They should have got Ian Wright and Tony Adams back from retirement!

....clearly suck

bow down.

They clearly do :D

Couldn't even own a 10 man inexperienced team ROLF

yeah.

the team that didn't conceide a goal in last 980 minutes, and the team that played champions league final.

inform yourself =)

They clearly suck. Needed ref to give them an offside goal.


Inform uself

since you are officialy blind, here's the thing.

when lehmann got the red card, the referee shouldn't stop the game. that's red card and 1:0 for barca. it's a shame that in 2006 someone doesn't know the rules of the game.

second. arsenal scored from a free kick. there was no foul in the first place, so no free kick should be awarded.

last thing, when arsenal players are laying on the ground for 5 minutes each, and playing defense within 30 meters with all of their 10 players, it's not that easy to win.

but barca can, cause they are the best.

you don't need to inform yourself, i don't care.

Inform uself some more please. They clearly suck and you are blind.

Did you not watch the game. They couldn't even own a team of inexperienced players who barely came 4th in Premiership.

Barca clearly suck and arn't the best.

who cares, they are the champions :)

I don't but damage clearly does :D

you clearly care too ;(

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which part of the...

didn't conceide a goal in last 980 minutes, played champions league final did you not understand?

HAHAHAHAH

THEY SUCK MAN I MEAN COME ON I THINK IT IS CLEAR TO ALL

whatever.




champions ! ! ! ! ! !

leave it mate, ini just cares far too much =(

poor dude...

2bad 4 him.






champions!!!

Using inexperience as an excuse to lose this game is a bit silly though=). Their manager used the best players he could, and those inexperienced players really are quite good, USUALLY :).

Can you guys (apart from skint) not tell I'm just spamming/trolling here? :(

you must be very proud of yourself

hey, i loved it!

hi cry baby /wave

You seem to be too limited in intellect to understand the difference between not being the best and being terrible, no team that reaches the final of a major competition sucks.

You are right.

Also, Eboue should have been sent off after taking that dive since he had a yellow from before, meaning Arsenal should have played the second half with 9 players.

Also, Henry shouldn't have gotten a yellow card and one of the Barcelona players shouldn't have gotten a yellow card. Both were clean tackles.

In addition, Eto'o was offside when he scored Barcelona's first goal, this is not debatable. What is debatable is whether the linesman should decide in favor of the attacking team when in doubt, since it would be impossible to make a decisive decision with so little margin in that situation.

that barce player that was booked deserved to be booked like 5 tackles before that

That may be true, there were some bad tackles the ref didn't see. But the two situations I speak of were blatant errors.

You got any good pics showing that first barca goal? From what I saw it didnt really seem like a terrible call, but they didnt really show a good overview angle of it all, so i could be wrong. Also the ref was indeed correct on giving Lehman a red card, even Henry agreed with that according to the bbc homepage.

Sorry, nope =/ But there should be some out there.

It was VERY marginal, but according to the rules it was an offside.

Hmm Lehmen didn't stop a goal scoring chance as they scored..... Hence Yellow and Goal stands?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/4993994.stm

damage clearly doesn't know the rules of the game.

sure.

It can still be argued that Lehman was guilty of "serious foul play" and therefore deserving of a red card.

I agree, had this happened at the midfield, a player grabbing another player's ankle as he passes would result in a yellow card. However, Lehman grabbed his ankle and ALSO had the intent to stop a goal scoring oppurtunity. If his intent should be disregarded, then yes, a yellow would be in its place.

Disagree he came out to smother and made no deliberate attempt to grab the player, he caught him as he went round lehman i.e. his momentum took him into the player. Once you've committed to something like that you either win the ball or you take the player, Eto stuffed him and Barca scored, the ref was far too whistle happy, and there were a lot of very very shit decisions. It's one of the things i hate about football the majority of European teams will fake injuries and go down at the slightest touch, even without a touch at all. They should hand out yellows to all dives after the game, and red everyone who surrounds the ref. apart from the captain. After 1 or 2 games it would instantly stop. Just FIFA don't have the balls to enforce it and ruin one game.

I don't understand how you can't see that Lehman's hand wraps around Eto'o's ankle in a grabbing motion.

http://www.vg.no/bilder/bildarkiv/1147896484.20654.jpg

I do agree that the players go down all the time and fake injuries. It is embarrasing to watch. Ice spray doesn't cure serious injuries. If they can't take the pain from getting kicked in the shin they should wear bigger shinguards, not those tiny things I saw many of the players using.

loooooooooooooooooooool. bias

if anything arsenal should praise the ref

hes an ugly cunt

The referee was a dodgy bastard.

truth.

