will converge on Istanbul, and I can’t imagine more than a few thousand Milanesi making the trip.
What should they do up front? Baros looks crap, but Cisse isn’t a lot better at the moment. Does Mellor have a chance of starting?
Win or lose, what a chance to finally exorcise the memories of Heysel.
Although I won’t be cheering for Liverpool, obviously, I can appreciate that a win would be an epic achievement. It would seriously embarrass Arsenal and particularly ManU who have made it their mission to win the CL, yet constantly underperformed for years.
As for how they can do it, first things first the right team has to turn up. If the EPL team shows up in Turkey that loses to Crystal Palace and draws to Middlesborough at home then its going to be another 7-0. Somehow, Liverpool have managed to field a mentally different side in the CL this season, so we can assume this won’t happen. The big problem, as you point out Roger, is up front were they have no quality. Baros is an overrated shitbag who caught lightening in a bottle at Euro 2004 and now thinks he is some sort of world player. Cisse is like Emile Heskey, but without the close control skills.
So they’ll play a typical containing, grinding-down game and hope that the ball goes in off someone’s arse in the 87th minute. Faced with a similar containing side as Milan, who man for man are stronger in every position, this probably won’t happen. Its just one game though, so you never know.
Baros probably won’t play in the Final since he just called out Benitez by complaining to the media that he’s being subbed too much (poor baby ;)). Look for Cisse to start and play most of the game as 'Pool’s striker.
So, has anyone heard anything from One and Only…?
Incredible game last night (and one to which i actually turned down a ticket :smack: ).
The FA Cup Final to look forward to now and that’s gonna be a helluvah game.
What day is that?
Saturday the 21st May
I see Malcolm Glazer has just launched his take-over bid for ManU this afternoon. The club is suffocating, as if it is being crushed by a gargantuan prawn sandwich
I’m finding it very hard to be sympathetic to the Man Utd fans.