All Football (Soccer) info goes here....whos gonna watch the Champion League games 2day...im in the U.S. so I just get the Chelsea -v- Munich game.

All Football (Soccer) info goes here....whos gonna watch the Champion League games 2day...im in the U.S. so I just get the Chelsea -v- Munich game.

when is that game? . its quarter final second leg,
chelsea 4-2 up on aggragate.if chelsae win they beat
the team who knocked arsehole out & also chelsea
knocked arseburger out last season.

i got one message for arsene, arsenal and all thier whiners.

chelses is up da arse...without a johnny



oh yeah you have a habit of upstaging other peoples topics
dont ya p4p :confused: :D

Im like Donald Trump if I see something that could be succesful I take and make one even better, the games start in 8-9 hours

I was looking forward to the Milan-Inter game but its not being aired in the U.S

Im like Donald Trump if I see something that could be succesful I take and make one even better, the games start in 8-9 hours

I was looking forward to the Milan-Inter game but its not being aired in the U.S
haha milan-inter.

they both milan lol.

maybe ac-inter or milan-milan haha

milan red-milan black and blue muhahaha

ok maybe i havent got this thread off to a great start

You sure havent... whos your money on red milan or blue milan :D

You sure havent... whos your money on red milan or blue milan :D
not sure..whos leading in serie a?

personally ive always been a fan of juventus.
we used to get foortball italia on sundays..

gooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllll Laaaaaaaaaaaziooooooooooooo :D

LMAO HAHAHAHAim talking about the Champions League

in serie A Milan and Juventus are tied for first place

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!1

LMAO HAHAHAHAim talking about the Champions League

in serie A Milan and Juventus are tied for first place

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!1
i know its champions but whoever is leading serie a, milan or milan
is my pick for the winner.

i threw juve in as an added extra.

own goooooooooal 0-1

Im back, went off on a journey looking for streams for the game...found it:D

Im back, went off on a journey looking for streams for the game...found it:D
my connection is too lame for streaming.

it was hilarious trying to watch taylor-eduard fight.
i got frame rate of about one per 5 seconds haha

we got broadband but only the basic package..

6ook ithink

All Football (Soccer) info goes here....whos gonna watch the Champion League games 2day...im in the U.S. so I just get the Chelsea -v- Munich game.


Pizarro and Makaay are back in the starting line up... Munich needs to win and ig going to with those two attacking.

u steal my thread

u steal my thread
i just checked..your thread is where you left it :D

so you dont need to dial 999 or anything irrational like that

Im like Donald Trump if I see something that could be succesful I take and make one even better, the games start in 8-9 hours

I was looking forward to the Milan-Inter game but its not being aired in the U.S


succesful my ass

Its game time.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="yspsctnhdln">Milan derby halted after Dida hit by flare</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> MILAN, April 12 (Reuters) - The Champions League quarter-final between Inter Milan and city rivals AC Milan was halted in the 73rd minute on Tuesday after Milan keeper Dida was struck by a flare thrown down from the stands.

German referee Markus Merk took the players off the pitch after Inter fans began hurling plastic bottles and then over 30 flares on to the penalty area below them after a header from Esteban Cambiasso was disallowed.

Dida received medical treatment to his shoulder while Inter players urged their fans to stop the hurling of objects on to the pitch.

Milan were leading 1-0 thanks to a first-half goal from Andriy Shevchenko which had put them 3-0 up on aggregate after they won last week's first-leg 2-0.

chelsea made it but it was close.

started 4-2 on aggragate and ended 6-5 to chelsea
3-2 munich on the night.

yeah wins goes to the milan side

chelsea made it but it was close.

started 4-2 on aggragate and ended 6-5 to chelsea
3-2 munich on the night.

yeah wins goes to the milan side
do you like chelsea's manager? he seems pretty arrogant

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do you like chelsea's manager? he seems pretty arrogant
so far hes proving a shrewd tactician, fantastic man manager,
egotisticle twat & more than a match for arsene and alex

makes thier last manager raniera look like a joke

Prediction:

Juventus beats Liverpool

if they dont you'll see more flares

I dont know much about soccer but hows Real doing? dont they have a hell of a lot of big names

I dont know much about soccer but hows Real doing? dont they have a hell of a lot of big names
They beat Barcelona 4-2

their in second place of la liga

Bar. 69
Real 63

not sure if those are the accurate points but I know their behind by 6 points

They beat Barcelona 4-2

their in second place of la liga

Bar. 69
Real 63

not sure if those are the accurate points but I know their behind by 6 points
and michael owen is now "Galacticos" like his england comrade
johnathan woodgate and ex real player steve mcmanaman.

