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*Official* English Football Season 2008-2009
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TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
Malouda can't cross at the best of times, so at pace under pressure the chances of it being dangerous are slim.
Messi should have stayed on his feet as it was opening and the yellow was just as it was clumsy and entirely cynical. At least Alves Malouda was six of one and could have conceivably gone either way.
Scaly piscine
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Err how is it entirely cynical when his foot rolled over or glanced the ball and caught him.
There are plenty of cynical fouls in the match, that wasn't one of them.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
He didn't touch the ball. Alex didn't even give a ****, he just took a card for the team.
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Pique has been absolutely outstanding, why didn't he play this well for us?
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
Shame that the second half never really got going until the end but crucially the tie is still wide open.
I think this was the first game in Donkey's years that Barca didn’t score, so to shut them out twice, would be a fair effort from Chelsea and something which I can’t see them doing. Thought Bosingwa was fantastic.
I think this was the first game in Donkey's years that Barca didn’t score, so to shut them out twice, would be a fair effort from Chelsea and something which I can’t see them doing. Thought Bosingwa was fantastic.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Gotta give Cech some credit for the initial save IMHO.
Not convinced 0-0 is all that great an away result in Yurp now, so still kinda favour the Catalans.
roseboy64
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Because for Barca he gets to play regularly?
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superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Looks like a combination of Prince Harry and Ashton Kutcher imo
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Ha, good spot. Can def see what you mean in that pic.
Freakishly youthful looking, it must be said. Looks like a razor's never touched that face.
Shame he's cup-tied for tonight, more importantly tho.
The Sean
Cricketer Of The Year
He generally played very well for us - it wasn't because of lack of quality that we sold him. But was always going to be behind Vidic and Ferdinand in the pecking order, he lacked pace, and he was getting to the age where he needed (and merited) first team football. And Barca offered us £6m, which was a good deal.
Uppercut
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He got a bit of a bollocking against Burton Albion in the cup. To repeat the cliche, you don't really get those games in Spain. He's excellent technically but he's not who you want to combat Chris Samba or Kevin Davies up front. Good deal for both clubs.
Loony BoB
International Captain
Always liked Piqué better than Evans, as did most people - that's exactly why he didn't want to stay sitting around on the backbench. It's not like he left for a mid-table team, either. Good on him, even if it's a shame we couldn't get away with keeping him as a backup.
TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
Drogba is in the same mould (battering ram forward), just ten times the player and Pique looked good against him. It was Marquez, who didn't look like comfortable against Didier, far too slow and that meant Barca had to play deeper than they should have.
And when you consider that it wasn’t too long ago that Man U had O’Shea and Neville as their centre-halves, not sure what was so good about the deal, especially as 6 million is relatively nothing.