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Now thats good ;)

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...to offer comfort and support. He's done that sort of thing before out of the goodness of his heart. :angel:

Does anybody know how you go about buying shares in abortion clinics in the Stamford Bridge area?:D

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I think it's great that the club are helping to bond with the fans. There's no love stronger than that built on shared paranoia. :D C'mon the hoops. :D

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Decisions against Celtic - Masonic conspiracy
Decisions for Celtic - These things even themselves up over the course of a season.

Some of the phone-ins this seasons, especially in the last few weeks, have been hilarious. Callers claiming the media, referees, SFA, SPL, tea ladies and even the ball boys are all in some grand scheme to steal the league.

I personally would have thought Monkeyheid selling half his team, wasting huge amounts of money on a loan deal and making baffling tactical choices (We are 4-2 up, what we really need to do is take off a defender and put on another striker :confused: ) would be more of a reason that Rangers are sitting 7 points + a game in hand clear.

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But how would looking inward help to feed our paranoia?:D

I don't recall the substitution of any defender although if he had substituted a certain left back it might have prevented giving away a penalty. The only other defender I recall leaving the field was O'Dea and that was because of the red card.

I also don't recall the referee with any significance in that game so assume he had a good game.

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I think we've found the perfect reason for England's failure to get past the semi-finals this year in the WC:

http://beta.news.sky.com/skynews/Hom...ry_Sex_Scandal

No options at left back? A good enough reason as any.

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There are plenty of options at left back that are better than Bridge though.

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Doesn't matter to Russ, any old excuse for a dig at England, soooo boring now

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Ah, didn't notice the "wales" under his location, explains it all ;)

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Don't forget my "any old excuse for a dig at West Ham" as well :)

It's a valid point, Cole won't be there, neither will Bridge. If Terry doesn't perform at 110% the blame will be placed on the defence.

You don't need to be from a country that didn't qualify in order to see that ;)

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:zzz:

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Ouchy for Chelsea. 3-1 down, down to 9 men.

Wayne Bridge will be happy. :)

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I hate being a city supporter, it's worse than being a schizophrenic


Good....Bad...Good...Bad...Good...bad!!!!

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Nice to see City doing us a massive favour :D

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Hang on....now 4???

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4-2 now, cracking game.

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Aside from too many close ups of Carlos Tevez, surely the ugliest football player outside the Celtic squad that was good. Makes things very interesting at the top of the EPL, especially if Arsenal win later on.

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Nah, it's between United and Chelsea surely. Arsenal have a shining record of bottling it and I can't see that changing yet.

Still, it's interesting to see how much Chelsea rely on Cech, those first 2 goals wouldn't have caused him too much trouble IMO.

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Especially the one from Tevez, very sloppy goalkeeping.

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Dont count your chickens yet russ manu has crashed enough times this season

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Yes but Rooney's on top form, won't be long before Rio and Vidic are back together in defence and United very rarely bottle it.

Just as long as Donkey stays out of the team we're in with a good chance.

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Doesn't look good for Ramsey :(

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Warning: picture of Ramsey's injury: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/97...y-Images-Sport

2 years to the weekend that Stoke did it to Eduardo.

I didn't see it happen but most people said it wasn't nasty or dangerous, just unfortunate.

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Why did he get a straight red card?

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Well it was dangerous, but not intentional or nasty. You can see by Shawcross' reaction how distressed he was at the incident, he didn't mean to break his leg, but it was a red card.

I hope Ramsey is ok. Couldn't bring myself to be loudly happy at Arsenal scoring and winning the game. It's awful. :(

Edit: It was Birmingham, not Stoke, where Eduardo got injured.

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Not a good thing to happen to a 20yo international :(

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Seeing the reaction of the faces of some of the Arsenal players was rather distressing as well, some of them looked close to tears. Credit to them to come back from it to win the game, away at Stoke is not an easy game. Credit to the Stoke Fans for the reaction they gave Ramsey when he came off as well.

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Shame about the muppets chanting "one ryan shawcross" and "let him die" though. :(

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Yeah but you'll find a minority of sick 'fans' at every club.

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Is that before or after the challenge? (I haven't seen the challenge, but that picture suggests a freak ankle break before a tackle).

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yeah looks like an ankle break before the tackle

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See I thought that but I presumed that, when you consider the angle ramsey was running at and the position of the ball, is that the picture was taken just after. The broken ankle was hit by the outstretched leg which his other leg is just about it hit.