:D :D :D

snigg do you have any points? make this thread a sticky

watsup to AC Milan fans. Shevchenko was the man today. Too bad these fans started throwing flares and **** and Dida got hurt.
Btw does anybody know if the game will be counted or not.

snigg do you have any points? make this thread a sticky
i know you likely loaded but ok...i got over 400mil so i dont mind

edited...461671087 actually :D

Thanks man....nothing but another big move for my succesful thread

Thanks man....nothing but another big move for my succesful thread
im thinking a weed smokers thread would be cool.

your call

im thinking a weed smokers thread would be cool.

your call
hmm ..... ok i'll start it at night and make it a place to post if your drunk or high :D

hmm ..... ok i'll start it at night and make it a place to post if your drunk or high :D

sounds good.

i was checking out blood_childs gallery earlier. accidently
found myslef in hot babes and christ it was hot.

dont ask how i got there but i did and man it was fun

sounds good.

i was checking out blood_childs gallery earlier. accidently
found myslef in hot babes and christ it was hot.

dont ask how i got there but i did and man it was fun
The thread was born 2day

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">AC Milan match stopped when goalkeeper hit by flare; Chelsea advances to Champions semis</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> April 12, 2005 MILAN, Italy (AP) -- AC Milan goalkeeper Dida was hit by a flare thrown from the stands, and Tuesday night's European Champions League quarterfinal against crosstown rival Internazionale was halted with about 15 minutes to play.

AC Milan was ahead 1-0 and set to advance on 3-0 aggregate when Dida was struck on his left shoulder by the flare in the 73rd minute. The game was stopped, and when referee Markus Merk tried to restart play 10 minutes later, more fireworks were thrown and Merk abandoned the match in the 75th minute.

``Tonight's episode doesn't just hurt Inter, but the entire city of Milan,'' AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said. ``The reaction of the Inter fans was surprising. I've played and coached in Milan for 10 years and I've never seen anything like it.''

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Inter fans were upset that when Esteban Cambiasso put the ball in the net in the 71st minute, the goal was disallowed because of a foul. Last weekend, scores of fans were arrested throughout Italy following confrontations with police and racist chants.

``After the goal was annulled, the fans' anger was understandable, although the reaction of throwing objects onto the field is not justified,'' Inter defender Ivan Cordoba said.

When Merk tried to restart the game, Christian Abbiati took over from Dida in goal for AC Milan.

``He's OK, although he does have some pain where he was hit,'' AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf said. ``The government, the entire country, has to understand that something must be done.''

Andriy Shevchenko scored the only goal in the 30th minute. The Union of European Football Associations said it will decide whether the result of the game stands.

In Tuesday's other game, Chelsea lost 3-2 at Bayern Munich but advanced on 6-5 aggregate in the home-and-home, total-goals series.

Frank Lampard, who scored two goals in the first leg, scored in the 30th minute but Claudio Pizarro tied the score in the 65th. Didier Drogba put Chelsea back ahead in the 80th, but Bayern got goals from Paolo Guerrero in the 90th and Mehmet Scholl in the fifth minute of injury time.

``You can see the hunger in the players to win this thing,'' Lampard said.

On Wednesday, Liverpool takes a 2-1 lead into its game at Juventus of Turin and Lyon travels to PSV Eindhoven following a 1-1 tie in last week's first leg. Chelsea plays the Liverpool-Juventus winner.



Updated on Tuesday, Apr 12, 2005 6:15 pm EDT

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Champions League semi-finalists Chelsea have been caught up in another tap-up row after chief executive Peter Kenyon was reported to have met Manchester United star defender Rio Ferdinand (pictured).
(AFP/File/Steve Parkin)

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">AC Milan match stopped when goalkeeper hit by flare; Chelsea advances to Champions semis</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> April 12, 2005 MILAN, Italy (AP) -- AC Milan goalkeeper Dida was hit by a flare thrown from the stands, and Tuesday night's European Champions League quarterfinal against crosstown rival Internazionale was halted with about 15 minutes to play.

