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Your memory serves you well.;)

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OOPS

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A incredibly soft penalty IMO..

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FA in talks to sell Wembley.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...er-shahid-khan

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£900m, already floating around £600m and I highly doubt that's solid lump cash either given he owns Fulham and not Liverpool or Manchester City. Which then screams installments or an investment whip round. The FA and media might spin this as success but its pure bollocks. £130m of it was funded by the tax payer. The belief all of it would be reinvested wisely is also a crock.

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Did say A Madrid would be a step to far for the Gooners, they have only conceded four at home all season.:shocked:

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This match completely encapsulated why sadly Arsenal need to change and Arsene great manager that he was needs to go IMO.

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Never rated Salah, couldn’t hit a barn door. :D

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Perhaps he has joined that new-fangled Lukaku club.:D

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Made the commentator look stupid with his “you know what happens next “ before Salah fluffed it. :D

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Nice to see United supporters and the club showing their class giving Arsene Wenger a excellent ovation and send off.

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We nearly went too far by giving him a point. These late Sunday afternoon matches at OT have all been poor recently. Sanchez was invisible, Pogba dire apart from a simple tap in goal, Lingard and Herrera buzzing around to little effect. It was nice to see the warm applause for Arsene, impressed by a couple of their youngsters as well.

Good news is I have secured my ticket for the FA Cup final. :cool:

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Great news about your FA Cup final ticket Jim.:tu:

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Hmmm, strange timing for sure???

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43946857

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If its a private problem then one suspects he had no other choice Jim.

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Doesn't sound like that reading that other link in the BBC article.;)

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Sadly tonights results mean that either Rochdale or Oldham will be relegated on Saturday.:(

Cracking game in Madrid, Bayern shot themselves in the foot with all the missed chances and the second comedy goal.

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How Madrid have gone through is beyond me..

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:D:D

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That's that then. Brutal. Real Madrid are in for a shock.

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Well hopefully they have used their 9 lives up by then..

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Roma can score but Liverpool will score again. There's no defence in Europe that can keep Liverpool out right now.

Roma have to score 3 and throw everything at Liverpool without conceding themselves against the side that's the top scoring team in the champions league.

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Again. Brutal. Roma had conceded the least amount of goals at home iirc. Until Liverpool.

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Cough....they only scored once in two games v United. ;)

Classic own goal from Milner.:D

As long as Liverpool can keep their first 11/12 fit they will seriously push RM, but a look at the Liverpool bench in recent weeks does not inspire confidence.
There isn’t one player you would want on your bench, never mind on the pitch.

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Old tribal passions never seen to be far from the surface Jim.;)

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Just to be absolutely precise, Liverpool didn’t even manage to score against United this season, their only goal was a ridiculous swipe at the ball by Eric Bailley that flew past De Gea for an own goal. :p:

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Now l wonder what colour rosette Jim will be wearing come the final...:p:

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Awful second half for Liverpool. Heads already in the final. Two clear cut penalty decisions which given the final score send Roma through if scored by a clear goal.

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One was a penalty and one was not IMO.

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I will always cheer on the British teams when playing Johnny Foreigner.:D

Just have a premonition that the hated ( in Liverpool) CR7 may have the final say.;)

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l know that Jim.:D

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Which? The blatant handball or Dzeko being wiped out by the goalkeeper, despite being easily onside. You can scratch one off in favour of the Mane decision but they're both blatant. Liverpool are extremely fortunate not to be out and not to have been down to 9 men. You could dish out a red for the hand, you could dish out a red for the keeper at the Ref's discretion. It's up there as one of the worst refereeing performances since that Chelsea-Barca game.

The way I've got it

3x Penalties to Roma, Clear as day, 1 awarded. - Red card for Alex-Arnold (Questionable Deliberate Handball) Red card for Karius (Ref's discretion, preventing a goalscoring opportunity)
1x Penalty to Liverpool, Clear as day, none awarded - Red card for Florenzi (Easy card all day)

All from someone that's all too happy to root for the English team in Europe.

Liverpool just absolutely bottled that second half, they made the assumption it was job done and they were extremely lucky to come away with that at all. I mean Liverpool could've literally kept scoring, the attack is just that good.

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How was it a blatant handball? as no player could avoid the trajectory of the ball coming at him so quickly.

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It's not about how he can't avoid it, it's about where his arms and thus hands are. His arms are above his head and thrown out. It doesn't have to be deliberate, it's as clear as day.

https://www.clippituser.tv/c/rydmvl commentary sums it up, he makes himself bigger, that's usually the grounds for the sending off.

