Premier League 2011/12 Season

I love Loftus Road. There's all this talk of a new stadium but I really don't want it. It'll just be shit. Look at Highbury, proper intimidating ground, fans on top of the pitch. Then the Emirates, looks like a big gay spaceship landed in North London.

 

Oh and TKO I'll get back to your post, I had it all typed up on my iPhone and then it refreshed the fucking page for some reason :doh:

 

Katy Hill. Still would.

 

Its possible because Chelsea traditionally have given "this" Barcelona side the hardest of games, apart from Liverpool, who are the only side of the three English sides to win at the Very Camp. United managed the sum total of 1 win in 4 attempts, to a draw and two defeats. Chelsea, since 2005, have a win, two losses, three draws.

Their last meeting was of course the 0-0/1-1 affair, where Drogba cut a record on the side of the field and the usual morons babbled on about a UEFA Conspiracy whilst accusing everyone else of having lost their mind or gone otherwise mad. Quite.

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Of course, Essien won't be there, and Kalou really isn't up to putting in a mad shift. Plus- Barcelona might just be better than when they last met, that was before Barcelona shit all over United in Rome, and they've gotten better since then.

Its possible that Chelsea could win at Stamford Fridge, but get beat 4 nil away from home.

 

Chelsea have a good chance at home to take a lead to Spain, but they won't get anything away.

 

Looks like West Ham will be in the playoffs.

 

If Chelsea beat Barca I'll kill myself. You've all been warned.

 

Warn the baldy fella who works for Barcelona.

I left out Mascherano- he was at Liverpool when the sides last met- now he's at Barcelona, so that harry-harry shite might not work for Chelsea either.

 

Barca's champions league run is bound to end at some point. Personally I think Real will edge out Bayern in the 2nd leg, Barca will get past Chelski and Real will best Barca in an all Spanish finale.

 

I cannot see Chelsea winning UNLESS it is Bayern they play in the final.

 

You're a cheeky git. ::

 

Chelsea are well organised and comfortable without the ball, which is a good trait to have against Barca's tiki taka paint drying possession football. Barcelona have definitely improved, I just hope they've improved to the point they leave John Terry crying and left with permanent mental scars, sitting in his penalty box in front of a stunned silent Shed. The silent part's normal.

 

I have to say your employers have been more than doing their bit to re-invigorate John Terry's image in the meantime. Everytime Chelsea play, there is a photo of Terry in some sort of exulting stance, every inch the big man. :shite:

How odd that people worry about Luis Suarez going to Wembley but fret not over John Terry holding the European Cup aloft.

Chelsea are the original small club.

 

FUCK OFF YOU SMALL FUCKING CLUB.

 

Chelsea must have the worst fans in football. Rangers edge them for scuminess but at least der hun can make some noise.

 

"Der Hun" ::

Thats the great thing about patent Fascism. You know the flags and banners are for fucking real.

 

Is Stamford Bridge an unusually small pitch? Looks really tight

 

Its a cramped place alright. Its unlikely they did a Stoke on it- that would suit Barcelona. Barca could play on a postage stamp and still find space. I really hope they win tonight. If Chelsea finish 5th and win the ECL then Newcastle could be out of a place if they finish 4th.:doh:

 

http://soccerlens.com/premier-league-pitch-sizes/3683/

Yeah Chelsea's is pretty small.

Celtic's is slightly smaller than the two Manchester clubs. Rangers have the smallest in either top flight division because they narrowed it deliberately a few years back in order to play 'more direct'. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

 

:shit:

 

Interesting, the scum are winning.

 

Was the goal controversial?

 

No clear goal it seems to me.

 

Heard it was a neat finish

 

PLEASE GOD NO

 

Barcelona just need to convert one of their chances. Just one.

 

Barca will thrash them on a proper sized pitch

 

It seems that way to be, Barcelona will be disgusted- to concede a 45th minute goal to a guy who is a shadow of his former self. Still fancy them in the 2nd leg but as suspected Chelsea gave them as good as they got from them, and bettered it.

 

Pretty interesting that there is not a regulation size for everyone (I knew this before seeing this.)

Do they play World cup matches on larger pitches? I remember in 2006 I was watching all these WC matches. Then I watched a replay of an old Prem match. The field looked tiny and the players looked big.

I know they do that in ice hockey. For the winter olympics, they play on a bigger ice rink than a regular NHL game.