champions league, we're having a laugh

[terry nutkins]

all four english teams through to the quarter finals - the first time ever that four from one country have done this

personally i think man utd will win it this year, although i'm hoping for liverpool to continue their current rich vein of form all the way to moscow

[fatneck]

horror upon horrors, no matter who you support, would be going out to another prem team.

also dont fancy moscow, heard some bad stories about the footy out there. A pal was in red square before the england game, a guy bowls up...

'you english'

'erm yes'

'WANT FIGHT'

'erm no'

' its okay, just with fist, not knives & bottles'

can you imagine Utd v Liverpol out there :rolleyes:

[Major Dude]

can you imagine Utd v Liverpol out there :rolleyes:

Please... no.

[Groover]

All four english teams through to the quarter finals - the first time ever that four from one country have done this

Yes, but we rely on mostly non English talent to get us there. We're not in Euro 2008 are we.

[terry nutkins]

Yes, but we rely on mostly non English talent to get us there. We're not in Euro 2008 are we.

pretty much the same as all the leagues really

personally, i'm not bothered - unless they introduce quotas in ALL european leagues (which is a great idea btw) then it's always going to be like this

[Little Richard]

"Yes, but we rely on mostly non English talent to get us there. We're not in Euro 2008 are we."
On the other hand enough English players to build a side (well, almost, the side wouldn't have a keeper) are still left in the Champions League and have shown that they can perform at the top level. I think that the national side has underperformed and consistently been less than the sum of its parts.
Inter didn't have any Italian players last night - maybe that was their mistake being as how Italy are world champions.

[Contador]

Please... no.

Yes please. Being a Liverpool supporter I was made up we avoided Man U in the semi draw last year but I think the time has come for an epic european encounter agaisnt our dreaded nemesis be it in the final, semi or quarters.

'we've dominated the premiership'.....'we've got five big ones'....the flak has flowed thick and fast between the two sets of supporters for years. Imagine the bragging rights If your team was the victor in the European Cup Final, they would last for century's. It wouldn't be a final for the faint hearted mind you as 60,000+ mancs & scousers march into Red Square with a good majority of them 60,000 ticketless.

[mikuni]

Went to Moscow with Leeds (shit, how that depresses me now after losing to Cheltenham last night...) and must say we had a great time. It was -20 degrees in the stadium and we picked up a job-lot of rabbit-skin KGB dear-stalkers from some blokes in red-square. The locals were not too leary, for every nutter, there was someone who wanted to have a beer and trade memorablia with you. It's one of my favourite aways, after Hull...

[hambo]

All this bollocks about too many foreign players in the premiership is doing my swede in. The problem is that the FA have done fuck all about youth football i.e. kids playing on full size pitches and not enough emphasis on technique. Meaning that any English born with a half decent foot tends to go for a silly amount of money a la Darren Bent, so is it any wonder why clubs go for foreign players? Its all about economics.

Besides that the England team have too many cunty players like Ca$hley, Terry and Ferdinand which is a turn off and secondly, what have England ever done for us since 1990? Fucking heartache, that's what.

The FA needs to be a plc. The rest will follow.......

[Espen]

cunty players

He-he, you english know how to put it.

[Little Richard]

"Besides that the England team have too many cunty players like Ca$hley, Terry and Ferdinand which is a turn off"
Not to mention Frank Lumpard.

[radiofc]

Not to mention Frank Lumpard.

he's basically an extra striker for the chavs who only gets away with playing the way he does because of the protection he gets from midfield. Him and Gerrard was never going to work as a central midfield partnership but what does McClown know?

[hambo]

"what does McClown know?"

Sorry to be a pedant, but you should have written in past tense, like "what did McClown now?" That error threw my psyche back to the time he in charge and had to snap out of that disturbing flashback (http://mp3.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF281104-01-01-07.mp3). Although it was for a mere moment...

I was tempted to add Pinguis Francisca, but that would have-made-my-dislike-of the-true-cost-of-the-price-of-communism-conveniently-forget to-mention-of their-checkered-past-and-the-living-embodiment-of-what-is-wrong-with-football-inherently-Chel$ki -cunts quite obvious.

The thing that gets me most is why the Fucking Arseholes didn't appoint Brian Clough way back when? That was a lost opportunity to take England forward after the debacle of non qualification for two consecutive world cups! Just like if Thatcher didn't spunk all the oil wealth we acquired.....well managed it more sensibly.
To give a clue who I follow I'm in the same camp as MK7 and the Hairy claw......:rasta:

[iamrobd]

You Arsenal supporters are so bitter about the FA and the England team. Is that because you haven't got any Arsenal players in the national team? Or because you haven't really got any English players at the club?

Don't forget that it's David Dein, the Arsenal chairman that is running a large piece of the FA show. Nothing to do with Chelsea as insinuated in your previous post.