You literally can't not give that. As for the sending off, Chancel Mbemba was sent off for this against Manchester United in a 3-3 draw. Madrid had a sending off not so long ago for it.

As above, overall it's not even just about Roma, the entire refereeing performance was shocking, you have a clear Penalty for Liverpool from Manolas challenge/push, you have a pretty gobsmacking scissor challenge on Mane that results in just a yellow.

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16,626 Champions league final tickets each.:(:td:

https://www.sportinglife.com/footbal...tickets/147172

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Should be 40/40/20

20 being Neutral supporters.

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So much for caring for the supporter yet again.

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Something, Something, Money.

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Bottom of the list as always..

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Good ole stinker from Arsenal, some things just don't change :td:

No urgency from Arsenal at all :erm:

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I have lost count of the woeful crosses both Bellerin and Monreal have put in.:(

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It's shocking how devoid of creativity they are, just content on getting into the final third then passing it around leading to no end result. A single shot on target.

James Milner is in the Champions League final and Mesut Ozil has been knocked out of the Europa League.

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Just switched over to the other game, first time I have ever seen a team go for the rugby style ‘kick for touch’ kick off.:confused:

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Quite a few that is for sure.:(

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Interesting reading in this article.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...nd-just-16626/

Nearly 2,000 tickets from Liverpools allocation go to past shareholders, many of them may not have attended a game for 11 years. :shocked:

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Pathetic IMO and just plain wrong..

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So you won’t be applying then Den? :D

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No Jim but l would not apply for one even if my health was far better.

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You say that as if he doesn't deserve to be there ! He's been excellent this season, a country mile better than Mesut Ozil. ;)

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And he scores cracking own goals.:D

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He's got a very thick neck, most players would have been polaxed, he just reflected it back unfortunately :D

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You have noticed that..:D

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I like Milner and think he was treated poorly by Pep, he was voted player of the year then booted out.

Would be a sweet irony for him if he picks up a Chamions League winners medal.

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Don’t want to tempt fate but Uniteds only losses against teams in the bottom half have been against blue and whites stripes.:(

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:D:D

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If you add in Newcastle as well then stripy teams are a definite no no.

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United playing like a team with six changes, big improvements needed in second half.:rolleyes:

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Nothing like all your dreams and wishes coming true tonight Jim.:D:D

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Not sure Julian will be happy about that. One or two may have played themselves out of a Cup Final berth tonight, very poor.:(

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l bet Jose was throwing a few tea cups around the changing room come full time.;)

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Our future is in our own hands Jim.

With Stoke now out of the equation we are looking at the three teams above us.

Huddersfield will struggle to get any more points and we have a match against Swansea midweek.

Four points from the remaining three games should do it if three of those come against Swansea, provided Bournemouth do us a favour and beat them today.

We will see.......

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Swansea losing currently so that is a start Julian..

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It's times like these when nffc has a point about only supporting one club.

One minute Rochdale are going down, ten minutes later the Latics are doomed.:(

Changed again,

And again,:shocked:

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Feel so sorry for Southampton today.:(

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I'm pretty fed up Den.

Bertrand, who has proved he no longer wants to play for the club, made a disastrous decision to keep the ball in play there.

Having said that moss is an absolute disgrace as a referee and not for the first time this season we concede way outside the added on time.

Yes we are out of the bottom 3 and if we beat Swansea we should be safe.

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To me added time is what is stated Julian and not a extra couple of minutes as you pointed out succinctly and then to rub it in Everton get a fluke own goal outside the added time allocated.:(

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Breaking news, SAF has emergency surgery for brain haemorrhage. :shocked:

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I'm sure all football fans will be wishing Sir Alex a speedy recovery.

Get well soon.

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l hope and pray that Sir Alex makes a full recovery as my thoughts and prayers are with his family tonight.

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Club statement says surgery was very successful and a period of intensive care is now under way.

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Damn, hope all is well now and he recovers.

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I pretty much forgot there was a world cup happening soon. Seems to be relatively underhyped :erm:

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Nice send off for Arsene , pity all of those so called fans haven't been supporting him this past few months.:(

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Time for you to start a new thread ;)

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Yes Fairweather supporters don't you just love them..:nono::nono::td::td:

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Was in the ground. Also nice that Ferguson got a nice reception before the game when the club wished him well and then another one when Wenger did the same in his farewell speech

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l am glad Wenger got a decent home farewell and when someone like Sir Alex is seriously ill thankfully tribal rivalry goes out the window.

