Sifu

Not so sure about that myself. That sponsor patch puts me off. If our home kit does turn out like that (or indeed like the one we saw in those pics from ages ago), then it could be one of those strips that grows on you in time.

Chelsea's gameplan worked tonight. Fair play to them. Now, let's hope they get dicked at the Nou Camp.

Fuck's sake.

So close.

I seem to recall Alves' end product being s**** the last time the two sides met at Stamford Bridge. So yep, it's happening again.

I sense a goal from Iniesta in the 90th minute.

Fucking get up, you fucking cunt.

This game really reminds me of the last time Barcelona played Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. That is, Chelsea having a decent gameplan to curb Barça's attacks with Barcelona becoming ultimately frustrated.

Erm, it's not really a lie. A few mackems did actually play a part in forming Athletic Bilbao. Not according to the club they didn't... "One reason for being contacted was that an official approach from Sunderland AFC had left the Bilbao Club's Directors non plussed as to their links with our famous red and white stripes. In short they'd never heard of us!" http://www.rokerpark.com/navbar/bilbao.html Bilbao adopting the red and white stripes had nothing to do with the mackems, aye but a few mackems did play a part in introducing football to Bilbao (from what I've read anyway). Their official website doesn't mention it http://www.athletic-club.net/web/main.asp?a=2&b=3&c=0&d=0&idi=2 Their wiki pages don't either http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletic_Bilbao http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_del_Athletic_Club Sounds to me like some retro-fit history re-write based on little more than the shirt patterns. I can believe south-coast british emigrants ending up in Northern Spain in the 19th century. But from the far NE? Nah, don't see it. Besides they would have been loving life on wearside, enjoying their most successful period in the modern game. Hmmm, did a bit more googling and yeah, it actually looks like this is the case. My bad.

FFS. You all need your heads checked. Seems as if we're in a parallel universe.

Erm, it's not really a lie. A few mackems did actually play a part in forming Athletic Bilbao. Not according to the club they didn't... "One reason for being contacted was that an official approach from Sunderland AFC had left the Bilbao Club's Directors non plussed as to their links with our famous red and white stripes. In short they'd never heard of us!" http://www.rokerpark.com/navbar/bilbao.html Bilbao adopting the red and white stripes had nothing to do with the mackems, aye but a few mackems did play a part in introducing football to Bilbao (from what I've read anyway).

Ah fuck off Drogba.

Didier man

Erm, it's not really a lie. A few mackems did actually play a part in forming Athletic Bilbao.

Every week someone mentions the Chelsea physio (with good reason tbf)

Hopefully. I'm conflicted, while i despise chelsea and their players and their manager I'm not all that fond of most of barcas players either (xavi iniesta messi and to a lesser extent puyol aside) As a unit, Barcelona are more likeable.

Hopefully. Can't stand seeing Di Matteo's smug face.

I'm looking forward to Clive's unbiased commentary tonight.

How delightful.

Don't remember this like, thought it was 0-0? Sure it was after the Palermo game? Yes it was, but we lost. Danny Webber scored. We were f***ing appalling. It p*ssed it down. Thankfully I got bladdered on the night time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6094108.stm It was a terrible night. I was in Sheffield at the time and I decided to watch the game in the student union bar. Was pretty much mocked by the Sheffield United fans there. The walk of shame back to my flat wasn't fun.

You don't think we have more important areas in the team where we need to improve if we want to become regular top 6 challengers? Goes like this to me of importance...... 1. Fullback 2.Centre back 3. Centre Midfielder 4. Depth. Same, though I'd say CB/FB are interchangeable in priority. Firstly, apart from Santon, the options we have at fullback (the likes of Simpson/Raylor/Perch) are hardly world beaters (as hardworking as they are) and secondly, we need a new first choice CB (Saylor would be it if it weren't for his recent injury record). Definitely need strengthening in defence, first and foremost. Yep i can definitely agree with all of that, i expect us to address all issues in the summer anyway especially with the extra revenue that europe will provide. Whether we keep all our key players or not is another entirely and one i dont think i can predict either way. Think we'll just about keep all of them. It's going to take a ridiculous offer (£20 million+) for one of our key players to go.

Oh. My. God. :lol: Ah, the people on RAWK and their views. They really do live in a fantasy world!

Tbf to Roeder, Souness did this more often (with his "Lady Luck" s**** and all that).