AC Milan was ahead 1-0 and set to advance on 3-0 aggregate when Dida was struck on his left shoulder by the flare in the 73rd minute. The game was stopped, and when referee Markus Merk tried to restart play 10 minutes later, more fireworks were thrown and Merk abandoned the match in the 75th minute.

``Tonight's episode doesn't just hurt Inter, but the entire city of Milan,'' AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said. ``The reaction of the Inter fans was surprising. I've played and coached in Milan for 10 years and I've never seen anything like it.''

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Inter fans were upset that when Esteban Cambiasso put the ball in the net in the 71st minute, the goal was disallowed because of a foul. Last weekend, scores of fans were arrested throughout Italy following confrontations with police and racist chants.

``After the goal was annulled, the fans' anger was understandable, although the reaction of throwing objects onto the field is not justified,'' Inter defender Ivan Cordoba said.

When Merk tried to restart the game, Christian Abbiati took over from Dida in goal for AC Milan.

``He's OK, although he does have some pain where he was hit,'' AC Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf said. ``The government, the entire country, has to understand that something must be done.''

Andriy Shevchenko scored the only goal in the 30th minute. The Union of European Football Associations said it will decide whether the result of the game stands.

In Tuesday's other game, Chelsea lost 3-2 at Bayern Munich but advanced on 6-5 aggregate in the home-and-home, total-goals series.

Frank Lampard, who scored two goals in the first leg, scored in the 30th minute but Claudio Pizarro tied the score in the 65th. Didier Drogba put Chelsea back ahead in the 80th, but Bayern got goals from Paolo Guerrero in the 90th and Mehmet Scholl in the fifth minute of injury time.

``You can see the hunger in the players to win this thing,'' Lampard said.

On Wednesday, Liverpool takes a 2-1 lead into its game at Juventus of Turin and Lyon travels to PSV Eindhoven following a 1-1 tie in last week's first leg. Chelsea plays the Liverpool-Juventus winner.



Updated on Tuesday, Apr 12, 2005 6:15 pm EDT

I think these fans planned to start something like that. There were way too many flares for if it was not planned.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">Liverpool holds Juve, advances to semis of Champions League</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> April 13, 2005 TURIN, Italy (Ticker) - Goals were as scarce as violence at Stadio Delle Alpi, a pair of positives for Liverpool supporters on Wednesday.

After posting a 2-1 home victory over Juventus last week at Anfield, Liverpool held the Italian power to a scoreless draw Wednesday to advance to the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League.

In Wednesday's other quarterfinal, host PSV Eindhoven and Olympique Lyon again played to a 1-1 draw. After two scoreless 15-minute overtime periods, the Dutch side won on penalty kicks, 4-2, to move on.

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> It was the first time that Liverpool - which faces fellow Premier League squad Chelsea in the semifinals - had played in Turin since the Heysel Stadium disaster 20 years ago in the European Cup final. Fears of retribution from Juventus supporters for the deaths of 39 of their fans in Brussels in 1985 had been rife.

Local police had initiated a 48-hour alcohol ban as well as advising Liverpool fans not to go into certain areas of the city center. One supporter of the Merseyside squad was attacked by a group of Juventus fans at a pub Tuesday night but did not require hospitalization.

Things were especially tense after the events at San Siro in Milan on Tuesday, where the match was suspended in the 73rd minute after Internazionale supporters threw a handful of flares onto the pitch, including one that hit AC Milan goalkeeper Dida.

Milan, which held a 2-0 lead after the first leg, had grabbed a 3-0 aggregate lead after a goal by Andriy Shevchenko before the flares were thrown. UEFA is expected to officially grant victory to Milan on Friday at its headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

But with an 1,100-strong police force on hand, crowd violence was not a problem at Stadio Delle Alpi. Goals were for Juventus.

Having scored a crucial away goal at Anfield, all Juventus needed to reach the penultimate round was a 1-0 victory. But Liverpool played tenacious defense throughout, and Juventus missed its best chance when Fabio Cannavaro hit the right post with a header in the 78th minute.

The English squad blanketed Juventus thereafter, and when the final whistle blew after three minutes of second-half stoppage time, the small but dedicated group of Liverpudlians started jumping up and down.

Most impressively, Liverpool was without its best player and captain, midfielder Steven Gerrard, who is battling a groin injury. French striker Djibril Cisse played for the first time since breaking his leg in a league match against Blackburn in October but was not much of a factor off the bench.

