Roiling football blather

[hucks]

Christ, pick that out

 

[hucks]

Drogba is a monster on this kind of form. Unplayable.

Edit: this is absurd

 

[baboon2004]

Jesus, I'm so bored of all these predictable 4-4 draws.

 

[don_quixote]

drogba is so so so good.

great game. chelsea barca should be incredible on this form.

 

[tom lea]

just got in from the best game i've ever been to. better than moscow pre-terry penalty, better than 4-2 barca, better than 4-4 villa, better than coming back to beat leeds 3-2 with eidur's overhead kick, better than any cup final. my days.

 

[hucks]

It was certainly entertaining, but in terms of quality, last year's final was the better game. The ratio of mistakes to great play was the wrong way round.

 

[IdleRich]

Oh don't be so miserable. Both teams forgot how to defend (and especially how to keep goal) and that made for better entertainment. There have been loads of nin-nil draws at a higher technical level but so what?
Fantastically taken free kick to start the whole thing off - I love cheeky little ones like that. I think that sowed the seeds of doubt in Cech's mind and after that it went ballistic.

 

[hucks]

Well, you can be technical and enjoyable. But some of the best players weren't at their best (eg Torres). It could have been better!

Also, I thought it was weird ITV saying it was an all time classic when the game was effectively dead for half of the second half, when all the exciting goals happened. Between Alex's and Kuyt's, Liverpool were always at least two goals behind. And there were again after Lampard's.

So whilst the goals were flying in, they didn't really matter...

 

[crackerjack]

Well, you can be technical and enjoyable. But some of the best players weren't at their best (eg Torres). It could have been better!

Also, I thought it was weird ITV saying it was an all time classic when the game was effectively dead for half of the second half, when all the exciting goals happened. Between Alex's and Kuyt's, Liverpool were always at least two goals behind. And there were again after Lampard's.

So whilst the goals were flying in, they didn't really matter...

The game only felt dead after Lampard's two goals, a total of about 10 mins.

At 2-2 I always thought Liverpool had a chance with Chelsea defending so nervily.

And what do you nmean about "all the exciting goals"? What could be more exciting than beating a keeper at his near post from 35 yards?

 

[hucks]

The game only felt dead after Lampard's two goals, a total of about 10 mins.

At 2-2 I always thought Liverpool had a chance with Chelsea defending so nervily.

And what do you nmean about "all the exciting goals"? What could be more exciting than beating a keeper at his near post from 35 yards?

Sorry, I din't mean that some goals were more exciting than others, but that a period where six goals go in in a half should be exciting. A better phrase would have been "all those exciting goals"

 

[IdleRich]

You're a hard man to please Hucks. But I think that part of what was exciting was the way that it was dead - and then it wasn't again.

 

[baboon2004]

true, that was exciting. But it was only exciting in the way that Liverpool-Milan '05 was exciting, in the 'i can't believe this is happening (because the defending/keeping is so bad)' type way. I personally prefer those CL games with true quality on show - watch the Championship if you wanna see some 4-4 draws with poor defending. I found Barca's 4-0 drubbing of Bayern more thrilling.

Edit: And Chelsea's away game at Juve - that was a corker. Nothing last night held a candle to Iaquinta's masterpiece of a goal.
But Drogba was phenomenal las tnight, agreed. Pity Torres barely turned up.

 

[baboon2004]

There have been loads of nin-nil draws at a higher technical level but so what?

'Cos then you see true genius at work (obv with a 1-0 rather than a 0-0). What price Messi shredding one of the world's top defences on top form?

 

[IdleRich]

'i can't believe this is happening

Well I find that quite exciting. But I agree that on that performance it's hard to see Chelsea beating Barce.

 

[hucks]

Come join me in purist snobs' corner, Baboon! We'll drink port and discuss total football

 

[crackerjack]

Come join me in purist snobs' corner, Baboon! We'll drink port and discuss total football

Where you can watch the 2003 CL final - a technically magnificent 0-0 Milanese derby where the only moment of true drama was watching the Milan keeper charge about 10ft from his line, unpunished, during the penalty shoot-out - on loop.

 

[hucks]

Where you can watch the 2003 CL final - a technically magnificent 0-0 Milanese derby where the only moment of true drama was watching the Milan keeper charge about 10ft from his line, unpunished, during the penalty shoot-out - on loop.

Great days, great days.

I remember Big Ron (a moment's pause...) really struggling to find new ways of saying "tactically intriguing" by around about the hour mark.

 

[vimothy]

 

[don_quixote]

holland vs czech rep euro 2004 anyone?

 

[vimothy]

Phew!