Neil

"Some will say it's an easy tie but you have to beat those sort of teams. You can only play what's in front of you."

Tell me one player who isn't amazing or brilliant. Not a chance in he'll, Rooney aside he's the most overrated player of our generation! Well then, IP. Your answer is right there. Rooney is NOT amazing. Nor is he even brilliant!

Chelsea will defy the odds and draw a Championship team.

Not sure what I'd prefer. Spurs-Barca would be the most entertaining, but they could embarrass Chelsea or Man Utd potentially.

I'm not sure Gash understands the concept of someone not being amazing or brilliant.

Again, abysmal defending from OL.

£50m. Deary me.

Doesn't change a great deal though. Lyon still well in this.

What a goal by Marcelo.

It's raining goals.

What a brilliantly strong challenge on Di Maria.

Does Anelka understand the offside rule?

Ronaldo starts.

Neil is standing on the verge of a £665 return, just one minute of stoppage time remaining at the Bernabeu. "...it's Ronaldo, gives it to Ozil, he lays it back to.... MOURINHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT A GOAL!!!!!"

I really do wish betting is based on reasoning. I'd be doing fine. So I apologise in advance for the inclusion of Chelsea and Real in my upcoming accumulators.

Past few days at random points, the forum's been slow to load for me; which is odd since other sites are working fine. Bizarre.

On a related note, Valdes' improvement over the past few years has seemed quite drastic. IIRC in the Rijkaard era he'd make a fair few silly errors but he looks generally much more assured under Pep. His sweeper-keeper role must have given him this confidence. Again, I'm not sure how much the lack of him being tested is down to this perception.

http://gripewhine.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/can-of-worms.jpg

Wouldn't argue with that.

Definitely a Massive blow I thought he played real well against The Arse. Think I posted somewhere that I would love to see him in a Newcastle Shirt but I dont think he could get Enrique out the team. Yes, he could. what about baines? Could he get Baines out the team? Yes. In reality, he'd play at CB for both of us as that makes far more sense.

Definitely a Massive blow I thought he played real well against The Arse. Think I posted somewhere that I would love to see him in a Newcastle Shirt but I dont think he could get Enrique out the team. Yes, he could.

Put in a losing bet at the end just to even it out, ey Jonny? Good return for that 2nd one like. Aye, Watford were 2/1 to score next, Rochdale 6/5 and Huddersfield 13/8. Just had a spare fiver so picked three random teams. Don't say these things to me!

Put in a losing bet at the end just to even it out, ey Jonny? Good return for that 2nd one like.

palnese, just give up mate.

Man Utd vs Barcelona please.