Henry should have scored twice. They were all over barca until the sending off. shame we didnt get to see a decent final.

I he did some wierd calls that didnt really affect the game all that much, and some other ones that did affect the game. The red card was a good call, even Henry said that: ""
Arsenal played some great defense throughout the game, but even though they ran alot in the offense, they failed miserably lots of times. Ljungberg should probably have scored, and Henry missed chances he normally never misses. The way Arsenal played tonight, they did not deserve to win, they put themselves in that position. Barca essentially scored 3 times and arsenal shouldnt have scored once.

As a slight fan for barca, i might be a bit biased (i think arsenal plays great soccer too though), but I do think that tonight barca was the better team, they made less mistakes. You cant miss 4 1v1 vs the keeper chances in a champions league final vs a team like barca :).

Many dodgy calls, yes.

Barca should have only had 2 goals, as Eto'o was offside. It is understandable that the linesman made that mistake though, since it was too marginal for a human to call it decisively in full speed.

CBA to log in when not at home, so ill post anon :).

I agree though I guess, several dodgy calls, but I do think that arsenal brought this loss on themselves nontheless :), even if they did play really good at some parts of the game, its hard to be 1 guy less for the entire game.


/Khorney

I don't know much about football but from the pic I can tell that barca didn't won thanks to their players looks.

Fear is the mind killer.

barca has no mercy then...

great game tonight i predicted those scores from the beginning .....yeah he is a ugly cunt i agree

\o/

cheers for larson & eto

In the words of Andy Gray

"diabolical refereeing"

clearly, icehockey > football

^^

Lets see you say that again once Czech Republic owns Sweden in ice hockey

^^ <3

heh ;)

clearly, icehockey > football

:D

hahahahhahah :D fuck you fuck you !!! aaaaaaaaaaa 2 goals in a minute you should have seen the look on my fucking faceeeeeeeeee :DDD gooooooood aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh

and monday my hot swedish chick friends were wearing sweden ice hockey jerseys... aaaaaaa unbearable... thank god you guys didnt win eurovision as well!! :D sweden would have exploded in happiness :)

the czech's have a team to grow :) you will come back and win stuff soon :P

hope they do well in the football world cup :)
ahh sweden would like to visit goteburg someday...

Rules are rules but come on ffs, this is the champions league final. I believe the game would of been so much better if the referee had kept the goal keeper on and just allowed the goal.

Arsenal did pretty well considering it was 12 vs 10 as well.

Most calls went in favor of Arsenal. They would have had to play the second half with 10 men and being down regardless, if the referee had made the right calls.

go die

baka

boring

I bet all of you are top models, but hey, what Ronaldinho lacks in good looks he exceeds in playing football. :)

He didn't do much at the final game though (and neither did Deco), but the guy still has my respect.

BARÇA DIDNT PLAY WITH THE MAIN TEAM :( MESSY WASNT THERE, ARSENAL PLAYED WITH 10DEFENDERS GREAT TACTICS

Idiotic post.

holy crap barcelona came back and won that game??! I had to leave at half time was a really good game till then except for the fact the refs were giving all calls to the other team. :P gj!!!!

apparently the referee has admitted that he acted too quickly and shouldnt of sent lehman off.
fifa have confirmed they will not discipline Henry for his comments on the referee.

not suprised on both things tbh. ref was a joke, hes now admitted it and shown that henrys comments were correct.

it did ruin the game, it could of been much better. but then we had an amazing game at the weekend for the fa cup final :D

Why would they have done anything to Henry for expressing an opinion :/

You're right: the ref kinda destroyed the game after the red for Lehmann. Everyone who watched the game could see that Arsenal's performance was more convincing and dominating. Barca looked out-powered in their actions and they had a lot of troubles in their offensive play.

I would love to see a fair game of these two teams with their current skills :)

and btw.: in this game, henry > ronaldinh ;)

Arsenal did not convince in any way. The only way they could score was by getting a free kick that wasn't theirs. Barcelona were able to score twice with their own play.

Arsenal had a lot of good chances which could have also lead to goals. Barca now made it, but Arsenal could have won too ;) They had the lead until 15min before end of game - with 9 field players.

And if you didnt see the performance of Arsenal of the first 20 min (which I was talking about), then you have to be blind.

The ref was a joke. This doesn't make Henry's comments correct. He basically said that the ref cost them the game, which is not true. The ref was on their side.

no dennis bergkamp :(

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