With any Cup competition there is a certain element of luck involved and i am the first to admit we had a good share of luck winning the Champions League but isnt that what its all about its all roy of the rovers stuff. We gave the Champions League new meaning and proberly the best Final ever and i seem to remember us doing the same thing a few year previous in the UEFA Cup so we cant be that bad can we.
Chelsea should be doing well with regards to their ability to afford to buy any player if they become avaliable it does help when your owner gives you a blank cheqye book
Originally posted by schakuhryeah, but is the intercontinental cup not still going on too?...
Wikipedia also says this: "It was intended by FIFA to be a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup (also known as the Toyota Cup), which is contested annually in Tokyo, Japan by the champions of Europe and South America."
It's the same, except that some clubs from other contintents can also compete.
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Originally posted by greenphantomExactly, it is a load of rubbish.
I am a Liverpool Fan but my main point is was is all this rubbish about there being such a vast divide between European and South American Clubs
European, and particularly English teams are better than S.American crap, I've been watching them regularly on tv and not only are they crap, they are feckin boring to watch.
Anyway we'll see how "great" they are next year......early knockout methinks.
ps, I agree, Liverpool wuz robbed!
Originally posted by greenphantomI thought the Brazilians deserved the win, actually. I don't support any English team, so it's not that I have rival loyalties- it just seemed a fair result to me.
I have to say after watching this game yesterday that the ref was a joke and Liverpool should never of lost the game.
There were 3 disallowed goals of which 1 was a clear goal and they should have had a penalty as well.
Taking this into consideration i feel the so called gap between European and South American football is near enough equal and com ...[text shortened]... he very talented South Americans but this World Cup for me this time is wide open so Game On !!!
If there were three goals disallowed, and you as a staunch fan claim only one was an actual goal, then perhaps the correct decision was reached. And after not fielding the best 11 at the club, you can have few complaints.
AND after your goalkeeper cheated the Italians in the European final by being one yard from the penalty spot each time, and the officials let it go, my sympathy as for Liverpool being "done by ref & linesmen" is rather limited.
Sorry.
Originally posted by greenphantomActually, I support the Gryphons, GENOA CFC!
Your a Milan fan then? You could wonder how many more cups we may have won if we had not been banned from european competition after Hessel of cause it was all are fault then you will say as well
Our most hated team? Juve? Inter? Nope-
A.C. Milan.
Just to show you that was an unbiased opinion.
And your football fans deserved to be banned from Europe. The Juventus-Liverpool match was one of many cases which prove that point. You are only just learning to control your compatriots when away overseas at a match.
Are you suggesting that the English aren't expected to cause trouble in Germany? You're lucky you are allowed to play anywhere abroad at all!
Originally posted by sjegwas it in italy that fans threw a motorbike from the off top tier of a stadium? glasshouses, and all that..
Actually, I support the Gryphons, GENOA CFC!
Our most hated team? Juve? Inter? Nope-
A.C. Milan.
Just to show you that was an unbiased opinion.
And your football fans deserved to be banned from Europe. The Juventus-Liverpool match was one of many cases which prove that point. You are only just learning to control your compatriots when away overseas ...[text shortened]... ected to cause trouble in Germany? You're lucky you are allowed to play anywhere abroad at all!
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Originally posted by kaunie5Yes, it was the Inter fans, I suppose? That was two years ago, and I don't know what happened there in the end. I'll give you a more recent example:
was it in italy that fans threw a motorbike from the off top tier of a stadium? glasshouses, and all that..
in the protests following the decision to remove Genoa C.F.C. from Serie A this season, the fans protested, and one small van was burned out.
The next day the supporters organised a whip round, and bought the owner a brand new one. Something similar might well have happened in Milan, but I can't say. Those were both events happening in the clubs' own cities.
Given the organised criminal behaviour of English fans abroad for the last 35 years, I ask:
anyone for chalk and cheese?
Originally posted by geniusstick with the Golf
by my understanding, the championship has run twice and has been won both times by a brazilian team. also, liverpool won the champions league. they are, technically, the best team in europe.
just unlucky? the number of shots they missed...