Other FSU in the Champions League

Anorthosis aren't perhaps as weak a team of no-hopers as one might expect. They've a strong Georgian contingent, with player-manager Temuri Ketsbaia having attracted several of his compatriots, including Georgi Kinkladze. See
http://www.georgiansoccer.com/index...ll&id=1118517506&archive=&start_from=&ucat=28
I'm surprised Georgia haven't done better than they have at international football; they've produced some fantastic individual players over the years, even in recent times, but their results as an independent nation have been mediocre.

 

Had to go to Fulham Broadway today - stepped off the Tube and there it was - Virgin Megastore - The Champions of Europe DVD, which I had to purchase...

 

Might be paying Levadia's ground a visit in the next couple of days... pity they're out.

 

Went to the TNS ground at the week end... it's pretty... ahem... modest.

 

TNS wants the club to move to Oswestry - plans for a 3-thousand ground and Oswestry Town went bust a couple of years ago as well - so they reckon space for a football team/catchment area/blah-blah-blah.

 

Oswestry merged with TNS in 2003, I think...

Their ground is pretty neat. The only decent ground in the League of Wales though is in Llanelli and that's because its mainly a Rugby ground.

There's no hope of Barry coming back at the minute, they still have amateurs playing for them and have no control of Jenner Park. A damn shame. They went from starting in the Champions League to being relegated in one season. I think TNS have definetly benefited from their downfall.

Port Talbot are my semi-local team though.

And they make TNS look like Brazil 1970!

 

Why the hell does Kaunas have to play Liverpool? Are they trying to torture me?

I am excited about Liverpools squad, and I will be dissapointed if they lose, but then again, it is Kaunas and that would be grea..........WHAT THE HELL! FOCUS! I NEED LIVERPOOL TO WIN!!! UGH. This is not fair lol. Liverpool has to win, but me being completely exhausted and listening to "The Return of The Lizard King" by the Doors is making me think about how cool Kaunas is.

 

Dinamo Tbilisi [GEO]:0 Brondby [DEN]: 2 (FT)

 

DuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuDE!

You got MAJOR itchUES.



When Arsenal played Spartak - I let mein ticker tell me who to root for, and it was dem Gunners, altho it didn't help - 0-3 in Moscow, or Moskau according to Grizzly and Kaltenbrunner.

 

Dinamo Tbilisi [GEO] 0-2 Brondby [DEN]
[Skoubo 59, Elmander 82]
[Sent off = Amisulashvili (DT) 40]

Dynamo Kyiv [UKR] 2-2 FC Thun [SUI]
[Husev 20, Shatskikh 43; Rodlofo 38 (og), Aegerter 65]

At half-time Anderlecht are stuffing Neftchi 4-0 and Kaunas blew a 1-0 goal lead against Liverpool thanks to some quick-fire goals from Cisse and Carragher.

Poor defending on both goals from Kaunas, Cisse managed to poke the ball past the defender in a position he shoudl have been able to clear the ball, the 2nd was a set-piece (corner), that Carragher got under and the Kaunas defender deflected it in.

 

God bless Thun, I hope they can pull through

 

Dinamo Tbilisi (Geo) 0 - 2 Brondby (Den)

Dynamo Kyiv (Ukr) 2 - 2 Thun

Anderlecht (Bel) 5 - 0 FK Neftchi

Kaunas (Lit) 1 - 3 Liverpool (Eng)

You can call me a wide eyed optimist mit unbridled enthusiasm, yet methinks , dat dem 4 geese are cooked.

 

wat a bad nite for Other FSU teams

 

Qualifying Round 2 results - 1st leg:

Dinamo Tbilisi [GEO] 0-2 Brondby [DEN]
[Skoubo 59, Elmander 82]
[Sent off = Amisulashvili (DT) 40]

Dynamo Kyiv [UKR] 2-2 FC Thun [SUI]
[Husev 20, Shatskikh 43; Rodlofo 38 (og), Aegerter 65]

Anderlecht [BEL] 5-0 Neftchi Baku [AZE]
[Tihinen 20, Jestrovic 23, Mbo Mpenza 32, Goor 40, Vanderhaeghe 78]

