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Also, why wasn't Macarone playing from the start?

He was too busy posting to ILX, I imagine.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 28 April 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Goals from the Middlesbrough game here (disappointingly with a bit too much German analysis and not enough of the post-goal celebrations):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeT6jZ_otP0

And some local radio commentary with mad screaming here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/video_and_audio/help_guide/4304501.stm

― Teh HoBBler (the pirate king), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

It did seem a bit odd that it was tucked away on ITV4. If it had been a more "glamorous" team in a UEFA cup semi it would surely have been on ITV1... or at the very least, Channel 5?

Was Celtic's UEFA Cup semi against Boavista televised nationally?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Both legs.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

managed to download the entire Boro match but with Romanian commentary!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks Onimo, I just googled and found out they were both on the BBC nationally, with separate commentary teams in Scotland and elsewhere. I am therefore quite surprised that Middlesbrough were stuck away on ITV4. Presume the final will be on a real channel?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Aye, they couldn't trust Scottish pundits on English telly so they used Alan Hansen :-P

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I think ITV have the rights to the final. I don't think they'll hide that one on ITV79

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"we'll be watching the Bill, while they're playing Seville..."

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 29 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

What a twat of a referee.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread cruelly denied it's rousing climax on account of This is the thread for the Arsenal/Barcelona Champions League final being set up instead.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

That happened to my Champs League thread last year which would have been rivalling Try Glasgow More for length had someone not set up a separate thread for the final, and the subsequent fight over ~~fudging the rules~~ letting Liverpool take their rightful place in the competition as winners.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I just want to post this here as well...

ARSENE WENGER, DAVID DEIN, GEORGE GRAHAM, TONY ADAMS, THIERRY HENRY, PATRICK VIERA, DAVID SEAMAN, JENS LEHMANN, NIGEL WINTERBURN, MARTIN KEOWN, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, FRANK MCLINTOCK, DAVID O'LEARY, IAN WRIGHT, JOHN JENSEN, SOL CAMPBELL, FREDDIE LJUNGBERG, BOB WILSON, ALAN DAVIES, CLIVE ANDERSON, RORY MCGRATH, NICK HORNBY, JULIO D'SOUZA... CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOUR BOYS ARE ONE HELL OF A TEAM OF DIVING, CHEATING DOUBLE STANDARDS FLAUNTING BAD LOSERS!

Ahem.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link

That's a well-made list. It's so ugly. Except for Bob Wilson - he's OK by me.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Pinefox, do you remember when Sinister beat the NME in the five-a-side final at ATP 2000? "Charles Shaar Murray, Nick Kent, Steve Lamacq, Paul Morley, Julie Burchill... can you hear me, Julie Burchill?" Oh, we did laugh. I wonder whose idea it was to start shouting that.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul Morley was on some shite about Brad Pitt the other night.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

does he fancy him?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't listen long enough to find out.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Juventus v Werder Bremen gorblimey!
-- Matt DC (runmd...), March 7th, 2006 9:59 PM

i felt sorry for the werder bremen goalkeeper.
weasel diesel (kilian(dot)murphy24@mail.dcu.ie), March 7th, 2006 10:59 PM

Hmmmmm... in the light of the scandal that's bringing down Juventus at the moment, I can't help but wonder whether this incident was quite as accidental as it seemed.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you think they should have the competitions in future?

I've said scrap the InterToto, get rid of the UEFA group stages and have more knockouts in the CL.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I've said don't just stop at getting rid of the Intertoto, get rid of the Super Cup and the UEFA Cup as well, just have the CL and make it knockout right from the start, no group stages whatsoever, that revenue generation should be the least important consideration, and that if they keep the UEFA cup it should be made knockout right from the start too, and not be infiltrated by CL failures in January.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Bring back teh Cup Winners Cup and shift UEFA places back into the leagues. Abandon all group stages. Champions only in the Champions League, which we'll now have to rename because there are no league stages - I suggest European Champions Cup, or European Cup for short.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, it'll never work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, long shorts, high-topped football boots made of mammoth leather, balls made of pig's bladders with cowhide stitching, caps with concentrci circles on them and carefully waxed handlebar moustaches.

― Crimea River (Mark C), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Aye, I forgot about the moustaches. More of them.

Oh, and while we're at it - if you are offside you are offside. End of.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The UEFA cup was good when it was made up of the seconds, thirds and fourths, but it's been completely devalued since all of those teams went into the CL. But I've got no problem with non-champions being in the European Cup - I'm quite happy for there to be just one tournament, with all the top teams in it (so long as 'the top teams' means the ones who finish highest, and not some kind of G14 permanent membership). Otherwise the European Cup would be (and arguably was, in terms of quality of competition, rather than stature) worse than the UEFA Cup. So one big competition with all the top teams is fine by me. But nobody gives a fuck about group stages - they're just the tedious bit to get out the way before the real knockout fun gets started. The only reason we have them is for guaranteed revenue, but teams shouldn't be in it for the £££s, they should be in it to try and win it. Then you might get rid of this obsession where just being in the CL becomes the be-all and end-all, and teams would no longer be happier (say) finishing 4th in the premiership and going out in the group stages of the CL, than finishing 5th, winning the FA Cup, and losing the final of the CL.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and while we're at it - if you are offside you are offside. End of.

It was funny, in the BBC video archive, to hear David Coleman say during Italy-West Germany in 1970 "offside there, but not interfering with play". It's always been there, that qualification to the rule, it's just expressed differently now (the whole "phase of play" thing was an attempt to clarify, I think). Quite a "modern" amount of injury time in that match too, which was also no surprise to Coleman.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

are there any of the london supporters at all tho who wd rather win the champions' league than the premiership? i'm a born & bred liverpool supporter and i would kill for a(nother) premiership title.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

dude, we've never won the Premiership

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

jesus that hurt

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

This may sound harsh, but I really, really hope you don't win the league again until 2016 at the earliest.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm, we must go for a ~~fight~~ pint soon ;)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

porkpie, refering to "the premiership" as a seperate identity to "the league" means you have been badly brainwashed in the worst possible way.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry, didn't notice the capital P ;)

and no, I haven't been brainwashed

― Porkpie (porkpie), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost:
B-b-but it's you that used the word Premiership. You could have just said "I would kill for another league title" and then this whole nasty business need never have happened.

― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

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