General Chat / 25th may 2005

This will be a massive night, and i cannot fucking wait !!

Champions league final, the biggest competition in world football aswell as the world cup.

My team are in the final and im going to istanbul to watch it.


ISTANBUL, ISTANBUL WERE THE GREATEST TEAM IN EUROPE AND WERE GOING TO ISTANBUL

Saaaafe.

I'd love to go to Istanbul. Mix of east and west combined with the home of dodgy kebabs. Just don't drink the water. I don't bet on Liverpool winning, but you never know.

Make sure to take photos!

And refuse to call it Istanbul, but name it Constantinople or Byzantium, as that'll mean you're about 3x's cooler than all the other English fans. Seriously.

:>

I'll try and upload a few

People have said we would get beat by leverkusen, juventus and chelsea. Now milan.
I love the underdog tag.


Roll on 25th may !

Sorry, Scarface, but I'm 90% confident that Milan will beat Liverpool. Enjoy the fighting anyway!

I shall be wearing a milan shirt, um, because I have to support one of the teams and I don't have a liverpool shirt. But hope you have an awesome time, I'd love an experience like that. The best I've had is Man Utd's 2-0 defeat to Norwich earlier this season!

Sorry, Scarface, but I'm 90% confident that Milan will beat Liverpool. Enjoy the fighting anyway!

I bet you were like that for the last 3 rounds

Nope. It was kinda of obvious with Chelsea and Juventus becuase they have a distinct lack of pace upfront meaning that slow-players like Hyppia and Carragher have no problem marking the strikers (and Drogba is just pants). Milan have alot of pace in the attacking areas and that will be the difference.

any idea if this will be shown in the US?

DC United vs. New England Revolution games just don't get me excited.

i wish i was moving to istanbul today but no things go my dads way ill be a year late

Champions League...

Come on you reds, liverpool CAN win.

But yeah they probably wont, that'd be too good.

I am extremely confident

If we do end up winning it i will go missing

any idea if this will be shown in the US?

DC United vs. New England Revolution games just don't get me excited.

ESPN Deportes, I think.

any idea if this will be shown in the US?

DC United vs. New England Revolution games just don't get me excited.

ESPN Deportes, I think.

You know I don't speak Spanish!

nah but seriously. I might have to resort to that. I know some Spanish, at least. I don't know any soccer terms but that's alright.

Says here that it's going to be on ESPN2, but the second leg of Milan-PSV was also supposed to be on ESPN2 until they switched it to Deportes at the last minute. I guess Champions League just doesn't pull in the viewers like NBA Inside Stuff re-runs, huh? However, seeing as how Liverpool is playing in this one and seeing as how ESPN loves to show English teams, I'd say that we're safe.

Well, I won't go as far as saying Liverpool will win, but AC Milan is far from invincible, as PSV proved IMO. If PSV would have scored one of the needed goals in Italy, they'd probably have finished it off back home. Hell, if that second goal there didn't happen they'd have done that... You could almost blame PSV for not letting Hiddink grab Robinho (he had a deal, already) (he might still come ) A player such as that might have made the difference by scoring a goal or two in situations not necessarily where one has to score. But really, AC Milan lucked out. Vennegoor hit the woodworks and Park missed an extraordinary chance near the end of the 1st half as well. AC Milan just didn't deserve to win in the end... but they did.

I watched only a little of Liverpool - Chelsea, but really, if Chelsea wasn't able to score in a 180 minutes they just don't deserve to be in the final whether or not they were the "better team" or the "playmakers." Liverpool played well enough to win, and that's what counts .

^ You talk a lot of sense


well done

I watched only a little of Liverpool - Chelsea, but really, if Chelsea wasn't able to score in a 180 minutes they just don't deserve to be in the final whether or not they were the "better team" or the "playmakers." Liverpool played well enough to win, and that's what counts .

Also shows that they have far too much money and still cant score. Money is all chelsea are, and i hope to see them crash and burn.

well, liverpool defeated great teams in the finals (and in the group too) so i don't think it's sure milan wins. I bet 2-2 after full time (after schevschenko 19, garcia 32, gerrard 64, and kaka 83) then it goes to extra time and then to penalties. there liverpool scores all five, while dudek will save tomassons penalty.

I really cannot wait for this game, i really hope Liverpool win. I love to see English teams win the Champions League, no matter who they are. (unlesss they are west bromwich albion). I am a Wolves fan and since it is going to be a long, long time before we ever reach the finals of, well, anything... I am supporting the Liverpudlians tonight.

Altough AC Milan are no push-overs, they have, in my opinion, the second best player in the world. Shevchenko, scores goals for fun. Altough Liverpools defence has been quite tight so far in the Champions League, its gonna be close!

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