Kaunas [LIT] 1-3 Liverpool [ENG]
[Baravicius 21; Cisse 27, Carragher 30, Gerrard (pen) 54]

Partizan Belgrade [SGC] 1-0 Sheriff Tiraspol [MLD]
[Odita 63]

Rabotnicki Skopje [MAC] 1-1 Lokomotiv Moskva [RUS]
[Nuhiji 11; Sychev 90]

Others:

Anorthosis [CYP] 3-1 Trabzonspor [TUR]
[Nikolau 25, Frusos 82, Koba 90; Tekke 75]
[Sent off = Yattara (T) 45]

Valarenga Oslo [NOR] 1-0 FC Haka [FIN]
[Freddy dos Santos (pen) 53]

Dudelange [LUX] 1-6 Rapid Vienna [AUT]
[Martine 9; Lawaree 2, Akagunduz 3, 16, 64, Hofmann 6, Kienast 85]

Artmedia Bratislava [SVK] 5-0 Celtic [SCO]
[Halenar 43, 90, Vascak 57, Mikulic 77, 79]

Malmo FF [SWE] 3-2 Maccabi Haifa [ISR]
[Osmanovski 34, Andersson (pen) 48, Mattisson 68; Harazi 2, Colautti 45]

Shelbourne [IRE] 0-0 Steaua Bucharest [ROM]

SK Tirana [ALB] 0-2 CSKA Sofia [BUL]
[Gai 88, Gligorov 90]

Debrecen [HUN] 3-0 Hadjuk Split [CRO]
[Bogdanovic 26, 38, Kerekes 57]

 

I don't mean to open a can'o'dudu , but hwere are the Armenian unt Kazakh represenatives, as well as Latvia unt Estonia?

 

Des was knocked out in round uno.

 

With our (DK) defense the way it is, we have no business being in the champions league.

 

Q: Who's always drunk, constantly swearing, cursing life, cursing foreigners, shaking fist violently at the TV set, forgetting to shave and coming to work late?

A: A Dynamo fan

 

How'd we miss dat?
Was it 1st of may celebration or sumpm?

 

Look back into yonder thread and ye shall see.

Yarrrrr.

 

A touch of underappreciated sarcasm on"G" 's part.
I'm jes pissed at our (former USSR) ineptitude.
A few weeks ago I had a lengthy conversation mit a Gent who is quite up in Barca's management and he had a very unique take on CL, will try to share it later.

DKU should be embrassed mit deir selection process, unt I blame Surkis and not Buryak for it - it is their job to reap the cream of Ukranian crop (leave some for Odyessa) and not Brazilian has beens; WDF is Verpakovskis doin' on de bench, BTW?

 

You be captain oblivious....


Yarrrr.







jesus, that was a joke from long, long ago, on a planet far, far away...

 

Dinamo Tbilsi [GEO] or Brondby [DEN] v Ajax [NED]

Anderlecht [BEL] or Neftchi Baku [AZE] v Slavia Prague [CZE]

Real Betis [ESP] v AS Monaco [FRA]

Artmedia Bratislava [SVK] or Celtic [SCO] v Partizan Belgrade [SGC] v Sheriff Tiraspol [MLD]

Valarenga Oslo [NOR] or FC Haka [FIN] v Club Brugge [BEL]

Malmo FF [SWE] or Maccabi Haifa [ISR] v Dynamo Kyiv [UKR] or FC Thun [SUI]

Shakhtar Donetsk [UKR] v Inter Milan [ITA]

Kaunas [LIT] or Liverpool [ENG] v SK Tirana [ALB] or CSKA Sofia [BUL]

Manchester United [ENG] v Debrecen [HUN] or Hadjuk Split [CRO]

Wisla Krakow [POL] v Panathinaikos [GRE]

Anorthosis Famagusta [CYP] or Trabzonspor [TUR] v Rangers [SCO]

Dudelange [LUX] or Rapid Vienna [AUT] v Rabotnicki Skopje [MAC] or Lokomotiv Moskva [RUS]

Shelbourne [IRE] or Steaua Bucharest [ROM] v Rosenborg [NOR]

Sporting Lisbon [PRT] v Udinese [ITA]

Everton [ENG] v Villarreal [ESP]

Basel [SUI] v Werder Bremen [GER]