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NUFC: Steve Harper; Habib Beye, Damien Duff, Steven Taylor, Sebastien Bassong; Nicky Butt, Kevin Nolan, Jonas Gutierrez, Danny Guthrie; Michael Owen ©, Mark Viduka Subs: Oba Martins, Fabricio Coloccini, Ryan Taylor, Peter Lovenkrands, Kazenga LuaLua, Andy Carroll, Tim Krul MFC: Brad Jones; Justin Hoyte, Andrew Taylor, Gary O'Neil, Marvin Emnes, Afonso Alves, Robert Huth, Mohamed Shawky, Tuncay Sanli, Stewart Downing, Matthew Bates Subs: Ross Turnbull, Jeremie Aliadiere, Marlon King, Julio Arca, Adam Johnson, Tony McMahon, Jonathan Grounds Post match reaction can be found from here: http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,61842.msg1800640.html#msg1800640 PLEASE DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DISCUSS, REQUEST OR PROVIDE LINKS TO ILLEGAL MATCH STREAMS. IF YOU DO, YOU WILL BE BANNED. See www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php?topic=19161.0 for more information.

Should have been Lualua instead of Butt or Nolan, IMHO. So fucking sick of them two. However, while Guthrie definitely isn't a winger, he can cross the ball, at least from a dead ball situation. Will be interesting to see if he can do it in open play as well.

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I was supposed to be at uni at 9 this morning. I couldn't get any sleep last night though, so obviously overslept this morning. Now I'm just too nervous to even be arsed to go buy my books so I could do some catching up.

Fucking hell, this is going to be a long day

Fucks sake Barcelona! Lost me £75, you bunch of cunts!

Horrible dive from Rossi there

Brilliant!

Can we 100% say that Taylor and Nolan were Kinnear's signings or Wise's? No we can't, but I feel that they would be the type of players Kinnear would sign.

A fucking shambles of a manager, couldn't do a thing right. Embarrassed himself and the club on several occasions during his spell here.

That'd be your ex missus by now then.

You've put it much better than I've tried to for the past hour. Thanks I appreciate that football should be played to be won, as opposed to not being beaten. However, Football is a sport, not an entertainment business - fans want to win, not to be entertained. Your spot on it goes back to that ridiculous quote we got tagged with: "we'd rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0" of course we'd rather win, but Chelseas weren't even playing to win they were playing not to get beat, particulalrly in the first leg. Chelsea are good enought to play a bit of football and still win, if I was a season ticket holder at Stamford Bridge I'd be completely underwhelmed by what I saw tonight. They literally had two banks of five in front of the keeper for large parts of the game, is that really playing to win? Spot on tactics in the first game, gave them a great chance to win it today. Early goal scored, they're winning at this point. They reckoned the best chance of them to get the win was by parking the bus, and they really couldn't have been closer to being successful, against the team that is arguably the best on the planet.

He's been terrific this season, but I can't help but thinking that he'd be absolute s**** if he ever moved to another team. you mean when comes here don't you Yeah, pretty much :-[ I used to think he's the type of player that seemed likely to end up here, but the way he's improved and the way we've declined, I can't see it happening now.

You've put it much better than I've tried to for the past hour. Thanks I appreciate that football should be played to be won, as opposed to not being beaten. However, Football is a sport, not an entertainment business - fans want to win, not to be entertained. Agree

He's been terrific this season, but I can't help but thinking that he'd be absolute shite if he ever moved to another team.

Spot on! I hate to say it, but I love watching Man U at their best. Far far better than watching Barcelona and Arsenal. I agree. Not that there's anything wrong with Barcelona and Arsenal at their best either, btw.

Spot on! I hate to say it, but I love watching Man U at their best.

Of course they knew the craic and all that, I just think that the team that scores most goals should go through, no matter where they do it. It's not like it's working any way, as it's meant to encourage attacking football away from home. Teams are now happy to sit back and hope to nick a goal, there really isn't much more attacking going on away from home these days. Perhaps Chelsea should have been a bit more adventurous in Barcelona rather than shutting the game down? Worked for Man U last year, and was extremely close to work for them this year.

Of course they knew the craic and all that, I just think that the team that scores most goals should go through, no matter where they do it. It's not like it's working any way, as it's meant to encourage attacking football away from home. Teams are now happy to sit back and hope to nick a goal, there really isn't much more attacking going on away from home these days.

Absolutely nothing wrong with trying to defend a lead, especially not against a team like Barcelona. Again, I'm not trying to apply this to tonights game, as I'm happy that Barcelona went through, and I only managed to see the last 10 or so minutes.

First of all: Congratulations to Barcelona, throughout the season, they've been the best team in the tournament and thoroughly deserves to be in the final, and I'm glad they knocked Chelsea out. However, I think it's a bloody insult to football that this rule exists. It doesn't make any sense at all, how two draws makes one team go through is just laughable. For those saying that the away team would just defend throughout the game, well fair play to them if they pull it off. Football is about defending just as much as it about attacking, and while many will disagree with me here, I really don't think a team that favours either of them should be rewarded. I could agree with it if they started with the away goal rule in Extra Time, as that would make up for the home team getting to play 30 minutes more on their home ground.

12 players? We still wouldn't win :-[

Good point, but I suppose allowing a referee to cancel a red card under their own steam is a bit different from allowing an 'appeal'. And who knows what sort of direct or indirect pressure refs would start to come under if managers and clubs knew that they could reverse their decisions after the game? It works in the premiership, don't see any reason why it wouldn't work it the champions league.