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Oh shut up, you're clearly not watching the game, probably just listening to a bunch of retards on talkshite again. It was a red card, even Jamie Lickarse Redknapp agreed. Terry's a fucking idiot. In fact it wouldn't displease me that much if Chelsea got to the final now, because he wouldn't get a medal. Couldn't happen to a nicer twat.
 
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Chelsea through, 2-2, 3-2 on aggregate. But overall they have shown how you play Barcelona.

At least that racist misses the final. And doesn't get a medal. if they win.
 
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I said when Torres came on "he should stay on the halfway line, and wait for a break", look what happens in the 91st minute.

I'd say our 99 performance against Juventus was better in response to lickarse on sky, but this was overall a very good Chelsea performance.

If Chelsea do win the Champions League, surely Di Matteo must get the job as Terry's assistant.
 
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Wow, Geoff Shreeves is on fire tonight. Firstly he tells Ivanovic that he's out of the final, then he tells Drogba the final could be his last kick of the ball for Chelsea, then he tells Terry he must be heartbroken that he's missing the final. Tomorrow he's off to a Primary School to tell kids Santa Claus isn't real, then he's off to an Old People's home to tell them they're dying soon, and then he's flying to Canada to tell it he's colder than it.

Terry admitted his stupidity, that's good of him.
 
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when you think about it the champions league,world cup,euros etc need tweaking a little

for instance,imagine that the final was barca v real,and both messi and ronaldo but picked up 2nd yellows in the semi's....we'd have a final that should be show casing the worlds best 2 players where neither would play....surely once a team is in the final all yellows should be ignored until next season where any bans would proceed,but sent off in the semi and you will miss the final......its only common sense when you think about it

and the holders should defend their crown regardless,a place should be set aside for them.....if you look at the premiership we could have the situation where man city,united,arsenal and newcastle qualify,unless chelsea win the final and newcastle would miss out...its grossly unfair after the season newcastle have had
 
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I agree that if you pick up a yellow in the semi, and it leads you to be suspended for the final, it should be wiped off, it happened in 99 to Roy Keane and Paul Scholes, happened last night, it's happened a lot. If you get a straight red though in the semi you should miss the final, I believe that's different circumstances altogether.

The problem with rejigging the 'making an extra spot for the winners' thing is this. Generally speaking the winners of the Champions League finish in the top 4 of their League, apart from in 2005, and thus this situation is avoided, however when it isn't (which looks likely) you'd have to take out a spot from another Country, which would in my view be unfair. Now in 2005 they put Liverpool into the second qualifying round of the Champions League, which meant them taking an extra spot from someone else, and it made it really complicated.

I personally see no reason why, if the winners of the Champions League don't finish in the top four (or whatever the regulation is in a Country) then they shouldn't be in the next year's tournament because they simply weren't good enough over the season to finish high enough, like I said, the vast vast majority of times they have, but if they can't, it's just a case of there you are. It doesn't happen for the world cup, not for the euro's, it shouldn't here. It's grossly unfair on a team who's been good enough to qualify via their league position.

There's been a lot of talk today about "How hard is it to retain the Champions League?", I honestly think it boils down to how hard is it to win the Champions League? It's bloody hard, because the quality of team you face is tricky, and you need a heck of a lot of luck over the season to win it. look at us in 99. We nearly went out at the Group Stage because then only the two best runners up went through. We got hammered in the San Siro against Inter Milan but drew 1-1. Juventus went into a 2-0 lead in Turin but we turned it around, and the final was one sided (Though really Bayern were fucked by injury time, they were like "we've hammered these bastards for 90 minutes, and can't score another fucking goal" and then we shocked them). Whenever you look back on the Champions League winners, you think of a lot of what if's. It's hard not to. What if Iniesta didn't score in the last minute in 2009? What if that goal doesn't get ruled out? What if the ref saw that as a penalty instead of a great tackle? It's a very fine line.

Real Madrid vs Bayern Munich tonight, I'd expect Real to go through but I'm not ruling Bayern out, purely because they have some good attacking players, it wouldn't shock me to see them score.
 
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2-1 to Real at half time and 3-3 on aggregate. What a half of football, attack vs attack, some terrible defending at times but it's been awesome to watch. Ronaldo scored an early penalty before scoring a second, then Robben scores a penalty of his own to level the tie on aggregate. The second half will be interesting because Real need to score again but will be so wary of Bayern scoring again, because then they'd need 2. Super half.
 
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With their entire city behind them, literally, Bayren have it all to play for. Should be interesting to see Robben v Chelsea for the first time.
 
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He had a good start to his Chelsea career, then injuries mounted up and he never found form again. He went to Real and did ok, but never set the world alight. He's struggling still at Bayern, been dropped a couple of times. He's very much a hot and cold player.
 
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