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Just watching EL CRAPPICO. endless petty fouls, diving, play acting.. Bale should have been off the pitch by now as well.:rolleyes:

Granted some great goals though.

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Yeah, I think VAR is going to be a shock for a lot of La Liga players next season.

Hopefully Ronaldo is recovered in time for the CL final, it would be weird without him. Ankle sprain but didn't look too bad in the replays.

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So much for cracking down on the persistent cheats of football Jim.:rolleyes:

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He will be fit Kabaal.

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If Pardew got manager of the season for that 5th place finish with us then Dyche should be in with a decent shout. At the same time you've then got to credit Pep with the way City ran riot this season. Then there's Klopp but his defining achievement this season is non domestic.

Its a hard choice overall. I don't think the others - Benitez etc are in with a shout.

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Dyche for me..

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Just watching that Watford game again, I didn't think anything of Dummet giving away a penalty until now. Didn't even realise it but he misses the ball, doesn't stick a leg out on the player so doesn't come close to bringing him down, Andre Gray slips a few milliseconds after Dummet goes down and falls on top of Dummet and penalty. Ey? I mean it was saved by Dubravka but christ the quality of refereeing this season has been one of the worst in recent memory for me. Obviously they didn't score from it, we still lost and its a mute talking point but it shouldn't be. It should be remembered for the horrible decision and to add to the season overall rather than just a bad decision against us.

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Good question for everyone. If there is only three points between Chelsea and Spurs.

And Spurs fail to get last CL spot. I think they are burnt out. Typical Spurs. Do they go into Europa League ?

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Yes, 5th spot is Europa League

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cheers Damien

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I quite like Dummet, he's under rated imo and can actually defend which is a rare quality in full backs these days

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He's been good enough for what we've needed. He didn't have much of a choice with the club inexplicably ridding themselves of fullbacks on the left. Santon was was booted for no solid reason and Haidara had a mixture of injuries. No proper replacement was ever drafted in.

Unsure what the future holds for him though. All depends on what money Newcastle hold come the window.

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Going to be interesting tonight.

I see Swansea are already up to dirty tricks ( remember the ballboy incident vs Chelsea)
Our hotel cancelled and had to stay 41 miles away
Ploice escort cancelled mysteriously so had to battle through rush hour traffic
Arrived at ground to be told "you have to sit on the team coach for 25 minutes while the Swansea coach disembarks"

:rolleyes:

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Good luck for tonight, only room for one ‘foreign’ team in the ENGLISH premier league.:D

Found this interesting if not altogether surprising.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...-stop-biggest/

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Lets hope Southampton eyes are smiling tonight.

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Question, why will the champions of the Czech Republic's top division be cheering for Liverpool in the Champions League Final? ;)

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Something to do with the officials? or a ex Liverpool player?.

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Nope.:)

A clue, Liverpool need to finish in the top four.;)

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Well done Southampton.:)

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Not got it yet then? :)

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One of limited brain cells does find it very hard Jim.;)

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Apparently if Liverpool finish in the top four AND win the Champions League an English side would not get a fifth Champions League place, it would go instead to the winners of the Czech top division.

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Not sure l find that right personally Jim that the winners of the Czech top division get that place.

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I think four teams from any one country is more than enough TBH. Or maybe it should be renamed the Premier,Bunders,La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 play offs.:rolleyes:

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I'm not sure why they'd get a position. There's never been an extra spot available if a winning team does or doesn't qualify. They take someone else's place. Liverpool took Everton and Chelsea took Spurs. The only way for an English team to get a fifth place was to win the Europa League as seen last year.

So by previous rules if Liverpool win overall and finish 4th then nothing changes at all. There's no extra place on offer. If Liverpool finish outside of the top four and win, they take the place of whoever finishes 4th.

The only place that could potentially be available is the Europa League winners place. Even then I'm unsure where that goes of the winner is already qualified. I'd assume to the runner up and so forth.

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Copied from BBC web site. It would be the place Liverpool would be awarded for winning the comp.

If Liverpool win the final and finish in the top four of the Premier League, England will still only have four teams in next season's Champions League, with the Reds' spot for winning the tournament handed to the champions of the Czech Republic's top division.

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Rules changed on 27th Feb. If they'd been in effect in 2005 and 2012 both Everton and Spurs wouldn't have been robbed of a Champions League place.

The way they rectified it was to award the winning spots of both the CL and EL to whomever, making up the two extra spots needed for balance.