In the Netherlands, Sylvain Wiltord's sixth goal of the competition gave three-time defending French League champion Lyon an aggregate 2-1 lead just 10 minutes into its second-leg encounter with PSV.

But the Eredivisie power equalized in the five minutes after the break on a strike by Brazilian striker Alex. Neither team scored again in the second half or in 30 minutes of overtime.

PSV goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes made two saves on penalty kicks by Lyon, including one on Eric Abidal in the fourth round immediately after American DaMarcus Beasley had his kick up the middle saved by Lyon's Gregory Coupet.

Brazilian striker Robert then sent PSV into the semifinals with a kick near the upper left corner of the net.

ive watched a few soccer games but i how is a player offside, i can never tell when a player is or isnt. can somone explain that, is it like hockey :confused:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">Henry, Campbell out of Arsenal FA Cup semi</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> (Recasts with Henry injury, Campbell out)

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Arsenal's top scorer Thierry Henry has been ruled out of their FA Cup semi-final against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday due to a groin injury.

The absence of the France striker, the English Premier League's top scorer with 25 goals, is a big blow to the champions for whom the game in Cardiff represents their last route to a trophy this season.

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Arsenal will also be without England centre back Sol Campbell who has failed to recover from an ankle injury in time.

"Henry is out with a groin problem," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told reporters at Arsenal's training ground on Friday.

"It is an inflammation of his groin. We have to check that by scan today to find out how long he will be out.

"He could be out for a few weeks, he could be out for a few days. It could be quite serious.

"It is a big blow. We wanted Thierry with us but on the other hand we have to focus on the strengths we have and make sure we have enough to go through."

Campbell, Arsenal's defensive rock, has not played since February 1 due to an ankle injury. Wenger said: "Campbell practises and is close to full, full competitive fitness, but he is not involved."

Ivory Coast international Kolo Toure and Swiss Philippe Senderos are likely to play in central defence.

Wenger will be able to select Swedish midfielder Freddie Ljungberg, who has happy memories of Cardiff after scoring a spectacular goal in Arsenal's 2002 FA Cup final win over Chelsea. He has shaken off a hip problem.

Spanish striker Jose Antonio Reyes and Brazilian midfielder Edu have recovered from knocks although goalkeeper Manuel Almunia has a groin injury and full back Gael Clichy is out after foot surgery.

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr><td class="yspsctnhdln">Henry, Campbell out of Arsenal FA Cup semi</td> </tr> <tr> <td height="7"><spacer type="block" height="1" width="1"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> (Recasts with Henry injury, Campbell out)

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Arsenal's top scorer Thierry Henry has been ruled out of their FA Cup semi-final against Blackburn Rovers on Saturday due to a groin injury.

The absence of the France striker, the English Premier League's top scorer with 25 goals, is a big blow to the champions for whom the game in Cardiff represents their last route to a trophy this season.

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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Arsenal will also be without England centre back Sol Campbell who has failed to recover from an ankle injury in time.

"Henry is out with a groin problem," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told reporters at Arsenal's training ground on Friday.

"It is an inflammation of his groin. We have to check that by scan today to find out how long he will be out.

"He could be out for a few weeks, he could be out for a few days. It could be quite serious.

"It is a big blow. We wanted Thierry with us but on the other hand we have to focus on the strengths we have and make sure we have enough to go through."

Campbell, Arsenal's defensive rock, has not played since February 1 due to an ankle injury. Wenger said: "Campbell practises and is close to full, full competitive fitness, but he is not involved."

Ivory Coast international Kolo Toure and Swiss Philippe Senderos are likely to play in central defence.

Wenger will be able to select Swedish midfielder Freddie Ljungberg, who has happy memories of Cardiff after scoring a spectacular goal in Arsenal's 2002 FA Cup final win over Chelsea. He has shaken off a hip problem.

Spanish striker Jose Antonio Reyes and Brazilian midfielder Edu have recovered from knocks although goalkeeper Manuel Almunia has a groin injury and full back Gael Clichy is out after foot surgery.
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anybody wanna give me a reasonable bet on arsenal winning.

blackburn are my side and heavy underdogs even though arsenal
have no henry.
ill stake points on them but not a straight bet.

so anybody interested.

Arsenal migth be missing Hnery but im not stupid enough to bet against them

Arsenal migth be missing Hnery but im not stupid enough to bet against them
i was gonna bet against em..

i dont wanna stake points on arsehole goddamn.

it should be over soon and i think arseburgers are winning