This Barcelona teams era of greatness is finally at an end

just the logic behind that question shows how much of a silly mug u are ffs. love when people show their hand, stupid cant!

I know metaphor doesn't sound old enough to understand but could someone please explain how betfair works to him please

Comeback to what?

You have not made any relevant points to come back at.

It is all rambling excited, nonsensical gibberish from you metaphor.

If you want to make a point for me to come back at it.

Although I expect another childish post followed by a nice smiley.

he cant even spell barcelona the thick ****!

i know that mugs like you lose and that's all i need to know

so i shall ask yet again, how much did you consummate losers lose tonight?

Barca - No Champions League Trophy & No La Liga

wavingbhses mugget lost his bank = 1.00000000000000001 nap

jamdav1989 lost everything is seriously considering suicide

I have answered that on metaphor - not a penny tonight.

Although I am sure I will again be called a liar followed by a childish insult and a smiley.

Manchester United - no Premier League, no Champions League, no FA Cup, no Carling cup

Yet still you laugh

it may come as a suprise to u but some people dont have a bet on every match YDC

No contemplation of suicide metaphor. Calm down.

metaphor 24 Apr 12 23:07 
are u kidding i have an erection at the mere thought of so many muggy @holes have lost their banks




Bless him

Teams who have got the better of Barcelona this season - Real Madrid and Chelsea.

Teams that have got the better of Man Utd - Basel, Bilbao, Benfica, Crystal Palace and Liverpool.

Not so smug now eh Dawsy?

man u supporters laughing a barca even tho theyve been denied by said team TWICE in the CL final

literally couldnt make it up!

United are going to win the league.

dont tap the fish tank guys,we NEED the metaphors of this world.

I congratulate you on winning plenty tonight metaphor,great work

Well that was fun, I'd love to stay and chat but I'd rather have type II diabetes.

nite all 

Another gibberish post from metaphor considering he has been on here for the last two hours.

Never fails to make himself look like a weasel.

Another gibberish post from metaphor considering he has been on here for the last two hours.

Never fails to make himself look like a weasel.

Can't wait until the EU forces the spanish government to collect the tax debts from it's football clubs. Then their **** clubs finally get what they deserve - irrelevance.

Apr 25, 2012 -- 12:11AM, sheihadul wrote:

Can't wait until the EU forces the spanish government to collect the tax debts from it's football clubs. Then their **** clubs finally get what they deserve - irrelevance.

another jealous englishman. give credit where its due, la liga is a fantastic league and the spain NT are just brillaint.

Fair dues to chelsea, nowhere near the most talented team in the CL, but fought it out and got through.

Class from barca at the end, signing their team off, clapping the chelsea players and Xavi hugging every chelsea player. Classy from a classy club.

I can't understand some of the fools on here. One team is all out attack and the other just sits back and blocks the defence on a 4-5-1 across the edge of the penalty area and they blame the ones on all out attack.
It isn't Barca who need to change their game the opponents should play 4-4-2 or similar. Trouble is Barca would absolutely murder them if they did. Sadly negative defensive football has succeeded and that can only be bad for the game.

i fear your right brigust, euro 2012 will be a disaster with copycat teams

Not really brigust1.  Barca are great to watch but i don't want them to win 8-0 every week.  If Chelsea had opened up they would have been thrashed and we would have been deprived of a genuinely great tie.

The fact the best team doesn't always win is one of the joys of football.  Chelsea defended well.  Barca didn't.  Defending is just as much a part of football as attacking.

The best team doesn't always win, that's football.

It is true about the best team not always winning but some of the posters blamed Barca for their tactics. The ref blows the whistle and Chelsea fall back into a 4-5-1 across the edge of the penalty area and Barca get blamed for passing it around them. It's a bit like a boxer hiding his head in his gloves for 15 rounds while his opponent dances around him trying to open him up.

And Berto I don't want Barca to win 8-0 every week but surely the other teams should try to win by attacking them and eventually they may/will succeed. Being totally defensive minded means you pick the wrong players or play them in the wrong positions.

