European Cup Final

(28-05-2011 23:43 )Captain Vimes Wrote:  Tony Pulis' Stoke.

Shawcross kick Messi up in the air in the first five minutes never to return to to pitch again. Shawcross sent off. Meh it's a price worth paying.

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You're not far off the mark Captain, that's why I thought Man U had a chance.
Who apart from Arsenal would try to out football Barca ?

(28-05-2011 21:43 )Regenerated Wrote:  To see this Barca side play is a delight. They're certainly one of the greatest teams I've ever seen play the game.

Pah not a patch on the Brazilian team of 1970.

Yellow shirts under a Mexican sun, that was a team.

Of course it's all relative, this Barca team to kids of 8 and 9 will always be the greatest team and rightly so they are beautiful but still not a patch on a team that contained Pele, Jarzhino, Gerson, Tostao and Rivelino.

God I'm old.

(29-05-2011 01:53 )Captain Vimes Wrote:  Pah not a patch on the Brazilian team of 1970.

Yellow shirts under a Mexican sun, that was a team.

Of course it's all relative, this Barca team to kids of 8 and 9 will always be the greatest team and rightly so they are beautiful but still not a patch on a team that contained Pele, Jarzhino, Gerson, Tostao and Rivelino.

God I'm old.

I remember well mate, if you really squinted your eyes that yellow took an old gold sort of colour...

(29-05-2011 02:15 )thinwhiteduke Wrote:  I remember well mate, if you really squinted your eyes that yellow took an old gold sort of colour...

You wish.

Of course the real Wembley final is on Monday and Reading have the same section as Barca Man City and Birmingham good omen

if it's an omen for Reading, then they could be unbeatable too!

(28-05-2011 22:37 )gunflash10 Wrote:  they also lost a fairly meaningless copa del ray against real madrid

No game between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meaningless. Even I know that and I'm not much of a football follower. Besides I seem to remember there were a lot of cards shown by the referee during that game, so the players couldn't have regarded it as meaningless. But returning to the main subject, surely against Barcelona you must try and stop them playing and stop them sweeping you away with their passing, and if so surely a central midfield of Carrick and Giggs is not what you'd want?

(29-05-2011 14:59 )Prince Henry Sinclair Wrote:  Besides I seem to remember there were a lot of cards shown by the referee during that game, so the players couldn't have regarded it as meaningless.

The referee showed 8 yellow cards and 1 red card in this 'meaningless' match. Real Madrid celebrated their 'meaningless' victory with a tour through Madrid on a double decker bus to show off the trophy.

its so meaningless real madrid threw the trophy under the bus thats why ramos is not the goalkeeper