European Champions League Final tonight

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Tonight in Rome the European Cup is being played for by the two best football (soccer LOL) teams in the world - Manchester United and Barcelona.

I'm kind of torn myself, Man U aren't a great favourite of mine, but as they've been coached by a Glaswegian for over twenty years, we see it up here as a win for Glasgow, and they have the Portugese Christiano Ronaldo, debatably the best player in the world, and the Englishman Wayne Rooney

And Barcelona, the Catalan giants, have the Argentian Lionel Messi, the other candidate for best player in the world.

I'm just hoping for a great game and a peaceful aftermath, after three died in Glasgow and one in Northern Ireland on Sunday after the Scottish League was decided.

So who will YOU be rooting for?

Long days and pleasant nights

[panum]

Manchester United is the best one football team, undoubtedly. I am waiting with all my hopes which Man U are able to secure their position. Just Do It!

[rjt65]

Football starts in September silly (;-)) ---- :glare:

[nicos]

Hoping to see a match to remember for years John !
great teams that anyone enjoys to watch and they go for the goal not just the defense.. that's what football (soccer:laugh:) is all about
Ferguson is the most succesfull coach on the planet no doubt and there is so much talent in both teams..
both teams won their countries' championships the english and the spanish the two most difficult of the world.. what else can I say

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[sheba41]

Well, they are now 1 point behind....but I am for Manchester!:cool2:

[LOTUS]

Well, they are now 1 point behind....but I am for Manchester!:cool2:

Me too!!!No matter what!:cool2:

[Luli]

I'm for Manchester, but it isn't looking too good for them at the moment 0-2! :(

[LOTUS]

Well,I'm totally not happy about it,but the team that played better won.
Congrats to the fans.:smile2:

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Ah well, worthy winners, congrats to Barcelona on their 2-0 victory.

I thought Messi, Iniesta and Puyol were outstanding, and no contentious refereeing decisions for a change this season.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Mr Nobody]

'Twas a decent game, I thought. Would have been better between Barca and Arsenal, but there you go. :smile2:

Hey John, didn't know about the deaths in Glasgow. Obviously heard about the Northern Ireland one because of the news exposure. Wonder why there's not been much of a squeak about the Scottish ones?
I guess, again, football will be blamed but really it was only the focal point. We all know what was really to blame, don't we? (Well, what two things, one being human nature.)

[Kim L.]

My sister is apparently a big fan of Barcelona, so Yay Barcelona (on behalf of Marissa)!

[Srbo]

I feel very happy that Barca beat the crap out the " holyer that Thou " Manchester Unt.

He he he...

[benbennett]

Hooray for Barca.

[JohnDalglish]

I feel very happy that Barca beat the crap out the " holyer that Thou " Manchester Unt.

He he he...

Hi,

Well, there is that, of course LOL.

But we're a little sad in Glasgow because a win would have made local boy Sir Alex Ferguson the greatest football manager in history.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Sedge]

I'm just happy that the 'Beautiful Game' was the winner. It was an awesome display by Barcelona!

[BRUMMIEYID]

Great performance from BARCELONA. Lovely individual skills from E'to for the opening goal and a sublime headed goal from messi for the 2nd.

I for one wont be sad that the MANURE (Sorry ...Man U) lost. But that probably comes from years of jealousy watching them win everything while my own team under-achieves.
Many of the papers, and radio pundits are reporting that Sir Alex Ferguson got his tactics wrong on the night. IMO it was just the fact that Barcelona played better and where great in possesion of the ball. Maybe things would have been different if Man Utd had scored early and then pressurised the Barca Midfield.???

ps...Congrats to Rangers for taking the Scottish Title.

[nicos]

just wanted to mention that last summer spain won the euro2008 and this season barca with some players fo their national team won the champions league that makes sense ands sounds fair!

[aliphil]

what a game this was, where was man u they were out played something rotten lol. the europe cup went to the best team i would say. but lets hope we will see a scottish team up there next year (celtic preferably) lets hope we do good in the qualifiers. come on the celts

[Srbo]

just wanted to mention that last summer spain won the euro2008 and this season barca with some players fo their national team won the champions league that makes sense ands sounds fair!

And with Rafael Nadal beating everybodys a** in tennis match after match after match - I`d say the Spaniards are doing really good sportswise lately.:smile2:

[Srbo]

Congrats to Rangers for taking the Scottish Title.

You can say this almost every year anyway..sometimes Celtic takes over, but that just about it....:biggrin2:

[rjt65]

Ahhh hmmmm go uhhh PELE? :cool2:


PS YANKEES rule bwahahahahahahah

[BRUMMIEYID]

You can say this almost every year anyway..sometimes Celtic takes over, but that just about it....:biggrin2:

Yes Srbo....Both Glasgow clubs, Rangers and Celtic have dominated the Scottish league for many years.
There has been talk of them joining the English Premiership, I'm not sure the Scots are to happy about this, however I would like them to compete in our league and I think they would be a decent addition to the fixture list!
This would also free-up the Scottish League and help improve the standard and opportunities of some of the other teams like, Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibernian and the Dundee clubs for instance.

Personally I'm looking forward to watching some pre-season games for my team- Tottenham Hotspur. They are competing against both Celtic and Barcelona at Wembley.