And anyway, with only the slightest bit of fortune Barca would have put this game beyond hope in the first leg and Chelsea would have had to attack them. We may have seen a proper game then.

it's easy to question barca's tactics but they hit the woodwork 4 times over the 2 legs, which is about as many shots as Chelsea had in total. If one of those goes in, or if Messi scored his penalty they'd probably have closed the game out and gone through. All ifs and buts i know, but it's a bit much to say their greatness is over.

I agree to a point brigust1, but I thought it was a proper game as it was.  Barca were ahead for only 2 minutes in the entire tie which meant Chelsea were able to defend an advantage ever since Drogba's goal.  I can't blame them for their tactics, it was up to Barca to get their nose in front and force Chelsea to attack.  They couldn't do it.

Chelsea were down to 10 for the majority of the game,coupled with losing Cahill early on and some jokers wanted them to go cavalier at the Camp Nou when they were already in a position of going through to the final

Just heard the news... I can't fkn believe this! Fk Chelski

Indeed Chelsea were only behind on aggregate for a few minutes the whole game. A superb performance and if it were Jose then the mugs decrying it would be creaming themselves over Jose's masterclass beating barca with 10 men at the nou camp.

Gentlemen please, how can you call yourself football people yet know so little about the game? Well allow me to educate you on the finer points of Association Football. It's Barcelona's tactics that cause other sides to sit back so deep in defence. You must have noticed that the Catalans love to pin the opposition to their own box, then camp out there until they find a way through? They don't allow the opposition to open up and play. It's Barcelona's actual tactics, part of their game-plan. They buzz around that box like busy little bees, harassing the opposition with their manic 5 yard passing game.

It's to the benefit of football that it didn't work against Chelsea, who were superb in defence and indeed only lost concentration once in the entire two legs, when Barca scored their first goal.

Chelsea didn't so much adopt that defensive strategy, they were forced to adopt that strategy by Barcelona. Hopefully this might cause Barcelona to adopt new tactics in future, the hemming in of the opposition in this manner makes for a rather odd and manic spectacle - with all the play in the opposition's 18 yard box.

it's taken 4 years ,but they have finally been found out


clear out this summer


Biscuits,Fabregas and Valdes off to a new home

Coachbuster one of the biggest loser mugs on here, knows nothing about football at all.

They really do need to sign a couple of decent defenders.  They badly miss Abidal.

Metaphor I would seriously give up, our idea of wit and wind up is very dull and predictable

Coachbuster 25 Apr 12 10:58 
it's taken 4 years ,but they have finally been found out




Chelsea defending for their lives with 8 men in their own penalty area and relying on the woodwork to save the day is hardly being found out is it?

Barca do need to buy a couple of decent defenders though

'Your'

whatever people think of the way they defend and the keeper, they didnt go through because Messi missed the pen

Oh you totsally misunderstand me if you think I'm on the wind-up I am 100% serious here. You lot are the biggest morons I have ever known in my entire life. You clearly know nothing about football.

The Ramires away goal was more important than the penalty miss.  They'd just gone in front in the tie, Chelsea were down to 10, it's seconds till halftime and they let Chelsea score a counter attack because they only had one proper defender on the pitch.  At 2-0, Chelsea would have had to come out and get a goal leaving space for Barca.

The idiots on here who think it was Chelsea's fault they had to defend so deep, know zero about the cause and effect of tactics.

cowards and morons

great vision from lampard  .....in both ties , the man is a flying machine  he has in  attack  ,,he help to settle both ties ..?   breakaway  ...breakaway  and breakaway ...again  ...............for the mighty torres .... game set and match .

Oh and thanks for all the money, it's always nice doing business with you

Metaphor - why are you so obsessed with people losing money?

metaphor - calm down dear

Second greatest comeback ever behind the 1999 final imo. A truly special night of football.