Can't find a replay though.

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Just seen match of the day, they showed the replay, did catch his leg but not nasty or intentional.

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I can relate to that lol! As a supporter for 35 years I get quite dizzy at times with all the up's & down's city offer.

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Nasty, made my toes curl when I saw that :(

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http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...amsey-s-injury

Rest of the season only would be remarkably lucky. I suspect it will be many, many months after.

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Apart from Sol Cambell who goes after Shawcross. That tackle would have gotten him a yellow if Ramsey hadn't broken his ankle. I personally thought it was a strong hard tackle, not malicious or with any intent to hurt.

On a plus side having seen Eduardo come back from his break positively, so I'm confident Arsenal FC will get him back once he's good and ready.

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is anyone watching UTD? Theres something seriously wrong when Im sat at home on here and my mum and sister are at wembley!

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Say what :shocked:

You need to get your priorities right fella, women should be confined to the kitchen and bedroom, and maybe let out to mow the lawn or wash the car!

p.s. Only joking:angel: If the other half saw this i`d be grounded for the rest of the year...

What`s everyone`s take on the Terry/Bridge fiasco?

I hope it gets put to bed now as Terry is a pretty good defender when he plays well and with the world cup coming up England need there best players to be playing well otherwise they have no chance.
The guy seriously looks like he needs a few good nights sleep, he had more bags under his eyes than Heathrow`s lost property.

Good result for City, probably play rubbish in the next game though :rolleyes:

Check this supporter out :D

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/03/24.gif

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On this forum it's not your other half you should be worrying about!!!!

;) :Peace: :PP:

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I thought that as soon as i`d hit the Submit Reply button :erm:

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A month after posting that The Mirror are on the case.....

Crisis-club Portsmouth are offering financial advice to supporters on their website. Pompey, who are in administration and have huge debts, are advertising PFC Financial Services division, which claims to bring everyday financial solutions to fans' families. One supporter said: "It's got to be a sick joke."

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news...cle341255.html

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Warnock has gone from Palace to QPR. Wish he had stayed with us but it seems it was down to the money we get from QPR.

Pompey are back in court with HMRC today not sure what the outcome of that will be

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I think it's just a formality to make sure that they're not using administration to avoid paying thier tax bill..

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David Gill, puppet on a string

David Gill has dismissed concerns surrounding the Glazer family, claiming the owners were "running the club the right way".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8548113.stm

The amount of debt secured on the club and the Glazers' shareholding in it is more than £700m according to recent accounts.

Yep running the club the right way, going from zero pounds debt to £700m, Gill obviously went to the same school of economics as Gordon Brown

But he said the issue had perhaps received the wide coverage that it did because United was such a big club.
And he pointed to the cases of clubs like Chelsea, Manchester City, and AC Milan, where it is the owners who make key decisions "not the fans".

That'll be because those owners have put their own cash into the club to earn the right to make decisions.

"They are passionate about the club, they do understand sport," he added.

Bwhahahaha

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Spot on :tu:

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Nice win for Arsenal in the end. Great goals by Nasri and (set up by) Arshavin. Arsenal and Munich make it though

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Pretty great goal by Robben to.

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you know you are a bad team when Bendtnar gets a hattrick against you

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Wasn't expecting to win by 4 goals :D

Another sterling performance from donkey...hang on, was he even on the pitch?

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Good to see the reception Beckham got. Nearly brought a tear to his eye.

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I thought that was him looking at the scoreboard. ;)

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Real Madrid got knocked out by Lyon as well :D

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I can only see 1 of 3 teams winning this year Barcelona, Man Utd, and the winner out of Chelsea v Inter. Sorry Arsenal but i just think against better quality opposition you will struggle. Still a fine win on Tuesday followed by last nights result, imagine what the odds where on them 2 results, a bet it was :eeek:

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I think if United can win it then Arsenal can win it. Although I suspect Chelsea or Barcelona. I wouldn't be too disappointed to go out in the next round or semis, so long as we can concentrate on the league in which I think we have a chance.

The advantage Arsenal have is what we have a good team but one on which there is little expectation.

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Going by the past few results between Arsenal and United/Chelsea i wouldn't say that's the case. I think it will be United or Barca, personally i think Chelsea will be fortunate to get through against Inter in the form they are in and with the injuries they have, especially defensively. They don't have enough to win the whole competition imo.

