I know that (european) soccer is not the most popular sport here in the org, but this thread needed to be done: (this post is dedicated to all the Tottenham and Arsenal supporters)

BYE BYE CHELSEA, go home you and your pathetic cowardice, you don't deserve to play the Champions League final when you play all scared against 10 men! Iniesta's goal killed you for good. Terrible team, terrible coach, terrible philosophy (9 players defending, 2 attacking: lame), terrible president (more than 800 millions invested in a bunch of cowards)

Now the soccer fans will enjoy an interesting final against Man Utd and FCBarcelona, probably the best two teams in the world right now. Cristiano Ronaldo against Messi...how cool is that?






LAME

NO CLASS
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I agree the 2 best teams r in the final...

oh I support chelsea. Football is about tactics. Barcelona are without doubt the best passing team. If u try and play them they thrash u like they did real madrid. So a coach has 2 think, how can we stop that. U put up a brick wall and counter attack. Thats what chelsea were doing. It was up2 Barcelona 2 break them down, and they did in the end. Thats why we love football, cos its tactical. U attack and defend. The problem was chelsea didnt score a second with the chances they had and in the end paid 4 it. No need 2 rubbish a team. They were the first team 2 keep Barcelona scoreless at the camp nou this season.

anyway back 2 the music...

newpowersoul said:

Mmm, I recognize I somewhat admired Chelsea during the Mourinho's years: a perfect combination of goals and balls, tough defending and extremely dangerous attacking, but what I saw yesterday was lame, just lame, I'm sorry, but that's the truth: attacking players like Lampard and Ballack playing like last-line defenders, wtf is that? Not even the italian teams play that way; sorry but Barcelona deserve to be in the final, despite the supposed help from the referee (only Pique's handball was a clear penalty).

I missed the game but I heard about Drogba's outburst which is shown here:

I don't have the clip of Michael Ballack that also confronted the judge as he was walking on to the pitch.... They must have been really pissed off, him and Drogba, to behave like that.

I'm not saying whether the judge was right or wrong with his decision but I did find it interesting that Eidur Smári Gudjohnsen, who plays now for Barcelona (since 2006) but was with Chelsea for six years before, felt so sorry for his former teammates that he couldn't celebrate going to his first Champions League Final with his team:
http://www.thisislondon.c...article.do
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