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Bayern München B vs Chelsea FC B!!!
And don't worry, Spain, you still have Europa. Romania is sorta like Germany, if you squint...
I think so. At the very least, they had Diego Contento on the bench for tonight. Alaba'll be replaced by Rafinha most likely (with Lahm moving to the other side) and they have plenty of options in the middle (Muller, Tymoshchuk, maybe Danijel Pranjic, depending on how offensively they want to play. Kroos has played the Schweinsteiger role a lot this season, so they could just have easily push him back and throw Muller on the pitch). Badstuber will be more difficult to replace (especially going up against Didier Drogba, the way he's playing now).
No one who is not contractually obligated to do so actually refers to the stadia using their neutered names.
Their traditional nickname is the Biscuitmen, because Reading was the cookie capital of England.
Visual evidence.
Not quite the same. "Biscuits" in England are "cookies" in America.
And yes, Ramos stunk. Did Ronaldo and Kaka take the same shot, or was that a replay?
I bet he wears his Captain's armband all night anyway...
And Messi missed yesterday.
Although perhaps not, LFC has made me really uncomfortable this year. Which is more evil, rooting for Bayern in the CL final or supporting a club that did a slow dance with racism? When it comes to soccer I am fickle, but in my defense I will say that Newcastle wears like an old sweater and it's been much more fun rooting for well scouted francophone Africans than a club that looks like a skinhead convention on the pitch.
Anyway, opportunities will come.
Can't be worse than being a fan of the baseball Royals.
Ooh, that could be fun.
1975 - Bayern beat Leeds 2-0
1977 - Liverpool beat Monchengladbach
1980 - Nottm Forest beat Hamburg
1982 - Aston Villa beat Bayern
1999 - Man Utd beat Bayern
4-1 England so far, though all the games were on neutral territory.
Q: If Terry's not named to the team (and he can't be since he's suspended), then he doesn't get a winner's medal, right? Does only the starting XI + the named subs get medals? How does that work?
Yes, Terry can still get a medal according to this article.
I thought he had a pretty good game actually. Probably their best player on Tuesday.
Supposedly the referee's panel rated the ref's performance 2/20.
As one with little historical knowledge of the sport I see stuff like this and I can imagine how someone must feel when they hear that in the 70s the Orioles and Royals were arguably the two most respected teams in MLB. Leeds? Really?
The chimp isn't mad, he's busy. The Red Sox are trying him out as a reliever.
Until Leeds basically went bankrupt, they were a very formidable team, with a solid reputation. Not equal to the top tier juggernauts like ManU/Liverpool, but probably around the level that Tottenham are now. They reached the CL semi-finals as recently as 2001...
The best thing about yesterday's result is I now have a team to actively root against in the final! The 2011 final was a bit boring because I didn't really have a rooting interest.
So, go Chelsea (if nothing else, they're Damon Albarn's favorite team)!
The best thing about getting ass raped, is that I now have AIDS!
Check out who won the European Cup in 1979. It'll blow your mind, baby.
Hard as hell!
More like Chelsea (more or less) regular attack versus Bayern reserve defenders and vice-versa.
Given how well Chelsea played at Man U down to 10 (when they went to a back 3) as well as against RM, maybe they should ...
I find it 100x more amazing that Malmö reached the final. Then again, I already knew about Forest...
And looking over the teams in that year, I now really want a Progrès Niedercorn shirt. That's just an awesome name, I don't care that they lost 12-0 to Real on aggregate! Black & yellow too!
I watched The Damned United just as I was getting into soccer a few years back. At one point in the film, there's a montage of a league table with Derby County jumping over teams to the top of the first division. So weird to see Huddersfield Town, Southamption Coventry City, & Ipswitch Town (Leeds & Derby County too) in that first division table.
Official word will come at a press conference with Rosell tomorrow morning in Barcelona.
The current hot names in Spain are Bielsa, Laurent Blanc (who was at the Camp Nou on Tuesday) and Ernesto Valverde (who recently left Olympiakos for "family reasons").
Ipswich Town the early 1960s pulled off an amazing feat. They won Division Three in 1957, then won the Second Division in 1961. In their first season in Division One, they won the League, a feat no-one else has ever accomplished. In 1963 Alf Ramsey resigned as manager to take over the national side, and the team collapsed. Two years after winning the League, they got relegated.
50 Glasgow Rangers
92 Austria Wien
113 Wisla Kraków
186 Grasshopper Club Zürich
216 Malmö FF
N/A 1.FC Köln (currently 10th in Bundesliga)
N/A Nottingham Forest (currently 20th in Football League Championship)
N/A Dynamo Dresden (currently 9th in Bundesliga 2)
I confess I was rooting for Real Madrid mostly because I wanted Mourinho to get another title. It's like rooting for super-evil, I know. But if I don't have a more natural attachment to a team involved, I find myself rooting for people going to exemplary achievements. Usually.