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As much as I hate to say it I reckon it's Chelsea's turn to take the premiership. United are on a roll right now but that only lasts as long as Rooney's fitness. We're a one-man team this season and we haven't been like that in donkey's years. I can see it coming down to the last few games of the season but Chelsea will probably take it. I reckon we have a good change in the CL though.

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I actually think Arsenal have a really good chance of winning the league this year (probably better than the scousers chance last season), their run in from now until the end of the season compared to Chelsea and United's is so much better, their most difficult game is probably Spurs away, that says it all ;) :D

It will be intresting to see if they bottle it (again) or if they have learnt from the mistakes from a couple of seasons ago.

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It may look like a one-man team but it really isn't. The problem is for the system to work (park/nani as wing-forwards) and 3 in midfield requires Rooney as the lone striker which neither Owen or Berbatov do well. So without Rooney that system is toothless and due to the lack of > 2 fit strikers, if Rooney doesn't play, there is no partner to play with Berbatov in a 4-4-2.

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I think the great thing about Arsenal this season is they have found that resilience, consistency and state of mind that they missed in the last few seasons. They have not played free-flowing football every match, they have had injury issues, and yet they have managed to get victories from games where last season they would not have.

2 - 0 down to Bolton, 1 - 0 Down to Liverpool (in which we did not play well) are examples of this.

The true test I think came at Stoke. A hard game, Chelsea had lost, and we were 1 - 0 down. To have actually gone on to win that game was excellent.

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To me that sounds like you're agreeing that the team doesn't function well without Rooney :erm:

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Rooney with Ronaldo this year would have been a vicious combination. Rooney's on 30 goals already this year, with 15-odd games left to play.

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Rooney may not have grown into the role (or indeed be allowed there) with Ronaldo on the team.

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Good point - Rooney was wasted out on the left when Ronnie was ruling the place.

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As much as I'd prefer Arsenal to win it, I don't think they have sorted out their consistency issues, they have already lost six matches, the fact they are still in the race says more about how much weaker Chelsea, Utd and Liverpool have become than anything else imo. The pleasing thing about the Stoke game was how they reacted to Ramsey's injury, a couple of years ago they fell to bits with Eduardo's horror injury, this time they didn't and that bodes well.

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We have lost the same amount of games as United but have already played United, Chelsea and Liverpool twice. Other than that we have picked up points consistently amongst all the other teams (and Liverpool) with few blips on the way.

I also think the other teams in the league have been stronger. Take out Liverpool and United and most of the other teams are stronger than last year. Arsenal certainly are. Chelsea kept up the performance from the end of last season. City, Fulham, Stoke, Spurs, Birmingham, even some of the struggles at the bottom.

It's been the best league in ages.

In fact Arsenal's performance this year mirrors that of United somewhat. United did very poor against the top 4 last year, Liverpool had the initiative, but United were consistant against the other teams and Liverpool were not.

We'll see anyway. I do think Arsenal can be consistent but it's matter of how much so and what the other teams will do.

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Yes hence the reason why I said the top teams were weaker, Liverpool lost 2 games last year and didn't even win it, the winner this year will lose 3 or 4 times that, unheard of in recent years.

Chelsea aren't stronger, they are another year older with no fresh faces.

Apart from the fact Utd only lost 4 games last year.

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I thought that was the period you where in now, since he came from Tottenham :p:

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And Russ' favourite player gets the final goal.

Yippee

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Well, it's not like his goal was vital or anything, hell even Ferdinand has popped up to score the final goal in a 3-nil win before now.

SAF please offload him this summer and replace him with striker who can make a difference.

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What about the assist for the 2nd?

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You mean the kind of thing an attacking midfielder or a winger should be doing? Fine, play him back in midfield. But he's no striker for United. If Rooney takes a kicking then we're left with no serious attacking options.

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Man City have there own Donkey judging by the performances so far of Mr Santa Cruz!

They deserved a point at least from the Sunderland game, maybe not all 3 because in the first half the were terribubble :p:

Superb finish by Johnson, i reckon that was probably the only place he could have put the ball to get the goal, a foot square corner to aim for :sniper:

Good win for Utd as well, Fulham must be cream crackered after Juventus had em running round like headless chickens though :p:

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So Beckham out of World Cup. Phil 'Golden' Brown out of Hull.

Also Gerrard has once again gotten away with smacking someone in the face, and once again there was video evidence.

