Ath Madrid v Spurs

[happygilmore]

Deserves it's own thread for Ferret.

Comedy Gold 

[Gank]

Yeah, these days they're not AstroTurf in the old sense. There are parameters and standards. Whilst ideally all football would be played on snooker table style pitches, our own turf is grass seed entwined around synthetic (vinyl) strands of plastic grass. Robot mowers with lasers cut the genetically modified semi-organic grass strands down to within a fraction of a millimetre of the maximum length of the vinyl. Our undersoil heating sucks before it blows to straighten it all out after it is used, so none of it is truly turf. Those that are proper grass become the muddy quagmires you see when a lower league team draws a big name in the cup and we all laugh nostalgically about how quaint it is that it's a 'proper old school pitch' like Bonds used to play on and it separates the men from the pandered millionaire players of today.

In all honesty the plastic pitches are better, more uniform and safer than those muddy ones these days but if a club doesn't have the money (or sometimes the climate) to keep a pitch in the conditions we're used to but can still be champions over a season only playing half their matches on it, I'm ok with them having their home ground in European competition being the same as the home ground that made them domestic champions.

I'd sooner that than the slim possiblity that Tottenham could be playing in the Champions League next season in one of the flashiest stadia in the world but in the domestic second tier. That really would cheapen the competition!

[Massive Attack]

Nothing wrong with plastic pitches if that's what their champions play on, that's what the home advantage is about. The real issue is that it is no longer a competition for the best teams. When it was one competition for the league champions and another for the cup winners, you knew what it was for, how each team qualified and it was completely fair across all of the UEFA affiliates.

Couldn't agree more on the 2nd point. UEFA have diluted and fucked about with all the competitions that they have lost some of it's prestige.

As for plastic pitches, if every Club decided they would rather play Football on a plastic pitch, you'd be happy with that? Personally I don't enjoy watching games played on such pitches.

[Gank]

Nothing wrong with plastic pitches if that's what their champions play on, that's what the home advantage is about. The real issue is that it is no longer a competition for the best teams. When it was one competition for the league champions and another for the cup winners, you knew what it was for, how each team qualified and it was completely fair across all of the UEFA affiliates.

[Massive Attack]

The plastic pitches shouldn't be allowed, hate seeing it in the game. Funny though as it makes the Champions League look a bit 2Bob. 

[Tomshardware]

The Bodo Glint success is a great story, definitely helped by their astro pitch though.

[Fauxstralian]

Atletico 5 Yids 2
PSG 5 Chelsea 2
Real 3 Man City 0 

BODO GLIMT 3 Sporting 0

Could actually start liking the Champions League 
Go BODO! 

[Jasnik]

Actaully I think Chelsea put kinksy in for the second half.. 

[Jasnik]

think it is if you wear orange, it makes you crap. in goal.. 
Chelsea keeper doing a kinsky. 

[Fauxstralian]

If we win the FA Cup , stay up & relegate them this will be the greatest season in the history of football 
Even better if Millwall come up and we beat them 5-0 home & away

[Dick Shaftsbury]

They should have stuck with Ange, at least he wins things.

He was right, season 3 is much better than season 2 

[Takashi Miike]

Ita amazing how we get shit for "sacking" moyes (after end of contract)... 2 years after he left, yet sp*rs seem to get off Scot free for sacking a manager straight after he wins them a trophy

yes, and remember them sacking Mourinho before they went to a final? 

that's how demented a club they are

[Dick Shaftsbury]

I'm watching Spurs as much as I watch us at the moment. This is a generational hatewatch 

I hope they go down and never recover.

[Far Cough UKunt]

[Mad Dog]

Ita amazing how we get shit for "sacking" moyes (after end of contract)... 2 years after he left, yet sp*rs seem to get off Scot free for sacking a manager straight after he wins them a trophy

[Far Cough UKunt]

They should have stuck with Ange, at least he wins things.

[Fauxstralian]

Don’t think this humiliation of the keeper is going to help the relationship between the rest of the players & Igor Two-Doors
Most of the players look like they can’t wait to get out and there isn’t any evidence of team spirit or support from their fans
Still a long way to go but they are in big trouble if someone outside or in the dressing room gets hold of them

[Gank]

I was hoping for a 0-0 tonight so they would have had to really give it everything in the second leg whilst dealing with the relegation battle.They'll throw it now to focus their best players and efforts on survival.

It's why I wasn't upset to see them score 2 goals as that delusional cunty Club will believe they can still win the tie.  

I don't think they throw it and hope they get an early goal so to give themselves the ultimate false hope against Madrid.

In that case, I hope they go for it, have a blinder and win after extra time to set up another tough match. With a load of injuries.

[Manuel]

Another Spurs match thread?? Embarrassing cunts and some spent their evenings on here?? Get a life comes to mind.

A new low for the site.

*And don't bother replying you tragic cunts as you've been spannered

[Massive Attack]

I was hoping for a 0-0 tonight so they would have had to really give it everything in the second leg whilst dealing with the relegation battle.They'll throw it now to focus their best players and efforts on survival.

It's why I wasn't upset to see them score 2 goals as that delusional cunty Club will believe they can still win the tie.  

I don't think they throw it and hope they get an early goal so to give themselves the ultimate false hope against Madrid.

[Gank]

I was hoping for a 0-0 tonight so they would have had to really give it everything in the second leg whilst dealing with the relegation battle.They'll throw it now to focus their best players and efforts on survival.

[Alfs]

Mock Tudor really did just say "We were in the match for the first 2 to 3 minutes".

You're joking, right?  If not, was HE joking, or actually being serious?

[Massive Attack]

Mock Tudor really did just say "We were in the match for the first 2 to 3 minutes".

[Come On You Irons]

I would love it if Spurs got relegated instead of us and Millwall got promoted.

Life can't be that good to us as West Ham fans, Shirley.

[Anders]

Spare a thought for Kudus

[happygilmore]