wildcatlh

Chelsea gets Barca.

Lille goes into Group H with Milan, which means Chelsea either has to get Real Madrid or Barca. Yay.

As someone who's Jewish, let me say... it's a f*cking joke to say (even if he did in fact say that, and I wouldn't trust Chelsea at all in this respect) that was racist. I don't see that as being the least bit racist/anti-semetic/what have you. C'mon. There's real anti-semetism and racism in the football world. But that isn't it.

Out of curiosity, what do you think of Fowler's autobiography?

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Honestly. WHY do you think this is going to do anything but cause trouble? If somebody smacks you upside the head, which somebody probably will (this is an Israeli team, you're going to have a lot of Israeli matchgoing fans and some Jewish fans who would take offense), don't go whining about how awful everyone is. (and, as an aside, while a lot of what Israel does is awful, don't act like the Palestinians are saints, 'k?)

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It's part of our cloning program. It's why the club hasn't had the money to sIgN bIg nAmEs (sorry). It's a huge investment. By 2008, our formation will be: Reina Carragher-Carragher-Carragher-Carragher Gerrard-Gerrard-Gerrard-Gerrard Fowler-Fowler

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Italy may be cheating c*cks, but that didn't win them this game. My brother will be thrilled at least.

You'd think so, mostly because Buffon is so much a better keeper than Barthez is, and France's best PK taker is gone... but Italy are cursed on PKs. <anti-mockers> France will win the shootout. </anti-mockers>

Blatant red card. It looked like he looked around to see if the ref was looking before he did it as well. Idiot.

The best part is... at least the way it looks to me, I think he grabs the wrong leg.

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I'd say "maybe the press will focus on how sh*t Fat Frank has been all tournament" ... but that would be silly.

Always love it when the player dives about 3 seconds after the tackle.

Lampard staying on is confirmation for me that Sven decided that as his parting gift he was going to humiliate England some time during this tournament.

Now we get to hear about this for the next decade like Beckham's red card in '98.

Lennon in the game for 3 minutes and creates a better chance than Beckham has all tournament

Lampard blown chance count: A lot.

This is one of those threads where I get the strong feeling that if his name was Jermaino Pennanto, came from a foreign country, and cost £10 million (with all other things being equal) a lot of the naysayers would be all for this. If this is the way it comes out, I'm happy. Especially if it leaves us with money to sign another big striker.

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How many chances has Lampard blown now?

What a f'n goal.