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It's OK. He thought Michael Brown was going to hit him so got his assault in first :erm:

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Fizzy pop league no more

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Amazing. An over-the-hill player is out of a tournament England won't win yet it gets splashed all over the front pages.

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Inter deserve to lose this for all these wasted chances.

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I'm suprised one of my predictions has come true :D Inter have been terrific, much better than they were last year against us. Wesley Sneijder is a really good player. Saying that Chelsea have been very poor tonight, never really looked like they would score.

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Haha! :D

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That said add Inter to the list of teams I do not want Arsenal to draw. United Vs Barca. Inter vs anyone but Arsenal.

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King Eto'o does it again!

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Wonder if this will harm the coefficient ranking for the UK (thus removing a Champions League spot). Shouldn't do because there were 3 English teams in the semis last year but there are just still two in the Quarter Finals this year. Liverpool out in group stage, Chelsea out in last 16.

France are doing well though. Lyon though and likely Bordeaux.

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Drogba gets the card he deserves :D

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God Graham Souness is a prat.

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No it won't, after the past four or five seasons when theres been at least three English teams in the quater/semi finals it will take a lot more than a team going out in the last 16 to lose a place. I think if Inter went out tonight Italy would have lost a place though.

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I heard Andy Gray say that but I thought they had already lost that place for the season after next. Not too sure. Series A deserves to lose a place anyway, France deserves to gain one. Barcelona seem to be single handedly dragging La Liga along for the ride as well.

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Italy have three sides in the last 16 nearly every season and France had two this year but usually only one though, at the moment both have one side through to the last eight. It might be a bit harsh to take one away from the Italy and give it to France looking at the stats.

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Fair enough Ligue 1 is a good league though and there is a technical skill in the French way of Football which produces good matches much more regularly than Serie A and the Bundesliga manage. It's just the lack of money means Wenger (sometimes others :D) buys all the promising players before they can make much of an impact. Hugo Loris (who plays for the French First Team and Lyon) is a great keeper as well. Look at the France vs Ireland match.

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Yeah they also create cheats (alright one, one cheat).....moving on

I thought Graham Souness had smacked Jose when I watched Jose speaking to Geoff Shreeves after the match. His eyes and nose were red.

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Is that massive chip on your shoulder not rather tiresome?

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Nah, All countries create cheats.

It's the level the delusion in the respective countries that denote how much coverage it gets. Scholes did something similar to Henry against, I think, Turkey or the Ivory Coast. Gerrard has an irresistible attraction to the floor and other peoples faces and Rooney isn't exactly advise to a dive.

Difference is when England do it it's either 1) ignored, 2) made to look as if it were a 50/50 decision or if it's really blatant and indefensible then it's "controversial". Then everyone congratulates each other on what good sports England are and how we uphold fair play blah blah blah.

The Henry incident was made worst because of the occasion but it happens all the time and I didn't see Ireland rushing to correct the ref when they won a penalty for a non-existent foul in an earlier qualifying match.

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I didn't see this post yesterday. I've just seen what Gerrard did, whats the difference between what he did and what Ferdinand got banned for 4 matches for against Hull? Double standards from the FA at its best. Mascherano got away with something very similar earlier in the season as well :rolleyes:

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Difference might be whether the ref saw it or not, the ref saw Gerrard's and took no action therefore the FA can take no action.

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I have to say I was shocked by what he did, it was well out of order :rolleyes:

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Sky Sports and BBC take note, this is how you do match day coverage properly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Zuab-hycQ

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No way jose

I prefer the calm professional approach

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The teams in the draw for the Champions League Quarter Finals will be:

Arsenal
Man United
Inter Milan
Barcelona
Lyon
Bordeaux
Bayern Munich
CSKA Moscow

Who would you rather face? I would quite like to draw either of the French teams or Munich. Moscow is okish but a horrible away fixture.

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United: anybody but Barcelona. Arsenal: Barcelona for the revenge of the 2006 final.

2 English teams, 2 French teams, 1 Italian team, 1 Russian team, 1 German team and the cup holders. Sod's Law states that Arsenal will draw United though.

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Bring em on I say! Revenge for this season and last year :D

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i dont know why but id like (from a neutrals point of view:

Inter Milan v Barcelona
Lyon v Arsenal
Bordeaux v CSKA Moscow
Bayern Munich v Man Utd

With the winners of Munich Man U and inter Bayern playing each other :D