Football

City are on the carousel.

Suarez!!!

Nice one Shitty, nice one. My £10 on Barca is starting to look very nice.

Lol!

Kiss of death.

Of course, while I have no desire to see City or Chelsea do well in the CL, we do need to be careful our co-efficient doesn't go down. So I have mixed feelings on this game.

We had a great co-efficient in the 2010-11 season (3 teams in the QF, and a finalist), which will go out of the rankings next year. Germany could well overtake after this season, and while Italy and Portugal are some way back, it would be a step in the wrong direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_coefficient#Current_ranking

Lol citeh

Not helped by Liverpool soiling their european sheets...

Euro sheets? We soiled everything...

>>>>>>

You're right, you can't... I think it should've been a yellow, in the circumstances, but the ref was in full dick-swinging mode... In essence, the referee got it wrong and when the FA had a chance to make amends by charging Barnes with dangerous play they chose not to...

It stinks and makes me so angry because Matic could so easily have joined the ranks of players whose careers have been cut short by some neanderthal who doesn't even deserve to be on the same pitch...

Isn't there an argument that it would wander into officiating after the final whistle? Where would the line be drawn? The outcome doesn't feel right given the victim misses a cup final but we all know you can't react like that. Rather than going to some faceless FA panel afterwards wouldn't the better bet to use the current technology that is used to beat refs be given to the refs? How can you have a situation where we get sometimes 9 replays before the commentary can come to a conclusion and the official gets ONE shot, real time, from ONE angle?

Still it was a horrible horrible challenge...Reminds me of Ramires at Villa. I can't remember if TSO did any special interviews or even acknowledgement. Dyche has a point about the lack of reaction from anyone at the scene. You can normally tell when something is genuinely up but there was nothing there [apart from Matic], hence the ref missing it?

Maybe I should cash out now. They have that option with Betfair. Hmmm what to do

jaw

Ban the fuckers that commit reckless challenges like that for the duration of the victim's rehabilitation process.

You'd be fecked if it was Bogarde you fouled.

When they play like they have in the 1st they're a frightening prospect.

Is Pellegrini turning into Wenger mk2? Two up front in Europe...again?!

"I wonder if they ever get bored of passing to each other"

Thanks for your valuable insight Lee.

They're a cheating bunch of cunts Barca but I hope they hold on. Probably be a draw though

Barca playin against 10 again. Seem to be more common that not for barca. Brilliant team but can't stand em. Hope they go out sooner rather than later.

Well in Barca. A cool £36 for me 😊

Poor sod

Those chocolates won't be enough of a consolation...

Also 7/5 for Liverpool away in Europe are shit odds.

So looks like Pelligrini will be gone at the end of the season. Wonder who they should get to replace him.

I reckon the Gallagher Brothers could do a job there

it's only a matter of time before someone comes for rodgers

Nice piece by Jonathon Wilson on Dimitar Berbatov
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/feb/25/monaco-dimitar-berbatov-arsenal-champions-league

Nice line in the comments about Riquelme which also describes Berbatov as "An artist imprisoned in a world of athletes,"

Very, very true.
Hopefully he won't be swayed

Nice line in the comments about Riquelme which also describes Berbatov as "An artist imprisoned in a world of athletes,">

No offense but that sounds like pretentious twaddle to me

The Rafa years have affected you badly Mike.

Fact.