Liverpool coming from 3-0 down against Milan is the greatest ever CL comeback

Biscuit ,both scorelines similar odds i think ,although Chelsea only had to make it 2-1 (46/1) at it's lowest ,so you're probably correct

3-3 (or the draw) was 70-90/1
2-1 was  46/1

Chelsea deserved it though, dawsy. theres a difference

No way was Liverpool's comeback in the CL final better. Chelsea were playing the "best team in the world" (your words not mine) with 10 men and pretty much no defence. How they kept Barca from scoring a third I will never know. They had Drogba / Torres playin left back & Ivanovic and Boswinga playin centreback ffs

Barca had 82% of second half possesion and yet Chelsea were the only team to score in the second half. Unbelievable scenes.

Back on topic, I'm n0ot so sure it's the end of an era for Barcelona. After all, this team have regained the Champions League befor lest we not forget.

One thing they have to address though is the need for an out and out centre forward, as that has been sadly lacking in these three games in the last week. I'm not convinced Alexis Sanchez is quite up to it yet and obviously David Villa is a big miss.

Need to get at least a couple of CF options though so they don't need to resort to chucking Keita up front as a last ditch effort or play a front three of Messi, Frabregas and Sanchez.

ROD

Liverpool had to defend as well ,it wasn't just about them scoring 3

I know but they weren't down to 10 men, they had their usual defence and they weren't playin the "best side ever".

well played anyway Chelsea ,monumental effort

don't like 'The plastic' ,but massive respect to fat frank though ,honest and good fella - nice to see Terry out of the final btw


Hopefully Barca will return to their 2009 best

Dawsy have you actually seen the Liverpool line-up in Istanbul?

Return

Liverpool to win the trophy after 3 down was probably about 120/1  ,someone may correct me

Chelsea to go through immediately after having that thug sent off was probably around 30/1 at a guess -

Return

Liverpool to win the trophy after 3 down was probably about 120/1  ,someone may correct me

Chelsea to go through immediately after having that thug sent off was probably around 30/1 at a guess -

It was an excellent performance from Chelsea - all the glory belongs to them. After all the hype 10 man Chelsea were much too good for the Catalans. Barcelona couldn't even beat them on their own soil with everything in their favour, including numerical advantage. In the end it was a route!

****after they had conceded the 2nd goal sorry ****

Chelsea may have been down to 10 men, but seeing as they had 8 men in their own area at any one time it didn't really matter much. And in that final Liverpool had Djimi Traore at left back which is the same as being a man down!

Dawsy - if you can't see that a side coming from 3-0 down at half time in a final is a better comeback then i've got nothing more to say.

In the end it was a route!
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a bus route ?

chelsea with a man down was like parking the bus minus it's seats in other words

Newcastle coming back from 4-0 down at half time against Arsenal must be the greatest comeback ever then.

That is no way to talk about Frank Lampard imo

If i was to list the comebacks i'd have it as follows:

1. Liverpool coming from 3-0 down at half time
2. United's 2 goals in injury time v Bayern
3. United coming from 2-0 down away to Juventus to win 3-2
4. Chelsea last night
5. Deportivo when they smashed Milan 4-0 after being 4-1 down from the 1st leg

coachbuster that was hilarious, so witty.

How has this turned into a Liverpool glory days thread?

Return Of Dawsy 25 Apr 12 12:38 
Newcastle coming back from 4-0 down at half time against Arsenal must be the greatest comeback ever then.




Nope. My lot Charlton once beat Huddersfield 7-6 after being down to 10 men and 5-1 down with 30 minutes to go.

Return Of Dawsy     25 Apr 12 12:38 
Newcastle coming back from 4-0 down at half time against Arsenal must be the greatest comeback ever then.
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ahh yeah , that was 500/1 i think

Draw was matched at 999/1 last night.

ROD - yeah ,but they weren't the true  odds ,just someone laying an unlikely score in haste

but there was plenty matched in the 800s/900s

and they didn't need a draw either

ignore that. I'm talking just about this 90 minutes. Chelsea were 999/1 to get a draw, amazing comeback.

they werent 999/1

the 2-2 was 120/1 - 150/1

2-2 was 199/1 at kick off ffs

I don´t think its the end of an era tbh, I just think Barca are going through a difficult time at the moment. the team looks tired and seems to be lacking in confidence. Pep has tried bringing in some youth to perk them up but younger players need time.

