Congratulations to Tom Henning Øvrebø, European Champion - The Other Teams Thread

Who would have guessed that this would happen at a final in Rome?

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11945_5350534,00.html

 

Well that...and they really looked poor.

And the players definitely had a jaded look about them. Good job inflating their heads media!

 

Who cares about that. There's more important things to deal with, like making sure Drogba and Bosingwa are punished for their crimes against humanity!

 

This always seems to be the main catalyst tbh.

 

If those men had yelled "YOU'RE A DISGRACE!!!!" to eachother, then I'm sure Uefa would have taken action swiftly.

 

While I won't disagree with drunkeness being a big factor in a lot of fan violence, those two are a different set of people from the stabbing incident as far as I can tell.

 

thank all they are enforcing no flag throwing, one might have caught fire on one of the flares going off

 

Yeah, they are seperate incidents. But if you always read these articles involving such disorderly conduct, alcohol will be mentioned 9/10 times. While stabbing someone is barbarous and inexcusable, you'd have to think that these guys aren't just going around stabbing people indiscriminately. People should learn to better conduct themselves when they venture into foreign places. But yeah, inexcusable.

 

Haha.........

 

What a sad performance from Man Utd. They lacked passion and were quite flat. Fergie got it wrong tactically and failed to cope with Barca's excellent passing game. I don't feel sorry for them and am glad they won't be visiting this site to rile us.

 

Now I remember why I rarely ever check the main BigSoccer page.

This year's CL is the first time since 1994 where the undisputed 2 best clubs face off in the Final.

Undisputed...yeah...sure...

 

Yeaaaaaaaaah......United were crap, Barca hardly "dominated".

Messi - What's all the hype about? Did nothing against us, and hardly did a thing against United besides a rather tidy goal.

Barca were absolutely HANDED this championship. Pretty sad.

 

Did you guys hear what the commentator said earlier in the game after the 1st goal?

Here's basically what I heard:

"The referee's been great, letting things continue blah blah, Henry had booted the ball as far as he could into the United crowd, and the referee did nothing, well done.

W....T....F

 

He also didn't book Ronaldo for a frankly shocking tackle on Puyol.

 

I thought he did get booked for that? Ronaldo got booked for something.

There maybe were some minor mistakes, but the ref did have a good game overall. Although if Man U had gone up who knows.

 

Yea he got a card.

 

He got booked for knocking him over in the corner.

But it was nice that after that huge battle between the pair, they managed to shake hands at the end.

 

He went in studs up yeah, but the replay showed absolutely minimal contact.

 

Three weeks later and I STILL cant believe Landon Donovan scored on us





Played well today, and I even heard some give him MOTM, anyways, lets just hope he rides this momentum into the summer

 

I was wondering why Iniesta's face annoyed me so much. Now I know it's because he's Landycakes' twin.

 

Minimal contact or not, it was a pretty shocking foul, completely wild and uncontrolled 'tackle'.


I'd be one of those people giving Iniesta MOTM. Also maybe we'll finally see an end to people calling Ronaldo better than Messi after tonight. Messi may not have sparkled a great deal, but he did a lot of subtle, quiet things that caused problems for United and of course scored a brilliant goal with an even better celebration. Ronaldo did... er, I'm not sure.

 

Yeah, 1968, with Georgie Best. Now THERE was a great player.

TBH, the ones since then have been a little bit... well... suspect, tbh. They won in 1999 after being the 2nd best team on the night and scored in the last 90 seconds of the match, not giving Bayern the chance to come back at them. Pure luck, frankly.

In 2008 they won only pens again so all this crap about them being 'clearly superior' is bullshit because if JT doesn't slip, they lose.

This year it has to be said it's probably caught up with them because, bluntly, those were two very, very weak goals. With the first one Vidic just has to run Eto towards the bye-line coz there's nobody to cross to and with the second one Rio completely loses the man he's meant to be marking and a player 6 inches shorter gets a header against him and scores.

You'd expect West Brom to make a better fist of stopping those. Well done to the Barca players and all that but piss-poor defending.

 

Yeah, there shouldn't even be a question mark over it, IMO.

Good luck with that

 

Georgie Best was one of my few Man Utd favourites. I doubt he could have helped this lot out. They were flat and the defence folded under the pressure of the Barca attack. I hope he's not turning over in his grave!