Despite the first half goal (and PK), does Ronaldo deserve flack for not being more of an influence in the 2nd half? (I know he'll receive the flack, but is it warranted.) A star can only influence a match so much, but it seems like he tired (there was that odd stumble when he uncharacteristically couldn't get the ball out from under his feet).
I wonder how much their style of play would change without him. I assume the passing and possession style are a club-wide thing, but perhaps certain emphases would be different? Maybe not as much pressing, or not quite so much passing? Could there be an overreaction to being unable to crack Chelsea's D in the 2nd half and see them playing big target men, etc?
They already tried to create a tactical plan B with the purchase of Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter. That was a financial disaster, I think the net result was that they paid 40 million euros for the privilege of sending Etoo to Italy. It didn't work out very well on the field either.
If true, I'll dream a little dream that Daniel Levy lets Redknapp go for nothing and hired Pep. 0% chance of happening, I know, but it's a nice dream.
If he's out there to be gotten, regardless of Chelsea's CL final result, won't they just throw a blank contract at the guy and say "You fill in the numbers, we'll countersign when you're done"?
It is completely voluntary. If he leaves in 12 hours (and I expect he will), it's because he feels that he needs to take a break.
I'd be very, very surprised if he goes anywhere over the summer.
Michael Cox is of the view that both coaches told their teams to play on the counter-attack in the second half and in overtime. That meant neither team had any real opportunities.
I record the games and watch them in the evening. I have the same problem you do trying to avoid the scores.
I kind of doubt it, though I could see somebody like Llorente coming if they named Bielsa as Pep's replacement.
It's sad, really, how much pressure there must be on even the most successful coaches. I mean, the difference in the semi-finals was that Barca hit the woodwork 5 times (off memory) and an excellent goalkeeper made about 10 fine saves. If even a single one of those had gone in, Barca would almost certainly be in the final.
Maybe Pep is just stressed out and would have needed a break anyway. If so, that makes the longevity of SAF and Wenger all the more remarkable.
Not quite the same. "Biscuits" in England are "cookies" in America.
Sorry if it really seems like I'm that dumb. I was making a "dumb American" joke. I'm actually a professor of British Literature. Go Reading, too! Come on you biscuitmen!
Sorry - no disrespect intended.
I root for Mourinho, too, puck. Mostly because of this WWE promo(*). Actually, I think Mourinho would make a great Raw General Manager.
(*) Come on, his kids wearing DX gear? How adorable is that?
Big Sam to Barca!
Don't know how much fun it would be to watch the game, but I'd pay money to watch the first training session.
Nah. How could anyone be happy in Barcelona when they've seen Blackpool, Blackburn, and Preston?
MUCH more recently then 1975, Leeds were a top-notch, dangerous (in terms of being thugs as well as winning) team.
There are two period when Leeds were really good:
1964 to 1975 - 2 league titles, 1 FA Cup, 1 League Cup, 2 Fairs Cups (predecessor to the Europa League), defeat in 5 other major finals and league runners up on several other occasions. A great but flawed team, mixing incredible skill and stamina with dirty play and gamesmanship and choking at the final hurdle. Widely disliked by fans of other teams.
1992 to 2002 - 1 league title, Champions League participation, several qualifications for Europe, and at least mid table in other seasons. Also widely disliked by fans of other teams, but more for the reputation of their supporters this time around, as they did not cover themselves with glory between the early 1970's and 1990.
... who also cost ManU the GDP of a small country.
"There's only one Andy Carroll!"
It's hard to picture him being part of their pressing, even just from the pov of making the effort. He's done some amazing things for Milan this year, though.
Yeah, that was the catch, he needed to slot into their normal game too, he wasn't bought as a complementary player or anything like that. It also didn't help that Zlatan semi-publicly* disdained the way the players in Barcelona checked their egos at the door. Pep certainly wasn't as good as Mourinho at stroking Zlatan's ego, and he probably didn't care for nannying such a high-maintenance player when he had a perfectly good team without him.
*) And later publicly put it in his** book. Where he after 300 pages about how wonderful he is and how he made everybody dance to his pipe, he criticized Freddie Ljungberg for being a diva. Not much for irony, that Zlatan.
**) Well, it was ghostwritten, but aren't they all?
Yeah. The problem is that the "Plan B" guy also has to be able to fit into "Plan A" so they can rotate without disruption. Difficult.
For sure. He's been on the verge of walking out for the last two summers and said from the very start he would probably quit sooner rather than later. He also looks like death warmed over.
Ibra also started well at Barcelona and looked like he would fit in. Then got injured, came back, got a red card, then went on an epic streak of not scoring until Messi gave him a pity penalty. Then his agent called Guardiola mentally ill and that was that.
There is a level of insanity to the off field shenanigans in soccer that doesn't exist in any other sport. As crazy as Boras is he has never called a manger mentally ill (I don't think).
Swansea-Wolves is fun in a "defense?" sort of way. Everton dominating Fulham too.
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