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Hargreaves is German too, more or less. Cech's in orange though, so Chelsea will win. SCIENCE. Also he's got his super hat on - he got a fractured skull you know!

Drogba sent off!

The least Charlton could have done would have been to applaud the lad onto the park. Miserable twat.

Giggs coming on.

Time-out!

Chelsea's best period of the game this. They're getting on top.

Spawny twats.

Grant needs to change it - it's just not sticking up there for them. Rio and Vidic look too comfortable with just Drogba to look after. Malouda off and Anelka on. Switch it to 442.

Great stuff from Man U. That's why I want them to win this rather than Chelsea.

Poor defending from Essien mind. Totally lost him.

Get in you bastards.

Every game, every ref.

Nice little interview that.

Would rather Man U win it. I'll go for 2-1 Man U in extra time.

Sky. David Pleat.

Clashes with the 2nd qualifying round Champions League, 2nd leg according to Bert. http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/calendar2008.html Just not sure if the runners-up in Scotland go straight into the 2nd or 3rd qualifying round? Edit: looks like 2nd round according to this: 10 Scotland 30.500 ---------------------------------------- CL1-2=Glasgow Rangers 66.013 (cl/R1) CL1-2=Celtic 52.013 (cl/QR2) CW/LC=Queen of the South 11.013 (uc/R1 or QR2) UC1-2=Motherwell 11.013 (uc/QR2 or R1) IT=Hibernian 12.013 (it/R2)

I'm sure France were only about 5th favourites to win it. About 9/1 iirc. Certainly the 'value' bet.

I'll probably go to both but only out of boredom. Just don't fancy the Rangers one and I'd be lying if I said what I saw last Wednesday didn't help me make my mind up. I'll pass on that one.

Definitely not going to the Rangers one. Might try the Valencia one but it'll depend on how much they're going to charge. I'm guessing about £15??

I think a lot of people are wanting what's best for the club tbh. Ripping his contract up, if that's even an option, and releasing him on a free doesn't do us any favours. He'll walk away and he'll have cost us £5.3m plus wages in his time here and we'll have to spend even more to replace him. Can see both sides of it.

Was expected tbh. You can't go round kicking the shit out of people and expect to get away without going down eventually. Hope he comes out a different character.

Erm....no actually. http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/tournament/matches/index.html

I think when people said "hang on a minute, why should these toffee nosed arseholes be given ticket priority to the Cup Final ahead of real fans" their response was that the FA Cup Final was an event for everybody, not just the two teams involved. To that I say - fucking bollocks. "The Football Family"...

is that people who are members of 'Club Wembley'? I think thats a stupid idea. Fair enough for England games, but iirc I read somewhere they can apply for cup final tickets. Just wasted space for fans of the 2 teams involved. They bought the same seat for every game played at Wembley for about 5 or 10 years iirc. Something like that anyway. England games, Cup finals, play-offs etc.

Far too many 'neutral' fans in the crowd. Especially in that middle ring of seats. Fans who don't give a shit who wins don't make too much noise.