Neil

It's possibly a sad sign of the time spent on this forum that my initial reaction without properly reading your post was that, for some reason, you were saying Fellaini's name in the style of "fenlon pls", then realised this match has got nowt to do with Fellaini. Then I typed this.

If he's subdued or quiet against the very best teams (of which Madrid, Leverkusen and Arsenal weren't during those years, imo anyway), then no, he hasn't had any dominant standout CL campaigns from start to finish within the context of him being the greatest player ever. The only campaign you refer to is the 2010/11 one, where he did tear Madrid apart in the semi's, but then he was very limited against ManU in the final (same as a few years earlier) - shut out to a similar extent as Chelsea and Inter in previous seasons. His goal came out of frustration because he was struggling to get into the game, and the goal itself was a shot straight down the middle that should easily have been saved were it not Van der Saar on the verge of retirement (you can't honestly say that the goal wasn't attributable to poor keeping?). The point I'm making is that I think he struggled, just like in previous years, against an organised, high calibre team that had set out to mark him out of the game, and he didn't perform to anywhere near his all-time-great standards - and this is a recurring theme in the CL and for Argentina. He ran the show man.

Smith. Oh God.

And the square ball, Chelsea, at home to lower league side at home. As predictable as Arsenal/Man Utd's Champions League groups, are Chelsea's "fortunate" Cup draws.

Cheers Ray. 16/1 advertised at HT for Midson. I had a bang on that.

Pitch invasion, standard. Cheers Ray btw.

GOLGOLGOLGOLGOLGOL

One of my favourite events of the season. Giddy, despite it almost certainly leading nowhere.

Currently in a dangerous 121st position, waiting to strike.

Fratellis. :anguish: :anguish: :anguish: :anguish:

What a fucking goal.

Neil Sullivan. Luke Chadwick, a true footballing legend.

The classic underdog away side battling at 0-0 after 55 minutes - agree with you there. Could be some excellent value to be had. Or they'll get beat 4-0.

He has frequently been disappointing in the latter stages, particularly against teams that are strong defensively - similar to his performances for Argentina in the major tournaments to date. You've had a right mare here mate.

If it was at Wimbledon's ground I could see an upset but unfortunately you'd be hard pressed to see it at MK. Should be a cracking atmosphere, though.

Nearly lost my shit watching MOTD last night with whoever that was. "Well really he's entitled to go over." Nothing will get done until mainstream pundits - regardless of what you think of the individual pundits MOTD is as good a forum as any - clearly call players out on TV. It might start getting the message across, instead of fannying on with "well he's going very fast so the slightest bit of contact could see him go to ground." Thanks for the basics on physics, but 3mph or 30mph it's cheating. Of course, this won't happen because they wouldn't want to sour relationships with the "big" clubs. And it usually is the big clubs and the more well-known players we're on about when it comes to diving. I'm all for making some examples of them, at least it'd be a start instead of giving the tired garbage of defending them.

1-0, doesn't Mata.

GW15: 1. 1-2 2. 2-0 3. 1-0 4. 2-1 5. 2-0 6. 1-1 7. 3-1 8. 1-3 9. 2-1 10. 2-1 New technique - not a clue what number represents what fixture apart from 1, 9 and 10.

You could have at least got GW12's results right.

Excitement all the way for jdc.

He's played on the right CB side too And as left back during Everton days too. Didn't realise Colo played for Everton You should've seen T-Hib with his curly locks.

Get in.

Doubt that given that Toure is off to Africa/not as good as he used to be these days. Mancini seems to have quite a bit of faith in that Nastasic mind.

Man City loaning out Lescott in January according to the Telegraph.

MW, what has become of you? From shagging South American birds in far flung lands, to having a threesome because you just wanted to "get involved".... to this? Onesies?