The Champions League Thread 2013/14

[TBM]

Man City progress

Can they win it?

[NewCorkSeth]

Man City progress

Can they win it?

Short answer? Yes.

[TBM]

Cracking result from Arsenal tonight. Seems they can actually defend this season, just goes to show what a regular back 4 can achieve.

I worry for if Giroud gets injured though, he's key to their counter attacking play

[NewCorkSeth]

Cracking result from Arsenal tonight. Seems they can actually defend this season, just goes to show what a regular back 4 can achieve.

I worry for if Giroud gets injured though, he's key to their counter attacking play

Didnt they have Monreal in instead of Gibbs? And Podolski is back in under a month with only 2 months left to the window! theyll be fine

[TBM]

No Monreal came on with 15 left to play and went to left midfield which I think he's been doing all season. Podolski although a good player isn't a hold it up target man

[SHORT AND CURLY]

How come Koscielny got wiped out by the keeper (Not too dis similar to the foul on the french player by Schumaker? a few years back) and the ref gives nothing.

Yet Ashley young gets a penalty without being touched.

Totally

[Handsome Man]

Cracking result from Arsenal tonight. Seems they can actually defend this season, just goes to show what a regular back 4 can achieve.

I worry for if Giroud gets injured though, he's key to their counter attacking play

I agree. There's been lots of love for Giroud recently. He seems a different player as well this year and has been as important as Ozil or Ramsey (his return from the wilderness must seem like signing a new player for Wenger). They will struggle if they lose any of them, but probably will be most affected if Giroud is out.

[Vision]

Cracking result from Arsenal tonight. Seems they can actually defend this season, just goes to show what a regular back 4 can achieve.

I worry for if Giroud gets injured though, he's key to their counter attacking play

I agree. There's been lots of love for Giroud recently. He seems a different player as well this year and has been as important as Ozil or Ramsey (his return from the wilderness must seem like signing a new player for Wenger). They will struggle if they lose any of them, but probably will be most affected if Giroud is out.

Chelsea cup game demonstrated that. BendtneROFL.

What was so impressive about Arsenal last night was that they had a clear game plan and had the mental toughness to stick to it which hasn't really been the case in the last few years. Defensively they were great. A really tight line, arms aloft for offside, it was like watching George Graham's team at times. Lovely stuff

[No Fixed Abode]

Chelsea 3-0 Schalke

Eto'o 2
Ba

[NewCorkSeth]

No Monreal came on with 15 left to play and went to left midfield which I think he's been doing all season. Podolski although a good player isn't a hold it up target man

Ah yes thats right! I got confused.. thought Gibbs was injured for some reason.. Yaya Sanogo? isnt he like 6ft4?

[No Fixed Abode]

Celtic issue statement saying their fans were provoked in Amsterdam during the week by Ajax fans.

Celtic really are as bad as Liverpool when it comes to defending their guilty fans. Both clubs really do need to get over themselves.

[King of Sting]

Celtic issue statement saying their fans were provoked in Amsterdam during the week by Ajax fans.

Celtic really are as bad as Liverpool when it comes to defending their guilty fans. Both clubs really do need to get over themselves.

Perhaps you should be more concerned with Chelsea getting their own house in order before criticising Liverpool and Celtic Kes. I mean, just for starters they have JT as club captain.



September 2001: Insulting American tourists after 9/11

The day after the September 11 attacks, Terry and then Chelsea teammates Frank Lampard, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Jody Morris, were accused of insulting American tourists following a mammoth drinking session at Heathrow Airport. They were subsequently fined a paltry two weeks’ wages for their actions.

January 2002: Assalut and affray with Jody Morris, again


Four months after the 9/11 episode, Terry was back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with able accomplice Jody Morris once again by his side. The pair were out celebrating the birth of Morris’ first child at an exclusive London nightspot, before getting in a bit of argy-bargy during which a doorman was seriously injured.

Terry was cleared of affray, having an offensive weapon, wounding with intent and unlawful wounding, and is believed to have wept in court upon hearing the verdict.

February 2002: P*ssing into a pint glass in a nightclub

Only a month after being given the all-clear, you would think that Terry would have been on his best behaviour, but as we would all later learn, self-reflection and absorbing the lessons of his past aren’t exactly his best attributes.

Terry was spotted on CCTV cameras in a Romford nightclub p*ssing into a pint glass at the bar and promptly returning to the dancefloor thinking that his exploits had gone unnoticed. He was subsequently quietly escorted from the premises, but when the CCTV footage went viral, his detestable behaviour (but thankfully nothing else) was exposed for all to see.