What I would say is that Barca desperately need a proper number 9. Could have done with Ibra last night.

they may have slipped a little but hey theyve just missed out on yet another champions league final

hardly like theyve been knocked out in last 16 or outclassed

they will be semis minimum next season

biggest cheats in football ever

we had all this after that Milan semi didn't we ?


the truth is Barca have been rumbled by Real and Jose this season - but that's about it - It will remain 2 heavyweights for some time

Exactly how many opposition players do they require sent off to qualify for a CL final?

Me thinks they'll have to give the ref more money next time.

I can imagine that conversation "the deal was for one sending off and one penalty... if you want more you have to pay more"

Grow up high_lander, you made a good call with the tie betting but you're making a fool of yourself now.

No Abidal, no Pedro and no Villa, all vital players for Barca last season.

Whereas last night they've got Mascherano at the back, Cuenca out wide who is terrible and they've lost Villa's guaranteed 25-30 goals.

brigust1
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I can't understand some of the fools on here. One team is all out attack and the other just sits back and blocks the defence on a 4-5-1 across the edge of the penalty area and they blame the ones on all out attack.
It isn't Barca who need to change their game the opponents should play 4-4-2 or similar. Trouble is Barca would absolutely murder them if they did. Sadly negative defensive football has succeeded and that can only be bad for the game

is this clown for real?oh yes,hang on and we play football that suits our opponents down to the ground,Chelsea and inter milan have proven in the past 3 years that Barcelona do not have a plan B,if plan A is not working.their fúcked,they should try shooting from range every so often instead of trying to pass the ball into the net.Chelsea were excellent last night and deserved all the luck they received,apart from the messi penalty miss and him hitting the post from long range,what other chances did Barca create in the second half??ZERO!!
So in summary,if teams arent willing to lie down and let Barca tickle their bellies then Barca run out of ideas.

barca just came up short, so what it happens

do people think they should only be judged as great if win it every year ?

3 in 6 years is very good and done by very few clubs in history of comp

Tbf to Barca they actually did try shooting but they weren't good and a lot of shots were blocked down.

They created more than that in the second half Snaff. Alexis had a free header from 6 yards and just prior to the penalty Iniesta had a great chance superbly blocked down (Busquest also had a half chance but snatched at it)

I correctly predicted the sending off and put a decent sized bet on it.

Anyone who thinks all those sending offs and dodgy pens, given and not given exclusively in their favour, were coincidental is a naive fool.

The Roma director admitted recently to bribing the ref in the Dundee United European Cup semi-final - no doubt we will find out about present day cheats in about 20 years or so.

most people thought terry deserved red though ?

Yes high_lander you're spot on, Barca directors must've paid Terry to knee Sanchez in the back

Suuuure - 4 red cards/several dodgy pens given and stonewallers not given, it's all coincidence, because one team normally gets so many bad decisions in their favour and always in crucial semi-final 2nd leg ties. Happens all the time

Yes i seen that high-lander , well done on the sending off prediction

I remember that game , walter smith was jim mcleans assistant at that time , a sorry episode in football , united went to spain with a 2-0 lead to roma , went down 3-0 , wee jim was seething and rightly so , it was a remarkable achievement ,

During the dundee utd title winning year i believe they only used 13 players all season

italy sorry , what a ****

Imagine tiny Dundee Utd should have been in the European Cup final, it's crazy to think that now. They had some team back then. They went to Barcelona and beat them over there as well... that's mad stuff!

biscuit, coachbuster, jamdav = biggest loser mugs on the forum! if you listen to their advice you will bleed money. if you read their mindnumbingly boring chat your eyes will bleed and your mind will actually shut down, proven fact.

What advice did I give about the Chelsea games metaphor?

You are rambling again and making no clear point.

Try to calm down this strange mix of giddiness and rage from your posts. It is only making you look a bit dim.