2004: Gambling £40k a week

Footballers earn a lot of money and are entitled to do with it what they will, but when you’re spending over and above the national wage every week on the horses, as Terry, Scott Parker and Wayne Bridge were alleged to have been, then there’s something amiss.

Frankly, we are little disappointed that squeaky clean Scott Parker was involved, but as least he steered away from negative headlines afterwards. As for Terry and Bridge…

November 2005: Car sex, or nearly car sex

In fairness to Terry, he admitted that he cheated on his then girlfriend Toni Poole at will before they tied the knot in 2007, with reports suggesting he had affairs with up to nine other women before setting down. And he wasn’t very discreet either.

In November 2005, he is alleged to have got down and dirty with then 17-year old Jenny Barker in the back of his Bentley in a public car park, but Jenny wouldn’t let him go all the way.

“He smiled and put on sexy Luther Vandross music from a selection on a huge screen in the car,” she said.

“One thing led to another but we did not have sex. I didn’t want to give in to him like I can imagine every other girl does.”

October 2007: Paparazzi attack

Attacks on the paparazzi are normally the preserve of B-list American celebrities, but Terry couldn’t help getting in on the act when a snapper overstepped the boundaries in 2007. Terry is one of a number of Chelsea players alleged by a photographer to have prevented him from taking photographs and subsequently damaging his scooter.

March 2008: Parking in a disabled bay

Terry copped a £60 fine after parking his Bentley in a disabled bay while treating his family to a meal in Pizza Express. Had he parked in the public car park only a few yards away, he would have only had to pay 50p an hour, but was obviously consumed by his overbearing sense of self-importance.

December 2009: The secret tour guide

Terry is believed to have accepted a folder containing £10,000 in £50 notes for organising a secret behind the scenes tour of the Chelsea training ground. The scam was uncovered by the News of the World, the now defunct red top that was once the bastion of clean cut investigative journalism.

January 2010: The Wayne Bridge affair

John Terry after his wedding to Toni Poole in 2007: “I’ve misbehaved and slept with girls behind her back and that’s not right. She knows about it all now and we’re moving on. I’m not going to cheat on her ever again.”

Everyone else of course knew better than to believe Terry, not least Wayne Bridge, once a best mate of Terry’s and now a sworn enemy after Terry cheated on his wife with the mother of Bridge’s child, Vanessa Perroncel. The lasting legacy of the whole episode was the famous non-handshake between the pair when Chelsea faced Man City shortly after the whole thing went public.

October 2011: Racist abuse of Anton Ferdinand

After Anton caught him with a couple of sneaky elbows, Terry is alleged to have called the gangly QPR defender a “f***ing black c**t”. Terry, for his part, doesn’t deny using those words, but merely says he was refuting Ferdinand’s accusation, saying: “You don’t think I called you a f***ing black c**t.”

Terry’s Ma and Da could hardly be described as sterling influences on young John. In March 2008, Terry’s mother and mother-in-law were nabbed trying to steal £800 worth of goods from Tesco, while in 2009, his Dad was caught selling cocaine in an Essex pub (those damn undercover reporters again).
His ma of course, also loves the scouse cock.

[southbank1871]

Actually quite nicely done there Kes.

[King of Sting]

Actually quite nicely done there Kes.

Stop your vomit inducing arse licking.

[Royalist]

BT Sport get exclusive rights from 2015 in a 900 million quid deal. Sky and ITV been blown out the water

[winchester_royal]

Ooof. Fair fcuks to them, they're putting up a far better fight than the likes of ESPN and Setanta ever did.

Apparently part of the deal is that they'll make a fair number of the games free-to-air as well.

[southbank1871]

Actually quite nicely done there Kes.

Stop your vomit inducing arse licking.

Stop your mega-posts in response to any mention of Liverpool.

[southbank1871]

BT Sport get exclusive rights from 2015 in a 900 million quid deal. Sky and ITV been blown out the water

ITV are only really going to have England games after that then. At least one Champions League game a week has to be FTA doesn't it?

[Royalist]

They are making some games, including the final of that and the Europa which they also have, FTA and 'other top games'

Currently get BT for free as i have BT Infinity. Hope this stays the same. If enough people switch to bt internet i reckon it will meaning lots more football for 'free'

[King of Sting]

Actually quite nicely done there Kes.

Stop your vomit inducing arse licking.

Stop your mega-posts in response to any mention of Liverpool.

Doesn't happen. That is the longest post I have done all year.